How does a payroll engineering organization give the green light for a basal change to their tax system when the consequences reach many domains, features, and teams? With a decision matrix we were able to break down our options, clearly compare solutions, and find a path forward.
As someone who was recently promoted to senior engineer, this journey is still fresh in my mind. Here are some ways that senior engineers have helped during my career path from junior to senior engineer.
The work is done, your team has spent the days, weeks, months, building a new feature and it is ready to deploy! But wait - will this new feature break everything? Build confidence in your new feature with a test fest.
In this final part of the series, we will take a closer look at how to actually bring an experiment to life as a full-fledged feature. If you think the hard work is complete once the project is defined, think again!
I embarked on a mission with fellow Gusto engineer Alyssa Hester to find and complete an experiment solely focused on customer outcomes. In this first post of this series, we’ll talk about how Alyssa and I found an outcome-based experiment and defined a realistic minimum lovable product (MLP).
My team recently embarked on a journey toward unbundling our part of Gusto’s monolithic Ruby on Rails app. A monolithic app is a single application that contains code across many domains. The boundaries are unclear. The domains
When tidying it is important to differentiate between structural and behavioral changes. Behavioral change means changing the way the code operates. Changing the return value of a function is an example of a behavioral change. Structural change, on the other hand, does not change how the code...
Understanding how to build Single Sign On (SSO) using the OAuth 2.0 framework with OpenID Connect may seem like a daunting task. This practical guide will show you how to build a secure SSO system.
