Imagine you have a Rails monolith and want to add new functionality. Your options are to 1) continue adding to the monolith, or 2) create a new service. Which do you choose? What if there’s a third
How we introduced granular authorization into our application and API. Illustration by Camellia Neri Last year, my team extended Gusto’s authorization system to give admins granular access to their companies’ accounts. In software security terms, authorization is
Updates from Gusto about their latest engineering diversity numbers.
Patches our design team created for the event I'm an engineer at Gusto. In my spare time, I teach middle- and high school-aged girls how to code. I do this because I want girls to know about all
That one time a memory leak almost took down one of our apps -- and how I fixed it
If you're new to developing Rails applications, you've probably come across the term N + 1 queries. You probably also know that this is something you want to avoid. As an engineer who joined Gusto straight out of undergrad
Over the course of my career, I’ve mentored quite a number of people beyond those that I personally managed. This includes formal mentorship programs that I’ve volunteered for, heads of product management, and of course friends
In 2017, I became an engineering manager at Gusto. One year and many learnings later, I left the role.
