A year into my first job out of school, I found myself feeling content with my job but wanting more. As I embarked on finding and creating a path that would be more fulfilling for me, I found myself pretty confused on how to approach finding my second job.
We care about our customers and want to ensure we keep meeting their needs even as those needs change. Engineers were building performance into our work naturally, but we knew we needed to do a lot more to coordinate our efforts and keep up with our increasing demand.
This was Gusto's system graph. Each of the black rectangles you see here is a subsystem within Gusto's biggest Rails monolith, and the red arrows are where one subsystem talks to another. As our business grew, folks started
A dedicated group can help your organization develop a deep sense of ownership of your products and processes and enable you to drive the technical strategy
Upgrading Rails can often be difficult and risky! I'll be walking through the process my team took to safely upgrade to Rails 7.0. While this is going to be relatively Rails and Ruby specific, I hope you can take away something for software you are upgrading.
This post is about how I use a simple plaintext file to extend my brain and manage my working memory. This approach helps me deal with engineering related tasks.
Technical interviewing can feel formidable. Make it easier by standardizing your interview process.
Many engineers, including myself, wonder what the end-to-end ownership of a feature looks like for a software company. I’ve had the opportunity to work on several projects with end-to-end ownership, and I wanted to share my journey
