An Open Email about Diversity
Updates from Gusto about their latest engineering diversity numbers.…
When Girls Lose Interest in Stem — and What You Can Do about It
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 the career options that are available, even if their communities don’t.…
Debugging Sidekiq Poison Pills
That one time a memory leak almost took down one of our apps -- and how I fixed it…
Staying Ambitious on Diversity: New Goals for Gusto Engineering
Over the next six months, Gusto is publicly committing to have 15% of our senior engineers belong to an an underrepresented group.…
Zero Downtime Table Migrations using a Double Write Methodology
A database table’s lifecycle is constantly becoming more and more complex. It grows beyond its original territory, taking on new responsibilities and interacting with other parts of the code base in unpredictable ways. In order to keep the code ecosystem flourishing, it’s important to periodically refactor tables with…