27 March 2019
An Open Email about Diversity
Updates from Gusto about their latest engineering diversity numbers.
07 March 2019
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
21 February 2019
Debugging Sidekiq Poison Pills
That one time a memory leak almost took down one of our apps -- and how I fixed it
17 September 2018
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.
14 August 2018
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
27 June 2018
How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown to 100 engineers
The co-founder and CTO shares how his role changed as the engineering team scaled from 0 to 100 engineers.
26 February 2018
The Power of Small Teams
Prior to Gusto, I built products in a world where the Product Management (PM) team “owned” the product. The PM team would come up with the product strategy, write the specs, and hand everything off to engineering. From
