In this post, we'll look at what problems these non-atomic actions pose and walk through a few examples of how to fix them. We'll also cover isolator, a gem that helps us detect these non-atomic violations.
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.
In part 1 [https://engineering.gusto.com/protecting-sensitive-data-at-gusto-with-hapii-part-1/], we covered the goals and benefits of isolating the most sensitive customer data to a separate service, that we call HAPII - The Hardened PII store. Briefly, the isolation of
The ultimate goal of a growth team is to enable, activate, and retain paying customers on the platform who like the functionality so much, they’re willing to refer others to it—which creates a flywheel of satisfied customers and boosts revenue along the way.
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.
Gusto is a custodian of some of your most sensitive personal and financial information. We take this responsibility seriously, and are constantly reviewing our security posture and data handling practices for ways to improve well beyond the industry
It’s been two years since we gave the world a look at a “normal day” as a Gusto engineer [https://engineering.gusto.com/a-day-in-the-life/]. Since then the org has grown nearly three-fold and matured as an organization.
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!
