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
How to Onboard Your Own Engineering Teammates Hurray! That engineer that you interviewed a few weeks ago just signed and your manager asked you to help onboard them. You’re not the new hire’s manager, but you
Two engineers who moved to New York City as part of the landing team share about the office launch and what’s ahead.
This article is based on my presentation “Gusto & Xero: 4 Offices, 2 Countries, 1 Massive Payroll Integration” given at Kiwi Ruby on November 1, 2019 in Auckland, New Zealand.In January 2019, Gusto became the preferred payroll provider
That one time a memory leak almost took down one of our apps -- and how I fixed it
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
A few months ago, I received an offer to join Gusto’s Payroll product management team. I had just completed a fairly rigorous interview process and was pretty excited about the opportunity based on the great conversations I’
Note: This is the first post in a multi-part series about the evolution of our Javascript application over time. Here are parts 2 [https://engineering.gusto.com/evolving-javascript-part-2-hello-react/] and parts 3 [https://engineering.gusto.com/evolving-javascript-part-3-building-a-react-application]. The advancements
