Upward Farms’ mission is to radically elevate the world’s fresh food supply by setting new standards for safety, quality, and cost. The company operates complete...
As an Agile Coach at PagerDuty, one aspect of my job is to help teams refresh their processes when they’re no longer working for them....
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In a tech interview, the relationship between the candidate and the company is a two way street; applicants seek exciting companies in the same way...
In a story that will sound all too familiar to many developers, in early 2019, I picked up a Kanban ticket to update a legacy...
Infrastructure as Code As infrastructure stacks grow increasingly more complex and involve an ever-growing number of services and systems, teams have looked to abstract configuration...
ETS will hold references to large binaries, even if just part of the original binary is stored in a table. Copy binaries if pieces of...
In any fast-paced engineering environment, unexpected incidents can arise and escalate without warning. Effective leadership is key when this happens since coordination and decision-making across...
At PagerDuty, we’ve been doing Kanban for a while now, and as an Engineering Manager who has managed several teams over my tenure, I wanted...
Using inets and httpd to create a simple HTTP server without adding external dependencies Recently I needed to add a healthcheck endpoint to an application...
Some people inherit treasured jewelry, lavish mansions, or even grand fortunes. Software engineers inherit legacy code, written by people no longer working at the company,...
Android has matured as a platform significantly since its release ten years ago. ~Google~ The community has developed best practices and continued to refine them...
The software engineering world is moving quickly; libraries and frameworks are always changing. This is especially true on Android where Google only recently solidified its...
When PagerDuty was founded, development speed was of the essence—so it should be no surprise when we reveal that Rails was the initial sole bit...
PagerDuty uses Chef for some of its configuration management needs. While most Chef cookbooks wedevelop internally are not useful outside of PagerDuty’s infrastructureand workflow, sometimes...
Continuous Integration as a service (Travis CI, CircleCI, and plenty of others) has been commonplace for a while. These services are widely used to validate...
Background For many modern-day apps, the user interface either automatically shows the most up-to-date content to its users, or presents an indicator that new content...
Background I started at PagerDuty during a time of revitalization of the iOS app. Apps tend to need a lot of care, given that Apple...
Imagine yourself in a geographical distributed, multi team organization structure. Ok, that isn’t very difficult to imagine since we have that at PagerDuty. When you...