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As Procore continues to scale its microservice architecture, its Engineering teams are expanding their observability capabilities.</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-10-11">11 Oct 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">3 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-frontend tag-test tag-growth tag-javascript"> <a class="post-card-image-link" href="/dynamic-frontend-testing-with-mirage-js/"> <img class="post-card-image" srcset="/content/images/size/w300/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-6.35.42-PM.png 300w, /content/images/size/w600/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-6.35.42-PM.png 600w, /content/images/size/w1000/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-6.35.42-PM.png 1000w, /content/images/size/w2000/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-6.35.42-PM.png 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 400px, 800px" src="/content/images/size/w600/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-6.35.42-PM.png" alt="Dynamic Frontend Testing With Mirage JS" loading="lazy" /> </a> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/dynamic-frontend-testing-with-mirage-js/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Frontend</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Dynamic Frontend Testing With Mirage JS </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Procore's testing methods must scale proportionate to our growth. We sought a better tool for ensuring we only release quality code into production. We found and implemented Mirage JS and we want to walk our audience through our process.</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-09-03">03 Sep 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">4 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-observability"> <a class="post-card-image-link" href="/better-monitoring-and-observability-at-procore/"> <img class="post-card-image" srcset="/content/images/size/w300/2021/05/Observability-Pipeline---Architectural-Overview.png 300w, /content/images/size/w600/2021/05/Observability-Pipeline---Architectural-Overview.png 600w, /content/images/size/w1000/2021/05/Observability-Pipeline---Architectural-Overview.png 1000w, /content/images/size/w2000/2021/05/Observability-Pipeline---Architectural-Overview.png 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 400px, 800px" src="/content/images/size/w600/2021/05/Observability-Pipeline---Architectural-Overview.png" alt="Better Monitoring and Observability at Procore" loading="lazy" /> </a> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/better-monitoring-and-observability-at-procore/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Observability</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Better Monitoring and Observability at Procore </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Procore is on a journey to improve our architecture, to better deliver our vision to customers, and to improve our internal developer experience. A key pillar to supporting this journey is improving our Observability.</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-05-17">17 May 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">3 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-deployment tag-debt-management tag-hash-ylan no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/sequenced-deployments-for-incompatible-front-end-and-back-end-code-releases/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">deployment</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Sequenced Deployments for Incompatible Front-end and Back-end code releases </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Deployment of new code is not instantaneous and can bring unexpected challenges, even in seemingly simple cases.</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-05-11">11 May 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">3 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-process no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/when-will-it-be-done/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Process</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> When will it be done? </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">When will it be done? 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We also need to ensure good decisions are made, which means they are based on solid engineering principles, take cross-functional considerations into account, and we remain consistent across teams. We</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-02-23">23 Feb 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">2 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-data tag-engineering tag-hash-jeff tag-hash-manish no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/dad-eliminates-top-db-cpu-consumer-with-a-single-env-variable/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Data</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> DAD eliminates top DB CPU consumer with a single environment variable </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">The Database Admin (DAD) team is responsible for DB performance, and let’s just say Procore’s growth is keeping us pretty busy. 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When you nomad, you immerse yourself entirely with the new team, attending</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2021-01-12">12 Jan 2021</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">3 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-productivity tag-management tag-hash-heidi-helfand featured no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/make-high-impact-decisions-with-confidence-using-alignment-records/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Productivity</span> <span class="post-card-featured"><svg width="16" height="17" viewBox="0 0 16 17" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M4.49365 4.58752C3.53115 6.03752 2.74365 7.70002 2.74365 9.25002C2.74365 10.6424 3.29678 11.9778 4.28134 12.9623C5.26591 13.9469 6.60127 14.5 7.99365 14.5C9.38604 14.5 10.7214 13.9469 11.706 12.9623C12.6905 11.9778 13.2437 10.6424 13.2437 9.25002C13.2437 6.00002 10.9937 3.50002 9.16865 1.68127L6.99365 6.25002L4.49365 4.58752Z" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path> </svg> Featured</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Make High Impact Decisions with Confidence using Alignment Records </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Imagine you need to set the future technical direction of a large Engineering organization. How do you capture the input from all of your Architect Engineers and Engineering Directors and quickly transform it into a visual format that would increase confidence in technical decisions? At Procore, we evolved the Fist</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2020-12-14">14 Dec 2020</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">5 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-engineering tag-productivity no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/fix-what-bugs-you/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Engineering</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Fix What Bugs You </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Have you ever found yourself willfully ignoring something you know you could do better, just because it seemed too unimportant to be worth improving? I have, and it really bugged me. I finally bit the bullet and improved it, and quickly realized how important a small change can be. Software</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2020-12-08">08 Dec 2020</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">2 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-hash-jeff no-image"> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/how-to-make-a-query-280-000-times-faster/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> How to Make a Query 280,000 Times Faster </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">We usually make small iterative improvements in performance. However, on rare occasions, an opportunity arises to make an improvement of five orders of magnitude by changing a single line! 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What would an ideal internship be?” It really boiled down to three main asks: 1. I wanted to be treated and</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2019-10-29">29 Oct 2019</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">4 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-procore tag-procore-r-d tag-engineering tag-platform tag-squad"> <a class="post-card-image-link" href="/breaking-out-of-silos/"> <img class="post-card-image" srcset="/content/images/size/w300/2019/06/32462881896_107ed9ac9c_k.jpg 300w, /content/images/size/w600/2019/06/32462881896_107ed9ac9c_k.jpg 600w, /content/images/size/w1000/2019/06/32462881896_107ed9ac9c_k.jpg 1000w, /content/images/size/w2000/2019/06/32462881896_107ed9ac9c_k.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 400px, 800px" src="/content/images/size/w600/2019/06/32462881896_107ed9ac9c_k.jpg" alt="Breaking out of silos" loading="lazy" /> </a> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/breaking-out-of-silos/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">Procore</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Breaking out of silos </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">Authors: Stephanie Pirman and Kellie Spears What we’ve learned by building products on multiple platforms in the same squad A squad is comprised of multiple roles at Procore including software engineers, quality assurance engineers, UX engineers and product managers. 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It is built with knowledge of the Procore domain which enables us to construct rate limits that make sense for Procore specifically, as</div> </a> <footer class="post-card-meta"> <time class="post-card-meta-date" datetime="2019-06-11">11 Jun 2019</time> <span class="post-card-meta-length">6 min read</span> </footer> </div> </article> <article class="post-card post tag-railsconf tag-rails-conf-2019 tag-ruby-on-rails tag-speakers"> <a class="post-card-image-link" href="/procore-railsconf-2019-speakers-and-their-key-takeaways/"> <img class="post-card-image" srcset="/content/images/size/w300/2019/05/RailsConf2019.jpg 300w, /content/images/size/w600/2019/05/RailsConf2019.jpg 600w, /content/images/size/w1000/2019/05/RailsConf2019.jpg 1000w, /content/images/size/w2000/2019/05/RailsConf2019.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 400px, 800px" src="/content/images/size/w600/2019/05/RailsConf2019.jpg" alt="Procore speakers share highlights from RailsConf 2019" loading="lazy" /> </a> <div class="post-card-content"> <a class="post-card-content-link" href="/procore-railsconf-2019-speakers-and-their-key-takeaways/"> <header class="post-card-header"> <div class="post-card-tags"> <span class="post-card-primary-tag">RailsConf</span> </div> <h2 class="post-card-title"> Procore speakers share highlights from RailsConf 2019 </h2> </header> <div class="post-card-excerpt">A few weeks ago, Procore sponsored and attended RailsConf 2019 [https://railsconf.com/], one of the world’s largest gatherings of Rails developers and Ruby enthusiasts. 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