Procore Engineering Blog

Shape Your Own Role at Procore

Here at Procore, we don't just embrace change; we drive change! Procore Engineers can shape their own roles and choose to what degree their work affects the company. You drive your own Procore experience. Today, I’m going to share some stories of Procore

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Being an Engineering Intern at Procore

About two years ago, when I was first searching for a software engineering internship, I remember asking myself, “What do I want to get out of this new experience? What

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Breaking out of silos

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

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When Milliseconds Matter

Authors: Shayon Javadizadeh, Ishjot Walia Background Quota Minder is a microservice written in Elixir that enforces API Rate Limits on our third party integrators and internal applications. It is built

RailsConf

Procore speakers share highlights from RailsConf 2019

A few weeks ago, Procore sponsored and attended RailsConf 2019, one of the world’s largest gatherings of Rails developers and Ruby enthusiasts. Procore’s application is built on Ruby

Technical Debt

Taming the Beast

Pragmatic, Proactive Debt Management at Procore R&D Tim Doherty is Staff Software Engineer at Procore Technologies, where he’s tirelessly championing TDD and sustainable development. He also runs

Navigating the Tech World

I recently had the opportunity to be a part of a panel with six other inspiring women at the Women in Computer Science “Navigating the Tech World” meet-up at the

Hackathon

Hackathon by the Sea - Girls Edition

Procore recently helped host and run Hackathon by the Sea for girls in the Santa Barbara community--an event hosted for young women who are interested in exploring computer engineering and

Women Who Code

Procore Code Corps is Inspiring Girls to Code

What do you get when you teach others what you love to do, and have the support and encouragement of your company to do it? Fulfillment. That’s what several

Operational Development

Operational Excellence - One Way Optimism is Constructed at Procore

Heidi Helfand is Director of Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies. She is also the author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, the Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams and is an

Engineering

How to Handle Growth Through Dynamic Reteaming

Teams are dynamic, especially at fast-growing software companies like Procore. When you hire new people, your teams change. It’s inevitable - so you might as well get good at

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Introducing Blueprinter

A new way to format and serialize APIs. Blueprinter is a declarative and fast Ruby object to JSON serializer, an alternative to solutions like Active Model Serializers. Why build another

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Twisted Tales

Making Redux Saga scalable with TDD, SOLID principles and the Narrator Design Pattern There and Back Again... Asynchronous code is hard. Talking to a server is one of the most

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Procore Sponsors and Attends the Grace Hopper Conference

Last week, Procore sponsored the Grace Hopper Conference and gave developers from Research and Development the opportunity to attend. Twenty-five of them decided to go and promote Women in Construction,

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Transforming Data Into Insight

This article was originally published on Procore's corporate blog. Construction is changing. While paper and pencils may seem pervasive in the industry, their days are numbered as new forms of

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Improving Essential Workflows in a Legacy Code Base

Procore provides a suite of project management tools for teams collaborating to build large-scale construction projects. The tools allow our customers to share access to critical items like documents, scheduling

Ruby On Rails

Our Road to Rising Up: Procore attends Women Who Code

Women Who Code Connect 2017, recently held its 2nd annual conference at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Women Who Code is an international non-profit committed to inspiring women to

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Migrating Databases with Rails at Scale

At Procore, PostgreSQL is our workhorse. The nature of our product - a very large suite of enterprise business management tools for the construction industry - requires a fully normalized

RailsConf

Join Us for a Post-RailsConf 2017 Wrap-Up Event

Procore had the privilege of sponsoring the RailsConf 2017 event that took place last month in Phoenix, AZ. At the event, we had the opportunity to speak and collaborate with

Git

An Intro to Git and Its States

When I first started working in git I found myself frequently asking the following: Why does it seem like whenever I want to remove something in git, I do it

Managing Dependencies with 6 Easy Questions

Nothing is free; everything comes with a cost. As developers, many might not acknowledge it, but we are always making trade-offs. With every new line of code we write, we are compromising the integrity of the system. The changes we make affect the complexity,

Get To Know Procore Engineering

Procore Engineering is working on products our clients in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry use to build hospitals, sports stadiums, schools, apartment buildings, and skyscrapers more efficiently, with improved communication and collaboration. I’ve had the pleasure of leading our Engineering team

We’re Expanding Our Engineering Team to San Diego

Over the past few years, Procore has experienced a burst of growth that has brought us to more than 2,000 clients and well over 1,250,000 users. Our engineering team has been expanding to keep up with the pace of innovation that

Procore Plays Host to the Local Ruby on Rails Community

Procore Plays Host to the Local Ruby on Rails Community If you’ve never been to Santa Barbara, prepare to be overwhelmed by natural beauty unmatched in the continental United States. More than just a natural wonderland, this sun-drenched strip of California coast is

Evolution of Software Applications

If you develop software long enough, you notice patterns. One pattern that isn’t talked about enough is how systems evolve over time. The software industry is so focused on the flavor of the week that we lose perspective. Most of what is “invented”