Observability

Observability - The Basics

Microservice environments require significant coordination, insight, and care to be able to monitor and measure requests passing through the system. As Procore continues to scale its microservice architecture, its Engineering teams are expanding their observability capabilities.

Frontend

Dynamic Frontend Testing With Mirage JS

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.

Observability

Better Monitoring and Observability at Procore

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.

deployment

Sequenced Deployments for Incompatible Front-end and Back-end code releases

Deployment of new code is not instantaneous and can bring unexpected challenges, even in seemingly simple cases.

Process

When will it be done?

When will it be done? A simple question, but one that can seem impossible to answer. In 2019, my team and I attended a two-day workshop on Advanced Agile Metrics by agile expert and veteran Dan Vacanti to understand how to answer this question.

architecture

Streamlining Architecture Decisions at Procore

At Procore, we strive to have decisions made at the appropriate level, rather than being a strictly top down organization.  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

Data

DAD eliminates top DB CPU consumer with a single environment variable

The Database Admin (DAD) team is responsible for DB performance, and let’s just say Procore’s growth is keeping us pretty busy. We recently noticed that SET application_name = ? has been climbing the ranks of RDS Performance Insights (PI) until it became the

Android

Fix your Android Memory Leaks in Fragments

In the world of mobile, there are many resource constraints, memory being one of the most precious. Early last year, the Procore Android team noticed various crashes in the mobile application caused by insufficient memory. The number of crashes was also spread over various

Skills

Nomad Your Way to Fresh Tech Skills

One of the lesser-known perks of being an engineer at Procore is that our Engineering department offers employees the opportunity to "nomad" with other teams for a short period of time (typically two to four weeks). When you nomad, you immerse yourself entirely with

Productivity

Make High Impact Decisions with Confidence using Alignment Records

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?

Engineering

Fix What Bugs You

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

How to Make a Query 280,000 Times Faster

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!   After learning about a slow query that was hitting our statement timeout from one of

Growth

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

Procore

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

Procore

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

Procore

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

Procore

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

Procore

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