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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.

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 [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_PerfInsights.Overview.

Productivity Featured

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? At Procore, we evolved the Fist

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 our Site Reliability Engineers, I reformatted

Being an Engineering Intern at 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 would an ideal internship be?” It really boiled down to three main asks: 1. I wanted to be treated and

Breaking out of silos

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 software engineers, quality assurance engineers, UX engineers and product managers. We (Stephanie and Kellie) work on the Field Productivity Squad

When Milliseconds Matter

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 with knowledge of the Procore domain which enables us to construct rate limits that make sense for Procore specifically, as

Procore speakers share highlights from RailsConf 2019

Procore speakers share highlights from RailsConf 2019

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. Procore’s application is built on Ruby on Rails, which is why being a part of RailsConf is valuable from both a business and

Hackathon by the Sea - Girls Edition

Hackathon by the Sea - Girls Edition

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=dHGiB6oqD0U] 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 learning more about the technology industry. Below are a few of

Operational Excellence - One Way Optimism is Constructed at Procore

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 international keynote speaker in the software industry. Heidi recently lead the Operational Excellence event for Procore's R&D organization and

How to Handle Growth Through Dynamic Reteaming

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 dynamic reteaming in order to make hiring new employees more seamless. I work in R&D to help teams get

Introducing Blueprinter

A new way to format and serialize APIs. Blueprinter [https://github.com/procore/blueprinter] is a declarative and fast Ruby object to JSON serializer, an alternative to solutions like Active Model Serializers [https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers]. Why build another serializer? When we began writing Blueprinter, existing options

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 critical parts of a modern web application, and being able to write tests around this communication layer is imperative. The

Procore Sponsors and Attends the Grace Hopper Conference

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 [https://www.procore.com/wic/], Women in Engineering, and Diversity & Inclusion. The Grace Hopper Conference is the world's largest gathering

Transforming Data Into Insight

Transforming Data Into Insight

This article was originally published on Procore's corporate blog [http://hq.procore.com/]. Construction is changing. While paper and pencils may seem pervasive in the industry, their days are numbered as new forms of technology make capturing, reporting and managing information much easier. But evolution brings a new set of

Improving Essential Workflows in a Legacy Code Base

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 systems, and data. We offer a native iOS app for our customers to access their documents from iPhones and iPads.

Our Road to Rising Up: Procore attends Women Who Code

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 [https://www.womenwhocode.com/about] is an international non-profit committed to inspiring women to succeed in tech careers. The nonprofit has chapters all over the world dedicated to supporting

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 wrong? This is a common feeling. Git has many states that can be subtle and confusing. This post will take

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, stability, performance, flexibility, and cost to

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 we aim for in order to

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” today was created decades ago. Most

Roda vs. Sinatra For Small Projects

I’m a hacker. I like to build things and get stuff done. Also, I care about efficiency and performance. Even though I use Rails all day long, it feels like too much for my own personal projects. When I’m hacking on some code for fun, I don’t