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Standardizing Observability at Procore

Observability Featured

Standardizing Observability at Procore

Implementing observability into all of your services can be a large undertaking. At Procore, we developed observability libraries to lower the barrier of implementing standardized observability across services, while also reducing dependency on specific vendors.

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.

Skills Featured

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 the new team, attending

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 a small change can be. Software

Growth Featured

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 Engineers who have successfully

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

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

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.