Laziness in engineering is a superpower. Embrace it, and use it to your advantage.
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The third in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work. In this post we share our protocol for getting stuff done with maximum accountability.
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The second in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work, covering our continuous development practices (CI/CD) and use of decision records
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What does it mean to be a T-shaped engineer? We’ll explore this concept and even provide some insight in how to get there.
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Using Slack threads to talk to yourself can be a way to use the strengths of distributed work to share knowledge and build a stronger team.
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Terraform is a powerful tool for building out infrastructure, but it can also create traps for you to fall into. Here’s how we build our infrastructure at Truss to avoid some common pitfalls.
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The aspects of the USWDS that are most useful to engineers and how we take it a step further at Truss to collaborate across practice areas.
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Our experiences using Atlantis to improve infrastructure workflows.
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Using AWS GovCloud introduces some new challenges for building infrastructure.
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At Truss, we have come up with some patterns to help us get the most out of AWS Organizations
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This year’s LISA Conference in Portland was full of talks worth watching.
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Before my changes, these tests ran in about 18 minutes. After my changes, they ran in about 6.5 minutes!
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Similarities between writing and engineering and a few common tactics to help you get through either with less pain, more insights, and better relationships.
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Our reasoning behind using CircleCI for our testing and deploys, using a custom-made container image to run project builds and tests.
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Tabs vs. spaces is one of the longest-running bike sheds in software engineering. Here’s why it’s something engineers shouldn’t care about at all.
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A single custom-built docker image you can use across jobs and projects to avoid installing the same tools multiple times in a single build.
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Nobody likes poorly run meetings OR too many meetings. A well-crafted set of well-defined meetings, though, can make a software engineering team more efficient by ensuring that they build the right thing at the right time.
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Lessons learned from studying the strangely integral history of man pages and the tools used to make them.
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Whether you’re interested in becoming a mentor, have been mentoring for years, or are curious about teaching practices in the context of software development, the five pieces of advice below should give you a general idea of what to aim for and expect from the mentor-mentee relationship.
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A guide to help others begin their developer bootcamp journey with the tools and skills they need to succeed.
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