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Sharing #AppianLife behind the scenes, one blog post at a time!

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Painless Code-Signing Assets

As I wrote in “Bring Customers Joy With Automation,” we at Appian need to create customized versions of our Appian mobile application for our customers. To create these customized applications for iOS, we need several pieces of information...

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My Appian Internship Journey Part 2

One of our Appian Interns takes us through what he's accomplished throughout his time with us and advice to future interns that join us.

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Appian Internship Program: Simply Virtual

The saying goes it takes a village, and truer words have never been spoken. Over the past eight years, the internship program has thrived in person, but with the current pandemic we had to reconsider our format. I am thrilled to share Appian’s…

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Bring Customers Joy with Automation

Appian application Automation these days can be viewed as an attempt for businesses to separate themselves from their customers to save time or money. It is used to send customers down automated tunnels so as to reduce costs and remove the…

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Chaos Testing a Distributed System with Jepsen — Part III

Many thanks to Josh Kessler, the Data Layer team, Antonio Andrade, and Michael Crawford for their help in making this blog possible. “We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” M. C. Escher This is the third and final part in a series that…

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Artisanal Scripting: Todo Lists and Reminders

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash There are many tools to keep todo lists and calendar reminders, so this post isn’t necessarily going to be about a groundbreaking way of doing such things. Rather, I’ll illustrate how easy it can be to build…

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Chaos Testing a Distributed System with Jepsen

Photo by ActionVance on Unsplash Many thanks to Josh Kessler, the Data Layer team, Antonio Andrade, Jonathon Blonchek, and Debby Chang for their help in making this blog possible. This is the first post in a series that will explore how to run chaos…

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Dogfooding Appian

Appian is a low-code platform that turns your business ideas into enterprise-class applications. This article covers why and how Appian uses our software (or “eat our own dog food”) to run and scale our department.

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Artisanal Scripting: Keeping Secrets

Photo by James Sutton on Unsplash As mentioned in a previous post, I keep most of my configuration files and scripts in a git repository. Files that must remain secret, like ssh private keys, the .netrc file and the like should never end up there.