Sharing #AppianLife behind the scenes, one blog post at a time!
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…
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…
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.
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.
Photo by Nynne Schrøder on Unsplash Hello there, it’s David again. Over the next few weeks I will be publishing a series of posts I’m calling Artisanal Scripting. As a developer who spends much of his time on the terminal, I’ve crafted dotfiles and…
Hi, my name is David and I am a little obsessed with git. At Appian, we migrated from subversion in 2010 and have been using git ever since. Besides the obvious benefits like local commits and its decentralized nature, it offers interesting features…
Thanks to Gabriel Hollies for his help in writing this post TL;DR: on AWS EC2 M4 instances, calls to System.nanoTime() and System.currentTimeMillis() make system calls, and these system calls are subject to even more overhead when running in Docker…
Over the last few years in Appian Engineering, I have made sure to share one key aspect of our culture in every interview, because our management model is very different than it is at most companies. After more than 50 interviews, candidates are…
The number one rule of being a manager is to have 1-on-1s with your direct reports (Don’t believe me? Read this and this and this.) But the best 1-on-1s are those where your direct report has spent time thinking about what they want to discuss with…
The concept of one’s “dream job” has been a fairly ubiquitous one, and every thought leader, social media guru, and lay-person across the world has either written, hosted a podcast, or given a Ted Talk about it.
Quality is still important Today’s modern software development culture prescribes agile development processes, frequent delivery, and fast customer feedback. So, isn’t it good enough to deliver something that generally works, then fix what your…
