Working with the SQL ‘time’ type in Ruby on Rails
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Tags: ezcater, ruby, engineering, coding, rails, time zones, timeofday, activerecord, time, active record
A little while ago, we decided to define and document ezCater's pull request culture in an effort to streamline onboarding and facilitate collaboration as our team doubles, quadruples, and beyond in size. Clearly communicating both how we operate and also why we do things the way we do, sets people up for success from day one. We're proud that new hires are able to contribute to the codebase during their first week and are always looking for ways to simplify onboarding.
Read MoreTags: ezcater, culture, values, github, development, engineering, coding, creating
ezCater is a data-driven company. For a long time, the principal source for our metrics was our Redshift data warehouse. As a result, we invested heavily in building out the data systems that fed Redshift. We also staffed up a team of engineers dedicated to building, enhancing, and growing our data systems. (And yes, we're hiring!)
Read MoreTags: data warehousing, snowflake, ruby
We've been working with React for a few years now here at ezCater, during which time our unit testing story has been steadily evolving. One of the recent strategies we've tried out is Jest snapshot testing.
Read MoreTags: unit testing, jest, snapshot testing, javascript, react
Working at ezCater is an unbelievable opportunity to witness scaling close up. Requests, transactions, revenue, it’s hard to find something not going up and to the right. That’s great, but in each area of growth requires figuring out how to scale it.
The particular metric that was keeping me up at night was the “number of engineers trying to work together in harmony”. Ten, twenty, forty engineers are simply different scales and they require different systems to ensure things move smoothly. But how would we even describe a “happily scaling” organization from a developer productivity standpoint?
Tom Petr addresses this in his slides on Maximizing Developer Productivity in a Microservices Environment. This presentation shows the KPIs & shape of the curves I want for our organization.
Tags: devops, kubernetes
Product manager Lindsay Matthews and I gave a talk at the recent UXPA Boston conference about all the ways that designers can use data to be more effective. Learn more in the slides below:
Read MoreTags: experiments, women_in_tech, ezcater, design
This is part 2 in a series about Estimating the LTV of new SaaS customers. To do this we're taking all the datapoints we have about a user after X days and seeing whether we can predict how much revenue they'll spend in their first year.
In Early Prediction of Lifetime Value (LTV) we left off when we had a CSV full of features and the Year1Revenue(Y1R) that we were trying to predict. It was time to put the pedal down and see whether machine learning is all it's cracked up to be.
Read MoreTags: machine learning, ltv
You’re a SaaS business. You've been acquiring customers and on average they're worth about X. Somebody clever suggests a promotion, "$5off your first order".
Tags: machine learning, ltv, growth
Our own Kristen Kehlenbeck & Hillary Bauer were featured in How do we get more women in Boston tech? 6 female coders weigh in on BuiltInBoston
Read MoreTags: women_in_tech, ezcater
Prepare to have you mind expanded as you follow Jeff and Sam through a tour of the magic that can happen when you combine Slack, Zapier, Stitch, Redshift and more with workflows and the Hubspot APIs.
Read MoreTags: data warehousing, redshift, hubspot
We’re always looking for highly skilled full stack and iOS engineers to help execute our technology goals while riding this rocket ship of growth. Our people are terrifically talented straight-shooters who love what they do. And everyone is generous and kind, too — we have a strict no jerk policy.
