Workiva Life Blog

Mentorship in code reviews

Code reviews are more than just a chance to catch bugs before they reach production. They are a mentoring opportunity to spread knowledge and improve our teams and code. Every code review should have two outcomes: improved code and improved engineers.

Neuroeconomics and user interactions

Research shows that each decision we make has a tangible cost. Measuring these costs is not only possible, but highly accurate and relevant to our users.

Restraint-Driven Development

Excellent Software Engineering is as much about the code you don't write as it is about the code you do write.

Technical empathy

Proficient developers don’t just know how the code works, they can also effectively articulate the business value to others.

Non-Existent Python Mock Convenience Methods: A step toward sanity

Read about one of many potential solutions to the unintentional use of non-existent mock convenience methods.

A survey of concurrent programming

Learn how to design for concurrency with this survey of concurrent programming patterns and techniques.

We are ruthless on code reviews

An open letter apology to the new recruit who is feeling discouraged.

5 ways to find focus in the workplace

Finding focus throughout the workday isn’t easy. Here are 5 ways one of our visual designers gets to an optimal state of productivity. Read her blog post now.

Don’t build in the dark: monitoring your microservices

Faced with complex code, we knew we had to change our approach. Read on to shed light on complex microservices using monitoring-driven design.

Code refactoring: helping your team help you

To maintain modularity, readability, and testability, we must accept code refactoring as a fact of life. Find out four keys for code refactoring success.