Workiva Life Blog

Insight into the role of a manager: asking questions

Get insight from a manager himself into the role of a manager, why they ask so many questions of their developers, and how to handle it.

Arrested development: enigmatic Boolean parameters

Find out why enigmatic Boolean parameters make the lives of developers more difficult and how clarifying the context can help.

Breaking and entering: lose the lock while embracing concurrency, Part II

Read part 2 of 2 in this series to take a deeper look into how and why we are applying lock-free techniques.

Breaking and entering: lose the lock while embracing concurrency, Part I

Read part 1 of 2 in this series to learn the problem of subscription matching for messaging systems, how it can be modeled, and linearizability.

The importance of face time with our users

Learn how designers and engineers at Workiva use customer feedback to build the new features that make our users’ lives better.

9 tips for smart software engineering

Some tips are experienced, not learned. Here are nine software engineering tips to make your next project smart, holistic, and rapid.

Managing developers: improve everything you touch

Learn what one manager wants to teach all developers—to approach processes differently and improve everything they touch.

Effective team communication is key to success

Crossing team boundaries incurs overhead every day. Learn best practices for effective team communication for developers.

API methods should not lie

Find out how and why an API method may be lying to its users, how to rewrite it to be more truthful, and the relevance of returning ‘futures’.

Introducing our tech stack

Dive into the Workiva story and learn how we selected a tech stack appropriate for our goals.