Building `a la carte` gitops tooling — While starting our road to microservices at Achievers, the SRE team had new challenges to solve. Until recently, the team was following a more traditional centralized model. Need new infrastructure? Please submit a ticket and wait on us. One way we wanted to change the culture was by empowering engineering…

Achievers has been growing rapidly over the past two years, and we have been working hard to grow our microservices and scale our platform globally. We have been running Istio in production for well over 18 months and we suffered and learned a lot during this process. I thought it…

Running through the 6 with documentation woes — improving the developer experience Do you wonder if your engineers enjoy the internal tooling they use every day? Do you struggle with keeping developer technical documentation appealing and relevant? Achievers are in the business of employee success and the developer experience is very important to them. With over 10 years of out-of-date documentation piling…

It can be hard to find passion in technical documentation. It is tiresome, repetitive, and keeping it up to date can feel like a constant struggle. Even though we know good documentation is crucial, engineering teams often fail at maintaining it. Our team at Achievers faced many common issues with…