Engineering Blog

Experimenting With LangChain AI

Jul 21, 2023 | By Ganesan Senthilvel

My recent experiences working with LangChain technology.

New Frameworks Provide New Ways to Create Cross Platform, Cross Mobile Applications

Apr 12, 2023 | By Ganesan Senthilvel

My recent experiences working with Flutter and Capacitor.

How to Help Guide Developers Through Your API Documentation

Jan 31, 2023 | By Chris Johnson

Tips on how to go beyond just documenting API endpoints and parameters.

How We Improved the Performance of Our Vector Maps

Oct 11, 2022 | By Ganesan Senthilvel

The changes we made to give our customers a better experience with our vector maps.

How We Cleaned Up Our Big Git Repo

Sep 13, 2022 | By Jonathan Koppenhaver

A step-by-step guide to how Trimble Maps reduced the size of its code repository after transitioning to Git from Subversion.

How We Converted a Huge SVN Repo to Git

Aug 29, 2022 | By Jonathan Koppenhaver

A step-by-step guide to how Trimble Maps transitioned its code repo to Git from Subversion.

Everything We Did to Make This Site Fast

Aug 2, 2022 | By Christian Oliff

A detailed rundown on the tools and techniques we used to optimize page-load performance.

Software Engineering Interviews at Trimble Maps

Sep 27, 2021 | By George Lutz

This article explains what to expect during an engineering interview at Trimble Maps. Some context: software engineers at Trimble Maps write code, analyze code, perform code reviews, debug code, optimize code, and maintain code.

Evaluating a Refactor, Part 2

Sep 16, 2021 | By Stephen Darlington

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how to evaluate a new algorithm using BenchmarkDotNet. Benchmarking allowed us to test the execution time and memory usage of a new code path in isolation.

Evaluating a Refactor, Part 1

Aug 30, 2021 | By Stephen Darlington

We’ve talked a lot on this blog about getting started with various technologies and different ways to architect your code or your solution. We’ve also talked about testing and measuring performance.

The Power of Load Balancer Logs

Feb 28, 2021 | By George Lutz

Transparency into production systems is essential to site reliability. Enormous transparency can be achieved simply by turning on load balancer logs then writing a query to measure the health and stability of every service all at once.

Where Do You Want Your Mess?

Feb 16, 2021 | By Melicent King

WDYWYM (pronounced “witty whim”) is a software engineering concept that is as familiar in code as in everyday life.

AWS IAM Primer

Feb 8, 2021 | By George Lutz

AWS, of course, provides an expansive set of services to solve big problems quickly. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is often a speed bump though.

Nullable — Zero vs Nothing

Feb 2, 2021 | By Ganesan Senthilvel

Software engineers need to be very mindful of Null values. Null is conceptually different from zero; it was left blank during record creation.

All Aboard With MassTransit

Jan 14, 2021 | By Stephen Darlington

Creating a simple geocoding program using MassTransit.

Deploying on a Technical Schedule

Sep 4, 2020 | By George Lutz

Our goal is to get products to our customers faster. This requires deploying small, modular changes frequently — deploying on a technical schedule, not just on a business-driven schedule.

Customizing Swagger Responses for Better API Documentation

Jun 24, 2020 | By Stephen Darlington

How to configure custom example responses for Swagger API Docs

Tracing Distributed Systems Using AWS X-Ray

May 10, 2020 | By Ganesan Senthilvel

Tracing Distributed Systems using AWS X-Ray

Getting Started With AWS Big Data — How to Query Data in S3 Using Glue and Athena

Apr 14, 2020 | By Matthew Harper

A step-by-step tutorial to quickly build and test a data analytics service in AWS using S3, Glue, and Athena.

API-First Development and OpenAPI

Feb 24, 2020 | By Casey Lutz

A frank rambling on the needs for and the pitfalls of API first development.

Brief Intro to NetTopology in .NET Core

Feb 19, 2020 | By Aizeem Paroya

Can’t find SqlGeography in .NET Core? You’ll want to use NetTopologySuite instead; here’s a brief intro.

Postman - API Testing Made Easy

Feb 7, 2020 | By Akila Rajkanth

Tips to help you get the most out of your automated tests using Postman.

Optimize Your .Net Core Docker Images

Dec 5, 2019 | By Christopher Oyesiku

The goal of this quick reference is to bring attention to .Net based docker images and optimizing their sizes in an image store.

Event-Driven Architecture

Nov 5, 2019 | By Stephen Darlington

One of the fun things we get to do as software engineers is to figure out how to build enterprise applications that scale.

Moving Toward CI / CD

Oct 14, 2019 | By Josh Nassar

“The most powerful tool we have as developers is automation.”

Dependency Injection — What’s the Point?

Oct 8, 2019 | By Christopher Tanghare

This article will discuss dependency injection and provide a real life business example using .NET Core, Autofac, and Mock unit testing.

Become a 31% Better SQL Developer in Minutes

Oct 4, 2019 | By George Lutz

Sometimes application developers write SQL. This is dangerous.

Performance Profiling & Optimizing: How to Get the Most Out of Your Software Design

Jul 19, 2019 | By Hugo Jimenez

Performance Profiling & Optimizing: How to get the most out of your software design

Shift & Mentor: Stretching Skill Sets Effectively

Sep 13, 2018 | By George Lutz

The best organizations assign people to jobs in much the same way that sports coaches or music teachers choose exercises for their students — to push them just beyond their current capabilities.

Testing Application Communications

Apr 6, 2018 | By George Lutz

Network analysis must be a part of the test plan for any connected application.

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