Recently, I started on a project to migrate JavaScript to TypeScript in one of Lucidchart’s Angular 2 applications. This application has several components, each with its unique view. For those not familiar with Angular 2, a component is merely an encapsulation of a view on a webpage with its associated…
At Lucid we want to monitor the health of our services both individually and in aggregate. Last month we worked on setting up a new downtime dashboard tool. We wanted the following functionality: a record of incidents containing the duration of downtime, the service(s) affected, and information about the cause…
In the information age that we live in, attention is one of the most precious resources a person has. Traditional advertisers, online companies, and device manufacturers fight hard for every millisecond of a consumer’s attention. At a workplace, frequent distractions are one big productivity killer. On average, it takes 23…
Coming in for an interview is the most intimidating part of the hiring process. In just three short hours, you have to answer questions, solve problems, and convince five or six interviewers that you are the person they need to hire. It starts with proper preparation, but even the most…
At Lucid Software, we collect thousands of applications and interview about 100 candidates each year for a variety of engineering roles. We have an interview team of roughly 12 engineers specializing in the six different parts of our interview process. With university recruiting season upon us, we sat down and…
My husband and I have been married for a little over two years now. In that time, we have heard all kinds of marriage advice; some of it is good and some not so good. Most of that advice could be applied to just about any relationship, for instance, that…
At the beginning of this year, Lucidchart rebuilt its editor in Angular 2. The new editor delivered a better experience with far fewer lines of code. Both engineers and product managers enjoyed it because it made writing features easier. The old (left) and new (right) Lucidchart editor But, there was…
Heart racing. Beads of sweat dripping. Why me? The CEO and VP of Engineering just told me my team lead is leaving and they’d like me to transition into his role. Ok, so that’s a bit of a dramatic retelling. When I joined the Lucid team there were only fifteen…
Here at Lucid Software, we are always trying to release high quality code to users as quickly as possible. For every release, we spend three to five days doing a full regression to make sure the code is user ready. Three to five days is not as fast as possible….
Testers: you know this story well. There’s a feature you’ve tested thoroughly in development and looked at it in your staging environment, but now it’s gone out to production and doesn’t work. There’s some aspect of the story that works differently when you put it in production and is causing…