Axial Engineering

Container Culture

Container culture, a journey from a monolithic app to actual micro services from the view of a DevOps engineer. This journey…

Sometimes a Big Bang Release is Necessary (and how we got faster because of it)

Axial is an online marketplace that connects private companies to capital. Our goal, like many startup teams, is to rapidly evolve our features to provide more value. But rapid development does…

Defining our product & engineering team values

The product and engineering team at Axial has undergone a lot of change in the last year or so. We survived a major (and fraught) re-architecture effort, we rebuilt the core recommendation/matching engine at the heart of the product, we’ve gone…

DevOps: Before/As it happens (Monitoring)

You’re having a great work week, pushed out a couple of great changes, were able to work on some requested features, and were able to go almost an entire work week without something bad happening. You walk in on a Friday, expecting the day to be smooth and…

The Ingredients for a Strong Engineering Culture

OOD and the Fetish of Reusability

Software Development Best Practices in 2016. Part I

A Culture Built for Coders

At Axial, we spend a lot of time thinking about and focusing on our culture. We see creating a positive, compelling and inspiring…