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The Ingredients of Intelligence: Why "Smart" AI Starts with You

AI is only as smart as your context. Learn how R&D Ops at Toast uses precise scoping and data architecture to eliminate token waste, fix misleading results, and drive real efficiency.

Heather Henry
Backend

Deferred ACK in Apache Camel: Building a Reliable Batch Processing Pipeline with Pulsar

Learn now Toast uses a Deferred ACK pattern in Apache Camel to prevent message loss during Pulsar batching.

Arpit Goyal
Product

A Product Leader's Perspective: Building an AI-Proof Product Career

This personal perspective from a leader in Toast's Fintech organization challenges product managers to redefine their careers in the age of AI.

Alok Agrawal
Culture

Toast Unlocks Innovation with Summer AI Hackathon

See how Toast scaled its AI Hackathon to drive innovation across the company, and learn our key tips for hosting your own inclusive event.

Mackenzie Andelin
Hardware

How Automation Is Powering the Future of Hardware Testing at Toast

As Toast hardware continues to evolve, so do the ways we test it. The goal has always been the same: deliver reliable products that meet the demands of a fast-paced restaurant environment.

Joshua Spielman
Hardware

Beyond Industry Test Standards: Testing for Real-World Restaurant Environments

Walk into any busy restaurant kitchen and you’ll find a world of extremes. We design hardware specifically for this world—not just any commercial environment, but the restaurant floor. 

Joshua Spielman
Data & AI

Supercharging our Technical Product Teams: How AI and Automation are Cooking Up Efficiency at Toast

As AI coding assistants are giving engineers a massive productivity boost, a critical question emerged: How can we provide similar superpowers to our Product Managers?

Heather Henry
General Engineering

Empowering Security from Within

In today's digital landscape organizations need more than just a dedicated security team. They need a culture of security that permeates every level of the company.

Alina Yakubenko
Culture

What do you appreciate about Toast’s approach to product engineering?

Hear from some of our engineering team members as they discuss what they appreciate about Toast’s approach to Product Engineering.

Mackenzie Andelin
General Engineering

One Team, One Vision: Fostering Collaboration Through Design System Champions

Recognizing that siloed design and engineering processes were leading to inconsistencies, we prioritized building a strong design foundation with the Toast Design System.

Ethan Sheridan+Emily Sibley
General Engineering

How Strong Is My AppSec Program?

Ever wondered, “Is my AppSec program robust enough?” You’re not alone. Read though strategic ways to evaluate your team’s impact and ensure you're on the path to an effective program.

David Kosorok
Culture

Toast's Recipe for Success: Customer Obsession

Ready to see customer obsession in action? We'll explore the power of shadowing—observing customers firsthand—and how it's helped Toast build better products and experiences.

Lily Pytel
General Engineering

How Toast Incorporates a FinOps Approach to Cloud Financial Management

Figuring out how to manage cloud infrastructure costs is a typical problem faced by companies as they scale. At Toast, we embraced a FinOps mindset to track and monitor our cloud costs.

Ken Siskind
General Engineering

Navigating the GraphQL Evolution at Toast: From BFFs to Federation

In this blogpost, we will cover the adoption of GraphQL at Toast, from its early days to the recent paradigm shift towards GraphQL Federation.

Ruben Cagnie
General Engineering

Simplified Payments Integration

The purpose of the Simplified Payments Integration platform was to create a streamlined approach to integrating payments into a checkout solution. Learn more in this post!

CJ Garnette
Culture

Celebrating the Toast.org Rotational Program: Empowering Engineers to Make an Impact

This post outlines the Toast.org rotational program impact, program structure if you wish to replicate, and anecdotal feedback from engineer participants.

Ani Boyo+Liz Jackson
General Engineering

Supporting International Phone Numbers at Toast

We are normalizing phone numbers, adopting international standards like E.164, and effectively handling legacy U.S. numbers leveraging tools like Google’s libphonenumber.

Sanket Gawas+Terry McCartan
General Engineering

Front-End Application Internationalization with i18next

Modern software platforms often make use of multiple front-end applications. We discuss how we use i18next at Toast to manage our UI string translation requirements.

Donovan Hutchinson
Mobile

Using Multiple Locales in an Android App

In this blog post, we’ll explore how we solved a number of challenges regarding the localization of the Toast POS Platform.

Rodrigo Ferreira
General Engineering

Internationalization @ Toast

Welcome to the inaugural post in our Toast Technology Internationalization (i18n) blog series, where we'll be delving into the exciting journey of Toast’s internationalization efforts.

Terry McCartan
General Engineering

Living the Blueberry Muffin Principle: Baked-In Security for Developers

Just as blueberries are evenly distributed throughout a muffin creating a delicious flavor, security should be seamlessly integrated into every layer of the software development lifecycle.

David Kosorok
Data & AI

The Intersection of AI and Software Development

As an ML / AI engineer at Toast working on various data/AI related initiatives, this post includes key learnings for developers to consider when building generative AI applications.

Yiwen Wu
General Engineering

How Toast Safely Deploys Background Workers

To decouple services, we make use of events and asynchronous messaging for service-to-service communication. This post describes the system we built.

Zach Walsh
Mobile

Testing Android Compatibility

Learn more about our Android ecosystem, including our flagship Android-based POS product and a number of native and hybrid Android apps.

Oleg Golberg
Culture

Hello World

We are excited to launch our Technology Blog! Here we aim to provide readers a lens into the Toast engineering organization from both a technical and a cultural perspective.

Debra Chrapaty+Ben Gordon
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