Summary: Guiding the evolution of data mesh with fitness functions
7 May 2021
Active learning loops
6 May 2021
From the time we’re children, we’re trusting people. We rely on those close and older than us to point us toward success and “the right way”. One of the toughest days of our lives is when we realize our parents, or people we look up to, aren’t always perfect, aren’t always right, and worst of all, are completely wrong. I…
You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new filter in your request. Until recently…
Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform recently have become popular (see Infrastructure as code | Technology Radar). One main promise of such tools is automation. Still, we rarely see Continuous Delivery implemented for infrastructure code.
5 May 2021
Creating an effective leadership development programme
Find out how human capital could transform the way your business delivers
Discover the basic ideas behind the agile methodology. Could it work for you?
Visual aids like the Kanban method can make team collaboration easier
[Infographic] The challenges of recurring payments from our Forrester Consulting thought leadership paper
GoCardlessSee the key takeaways from the Forrester thought leadership paper.
When was the last time you went about your entire day without engaging with your mobile device? I remember being in my teens when I got my first mobile phone, a Nokia 8250. Since then, I’ve never gone a day without using a mobile phone.
4 May 2021
Learn how to decide which core values apply best to your company
Are your employee talents being used? Get organized with talent management
Goal setting is an important part of employee development plannin
What are loss leader items, and how do they fit into a sales strategy?
At GitHub, we pride ourselves on delivering a first-class developer experience. A considerable part of our work is on our front end, which we strive to keep as lightweight, fast, and accessible as possible. For a product as large as GitHub, this can be quite the task. Like many front-end codebases, we leverage components, independent, isolated, and reusable pieces of…
Learn how you can make the most of the Chargebee platform to transform customer engagement and payment collections
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down for ‘coffee’ with Claudio Bolla, Global Information Security Director at INEOS to learn how he’s managing cloud manufacturing security during the pandemic. As a large chemicals company with 26,000 employees, INEOS operates 36 different business units with 196 locations around the world. Their businesses span oil and […] The post Cloud security…
3 May 2021
OpenAI is committed to developing general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity, and we believe that achieving our goal requires expertise in public policy as well as technology. So, we’re delighted to announce that Congressman Will Hurd has joined our board of directors.
Ya look at that? It’s May already. My dog’s is turning 2 on the 14th, does anyone have any good dog cake recipes or should I just give her an almost-empty jar of peanut butter with the same success rate? I got my second fouchie outchie! (#teampfizer). I wouldn’t say it bodied me the next day, but I felt uncomfortable…
2 May 2021
How to fix the Cloudinary upload preset not found error when uploading images.
30 Apr 2021
Imagine reading a long book like "A Song of Fire and Ice," "The Lord of the Rings," or "Harry Potter." Now imagine that there was a specific detail in one of those books ... The post An Introduction to Indexes for MongoDB Atlas Search appeared first on MongoDB.
Strategic planning can help guide your business towards long-term success
We explain (and hopefully simplify) the science of quantitative analysis.
Find out how to save time and money through secondary market research
Is cryptocurrency the payment wave of the future?
What makes the perfect recurring payment strategy? And how do you improve yours?
Employees at all modern software companies use a ton of outside pieces of software to do their jobs. Learn how Datadog’s IT team built a tool to automate monitoring these accounts for security and compliance.
29 Apr 2021
We all know the stats. Slower website performance is strongly linked to higher abandon rates and lower conversions. What you may not know is that the main culprit is bloated web page payloads, bringing down our otherwise performant web pages via images. That being said, images also drive conversions, social sharing, and overall visitor engagement; which is why their total…
We are excited to announce that this year we have increased our sponsorship of the Python Software Foundation to the new top visionary level. We wanted to take this opportunity to share why Python is so dear to our hearts and the ways we contribute to the Python community. The post Our support for the Python community appeared first on…
Learn about merchandising and why it is so important for small businesses
Learn how to build a strong brand marketing strategy for your business.
Could venture capital transform your business?
Write a great value proposition to attract new customers and grow your business.
It seems like a simple enough concept: You take data from how your users interact with your product, and you use it to make business and…
The COVID-19 pandemic was the most disruptive global event in recent history — putting a complete halt to ‘business as usual’ for organizations in virtually every industry. It’s been challenging for us all, and businesses around the world have had to push through major digital innovations just to survive.
28 Apr 2021
This guide discusses the future of virtual events, and the benefits of hosting your own virtual or hybrid event in 2021.
This guide discusses the future of virtual events, and the benefits of hosting your own virtual or hybrid event in 2021.
What economic factors impact on the balance of payments?
We look at the process of accounting for advance payments
What is the discount rate, and what does it mean for your business?
Learn about banks that offer trust accounts and exactly what is a trust account
Hello from the GitHub Docs team! We build everything you see at docs.github.com. Over the past year, we’ve written a bunch of GitHub Actions workflows to do some fun automation that saves us time and effort. We thought folks might be interested in a peek under the hood. If you’re new to GitHub Actions, get started at https://docs.github.com/en/actions. Our docs…
GoCardless is using open banking to provide a better experience for payers.
Explore Python's chained comparisons (like a < b < c) and short-circuiting. Learn how they work under the hood and how to modify CPython!
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‘Let’s hit the ball out of the park’, ‘go for the kill’, ‘bite the bullet’ — business vocabulary is filled with war and action sports metaphors. Leaders, today, favor language that incites excitement and fervour and tactics that ensure the instant gratification of a dopamine kick. A high level of aggression, playing to win, throttling down the competition has become…
27 Apr 2021
Listen to an interview with our CTO and architect discuss how we chose a new computer language. The post Choosing Golang for Clever appeared first on Clever Engineering Blog.
At GitHub, we’re continually working to improve existing features and shipping new ones all the time. From our launch of GitHub Discussions to the release of manual approvals for GitHub Actions—in order to ship new features and improvements faster while lowering the risk in our deployments, we have a simple but powerful tool: feature flags. Reducing deployment risk We deploy…
How to establish and capitalise on your niche market
Why a board of directors is so much more than just the shareholder’s mouthpiece
What is market capitalisation? And what does it mean or your business?
What does face value mean in the world of finance? Allow us to explain!
Say hello to Instant Bank Pay, our first open banking-powered feature.
With cryptocurrency reaching all-time highs (more than doubling since the start of the year), many people have looked to it as a form of investment. But as investors turn their attention to crypto, so do malicious actors. The market is set-up for attackers to cash in. As the price of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies […] The post Keeping your…
Setup SSH authentication with PEM RSA file without password on ubuntu/linux Raspberry Pi Server
Srinivas TamadaRecently I have been working with Raspberry PI and creating my own home server to host some of my demo projects. This post is about setting up SSH authentication with a PEM certificate file without password on ubuntu/linux server. Implement the following steps and improve the security.
26 Apr 2021
GoCardless launches open banking payments, offering businesses a new alternative to taking one-off payments
GoCardlessGoCardless has launched Instant Bank Pay, a new open banking feature
Learn what to do when faced with company insolvency
Antitrust laws aim to safeguard both competition and consumer choice
A Chamber of Commerce can help shape the future of business for the better
Is a merger right for your business? Learn all about mergers and acquisitions
What social media platforms should your business be on?
Modern marketing is all about your follower count
Weigh the pros and cons of a blockchain investment by learning how it works
Financial accounting is an essential task that must be undertaken with diligence
Make sure your journal entries are in accordance with double-entry accounting.
Learn how to calculate the cost of capital here
We discuss the importance of fringe benefits and how to account for them
We examine the role of a comptroller, and why they’re so important
Albert Camus was a French philosopher most well known for his ideas about absurdism. Sometimes regarded as an existentialist philosopher…
Regular expressions are incredibly powerful but can be difficult to maintain. They’re a skill you learn on the job and, when the suits walk by, make you look incredibly smart if you have a few up on your screen. How can we solve the maintainability problem? With a match groups, as Addy Osmani enlightened me about last week: Tip: You…
I’ve been skipping weeks because a) literally nothing happens and b) I don’t have a good system to update these notes. They’re a markdown file on a GitHub repo, and I kind of need a computer to edit it, but I also kind of don’t open my computer that much these days? I also keep forgetting which day is Monday.…
The IMF called the COVID-19 crisis ‘unlike any other,’ where the global growth contraction for 2020 was estimated at -3.5 percent. Here is a quick overview of the biggest challenges that CXOs (and their businesses) have faced over the recent past, to better illustrate how the pandemic is affecting businesses: Businesses are grappling with slowing global supply chains
23 Apr 2021
Complex systems are difficult to reason about at scale; we often can’t accurately extrapolate system behavior and performance, so we need to derive that data empirically. We use load testing to do just that: find the limits of our systems and weed out bugs at a large scale in a controlled environment. Slack is a…
Introduction Here are a few pressing questions: What is the single-most important concept you can tell me about software design? How do you…
22 Apr 2021
We are happy to announce that Pyodide has become an independent and community-driven project. We are also pleased to announce the 0.17 release for Pyodide with many new features and improvements. Pyodide consists of the CPython 3.8 interpreter compiled to WebAssembly which allows Python to run in the browser. The post Pyodide Spin Out and 0.17 Release appeared first on…
A problem few developers are aware of is the possibility of running into “cursor cache contention” or “execution plan cache contention” problems when using IN lists in SQL. The problem that is described in lengths in previous articles, can be summarised as this. All of these are distinct SQL queries and need to be parsed … Continue reading Use IN…
Measuring the carbon emissions of your workloads is a critical step towards green cloud
AR can foster collaboration for home workers
21 Apr 2021
Different ways to gain competitive advantage over your your business rivals
What are the benefits of distance learning for employees are for your business?
Have you carried out the due diligence you need to?
Learn about gross misconduct and how to manage it effectively at your business
This post is in the context of the large, data heavy PostgreSQL instances that store historical transactional data and reports, the databases that power Console and its large scale number crunching and reporting. It talks about how we self-host, tune, and manage all our DB instances on bare EC2 instances. For high availability and backups, we use simple failover replicas…
With digitisation and automation, Rebel Energy is re-imagining energy supply.
20 Apr 2021
How to use Tisane Labs with PubNub for profanity filtering and content moderation in chat
How to use Tisane Labs with PubNub for profanity filtering and content moderation in chat
Best online team collaboration tools for business
Learn more about scrum methodology and how it is used in business
A guide to optimizing remote work communication
We are thrilled to announce that the April 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is here! This release includes a preview of support for Poetry environments, improved completions for PyTorch 1.8.1 when using Pylance, as well enhancements to the Data Viewer. Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – April…
2021 promises to be a busy and exciting year with the second LTS release and Blender 3.0.
A new year brings a new wave of predictions for how companies will be shaping their network security architectures in 2021. Could anyone have predicted 2020 was going to be the year that changed the way companies did business, managed networks, and secured users? Much of these changes happened in a moment’s notice and held […] The post Making ESG’s…
Navigating and managing data structures is a really important skill for every level of engineer to have and improve upon. Over the years, the JavaScript language has continued to provide more methods for managing data structures, from Object.keys to Object.values and so on. One of my favorites is Object.entries, an API that provides the keys and values via an array…
Understand how you can grow your business by broadening your payment coverage.
In a product company, changes are inevitable so as to best support the strategy and the vision. Often during such a change, new teams are…
19 Apr 2021
Find out how business leaders solve problems using five simple techniques
Reconfigure teamwork with a cross functional collaboration framework