Get to grips with value chain analysis for business, right here.
4 Mar 2021
Authentication is one of those things that just always seems to take a lot more effort than we want it to. To set up auth, you have to re-research topics you haven’t thought about since the last time you did authentication, and the fast-paced nature of the space means things have often changed in the meantime. New threats, new options,…
We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, and is also an important step toward understanding the associations and biases that CLIP and similar models learn.
How to automatically remove silent parts from videos and speed up editing work.
Joel Goodman of Bravery Media on the current state of HigherEd homepages. Regardless, it’s an agency’s responsibility to do as much as possible to make that website a success when it goes live. Do no harm. Slow websites only do harm. Code needs to be optimized, frameworks need to be ditched, images need to be properly sized and deferred, CSS…
Sarah Taraporewalla has been at Thoughtworks for more than a decade. To her, it doesn’t feel that way because her role evolves every couple of years and she gets to learn and do something completely different. Today, Sarah leads Thoughtworks Australia’s Enterprise Modernisation, Platforms and Cloud practice. From the failures to the “aha” moments, we spoke with Sarah to learn…
Kubernetes has emerged the de-facto container orchestrator for on-premise and cloud infrastructure setups. And, in their scramble to implement the fairly new infrastructure, organizations seem to be struggling.
3 Mar 2021
The North American team continues to grow from San Francisco to New York.
A simple guide to pretax profit margins and why they’re important to investors
Find out which team management tools could help your business
What are the pros and cons of offering shares to your employees?
Why the average day rate (ADR) is a key performance indicator for hospitality
2 Mar 2021
There has been heightened attention (and in some cases, scrutiny) on the reopening plans for K-12 school districts across the nation. If the decision of whether or not to send your kid back to school isn’t already highly charged (and stressful!) enough, parents of K-12 children now have another worry to contend with: attackers looking […] The post CISA Reports:…
Feel refreshed with these tips to prevent business burnout.
Try fitting integrated payment solutions into your business growth plan
Learn how to expect the unexpected and navigate unknown territory.
1 Mar 2021
Get the lowdown on the benefits of integrated payment solutions for ISVs.
Check out these employee retention strategies to ensure you keep your top staff
Make sure your records are accurate by keeping a trial balance sheet.
Maximise customer contacts at every stage of the marketing funnel.
How to judge if a payment provider is right for your business.
The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We’ve gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so on. Hell, my Mac unlocks simply when I have my Apple Watch near by. In the end, I probably use the Mac fingerprint key the most. One functionality that still requires manually typing a password is…
As a career changer and a black woman, transitioning into tech has been a challenging and so far, a rewarding experience. Prior to working at Thoughtworks, I worked for more than a decade in the legal industry assisting Intellectual Property litigation attorneys. In 2016, I decided to learn to code and attended an online coding bootcamp while I was working…
27 Feb 2021
This week was entirely consumed by the fact that I opened an online store to sell generative “art” prints. Art is in quotations here because I have a deeply unhealthy relationship with calling anything I do art, or myself an artist, but we don’t have time to for a therapy session right now. It went really great. I sold out…
26 Feb 2021
The internet was set on fire (pun intended) this week, by what I'm calling 'fox gate', and chances are you might have seen a meme or two about the Firefox logo. Many people were pulling up for a battle royale because they thought we had scrubbed fox imagery from our browser. We can confirm, that this is definitely not happening.…
How SaaS leaders use payments to drive revenue in international markets
Which countries are leading the way in open banking development?
Where does income from discontinued operations go on financial statements?
Find out whether online invoices could save you time and money.
25 Feb 2021
Learn about the benefits of open banking; from security to cost savings.
Find out how the payback period can help you pick the best investments
What is an accountant and what do they do? Find out more about accounting.
Learn how to record a bad debt expense with our handy guide.
Find out what the VAT Flat Rate Scheme is and how it can impact your business.
Get the inside track on start-up employee equity pools, right here.
Find out more about how statutory redundancy pay works for employees.
MapTiler Team has been working with swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography, to develop a new vector map for the modern user.
"If there was a name for every dot on the spectrum of gender identity, expression and sexual orientation, I’m sure we would all identify ourselves more specifically on the spectrum and the word Queer would no longer exist." My deeper understanding of the LGBTIA+ community started in 2016, when I attended a conference on ‘Workplace Equality for LGBTI+ community’ at…
24 Feb 2021
Have you ever heard the expression that "all problems in computer science can be solved by adding another layer of indirection"? I'm not…
SoundCloud’s iOS codebase faced a radical change a couple of years ago. The team had decided to modularize the codebase into frameworks…
Self driving cars are a good example of what artificial intelligence can accomplish today. Such tech-centered advances are built on the back of highly trained Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. These algorithms require exhaustive data that help the AI effectively model all possible scenarios.
23 Feb 2021
Looking into the near distance, we can see the end of February loitering on the horizon, threatening to give way to March at any moment. To keep you engaged until then, we’d like to introduce you to Firefox 86. The post A Fabulous February Firefox — 86! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
So, you think you already know the good, the bad, and the ugly about cybersecurity threats, such as malware and phishing, that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing? You may be surprised. People often make a number of assumptions that can easily miss the mark. There is a tendency to fall into the trap […] The post Which cyber…
State Partitioning is the technical term for a new privacy feature in Firefox called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86. This article shows how State Partitioning works inside of Firefox and explains what developers of third-party integrations can do to stay compatible with the latest changes. The post Introducing State Partitioning appeared…
Large companies can have hundreds of microservices - some on Virtual Machines (VM) and others on Kubernetes, where new features are built and deployed every day. And, without efficient monitoring, it becomes hard to identify any specific application or critical API that’s failing. Let’s take the complaints automation system in a ride-hailing application, for instance. This system automatically solves complaints…
22 Feb 2021
I'm always interested in what blog readers are building using Domain-Driven Design and Clean Architecture practices. In this post, I'd like…
Solving performance problems when moving an application to Kubernetes
Learn about using cascade layers to control the CSS cascade for more targetted styles.
19 Feb 2021
We have removed local AWS profile access from the Serverless Components service completely
18 Feb 2021
Are you considering going cashless? Find the best cashless payment system.
Make your accounting easier with our tax filing tips for small business owners.
Find out how long it takes to recover cash outflows with the payback period.
Compare the different methods of calculating the value of tangible assets.
About roles and organization in the render modules.
We are happy to announce that the February 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release includes TensorBoard integration, and improvements on docstring readability and code navigation with Pylance. Keep reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – February 2021 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Geocaching is a world-wide game where people search for hidden treasures. MapTiler provides the official website data for the background map that shows where all these boxes are hidden.
Serverless Framework Components now features more secure credential handling and 80% faster deployments
17 Feb 2021
Here we go again! Fellow BASIC enthusiast Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood, of Stack Overflow and Discourse fame, has started a project to translate the programs in the 1978 classic BASIC Computer Games into more modern languages. I never had a … Continue reading →
As we celebrate Black History month, it’s an opportunity to reflect upon the last 12 months, on how Thoughtworks North America has been able to reflect upon and respond to the events of last year, and on my personal learnings and areas for growth.
16 Feb 2021
How the Trussell Trust is transforming its payment operations to support repeat donations
GoCardlessThe best insights from our regular ‘Speaker Series’ events.
With the success of the Blender Development Fund and industry support, it’s important to make sure that the blender.org project organization remains future proof.
Have you ever thought about what role search engine optimization (SEO) might play in a cyber attack? Generally, it is used to tune the search results of websites on any search engine. The more the optimization, the better the chances of getting the webpage in the search results. There has been a particular kind of […] The post Cyber attackers…
In this blogpost we showcase a Node.js webapp that does real-time synchronization on multiple machines, which we implemented using Socket.io. The post Building a Real-Time Webapp with Node.js and Socket.io appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
We’re ironically searching for counterexamples to the Riemann Hypothesis. Setting up Pytest Adding a Database Search Strategies Unbounded integers Deploying with Docker Performance Profiling Last time we made the audacious choice to remove primary keys from the RiemannDivisorSums table for performance reasons. To help with that, we will do two things in this post Reduce the storage footprint of the…
It took me some time to get the color blending just right. Because of so many colors, it was impossible to plot these. In the end I did five very tall prints. Be sure to check out the last photo to see all prints in one place. Created: February 2021 Size: 85x20cm each Paper: Farbiano Cotton Paper 300gsm Pens:
15 Feb 2021
Make business decisions data-driven by using data analysis methods.
Marketing automation platforms can make communication more efficient.
Learn how to keep track of customer payments with our accounting tips.
Are your tools ready to handle your business growth?
Learn how Cryptoassets can change the future of financial investment
Discover the differences between recourse loans vs non-recourse loans.
I’ve run across a fun little trick to simulate latency in your development environments when testing some SQL queries. Possible use-cases including to validate that backend latency won’t bring down your frontend, or that your UX is still bearable, etc. The solution is PostgreSQL and Hibernate specific, though to doesn’t have to be. Besides, it … Continue reading Simulating Latency…
Explore Fully Persistent Arrays - Understand how to implement arrays that preserve all previous versions, enabling auditing and historical access.
I got deep into geocaching, friends. I found 3 caches in Arizona! I didn’t sign any of them because I kept forgetting to bring a pen, so now nobody will know I was there. Geocaching is mad in the US. We drove back from Arizona (flying? in this economy??), and there were HUNDREDS along the highway. First, who are these…
In retrospect, 2020 was an unprecedented year, yet still too eerily familiar. As early as Jan 8th, 2020, there were warning signs that the COVID-19 virus was bound to rapidly propagate outside of Wuhan, China, an eventuality many governments and organizations were not readily prepared for.
At a conceptual level, most would agree on the value of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Tonnes of studies show how diversity of thought fosters improved innovation and problem solving. To put it bluntly; it translates into stronger client engagement and overall increased financial performance. When organisations resort to making superficial attempts to include underrepresented groups to tick a box,…
12 Feb 2021
Building a chat system in Unity, without dealing with Unity networking, a Photon server, or other modules from the Unity asset store.
Building a chat system in Unity, without dealing with Unity networking, a Photon server, or other modules from the Unity asset store.
Learn what to look for when buying a POS system for small businesses.
Get to learn about customer deposit and the accounting application
Learn the differences between proof of funds and proof of deposit
Discover MQTT examples that efficiently connects low-power IoT devices across various apps, from agriculture to transportation
Discover MQTT examples that efficiently connects low-power IoT devices across various apps, from agriculture to transportation
In my journey to work more quickly with a project containing loads of dependencies, I’ve come across a few techniques I’ve not needed to use before. I previously wrote about How to Push to a Git Remote Branch of a Different Name — this time we’ll talk about installing a module from another repository instead of a published version. To…
This is the second part of ‘The problems with MVPs in legacy replacement’ article. In this part we look at why an MVP is not going to help you realize the value of your legacy replacement.
So, you’re a product manager, and following your success in launching a new product last year, you’ve been promoted to product manager of your organization's flagship product ‘20-Year-Old-Monolith-Beast’, just as the organization embarks on a much-needed modernization initiative. There’s a bit of a smell around the transformation, and many of your stakeholders are pushing for an MVP (minimum viable product).…
11 Feb 2021
In our previous post, An update on MDN Web Docs’ localization strategy, we explained our broad strategy for moving forward with allowing translation edits on MDN again. The MDN localization communities are waiting for news of our progress on unfreezing the top-tier locales, and here we are. In this post we’ll look at where we’ve got to so far in…
How and why we chose to host our first virtual Sales Kick-off
10 Feb 2021
Borrow for less by improving your business credit score. Let us show you how!
Find out if a cash advance is a form of borrowing that would meet your needs
Discover the advantages of perpetual inventory systems.
What you need to know about horizontal equity, vertical equity and taxation.
In the past years, we’ve invested a lot of effort into improving our procedural language capabilities in jOOQ. What started with a simple internal API to support the emulations of DDL clauses like these: … evolved into a full fledged API for all sorts of procedural logic executed in your database server. Anonymous blocks The … Continue reading Translating Stored…
Engineering spotlight: Maël Nison, maintainer of Yarn
A rundown of the things we got really right — and wrong — in the Radar's. first decade
9 Feb 2021
What regular work activity has the highest impact on the organization in the least amount of time and effort? I haven’t done any science on this, but anecdotally it sure feels like recruiting, interviewing and mentoring are all huge impact-per-time … Continue reading →
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox and its underlying components for a while. It has proven itself to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues. In general, we apply fuzzing on different levels: there is fuzzing the browser as a whole but a significant amount of time is also spent on fuzzing isolated code (e.g.…
Can we all agree the shift has happened – the workforce isn’t just working from a coffee shop on occasion? The events of 2020 accelerated a growing trend of work from anywhere, any device, any time, while expecting a seamless experience. That’s not a tall order. That’s a grande order – with a double-shot of […] The post Expanding SASE…