Today we’re making it even easier to collect payment for your Xero invoices.
3 Feb 2020
At this point in my career, I’ve worked on at least three projects where performance was a defining characteristic: Livegrep, Taktician, and Sorbet (I discussed sorbet in particular last time, and livegrep in an earlier post). I’ve also done a lot of other performance work on the tools I use, some of which ended up on my other blog, Accidentally…
When we set up a schedule on a computer, such as a list of commands to run every day at particular times via Linux cron jobs, we expect that schedule to execute reliably. Of course we’ll check the logs to see whether the job has failed, but we never question whether the cron daemon itself will function. We always assume…
Announcing the general availability of Serverless CI/CD in Serverless Framework Pro, a continuous integration and deployment service you can use for free.
It’s no secret that the banking industry is highly regulated and these regulations usually align with the dynamic nature of economic downturns and booms. The term, ‘regulations’ often come with a negative connotation and is linked to restrictive controls - that protect the economy and customer, but create friction for companies. What is usually overlooked is how regulatory frameworks are…
2 Feb 2020
Intro In "Decoupling Logic with Domain Events [Guide] - Domain-Driven Design w/ TypeScript", we use Sequelize Hooks to decouple business…
Let’s explore the use cases of combining real-time WebRTC video and voice communication with the Internet of Things.
Let’s explore the use cases of combining real-time WebRTC video and voice communication with the Internet of Things.
I recently fell into a trap using Traefik as the ingress controller in one cluster. I decided to write about it with hopes it maybe help someone else.
31 Jan 2020
Introduction Designing your GraphQL schema is a potentially expensive task. It's potentially expensive because if we respect the principles…
This week, Chang Xu and I are running our very first Braintrust LA event. While the event is private and we won’t talk about who’s presenting and who’s attending, I wanted to share with you a note we wrote to the attendees. The idea of organizing Braintrust LA came to us when we discussed what we could do to help…
Our comprehensive guide the most popular SaaS pricing models and strategies.
We break down the main business structures and help you choose the right one.
Looking to motivate your team? Our top 6 tips for effective employee management.
“The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.” when accessing Windows 10 network resources
SchakkoA few years ago, I stumbled upon the same issue with Windows 7 and already blogged about it. But the error “The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.” can still occur in Windows 10 when accessing network resources like shared folders. The reason for […] The post “The user has not been granted the…
Uncover anomalies with Isolation Forest, an unsupervised algorithm. Learn its core principles, tree construction, and scoring for anomaly detection.
30 Jan 2020
The term ‘work-life balance’ isn’t just a trendy buzzword, it’s a seriously ...
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Neil Morgan highlights the big opportunities in the global subscription economy.
We are standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch.
The new version of our open-source map publishing project OpenMapTiles 3.11 adds support for disputed borders, roads under construction and adds two new languages.
A large portion of an Android app’s build time can consist of Dagger annotation processing, and most developers agree that productivity is…
The Stonewall Top 100 List is created by lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) equality charity Stonewall. The Top 100 is compiled from submissions to the Workplace Equality Index, a powerful benchmarking tool widely used by employers to assess their achievements on LGBT equality in the workplace. Why is this so significant? Simply put - at Thoughtworks UK we have…
When Thoughtworks first entered the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index at 314th in 2015, it was hard to imagine the journey we were about to go on. We've always cared deeply about inclusion but we knew there was a long road ahead of us as a company that didn’t fit the traditional corporate mould.
29 Jan 2020
Here's our checklist, with five of the most important things you must do.
If your business is seeking investment, you need to understand private equity.
PCI DSS compliance is crucial when taking card payments. Here's how to do it.
Taking card payments over the phone? Here are 4 security considerations.
Thinking about moving to the cloud? Here are the pros and cons.
Once you've delivered your product or service, you need to invoice. Here's how.
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Sometimes people ask me what my setup looks like for remote work. I decided to try and keep a more-or-less updated list of the hardware and software I’m using.
27 Jan 2020
I only hear what I see
25 Jan 2020
Luciano Mammino reflects on his 2019 tech career achievements including conference talks, career moves, open source contributions, and blog posts. He also sets realistic goals for 2020 like finding a new job, releasing Middy 1.0, and getting an advanced AWS certification.
24 Jan 2020
While watching the first episode of the new Star Trek series just now I noticed a nice little Easter egg: Admiral Picard (retired) apparently has the same 1982 science fiction book club edition of The Complete Robot handy on his … Continue reading →
This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this speed. Our informal benchmarks on Stripe’s codebase clocked it as typechecking…
MapTiler is partnering with MIERUNE and opnes for business in Japan with maps adapted to the Japanese market.
Find out how we go about debugging and troubleshooting our Serverless APIs with Serverless Framework Pro
A look at our Knative Integration and the context around it.
Learn how to use the Serverless Framework to deploy your first Knative service on a Kubernetes cluster running in Google Cloud.
23 Jan 2020
BIC and SWIFT codes can be confusing, here is our simple guide.
Expanding into Canada? An overview of Canadian business bank account essentials
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How to build a mobile Android chat app with Cordova/PhoneGap and AngularJS, then turn it cross-platform for mobile and web devices.
How to build a mobile Android chat app with Cordova/PhoneGap and AngularJS, then turn it cross-platform for mobile and web devices.
22 Jan 2020
Security, Privacy and Trust will be major themes in 2020. Looking at this arm report, 30% of surveyed folks were more concerned in 2019 over data privacy and security than they were in 2018. Add the elections, legal actions against Google & Facebook, Apple and others pushing for less tracking and safer data and we are going to see a…
Recently I started playing with generative art. I'm new to the whole thing and I'm absolutely enjoying it. Today I want to show you the first generative art project I'm satisfied with. It is called Neon and you can check it out here or by clicking on the image below. I will try to explain in detail how Neon works,…
In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of change and diversion in regard to web technologies. In 2020, I foresee us as a web community heading toward two major trends/goals: extensibility and interoperability.
21 Jan 2020
November 2019 was a busy month for the Mozilla Developer Roadshow, with stops in five Asian cities —Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, and Bangkok. Today, we’re releasing a playlist of the talks presented in Asia, with subtitles available for all these talks in languages spoken in the countries on this tour: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, as well as English. We covered…
GoReleaser’s journey begins in December 21, 2016: the day I made its very first commit. It has been a long road since then.
Microservices and its challenges Microservices is a widely adopted architecture today with tech giants like Uber, Netflix, Google, Amazon swearing by their adoption of this architecture. Now, while the world of tech is sitting up and taking notice, microservices have their own challenges.
20 Jan 2020
Understanding how to write testable code is one of the biggest frustrations I had when I finished school and started working at my first…
In this tutorial we show how you can generate a static site with Hugo and Netlify in an easy and fast way. The post Generating a Static Site with Hugo + Netlify in 15 minutes appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
An IP address is a simple, numeric piece of information that gets passed to a server, but that IP address can provide a wealth of information with ipdata. With ipdata you can learn user location, language, currency, and much more! Quick Hits ipdata is an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API. It helps you locate users by IP Address and…
Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my last post. Microservices “Microservices are just dynamic linking over HTTP” via @mononcqc “kubernetes – turning things off and on again, at scale” @decimalator Full stack “A full stack developer … Continue reading →
Coding is an art, a creative craft, a joyful thing
We recently updated MapTiler Satellite all over France with high-resolution aerial imagery.
At KotlinConf 2019, I talked about the power of types. In essence, I discussed limiting the number of primitives we use in our code in favor…
Digitalization has disrupted HR in a big way. There are seismic shifts in the way organizations attract, hire, retain and develop top talent. Candidates are taking advantage of the digital age that’s characterized by easy, immediate access to (sometimes) overwhelming information. They seem to know organizations long before they even decide to interview.
19 Jan 2020
Testing and feedback loops This post tries to set out one mental model I have for thinking about testing and the purpose testing serves in software engineering, and to explore some of the suggestions of this model. As mentioned in an earlier post, I think a lot about working in long-lived software projects that are undergoing a lot of development…
A trick I learned to block distractions using uBlock Origin
18 Jan 2020
Readers that frequent this blog know that I often look for answers to the hard questions in software design and architecture 🧐. Over the…
17 Jan 2020
Explore image steganography - Hide secret messages within images! Learn techniques, from LSB substitution to JPEG methods.
16 Jan 2020
One of my personal projects this year is to understand and build a SLAM (Simultaneous localization and mapping) robot. To get started I bought the Xaxxon OpenLidar and after a few struggles getting it to work correctly in a VM I finally did and decided to throw together my build notes for future reference. Virtual Platform While I would have…
The HIPAA Security Rule requires companies and individuals that handle PHI to protect data with a series of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards.
The HIPAA Security Rule requires companies and individuals that handle PHI to protect data with a series of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards.
Humans are goal-oriented Our everyday lives are filled with goals. Some are bigger (I want to have a beautiful house, I want to be the next Richard Branson), some are smaller (I need to file my tax, I need to set a reminder for my mum’s birthday), and some are frivolous (I want to have a sexier looking phone than…
The latest update to our density guidelines includes a new systematic approach to applying density and spacing in digital products.
15 Jan 2020
Chances are you should instead be investing in data engineering so you can take a deep look at your properly labeled and processed data instead of throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Machine Learning (ML). ML isn’t magical, you need a lot of clean, labeled data. Then you need a specific use case to design and deploy a great…
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A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's been shaped by your feedback and inputs, with user agency as a core principle of our design and development. The post How we built Picture-in-Picture in Firefox Desktop with more…
We make Direct Debit accessible to small businesses.
We break down everything you need to know about CHAPS payments and transfers.
There are a number of ways to improve Cash Flow, here are 7 top tips.
Churn reduction is one of the biggest challenges in Saas, here are our top tips.
A guide to small business grants and how to apply for them.
As part of our Blackhat Europe talk “Reverse Engineering and Exploiting Builds in the Cloud” we publicly released a new tool called Terrier. Announcing Terrier: An open-source tool for identifying and analysing container and image components. In this blog post, I am going to show you how Terrier can help you identify and verify container […] The post Terrier: Open-Source…
14 Jan 2020
Step by step instructions on creating your first invoice...
Developers have an efficient and effective way to build/manage their mobile push notification architecture for Apple devices with new APNS2 support
Developers have an efficient and effective way to build/manage their mobile push notification architecture for Apple devices with new APNS2 support
Recently my employer (Google) forced me to switch to Mercurial instead of my usual version control system, git. The process of switching sparked a few discussions between me and my colleagues about the value of various version control systems. A question like “what benefit does git provide over Mercurial” yielded no clear answers, suggesting many developers don’t know. An informal…
13 Jan 2020
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a useful open-source tool. I’m very proud of the work we did (and…
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Let’s consider a toy model where you’re hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It’s not very important what those are, so let’s just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now. For one set of abilities, the scatter plot looks like this: The assumption here is that A and B are drawn from a 2D-Gaussian…
Git hooks are a feature of git that enable custom scripts to be triggered on certain events during the execution of a git command, such as pre-commit and pre-push. It’s common practice for teams to use git hooks to run quality checks to ensure they are run by all developers every time. While this is a good sign that a…
11 Jan 2020
A quick overview of the GPL License
10 Jan 2020
Explore Python's arbitrary-precision integers! Learn how it handles large numbers internally, from storage to operations like addition.
OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are one of the most attractive and frequently used agile methods of our time. Originally initiated by Intel and successfully implemented at Google and LinkedIn, more and more companies recognize and take advantage of the benefits OKRs offer.