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How to Choose Your Tech Stack image

An MVP is all about getting a product into the hands of your customers quickly and learning from their feedback. Importantly, it also serves as a foundation for your engineering team to build on as your company grows. Before any code gets written, you will need to select the tech stack that will power your application.

Encryption Everywhere image

Security matters. This is a short essay written by Silicon Valley-based Snowflake Computing’s Director of Security, Mario Duarte.

Is Technical Debt Killing your Company? image

Too much debt, whether financial or technical, can cripple an organization’s freedom to move forward. However, unlike financial debt whose cost is spelled out in a statement, the burden of technical debt to a company is not immediately clear, as it cannot be measured by simply reading the code.

Managing Technical Debt image

Operating with debt is a normal component of doing business. Just as financial debt must be controlled and leveraged to take advantage of market opportunities, any software project maintains a level of technical debt as well. Let’s explain what this is and clear up some misconceptions.

Lean and Agile: Partners in Customer Delight image

Lean Startup and Agile (whether the latter is Scrum, Extreme Programming, or Kanban) share common roots in Lean Manufacturing, the work Deming did with Toyota beginning in the 1950s to increase quality and throughput through teamwork. (Lean was virtually synonymous with the word Kanban just a few years ago, in programming, until the advent of Eric Ries’ book Lean Startup usurped the word.)

Innovation in the Enterprise Done Right image

Technology in it of itself is not a cure all to innovation. Technology needs to map to business objectives which in turn are derived from the changing market landscape. In this post, we highlight one impressive example of corporate innovation done right: namely Target’s efforts in leveraging its mid-market consumer brand to take advantage of the trends happening in the Internet of Things (IoT) technology space.