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5 business reasons for adopting Azure cloud
As Microsoft’s cloud market share has risen, the Azure cloud has matured, providing greater business value across its vast product line. Microsoft also has established partnerships with a number of technology brands—many of which you may already use. If you’re...
Using Power BI to accelerate app delivery AND insights
Right now, with whole companies moving to all-remote operations, decision makers and leaders are feeling more frustrated than ever by how hard it is to get real insights into what’s happening across their teams, departments, and projects. The challenge of developing a...
Playing offense: How you can move from crisis-mode into action
In a time of crisis, it’s easy to feel like the world is bearing down on you. What about the plans you had? Goals you set? Why did this have to happen, now, to you? These initial reactions are natural—but we can’t allow them to linger.The way through a crisis is to...
Is a Serverless Architecture the right solution?
Serverless Architecture is a term that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Naturally, technical leaders are looking to come up to speed on the concept and are evaluating how best to make use of it. The first order of business is to understand what Serverless...
Supporting our community during COVID-19
Things have changed quickly for us all during the current COVID-19 crisis. Businesses have had to make sacrifices to protect our communities: Things get put on hold, routines get sidelined, and priorities shift. Right now, our top priority is helping you to respond...
Making “work from home” work for you and your teams
Working from home means a lot of things to different people. It can be a no-brainer for remote workers who have been doing it for a while, but for others, the major shakeup to our daily routines can be disorienting at best—and debilitating at worst. Our teams are...
Under the hood of NServiceBus: Q&A with David Boike
David Boike’s relationship with the NServiceBus goes back 10 years: He was building a system that ingested thousands of RSS feeds and wanted to find a way to scale what he could accomplish by multithreading on one server. Asynchronous messaging became the perfect way...
#EachforEqual: Q&A with Julie Bullerman, VP of IT, USA Compression
Last International Women’s Day, we celebrated by highlighting the ways in which some of the incredible Women of Headspring promote gender balance in their personal and professional lives. For International Women’s Day 2020, we wanted to reach out into our community to...
Cloudy with a chance of replatforming
Are you modernizing your legacy system? Thinking about it? Then you’ll probably be considering….Replatforming! Moving your current applications to a cloud-based architecture has lots of benefits: cost savings, agility, future-proofing your applications...
Should you Burning-Man your business? A primer on the power of community
“Customer is King” is a tired mantra. We need to start thinking about all of the people who have a stake in our business equally—that means employees and customers, plus all of our different stakeholders: vendors, professional and local groups, etc. Regarding all of...
How to prevent these 4 legacy system modernization pitfalls
Because legacy system modernization projects tend to be the exception rather than the norm, most people have a limited amount of experience with them. It’s not hard to imagine the result—many of the modernization-specific pitfalls are easy to overlook. Not only is the...
Managing the people side of pull requests
When we spend time on a piece of code, we can feel like that code is a part of us. Criticism about your code can feel even worse than a seemingly more personal criticism, like comments about appearance. We can come to feel like our code is a reflection of who we truly...
