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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...
Keep talking: Tips for managing a remote workforce
Authored by Drew BeckleyWant to recruit the best talent, reduce overall costs, and lower overhead at the same time? Building a remote workforce checks most of those boxes. But maintaining a strong company culture with people spread across the country—or the world—can...
OK Human Episode 01: Developer Empathy
Welcome to OK Human, a podcast that brings you deep thoughts and casual ponderings on topics at the intersection of people and technology. It’s hosted by our very own software guru and (literal) trailblazer, Patrick McVeety-Mill, a.k.a. Booger Bear. He invites other...
Smart, simple, and platform-specific: An Android app dev success story
Nowadays, having a strong mobile presence is a must. There’s a good chance that smartphones are one of the primary interfaces through which your users interact with your product, either via your mobile app or the mobile version of your website. But just adding a...
The secret to ensuring quality in an FDA 510k medical device submission
One of the most important documents for an FDA 510k medical device submission is the anomalies document, which outlines what bugs exist in the product and what risks it presents to patient safety. When the entire goal of your product is to improve patient outcomes,...
Splitting the monolith w/ Jimmy Bogard at Lead Dev Austin
The lofty task of breaking down your unmanageable monolith can keep you from ever getting started. But the hard fact is that Modernization is a Must if you want to keep up in your market—and it’s not as daunting as you think once you start breaking down the...
Building messaging endpoints in Azure Functions
Our Chief Architect, Jimmy Bogard, is hosting a webinar on building messaging endpoints in Azure. It’s on Dec. 11 at 1:00pm CST if you want to join! He also wrote a whole series of articles on the subject—so we thought we’d share his latest on using Azure...