Building tech communities is hard work. There's organising events and meetups, enlisting volunteers, finding venues, enlisting speakers, and connecting with sponsors. You're often working in an unpaid capacity. Even if you are paid, you have to … Read more
Airbnb’s migration from monolith to microservices
So you’ve decided to migrate from monolith to microservices, what next? Such a redesign to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a long, arduous journey that benefits from an incremental, iterative approach. Yet, such a microservices migration often … Read more
Thinking Like a Founder – meet Chad Arimura
At Codemotion we're fortunate to speak with a range of thinkers, leaders, and changemakers. At Codemotion Madrid 2019 we had a presentation by Chad Arimura. He's a three-time entrepreneur, most recently as co-founder and CEO of Iron.io where he grew … Read more
Move Over DevOps! Time for DesignOps and UX Engineers
Table Of ContentsUX engineer in response to the challenge of the balance between design and developmentEnter DesignOps and the UX engineer (DesignOps)Design systems plus design automationHow do DesignOps work?Working off proof of concepts There's … Read more
The State of AI in 2021
We know that technology tends to move in hype cycles, where certain topics and terminology are bandied around in press releases, news articles, research, and funding announcements. These include Blockchain, ICO, IoT, as well as AI, Machine Learning … Read more
Web Development and the Future of Progressive Web Apps
If you have been to any conference in the last five years, you have probably heard about Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Web sites that can progressively turn into app-like experiences and be installed on your devices. Kenneth Rohde Christiansen is … Read more
What Is the Value of Fun in Business Transformation?
With innovation constantly changing the world of business, large corporations can find themselves lagging behind as they struggle to rapidly enact change and implement practices such as cloud transformation and DevOps. It frequently falls to external … Read more
Ludwig Toolbox Makes Deep Learning Accessible to All
The last decade has seen exponential growth in deep learning capabilities and their application in research and development. Traditionally deep learning as a discipline has been limited to those with considerable training and knowledge of machine … Read more
Considering remote work as a digital nomad?
With the coronavirus pandemic sending the world into a spin, with much of the corporate world scrambling to facilitate the immediate need for long-term remote work capabilities, some companies were already successfully remote. Moran Fine is a … Read more
Survey Results Show a Strong Future for API Development
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. They recently released the results of its 2020 Postman State of the API Report. The annual report, the largest and most comprehensive survey of the API industry, surveyed more than 13,500 API … Read more
Why you should learn functional programming
Looking for something new without the need for frameworks and libraries? Do you like maths? You might want to take a look at how you can functionally program with JavaScript and apply functional programming to your application to optimize your code. … Read more
Why Developer Ethics Matters
Software is eating the world. We, developers and architects, are a major force influencing software, technology, and the world it creates. We don’t have the privilege of being unaware of our actions. If we really want to create a better world, we … Read more
Questions and Answers in Virtual Assistants
The typical customer care virtual assistant (aka chatbot) can answer simple questions and maybe even perform some actions. But we need chatbots that really help solve customer problems instead of disappointing them with a “Sorry, I don't know.” When … Read more
The Challenge of Ethics in AI
We often hear the notion of ethics in AI thrown around with research such as autonomous cars and 'the trolley problem. An example is the creation of MIT's The Moral Machine, a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by … Read more
How Extended Reality is Fusing Life and Advertising
The fusion of the physical and virtual worlds has impacted many aspects of our lives, including entertainment, how we interact with live sports and fitness, navigation, architecture, healthcare, and training. Extended reality aims to create higher … Read more
Design Thinking – Ideas to Implementation
Over the last couple of decades, we've seen concerted efforts in organisations to apply new philosophies about workflow and organisational processes to improve efficiency, increase employee satisfaction, enable scale, and increase customer … Read more
Building a bike-computer on the Web with WebComponents
Passion projects offer a great opportunity to learn new skills and develop experience in pursuits you really enjoy. A keen cyclist, Filip Bech-Larse developed a trainer app that reads sensor-data via WebBluetooth from different sources, including … Read more
Want to Learn about Genetic Algorithms? Start Life Hacking
It’s often hard to motivate ourselves to learn new tech - whether a new coding language or algorithm - when it’s not essential to our job. Tech not only moves fast, but it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the plethora of documentation, tutorials, and … Read more
Should Details Matter to Software Engineering?
Table Of ContentsWhat is the problem with detail in software engineering? The value of detail in software engineeringThe impact of automation in software engineeringHow can we apply a detail-driven mentality to teams and how dev teams … Read more
Codemotion Partners with TIM for the Smart Spaces Hackathon
Hackathons have had a long history of bringing people together to develop technological solutions in response to specific problems and challenges. Hackathons can be in-house, focused on particular technology or spaces, a social issue, or policy … Read more