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Consulting 101 Part 1: Agile Crash Course
Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. This first post is a crash course on Agile.Vim in Twelve More Keys
Join me as we head back to the wonderful world of vim. This time we're going to cover some of the more advanced features of vim to make your text editing as smooth as possible.Case Study: Financial Services Cloud Native Data Lake
A Fortune 500 financial services partner wanted to transform their future actuarial community, re-engineer and automate manual workflows, and modernize technology tools to gain a competitive position in the market. We began with a customer-focused approach. Because the end-users consisted of the actuarial community and resident data scientists, we first strove to...Case Study: Leveraging Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Best Practices
Source Allies saw an opportunity for our partner, a Fortune 500 agriscience company, to accelerate their digital transformation. In its current state, there were a dozen software development teams working on the same product who did not have confidence in the stability of their current cloud infrastructure and deployment environments....Brag a Bit
The day-to-day work of a software developer is diverse. We are assigned a main project to work on that takes most of our focus but unexpected work can arise since software development is such a team-based activity. Examples of out of the ordinary work may be helping track down a...Navigating Chaos: lessons learned from a high-intensity project
On any given team, lots of time, effort, and thought goes into determining the team culture. This includes Agile practices and ceremonies, the discovery process, collaboration strategies, and communication with stakeholders. A high-priority project with a tight deadline can disrupt these routines. Some practices will need to be shelved until things...ECS Anywhere First Impressions
AWS ECS Anywhere First Impressions It isn't often that we read the mass marketing emails that we all get everyday. AWS sends out an email each week (usually on Tuesday) with a list of recent updates and new services. I actually get a lot of value out of reading it over. A...Free HTTPS/SSL Certificates for Home Docker Hosting
So you've discovered the wonderful world of Docker and are running containers left and right. You can effortlessly spin up any application under the sun and browse it locally. What more could a techie want in their home server hosting environment? HTTPS Padlock Valid Certificate That HTTPS Padlock showing you’re a...Seeking Mastery
From Warren Buffet to Kobe Bryant, it has been said the absolute best thing for you to do as a professional is to invest in yourself. For some, that is reading about or researching a specific topic to learn something new. The goal is to get the learning juices flowing...Case Study: Optimization of Monolithic APIs
DEFINING THE PROBLEM One of our partners who manufactures agriculture equipment began to experience growing pains with a high-volume API platform. The platform had grown into a monolith that was making it increasingly difficult to tune performance and add new features. Source Allies was asked to provide guidance and technical expertise to modernize...










