Innovation

Managing Technical Debt: A Startup Founder’s Guide

Estimated Reading time: 3 minutes and 24 seconds
by Des Holmes

Surviving in the startup world means being skillful and fast. During the initial development phase, accruing ‘technical debt’ - shortcuts the job quicker today, but will need fixing in the future – is almost inevitable. This post covers how a startup founder or technical lead can balance technical debt and a clean codebase.
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Tags: #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation #startups #technical-debt #product-development

Making Your Deployments Boring: What’s Good Enough?

Estimated Reading time: 3 minutes and 2 seconds
by Des Holmes

Do your product deployments induce a sense of dread? The chances are you’re doing something wrong
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Tags: #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation #startups #technical-debt #product-development

The Effectiveness of Flash Cards for Exam Revision

Estimated Reading time: 2 minutes and 24 seconds
by Des Holmes

The humble flash card has stood the test of time as an effective study tool
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Tags: #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation

Hack your career with these 6 mental models and ChatGPT

Estimated Reading time: 3 minutes and 9 seconds
by Des Holmes

Use these 6 mental models and ChatGPT to hack your career
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Tags: #openai #nlp #gpt-3 #typescript #ai #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation

5 Approaches To Solve LLM Token Limits

Estimated Reading time: 3 minutes and 5 seconds
by Des Holmes

How to tackle token limits when using large language models (LLM)
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Tags: #openai #nlp #gpt-3 #typescript #llm #ai #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation

ImageFly: On-The-Fly Image Transformations

Estimated Reading time: 1 minutes and 22 seconds
by Des Holmes

An Open Source Azure Function using TypeScript for transforming images on-the-fly
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Tags: #typescript #ci-cd #azure-devops #azure-functions #serverless #image-processing #gitlab #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation #open-source

Cloud Adoption Decision-Making: Rehost, Refactor or Rebuild?

Estimated Reading time: 5 minutes and 2 seconds
by Des Holmes

Are you a cloud candidate? This is a question that should be answered with care
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Tags: #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation #azure #devops

Case Study: Serverless Research Platform in Azure

Estimated Reading time: 3 minutes and 14 seconds
by Des Holmes

Solving a research platform challenge with a serverless solution in Azure
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Tags: #technical-direction #web-development #product-development #saas #innovation #azure #azure-functions #serverless #blurhash #devops

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