12 Blogs That Can Expand Your Web Design Repertoire Web design, much like any technology related field, requires those who make their living in it to stay on top of it’s ever evolving nature. To maintain a high level of work, a web designer must always be looking for ways to expand his or her repertoire. This can involve learning new techniques, finding new software to increase productivity, or staying up to date on the latest design trends. All of this can take a lot of time and effort, but the web design community if full of generous people who offer up their knowledge for free in the form of a blog. Here are some of the best out there that are loaded with things you can add to your web design repertoire. Web Designer Wall Web Designer Wall is a great place to find in depth tutorials and articles about modern design trends. Noupe Noupe covers everything from css to flex. Astheria Astheria isn’t your average web design blog. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is easily the most popular web design blog. Six Revisions Blog.SpoonGraphics shares
Get Small To Get Big Through Microservices If we trace a path that starts with Gutenberg’s use of moveable type to Malcom McLean’s invention of the shipping container, we start to recognize a very interesting pattern: Each new layer of abstraction and standardization creates tremendous value out of the resulting increases in scale and efficiency. Today’s digital innovators can trace a similar historical path that starts with mainframe computers and monolithic applications and then, step-by-step, reveals software’s interchangeable parts until we arrive at today’s cloud-based era of microservices and continuous integration. Microservices is an approach to building software that shifts away from large monolithic applications toward small, loosely coupled and composable autonomous pieces. The benefit of this abstraction is specialization, which drives down costs to develop and drives up agility and quality — while operating much more resilient systems. Our view of the microservices ecosystem. Determine if you really need microservices
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How to Improve Global Workforce Collaboration One of the signature challenges of large organizations today is the unique set of issues they face when trying to improve the way their workers interact, communicate, and collaborate together. The collaborative environment in a typical enterprise is complex: A dozen or more time zones, vast distances between offices, regional cultural differences, corporate politics, bureaucracy, and differing technology capabilities all make it very challenging to improve the status quo. Even though increasing the effectiveness of collaboration is an activity that is highly likely to provide significant gains to how a business operates, it’s typically a fraught process. It also doesn’t help, however, that some of the highest value collaboration scenarios are typically cross-border: Workers with business partners and suppliers, or workers with customers. This then is the key to improving the way a global workforce collaborates: Additional reading: Rethinking Work In the Collaborative Era Inputs.
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