In 2021, a rich set of data is the soil that empowers the business of all the Internet Giants (GAFAM, NATU, …). Meanwhile, traditional companies are striving to remain competitive. Therefore, the mandatory acceleration of their business goes through a massive digitalization of their operations and assets. Amongst the most valuable digital assets are the data. Big data’s promises are attractive. However, the “data” organizational unit is commonly separated from the core business in the wild. Even if many of those departments provide much effort…

When operating a product or building an infrastructure, it is normal to ask yourself the question "Is my application working well?" In general, it is common to have two answers in these kind of cases:  Use monitoring to check if the application is working properly. Set up an alerting system to be aware of possible problems in the system However, we rarely wonder if alarms are relevant in my specific context (ex: when a container restarts) or if the metrics on my pre-made dashboards will…

Or, how to invest then add value to your startup portfolio Translated from French by Natalie Schmitz. Original French article : Due diligence technique – sécuriser son investissement dans des startups IT Introduction While many companies are still reeling from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, startups are taking the hardest blows. The French government injected 4 billion euros into the sector to help keep them afloat. For BPIFrance, the talk of the season is on which horses to bet.   The pandemic has bred frailty and imposed…

Tl;dr In my experience, software developers’ skills regarding tasks in a terminal range from desperately slow to impressively swift. I believe that, for a large part, this is caused by an abundance of articles not discussing the real problems software developers are dealing with daily. Namely, how to feel productive on a terminal, after using omnipotent integrated software environments for so long. This article aims at bridging this gap by sharing carefully selected tips that can, in my opinion, dramatically increase the terminal productivity of…

This article follows a first article “The Google Assistant for Android developers - PART 1”. In the first article, we have discovered the “Solutions” part offered by Google by going through the making of a simple app. We have built an App Action allowing us to directly launch a specific feature of our app with a vocal command, then we improved it with the displaying of a Slice. Although really simple to build, we have quickly witnessed the limits of this part since it only…