How to build a future-proof engineering team Inclusion, community, and empathy. Go the extra mile I joined Ripple at a pivotal time in our society. As the team was adjusting to remote working, I recognized that it was critical that I take the necessary steps to ensure my team was set up for success in this new normal. [Read:Are EVs too expensive? Here are 5 common myths, debunked] One of the biggest lessons I learned in previous roles is that remote teams need a different kind of support than in-person teams....

How to build a search engine for criminal data Hansken speeds up digital forensic analysis Digital digging No lone detective can efficiently search the vast pool of data stored on confiscated data carriers. Since 2012, The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) hasfocused onDigital Forensics as a Service (DFaaS) with the aim to provide a service that can process huge amounts of digital forensic material with accessible and secure access to analyzed data....

How to build a successful business model around open source software Here’s how my team and I did it Open source business models There are many ways to establish a business model around an open source software system. In real life, businesses typically use a combination of the following commercial strategies, which can be grouped into a few main categories: There are other variants of more or less open source models; the correspondingWikipedia articleprovides a comprehensive overview....

How to build an AI stylist inspired by outfits on Instagram The architecture I built this app using a combination ofGoogle Cloud Storage,Firebase, and Cloud Functions for the backend,Reactfor the frontend, and theGoogle Cloud Vision APIfor the ML bits. I divided the architecture into two bits. First, there’s thebatch process, which runs every hour (or however frequently you like) in the Cloud: “Batch process” is just a fancy way of saying that I wrote a Python script which runs on a scheduled interval (more on that later)....

Setting up a helpdesk for your startup can be a daunting task. Outside of enterprise circles, it’s not something that’s discussed very often — in fact, many startups don’t bother to go much further than services likeGet Satisfactionto begin with. But it’s not as difficult to set up a great helpdesk for your small business, and in an age of faceless startups who often seem more interesting in getting that next round of funding than making customers happy, one at a time, providing the best support experience you can is an easy way to get ahead....