Most of the time, when we look for a new job opportunity, we look for a company that offers us a good salary and good benefits, but we neglect one of the most important benefits, a good work environment. However, for some companies this issue is not of great importance, so they suffer from uncommitted […]
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The Power of Data: Levels of Analytics
According to Worldwide Big Data and Analytics Spending Guide, organizations will have spent $215.7 billion on big data and business analytics (BDA) solutions in 2021, an increase of 10.1% over 2020. Statista’s data suggests big data market volume is set to top $100 billion over the next five years. Companies are willing to invest their […]
IT Industry: Its Adaptation in Times of Pandemic
It is not easy for a company to survive times of uncertainty and radical changes in all aspects (economic, technological, political, etc). However, IT companies have survived and grown enormously in times of pandemics. It has been almost 2 years since the pandemic began. Two years full of challenges and changes for many companies around […]
Memories of 2021: 3rd Annual Product BA Team Event 2021 | Time to Reconnect!
2021 just vanished, but we could not let go of the good times we had! Last year, at the end of November, we got together to attend the Annual Product BA Team Event – this is the third year in a row this event is celebrated, and not even Covid could stop it! The event […]
QA Team Building 2021
An important aspect of being a Great Place to work is having a great job environment in which people know each other and their achievements and great performance are acknowledged. We know how important it is to make our peers feel seen and appreciated and a great example of that is our yearly QA Team […]
How to Design Visually Appealing Better Forms (and Not Suffer in the Process)
Forms are everyday work for developers and UI designers around the world. This can either be a usability nightmare or a perfectly applied solution that users don’t even realize it took a lot of effort to plan, design, and code. Here I’ll give you some guidance on how to better up our form design. […]
How to Improve SQL Performance – Antipatterns
Ever come close to writing a perfectly looking and valid SQL just to see it take hours to run? SQL optimization might be the thing you need! For business and customers, time is limited and precious and as Software Developers, QA Engineers, DB Developers, etc we should strive to improve the efficiency of our queries […]
The Surprising Power of Habits
It was about 3 years ago that I got started in the world of software engineering. I was coming from a career more oriented to mechanics and electronics (Mechatronics Engineering), but with the great interest I’ve always had in coding and all the amazing things that can be made with software, I was very interested […]
Agile Brainstorming: Introduction
What is it? Brainstorming is a technique of generating ideas by a group of people or team members by presenting them with a problem statement and having an open discussion. When applied to agile projects, this technique can produce interesting solutions and hence is referred to as Agile Brainstorming. Why is it important? There are […]
Angular and Data-Driven Documents (D3.js) Part 2: Adding Interactivity
In a previous article, I wrote a simple D3.js plot chart. The chart represents a simple line chart that displays visually the price of Bitcoin over time (here is a link to the example). This chart only includes the visualization but it does not have any interactivity. In this article, I will show how to add a […]
Angular and Data-Driven Documents (D3.js) Part 1: Creating Chart
In this 2 part article, I will discuss D3 along with Angular. D3 is a powerful JavaScript library that enables you to develop interactive data visualizations. Visualizations often include charts, network diagrams, maps, among others. There are many libraries available for Angular that have nice and easy to work with components and directives that you […]
That Time I Flunked my JavaScript Technical Interview: Some Tips from Personal Experience
As the title suggests, this article is about those times that I did not land the job that I was applying for because I did not know the answer to a particular question. It did not mean that I was bad at my job or that I did not know JavaScript. I have been using […]