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Software Development

WCAG Accessibility Requirements: A Guide for Project Managers

Sara Hyman

A Project Manager's guide to WCAG 2.2 accessibility compliance: POUR principles, free audit tools, and AI-powered Claude Code skills for automated testing.

Wcag 2.2 Digital Accessibility Project Management Accessibility Audit Ada Compliance

Software Development

Building a Heroku Buildpack to Work with the uv Package Manager

Amanda Bizzinotto

Be it for our own internal tooling or on our client’s projects, we’ve used a variety of package managers. When building our newest tool, we

Uv Python Heroku

Software Development

Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt at Google

Ernesto Tagwerker

In 2023, Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, as part of the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google, published a paper titled Defining, Measuring, and

Tech Debt Technical Debt Maturity Model

Software Development

Hacktoberfest 2023: Merging Open Source Contributions with Learning

Ernesto Tagwerker

As a company, one of our core values is to be “open by default.” At the same time, one of our goals is to

Open Source Hacktoberfest Learning

Software Development

Design Sprint Day 5: Test

Nathalie Baudrand

This is part of our series on design sprints. If you haven’t read our previous articles, I encourage you to read more about our

User Experience Product UX UX Research

Software Development

Quickstart: Preparing Your Organization To Work with an Agency

Sara Hyman

You’ve signed a contract with an agency, awesome! At this point you already know that agencies like ours offer expertise and resources that can

Project Management Best Practices Tips

Software Development

Design Sprint Day 4: Prototype

Nathalie Baudrand

This is part of our series on design sprints. If you haven’t read our previous articles, I encourage you to read more about our

User Experience Product Design Design Sprint

Software Development

A Quick Intro to Graphs

Mateus Pereira

In my previous post, I mentioned how I was having issues with populating my random maze. The main problem is that there isn’t

Data Structures Graphs Maze

Software Development

Why Remote Design Sprints Work

Nathalie Baudrand

Design Sprints lend themselves nicely to a virtual format, and digital tools can enhance this widely-used process developed by Google Ventures.

UX UX Research Product Design Design Sprints

Software Development

Design Sprint Day 3: Decide

Nathalie Baudrand

Day 3 is all about picking a direction and going forward with it. Over the course of the third day of the Design Sprint, we

Product Design UX UX Research Design Sprint

Software Development

Unit Testing our Design Patterns exercise

Mateus Pereira

So, our little exercise in design patterns is getting quite messy. Which is ironic, considering it’s an exercise in design patterns. The reason

Ruby Design Patterns Unit Testing

Software Development

How to run old code - an introduction to virtualization

Gelsey Torres

As a consultancy specializing in upgrades, dealing with legacy code is our bread and butter. Incompatible versions of Ruby, different version managers, C errors while

Devops Docker Virtualization

Software Development

Request queue and why you should care about it

Rishi Jain

Have you ever wondered what the values on the request queue graph in the APM tool meant or whether a certain value indicated good or

Performance Monitoring Request Queue

Software Development

Apdex score - One score to rule them all!

Rishi Jain

If I were to ask you: tell me in one word or a number here, how satisfied are your users with the response times of

Performance Monitoring Performance Apdex Score

Software Development

Response times and what to make of their percentile values

Rishi Jain

Upon integrating any performance monitoring tool for your application, you must be observing p95, p99 response times on the dashboards. If you are wondering what

Performance Response Times P95 P99 P50