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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Aug 12, 2022

Craft coffee at the office—for everyone

Coffee is a staple at any office. From coffee pots, to Keurigs, to cold brew, there are many ways to make coffee readily available to team members. But if you’re passionate about high quality coffee, how do you make that available without training your employees to become baristas? …

Coffee

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Craft coffee at the office—for everyone
Craft coffee at the office—for everyone
Coffee

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·May 20, 2022

Why we restructured our health benefits

As a software company, we’re always improving our products, and we apply this same mentality to our perks & benefits—iterating over time to continually improve them. And because we’ve open sourced our employee handbook, this evolution is fully transparent! As part of this continual improvement, in March of 2022, we…

Benefits

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Why we restructured our health benefits
Why we restructured our health benefits
Benefits

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Dec 8, 2021

Our journey to power redundancy at the office

One of our primary goals with HQ v2, which we moved into over the summer, was to provide an office environment that supports our team’s best work—something that can only be accomplished if that work is free from sudden interruptions! That’s why we knew from the early days of designing…

Tesla

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Our journey to power redundancy at the office
Our journey to power redundancy at the office
Tesla

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Sep 26, 2019

Introducing Sparksuite’s open salary calculator: transparent, predictable, and fair pay scales

Transparency is one of my core goals for the Sparksuite family. We took a big leap toward that end when we publicly published our employee handbook over two years ago. Today, we’re taking another large step in that direction by releasing our open salary calculator. Let’s take a dive into…

Culture

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Introducing Sparksuite’s open salary calculator: transparent, predictable, and fair pay scales
Introducing Sparksuite’s open salary calculator: transparent, predictable, and fair pay scales
Culture

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·May 1, 2019

Lessons from a decade of software development

Today marks exactly a decade since I began professionally crafting software. Back then, Sparksuite was “Next Step Webs” and it designed websites for local small businesses. Here’s a not-so-flattering screenshot of its very first company website, circa 2009:

Software Development

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Lessons from a decade of software development
Lessons from a decade of software development
Software Development

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Mar 5, 2018

Why we restructured our paid time off

Today, we released a new paid time off policy at Sparksuite, replacing a set of policies that had been in place for about a year. …

Entrepreneurship

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Why we restructured our paid time off
Why we restructured our paid time off
Entrepreneurship

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Nov 6, 2017

How to use SSD persistent disks on Google Kubernetes Engine

As it stands, there’s little-to-no information online on how to use SSD persistent disks on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Seems odd, given the simple nature of this task. This post aims to fix that. Google offers two main types of persistent disks, which are provisioned automatically for persistent volumes on…

Google Container Engine

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How to use SSD persistent disks on Google Kubernetes Engine
How to use SSD persistent disks on Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Container Engine

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Oct 24, 2017

7 ways to speed up your GitLab CI/CD times

As with any continuous integration and deployment platform, speed is crucial for developer efficiency. Recently we took our CI jobs and refactored them to ensure they were as fast as possible. Here’s how you can do the same: 1. Host your own GitLab runner GitLab.com (GitLab’s hosted SaaS offering) provides shared runners for repositories to use…

Gitlab

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7 ways to speed up your GitLab CI/CD times
7 ways to speed up your GitLab CI/CD times
Gitlab

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Apr 26, 2017

Open sourcing Sparksuite’s employee handbook

Although headquartered in The Woodlands (near Houston), Sparksuite aims to be one of the leading software companies in Texas. That requires attracting the very best talent and competing with job markets like Austin and Dallas (and to some degree, nationally). To that end, we’ve decided to follow several other tech…

Employees

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Open sourcing Sparksuite’s employee handbook
Open sourcing Sparksuite’s employee handbook
Employees

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Published in Sparksuite Blog

·Oct 27, 2016

How to transfer a Google Analytics property from one Google Account to another

Last month, Google released the much needed ability to move Google Analytics properties between accounts. Why is this useful? Given that Google Analytics is now over 10 years old, the organization of your Google accounts may be a bit different than it was in when you first started using the…

Google Analytics

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How to transfer a Google Analytics property from one Google Account to another
How to transfer a Google Analytics property from one Google Account to another
Google Analytics

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Wes Cossick

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Founder & CEO of Sparksuite

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