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The Build Blog is a collection of perspectives and viewpoints on the craft of building digital products today, written by the technologists that build them. By builders, for builders.
Recent Posts
Recommendations for Resolving Client Knowledge Transfer Challenges
Recommendations for Resolving Client Knowledge Transfer Challenges
Cross-functional teams propose a way forward
Build better teams with the Top Traits Activity
Build better teams with the Top Traits Activity
A dynamic exercise to help rejuvenate your team
Persona-Driven Data Architecture
Persona-Driven Data Architecture
From consumption patterns to customer obsession
Quantum Computing: It’s Early, but There Are Valuable Things to Do Today
Quantum Computing: It’s Early, but There Are Valuable Things to Do Today
Gaining a basic a understanding of quantum computing and where it shines can help create a path to value right now.
Beyond Model Code: Essential Principles for Productionizing ML Models
Beyond Model Code: Essential Principles for Productionizing ML Models
Transforming ML models into robust and efficient production systems
The Developer Experience for Platform Engineers
The Developer Experience for Platform Engineers
Aligning software and platform engineering for enhanced DevEx
Making Room for Zero-ETL in Your Data Engineering Toolbelt
Making Room for Zero-ETL in Your Data Engineering Toolbelt
The benefits of automating data pipeline maintenance
The Secret to Success in Large-Scale Data Engineering Projects
The Secret to Success in Large-Scale Data Engineering Projects
Automation in Databricks with Databricks Asset Bundles
4 Tips for Data Quality Validations with Pytest and PySpark
4 Tips for Data Quality Validations with Pytest and PySpark
Testing transformed data to yield a high-quality and dependable result
Getting started with PySpark, Pytest, and Amazon S3
Getting started with PySpark, Pytest, and Amazon S3
A step-by-step guide for Data Quality Engineers
Generative AI Prompt Engineering: A Balancing Act
Generative AI Prompt Engineering: A Balancing Act
How to improve your prompts for higher-quality outputs
How to Architect Maintainable Journey Tests
How to Architect Maintainable Journey Tests
Ensure your users’ workflows are always functional
RAG for Quality Engineers
RAG for Quality Engineers
Building RAG is easy, building quality RAG is hard
Feeding AI Models with Slack Data
Feeding AI Models with Slack Data
How to build connections on teams by marrying Slack and generative AI
Conducting an Effective Knowledge Transfer Before Roll-off
Conducting an Effective Knowledge Transfer Before Roll-off
Why is it so important?
Keeping the Human in the Loop
Keeping the Human in the Loop
People, process, technology: how to harness — and not get burned by — the IT fire triangle
The When and How of Load and Stress Testing
The When and How of Load and Stress Testing
From feasibility assessment to discovery: An engineer’s cheat sheet
(Technical) Ways of Working
(Technical) Ways of Working
Less talked about (Technical) Ways of Working for a smoother project delivery.
Designing Valuable Products for the Future with DesignOps
Designing Valuable Products for the Future with DesignOps
The evolution and continuing relevance of design operations
DevSecOps in Effect at the Web Application Firewall
DevSecOps in Effect at the Web Application Firewall
Look at DevSecOps in practice and generate dynamic AWS WAF rules at deploy time from REST API application paths in Amazon API Gateway
How to Write Documentation That People Will Actually Read and Use
How to Write Documentation That People Will Actually Read and Use
Understanding for whom you’re writing, how to connect ideas & why you are writing are critical to ensuring your documentation is worthwhile
Elevating Conversational AI with Dynamic Data and APIs via OpenAI Function Calling
Elevating Conversational AI with Dynamic Data and APIs via OpenAI Function Calling
Unlocking the Power of RAG Approach in Conversational AI: Enhancing Chatbot Responses with Dynamic Function Calling.
