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In a perfect world, small pieces of software scale up and down with a high-performance message broker like a heart, pumping data in a controlled, efficient manner. However, at some point, in every single system, an application starts pumping out large data requests, in a sporadic, uncontrollable manner. Because here, we are talking about the real world, right? In this article, we will address the problem of adapting a legacy system to play with a stream-based platform.

What do you like about the place you work? Now there’s a question that many people have very different answers for than they did two years ago. After all, many of the perks of working in an office are no longer being enjoyed by employees. The person who loved walking into their sparkling office building with the stocked kitchen and comfy chairs? They’ve been working from their bedroom for over a year now, left to stock their own kitchen.

If you are reading this, chances are you aren’t at your office. And if you are, that office is very different than how it once was. Heck—we’re all different now, we think about work differently, we interact with colleagues almost exclusively through our screens, not face-to-face. So if offices aren’t the same and we’re not the same, then the teams that support us shouldn’t be the same either, right?

After much anticipation, Windows 11 has finally arrived, taking over as Microsoft’s primary Operating System. With a modern, sleek aesthetic and rearranged start menu and taskbar navigation, the new OS has caught the eyes of the members of the global workforce who will be using it daily very soon (or, at least, before Windows 10’s 2025 end-of-life date). But it’s also caught the eye of a group of people who are a bit more anxious about this change: IT professionals.

We are happy to provide an open-source Terraform module enabling automatic delivery of CloudTrail logs from S3 to a Kinesis Data Stream.

As the Senior Delivery Manager for Flutter UK&I, I’m tasked with overseeing the digital experience for roughly 7,000 employees across Europe. Ultimately, my team and I are responsible for ensuring things like server hosting, Office 365, SSO, Azure and other digital work components function in a frictionless manner for our employees—both in office and remotely. That’s the underlying philosophy, at least.

Every workday you open your laptop or start your desktop, and you wait. For some, that wait is a mere blip in the day, a few seconds, for others that wait can seem interminable. A few months ago, our engineering team set out with the task of exploring what variables really impact a slow device performance. During the course of their research, the team uncovered answers to very specific questions like: What is the average startup time for a work device? (Hint: it’s less than five minutes).

‘Power-hungry data centers greedily devour diminishing water supply!’ – This might be my own frequency bias, but I feel like every headline today references data centers and the existential threat they pose to the environment. Perhaps it’s the sensational numbers and estimates that pull me in: So here I am, uncomfortably deep in the rabbit hole, reading about adiabatic processes and wet cooling towers (experts in the U.K.

“Experience is truth.” That was one of the slogans my colleagues and I came up with in our first meeting as the newly-formed Digital Employee Experience team at ABN AMRO, one of the largest banks of the Netherlands. The subtext being that Digital Employee Experience, had to be top of mind for every IT project, even if that meant some unconventional thinking. But we were ready for unconventional.