Blog Insights
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Dockerize Your Dev Environment: Part 2
The previous post highlighted the struggle in having to maintain a development environment in our cross-platform, multi-language, cloud-native, microservices-oriented world. The operations side of many organizations have leaned on Docker to provide some sanity. Let’s look at how we can use containers on the dev side as well. The VS... -
Dockerize Your Dev Environment: Part 1
The subject of this blog post is about Docker. Except, it’s not really about Docker. It’s about changing our mentality around our development environments. Specifically, about the way we haven’t yet broken free of our old patterns in setting up our development machine. To borrow the adage, this post is... -
Hackathon in Review: 2019
As we gear up to plan this year’s Hackathon, I can’t help but reflect on all the success the 2019 event saw. We were able to add five additional participant spots and featured another project! Hackathon provides a few different outlets for teammates. We are able to not only work... -
Dates and Deadlines in Agile: A Delivery Lead's Perspective
In the world of agile sometimes dates matter, hold on let me finish. The day something goes to production should not be considered firm until closer to delivery. Stakeholders consider a date the date, but in reality, they are really hard to set. They are based on estimates, based on... -
Glue ETL Development with Dev Endpoint Notebooks
In this post we will go through a simple tutorial for using Dev Endpoints and notebooks for Glue ETL development -
At Home with SAI Core Values
For 20 years, face-to-face collaboration and side-by-side pair programming have helped Source Allies teammates build a strong web of working relationships. These relationships grow between teammates, partners, Source Allies as a whole and the local developer community. Two months ago, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Source Allies teammates had to... -
A Test-driven Intro to Java Reactor
A test driven guide with a sample program for those new to Java Reactor -
dsmHack and Source Allies Core Values
Recently, some of us at Source Allies had the opportunity to participate in the 8th annual dsmHack charity hackathon. We were struck by how much participating in the hack aligned with our core values. At Source Allies, we use our core values as guideposts while interacting with our partners and... -
Our Approach to Data: Bridging the Gap Between Development and Analytics
Taking a look at how a shared ownership strategy allows data analytics to scale within an organization -
Source Allies Takes on the WiDS 2020 Datathon
Every year the Women in Data Science initiative (WiDS) provides a datathon open to teams with an interest in data science regardless of experience. WiDS defines a datathon as a “data-focused hackathon — given a dataset and a limited amount of time, participants are challenged to use their creativity and...