Many technology leaders are ready and willing to put 2020 behind them, and rightly so. Despite the challenges and setbacks we’ve all faced this year, at Polaris we’ve found comfort in the fact that innovation has not wavered. In fact, the global pandemic has driven… Read More »Software Industry Predictions for 2021
Most modern apps are distributed by nature. This makes them powerful, flexible, scalable, and resilient. It also makes them a pain to develop locally. From co-dependent microservices, to infrastructure needs like databases and Redis, to packaging and deploying containerized apps, getting a local dev environment… Read More »Untangle Distributed Applications with Tye and Dapr
If 2020 has reminded us of anything, it’s that we can’t predict what’s coming next. In this accessible 15-minute presentation, Polaris’ People Lead Angela Dugan and Lead Agile Guide Sara Caldwell share actionable tools and practices to help you lead teams through even the most… Read More »This Is Your Captain Speaking: Leading Through Turbulent Times
In May, Microsoft made a bold announcement with the release of Blazor WebAssembly 3.2: “full stack web development with .NET is now here!” Blazor is an open source, cross-platform framework for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Components could already be hosted… Read More »Microsoft Blazor: Next Generation Web UI or Silverlight All Over Again?
API development is everywhere these days. With Microservice architectures taking off, and JavaScript frameworks needing a way to talk to their servers, writing the server-side code to be exposed through an API is ubiquitous. So when it comes to testing all these APIs to validate… Read More »Automated API Testing in Azure DevOps
Blockchain is getting a tremendous amount of buzz lately. Some say it’s the biggest technology bubble since the internet. But when you dig deeper with most pundits, they are hard pressed to explain exactly what it is and how it’s going to change the world.… Read More »DEV LUNCH: Blockchain Demystified
When the product you are working on is aligned with the strategic direction of your company, and everyone can see the work as it’s being done, magic happens. The politics, the fits and starts, the constant rework, the change in priority. It all melts away.… Read More »AGILE LUNCH: Product Vision, Alignment, Transparency, Results
In talking with people that are new to the idea of iterative and incremental development, this is often the most common thing I hear. “We can’t deploy anything until we have everything done” Of course, this raises the stakes, because you don’t get an opportunity… Read More »We have to have everything, or we can’t have anything
One thing that we learned from Google’s Project Aristotle is that the highest performing teams have a single thing in common. What is that thing, you ask? Safety. Not safety as in they are in physical danger, but a far more difficult to measure safety,… Read More »Creating team safety in 1 easy step
It’s said that the best teams can perform up to 20 times better than the average team. How can that be? Is it people? Process? Tools? What are they doing that hasn’t already been learned and exploited by everyone else. Join us for a lively,… Read More »DEV LUNCH: Secrets of High Performing Dev Teams