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Aurelia vs. Angular 2 — A Code Comparison

Angular and Aurelia are fierce competitors developed and released at approximately the same time. They have a similar philosophy, but they differ in a number of key ways. This article does side-by-side comparisons of those differences in features and code.

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Alexander Mikhalchenko

Alexander Mikhalchenko

Convince Your Team to Go Remote: FAQ

Going remote can be a big decision. Julia Stanaro, Manager of Enterprise Account Solutions at Toptal, shares her responses to the most common questions posed by executives about the value of remote work.

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Julia Stanaro

Julia Stanaro

The 5-step Process for Turning a Blog Into a High-conversion Funnel

Blog publishers hope to turn their blog into an effective sales and marketing tool. Here are some useful examples that show how to design a high-conversion funnel for a blog and make it a success.

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Peter Davis

Peter Davis

Building Cross-platform Apps with Xamarin: Perspective of an Android Developer

Writing reusable code that can be shared across multiple platforms can make developing mobile applications a lot easier. But, how do you do that without paying the usual cost of maintainability, ease of testing, and poor user experience that comes with cross-platform mobile application development?

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Emran Bajrami walks us through Xamarin and shows us techniques for building high-quality cross-platform apps.

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Emran Bajrami

Emran Bajrami

Choosing the Right E-commerce Business Model to Sell Your Product

As retail continues to shift online, businesses and manufacturers are faced with ever-growing pressures to build serious online presences and distribution. This article looks at the different options available, and assesses their merits and considerations from a financial standpoint

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Martin Smith

Martin Smith

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How to Create Custom Fonts: 7 Steps and 3 Case Studies

Designers love to hate some fonts. We’re introducing a simple process and seven easy steps that can quickly transform a typeface into something better and can turn a font into a beautiful logotype.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

SQL Server 2016 Always Encrypted: Easy to Implement, Tough to Crack

Security has always been a primary concern for database experts, and with the advent of new, decentralized services, it’s become even more crucial. Microsoft addressed the need for an added level of security in SQL with the introduction of Always Encrypted functionality in SQL Server 2016.

In this blog post, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Josip Saban explains how Microsoft’s Always Encrypted concept works, how it’s implemented, and why developers can’t afford to ignore it.

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Josip Šaban

Josip Šaban

A Guide to Consistent Hashing

Consistent Hashing is a distributed hashing scheme that operates independently of the number of servers or objects in a distributed hash table. It powers many high-traffic dynamic websites and web applications.

In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Juan Pablo Carzolio will walk us through what it is and how hashing, distributed hashing and consistent hashing work.

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Juan Pablo Carzolio

Juan Pablo Carzolio

Why Distributed Teams Matter, and How to Build One

Alan Fiddes, Head of Projects at Toptal and a ThoughtWorks veteran with over ten years of experience managing distributed teams, explains how building and managing remote teams can create a major competitive advantage in today’s talent marketplace.

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Alan Fiddes

Alan Fiddes

Make Your CSS Dynamic With CSS Custom Properties

If there is something every front-end developer wants, it is proper support for variables in CSS. For years, to work around this missing feature, developers have resorted to CSS preprocessors. However, all that changes with the introduction of CSS custom properties.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Nicolás J. Engler walks us through CSS custom properties and shows us how they can be used to make better, more dynamic stylesheets.

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Nicolás J. Engler

Nicolás J. Engler

How to Build Culture in Remote Teams

How can you build a healthy culture when your employees are far away? Mark Bosma, VP of Sales at Toptal, explores the cultural best practices that helped Toptal grow to hundreds of team members and nine-figure annual revenue—all in a 100% remote organization.

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Mark Bosma

Mark Bosma

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