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Building a Business Continuity Plan

When a disaster interrupts your business operations, a well-thought-out continuity plan can help keep your business afloat. Here are five steps you can take to protect your company from becoming one of the 40% of businesses that close up for good in the aftermath of a disaster.

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Jeffrey Fidelman

Jeffrey Fidelman

Automate Your Way to Better Project Management

Software automation tools can help project managers streamline tasks that distract from more crucial responsibilities. We took a deep dive into Jira’s automation capabilities and asked Toptal project managers for their thoughts on how to best automate workflow.

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Monica Zaleski

Monica Zaleski

Data-driven Design and Generative Design – An Overview

Data-driven and generative design are two important design processes that can be exploited at the same time to create better product designs and user experiences.

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Shane Ketterman

Shane Ketterman

The Importance of Design Education

Design education is often accused of being costly and irrelevant. But with a shift in perspective, universities don’t simply prepare students for a job, they cultivate innovation and ambition.

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Jordan DeVos

Jordan DeVos

The Duel: React Native vs. Cordova

As a result of smartphones and mobile applications becoming so popular, web developers have been looking for ways to create mobile applications using JavaScript. This increased demand has led to the development of many JavaScript frameworks capable of running native-like applications on mobile devices.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Johannes Stein compares the current two most popular choices for mobile-oriented JavaScript frameworks, Cordova and React Native. Examining their advantages and pitfalls, he dives into details of each and compares them across different disciplines.

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Johannes Stein

Johannes Stein

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Financial Distress in a Crisis: You Can’t Predict, You Can Prepare

Financial distress can quickly escalate during times of economic stress. What are the steps to take to protect against downside risks while preserving upside optionality?

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Jeff Anapolsky

Jeff Anapolsky

Online Video with Wowza and Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Performance and data interoperability are critical to the success of any web application. For web apps that need to support video processing – which is inherently compute- and I/O-intensive – these challenges are particularly acute. In this post, I describe some of my experience successfully incorporating video capabilities into a PHP-based web app, leveraging open source technologies and cloud-based services to the greatest extent possible.

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Krzysztof Ożóg

Krzysztof Ożóg

An HDFS Tutorial for Data Analysts Stuck with Relational Databases

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a scalable, open-source solution for storing and processing large volumes of data. With its built-in replication and resilience to disk failures, HDFS is an ideal system for storing and processing data for analytics.

In this step-by-step tutorial, Toptal Database Developer Dallas H. Snider details how to migrate existing data from a PostgreSQL database into the more efficient HDFS.

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Dallas H. Snider

Dallas H. Snider

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