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Effective Communication Strategies for Designers

It’s crucial that designers focus not only on cultivating their abilities with creative tools but also on improving their ability to communicate design effectively during the design process.

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Bronwen Rees

Bronwen Rees

Bronwen is a designer from London with experience in both brand and digital design. Her passion lies in learning and evolving her skills.

Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Web Development?

Is Angular vs. React just a matter of personal preference? This article gives an in-depth comparison and analysis of various Angular and React components in light of real-world applications.

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Tomas Holas

Tomas Holas

Tomas started as a Ruby on Rails enthusiast, but in 2010 he turned to JavaScript and since prefers to work with Angular, React, and NodeJS.

How to Build a Successful Minimum Viable Product

Vadim Dagman, a former startup CEO and Toptal Product Engineer, introduces a set of practical tactics that can help teams create successful MVPs.

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Vadim Dagman

Vadim Dagman

Vadim Dagman is a software developer, technologist, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and the author of seven issued patents.

Creating New Concepts With Design Thinking

Toptal designer Michael Abehsera explores how teams can apply the principles of design thinking to generate innovative ideas.

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Michael Abehsera

Michael Abehsera

Michael is an experienced UI/UX designer whose background in marketing and data analysis helps him make well-informed design decisions.

How Top Companies Use Machine Learning

How do top organizations use machine learning? Sib Mahapatra, Editor of Toptal Insights, shares case studies demonstrating how machine learning is deployed today to help companies of all sizes create value, cut costs and drive ROI.

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Sib Mahapatra

Sib Mahapatra

Sib Mahapatra is a growth consultant and entrepreneur with a keen interest in the future of work.

Building Teams For Rapid Innovation

Innovation can be challenging for established organizations. Sid Pinney, Enterprise Sales Executive at Toptal, suggests that augmenting in-house innovation staff with agile talent can create effective teams with the best traits of both worlds.

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Sid Pinney

Sid Pinney

Enterprise Sales Executive at Toptal

Amazon vs. Walmart: Bezos Goes for the Jugular With Whole Foods Acquisition

Through its acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon is not only likely to disrupt the grocery shopping experience but is perhaps embarking on a grander push that could change the entire retail landscape, leaving Walmart on the back foot.

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Toby Clarence-Smith

Toby Clarence-Smith

Toby has deep financial experience across investment banking, VC investing, and PE. He most recently founded and sold a VC-backed company.

Get Started With Microservices: A Dropwizard Tutorial

Dropwizard allows developers to quickly bootstrap their projects and package applications as easily deployable standalone services. It also happens to be relatively simple to use and implement.

In this tutorial, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Dusan Simonovic will introduce you to Dropwizard and demonstrate how you can use this powerful framework to create RESTful web services with ease.

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Dusan Simonovic

Dusan Simonovic

Dusan is a back-end Java developer with eight years of experience in Java development and a number of large projects under his belt.

Ramping up Software Deployment - A Docker Swarm Tutorial

Docker itself has been around for years and is composed of many inter-operating pieces. One of them is Docker Swarm, which allows you to declare your applications as stacks of services and let Docker handle the rest.

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Leah Sapan explains how to use Docker Swarm to deploy your own self-managing stack, followed by a quick example.

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Leah Sapan

Leah Sapan

As a full-stack software engineer, Leah has worn many hats. Beyond software, she specializes in secure, scalable AWS deployments.

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