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Creating Live Dashboards With Airtable and React

Reporting and visualizing data is crucial to businesses of all sizes. Dashboards allow users to efficiently access and use this data for a range of business operations.

In this article, Toptal Full-stack Engineer Dylan Golow demonstrates how he created a powerful dashboard for telemedicine using Airtable, Typeform, and React.

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Dylan Golow

Dylan Golow

Dylan is a full-stack engineer with extensive experience in various industries, including eCommerce, healthcare, and professional services.

The Future of Healthcare Is Virtual

As work flexibility rises, so must healthcare flexibility. Matt McCambridge, Co-founder and CEO of Eden Health, reveals the future of telemedicine and what today’s teams need to stay healthy and happy.

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Matthew M.F. Miller

Matthew M.F. Miller

Professional writer and editor, author of two published books and hundreds of feature articles. He is a Senior Writer at Toptal.

How to Give Professional Design Feedback

When delivered well, constructive design feedback improves the design process and boosts team culture. Four professional designers discuss how to handle design feedback and collaborate productively.

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John Challis

John Challis

With experience working in UI/UX for IBM and various design studios, John is an expert at solving problems for enterprise and consumer apps.

Building a Node.js/TypeScript REST API, Part 2: Models, Middleware, and Services

The Express.js REST API journey continues! Move from models to full DAOs and DTOs, validate requests with middleware, separate services from controllers, and prepare for a real database.

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Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos has 17+ years in IT and development. His passions include REST architecture, Agile development methodology, and JS.

The Ultimate Experience: A Guide to the Principles of Sensory Design

Digital design routinely ignores neurological factors beyond sight. Sensory design principles emphasize the interconnection of human perception and prompt designers to explore non-visual solutions.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.

Machine Learning Number Recognition: From Zero to Application

Harnessing the potential of machine learning for computer vision is not a new concept but recent advances and the availability of new tools and datasets have made it more accessible to developers.

In this article, Toptal Software Developer Teimur Gasanov demonstrates how you can create an app capable of identifying handwritten digits in under 30 minutes, including the API and UI.

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Teimur Gasanov

Teimur Gasanov

Teimur is passionate about writing composite interfaces using React and building extensible APIs with Go. He excels at finding solutions for atypical problems.

Billing Extraction: A Tale of GraphQL Internal API Optimization

Extracting functional components from a monolithic app into a service can be a daunting task but choosing the right tools and techniques for the job can expedite the process.

In this article, Toptal Back-end Engineer Maciek Rzasa recounts how his team extracted billing functionality from the Toptal platform and how they overcame a series of performance issues.

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Maciek Rząsa

Maciek Rząsa

An engineer, Scrum Master, and knowledge-sharing advocate, Maciek is interested in distributed systems, text processing, and writing software that matters.

Software Engineer Performance Reviews Explained

Software development is a complex process, and evaluating the performance of software engineers can be too. Finding the right balance between complexity and practicality in software engineer performance reviews is vital.

In this article, Toptal Engineering Blog Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic outlines the difference between commonly used performance review models and discusses how they should be employed.

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Nermin Hajdarbegović

Nermin Hajdarbegović

A veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrencies.

Think Business: How to Increase Your Designer Value

The principles that govern design are foreign to many business leaders but it takes more than shiny deliverables to span the knowledge gap. Designers must translate design value into business value.

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Damola Taiwo

Damola Taiwo

Damola is an expert UX/UI designer with a passion for problem-solving and experience in finance, government, tech, and entertainment.

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