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Machine Language: A Guide to Chatbot Terminology (With Infographic)

Chatbots have unique abilities that humans don’t. When we regard them as tools, they provide business opportunities humans can’t. Unfortunately, when it comes to chatbot terminology, confusion reigns.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah is a digital designer who has worked with clients such as Google, Deloitte, and Autodesk. He is also the Managing Editor of Toptal’s Design and Technical Content. His design expertise has been featured in Fast Company, TNW, and other notable publications.

Stale-While-Revalidate Data Fetching With React Hooks: A Guide

Inspired by stale-while-revalidate cache control logic, modern sites implement stale-while-refresh logic on the UI side. Thankfully, React Hooks make this logic painlessly reusable across components.

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Avi Aryan

Avi Aryan

Avi is a full-stack developer skilled with Python, JavaScript, and Go and is also a multiple-time Google Summer of Code participant.

Doing Business in the European Union

The EU economy is worth $15.5 trillion, 24 million companies operate within it, and there are 300 million online shoppers. Is this a market you should be in? If so, how do you serve the EU market while balancing customer service, cost, and complexity?

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Paul Ainsworth

Paul Ainsworth

Paul is an international CFO with experience across multinational companies ranging from $250-900 million in revenue.

All Together Now: An Overview of Inclusive Design

Using the inclusive design process helps designers consider a broad cross-section of human perspectives, abilities, and backgrounds to create products that make everyone feel included.

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Fanni Csincsak

Fanni Csincsak

Fanni is a designer with a master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience. She designs products that focus on both user and business goals.

Write Once, Deploy Everywhere: When to Go Native?

Writing multiple native applications for different mobile platforms can be a daunting task, but taking a non-native approach comes with pitfalls of its own.

In this article, Toptal Mobile Developer Joel Frank outlines the concept of Write Once, Deploy Everywhere (WODE) and explains how to choose the right development path for your project.

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Joel Frank

Joel Frank

Joel is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience. He brings application writing experience from Ipsy, Raytheon, and multiple independent ventures.

The Challenges of Initial Market Entry

A market entry strategy is vital to any product. What might seem like an overnight success takes months and years of planning and hard work. Here’s how to tackle the challenges of entering a new market.

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Allan Milne Lees

Allan Milne Lees

Allan has more than 29 years of experience in financial services, pharma, cybersecurity, telecommunications, mobile apps, and biotech. He is highly experienced in total life-cycle product management and works effectively across all organizational functions to ensure objectives are promptly met.

How to Approach Financial Data Visualization

Looking to make your financial models more effective with better data visualization? Design principles can be effective tools in corporate decision-making.

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Archil Lursmanashvili (FMVA)

Archil Lursmanashvili (FMVA)

Archil is the deputy CFO of Silk Road Group. He joined Toptal to help SMEs develop financial models as a tool for raising financing.

Every year, popular UX design trends emerge and become popular because they provide better user experiences. This retrospective explores some of the most interesting and effective ones from 2019.

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Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Miklos is a lead UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.

Language Server Protocol Tutorial: From VSCode to Vim

The main artifact of all your work is most likely plain text files. So why don’t you use Notepad to create them? Find out how the Language Server Protocol can transform text editors into code editors, without coupling.

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Jeremy Greer

Jeremy Greer

An active open source contributor, Jeremy specializes in advanced JavaScript. He believes in clean code, testing, and reading the manual.

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