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This useful guide by Toptal Finance Expert Paul Ainsworth draws on 30+ years of experience as a CFO of large multinational companies to lay out the menu of options companies face in order to deal with foreign exchange exposure and manage risk effectively.

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.

As the demand for technology professionals consistently increases year over year, supply is struggling to keep up. Fostering interest in STEM education in children early on is essential in building a sustainable pipeline for years to come. Toptal is proud to award our Women’s Scholarship to two women who are helping to foster this interest among youth across Asia and Oceania.

Product management leaders will view every discussion, planning session, and milestone with the customer journey touchpoints in mind. A well-aligned corporate culture, emphasizing the customer at every interaction, will drive customer loyalty.

From personal brands to anti-brands, we’ve entered an age of incessant brand awareness. Branding is everywhere, but is everything branding?

Join an expert in a look back in horror at his most embarrassing mistakes in his early days as a WordPress developer. He discusses general PHP bugs, WordPress-specific bugs, and also mistakes made at a managerial level while supervising other developers.

When your app’s next iteration is ready to deploy, you have two choices: either stop the entire application and deploy the new version manually every time or build an automated zero downtime CI/CD deployment pipeline once.

In this article, Toptal Freelance DevOps Engineer Gaurav Kohli demonstrates the latter using the Jenkins-powered continuous deployment pipeline of a three-tier web application built in Node.js, deployed on AWS Cloud, and using Terraform as an infrastructure orchestrator.

Choosing between the different business entity options is one of the most common questions (and frustrations) entrepreneurs face. In this article, Toptal Finance Expert Scott Hoover lays out a useful guide to help entrepreneurs think through the menu of options they face.

The fundamental purpose of user testing is to better understand and empathize with people who are the core users of a digital product.