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Treasury Function in a Company: Management Best Practices

Your company’s treasury team is a powerful function that can influence all the levers of shareholder returns. Yet these teams are often poorly structured, staffed, and incentivized. Here’s how to make the most of this vital function.

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How to Manage a Design Diva (and Not Be One)

The design diva is a disruptive personality type and a destructive force on a design team. How do we deal with this personality trait, and more importantly, how do we avoid becoming one ourselves?

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Andi Omtvedt

Andi Omtvedt

Andi has 20 years of UX and IA expertise leading enterprise clients through complex system overhauls in various industries.

Unblocking Blockchain: Gaming Is the Tipping Point for Mass Adoption

Experts say gaming will be the first real use case for blockchain, revamping the industry and making games more immersive than ever. How gaming navigates the remaining hurdles will become a case study for other industries considering mass blockchain adoption.

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Toptal Research

In-depth analysis and industry-leading thought leadership from a panel of Toptal researchers and subject matter experts.

Expert Perspectives on the State of Design Education

Aspiring designers have more educational opportunities than any time in history. Do the available options provide worthwhile design training, or are they simply clever money-making schemes?

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

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

How to Create a Secure Node.js GraphQL API

GraphQL is a query language for APIs, originally developed by Facebook for internal use. Since its public release, GraphQL has been compared to REST and other architectures.

In this article, Toptal JavaScript Developer Marcos Henrique da Silva demonstrates how to create a GraphQL Node.js API, and explains why you should try it, too.

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Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos Henrique da Silva

Marcos is passionate about REST architecture, Agile development, and JavaScript. He has 8+ years of experience focusing on web apps.

The Back End: Using Gatsby.js and Node.js for Static Site Updates

Static websites are simple and fast, but it’s also possible to automate updates to them to keep them fresh and relevant. Find out how to generate daily-updated HTML pages that track the latest releases of popular GitHub repositories.

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Furkan Yavuz

Furkan Yavuz

Furkan is an experienced full-stack developer who has worked remotely since 2016. His main expertise includes Java, Angular, and Heroku.

Climbing the IoT Value Chain

Impactful applications of IoT are certain to emerge in the near future. We explore how finance professionals should think of the value it can generate for their business by creating a thought framework.

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Peter Wells

Peter Wells

Peter is management consultant and expert in corporate development and finance. A former investment banker, COO, and CFO, he has extensive experience working with clients to assess new opportunities and position themselves for sustainable growth. He has held previous positions at UBS, Moelis & Co., and various hedge funds.

Benchmarking A Node.js Promise

You can just write sequentially executed code in JavaScript, but should you?

In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Omar Waleed tests the widespread Node.js belief that synchronous code degrades performance and is, in a sense, just plain evil. Is this really true?

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Omar Waleed

Omar Waleed

Omar is a full-stack developer and architect with over 4 years of experience working with companies of varying sizes.

Mobile UX Design Principles

Designers only have a few seconds to catch the attention of mobile users before they abandon an app or site. Following established mobile UX design principles creates a better overall user experience.

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Cameron Chapman

Cameron Chapman

Cameron comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.

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