Toptal Engineering Expert
How Not To Manage Your Remote Team of Developers
When entering the remote developers’ world, the biggest obstacle that managers must overcome is to change their mindset by accepting that the developer will not be in plain sight, and where they can manage and follow the work being done.
This new paradigm requires businesses to implement a number of mechanisms to track progress and avoid a redundant workload. Such mechanisms will help both manager and developer be more productive, which is in everyone’s best interest.
Senad Biser
Senad is a highly experienced software engineer and project manager, skilled in a variety of technologies, most notably Java ands Android.
Survey of the Best Online Mapping Tools for Web Developers: The Roadmap to Roadmaps
Making your own maps is not a big undertaking anymore, but for developers not familiar with web mapping, the agony of choice might be intimidating. You want to make maps, but don’t know where to start nor which tools to use. I am here to help.
Here, I’ll discuss several of the best available tools, providing a brief overview of each, along with code examples, and weighing the pros and cons.
Tomislav Bacinger
Tomislav (MSc) has spent more than 15 years in full-stack development and data analysis, but geospatial visualizations are his favorite.
Buggy Java Code: The Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Java Developers Make
Java, a sophisticated programming language, has been dominating a number of ecosystems for quite a while. Portability, automated garbage collection, and its gentle learning curve are some of the things that make it a great choice in software development. However, like any other programming language, it is still susceptible to developer mistakes.
This article explores the top 10 common mistakes Java developers make and some ways of avoiding them.
Mikhail Selivanov
Mikhail has extensive experience as a back-end programmer and has many successful projects in all stages of development under his belt.
Logstash Tutorial: Using Logstash to Streamline Email Notifications
Toptal engineer Jurgens du Toit looks at the possibility of using Logstash to regain control of your inbox and make your error emails manageable again, all without changing a single thing in your app.
Logstash can effectively leverage the power of Elasticsearch and Amazon SNS to streamline email notifications and save time.
Jurgens du Toit
As an expert full-stack developer with a deep knowledge of the internet and web applications, and an ability to meet client requirements.
Installing Django on IIS: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Although the most wide-spread and supported way of running Django is on a Linux system (e.g., with uwsgi and nginx), it actually doesn’t take much work to get it to run on IIS. In this article, Toptal Engineer Ivan Voras walks you through a step-by-step tutorial, clearly explaining how to install Django on IIS.
Ivan Voras, PhD
Ivan’s 15+ years of back-end and blockchain architecture has seen everything from DBA ops to development of OS kernel modules (FreeBSD).
World-class articles, delivered weekly.
By entering your email, you are agreeing to our privacy policy.
Building Business Rules Engines with Drools - Power to the SMEople
A business rules engine is a tool for executing business rules. Business rules are composed of facts and conditional statements. Any “if-then” statement that appears in traditional business logic qualifies as a business rule.
Jeff Marin
With 30+ years as an engineer, PM, and director, Jeff’s worked in financial, entertainment, manufacturing, and medical tech, among others.
Predicting Likes: Inside A Simple Recommendation Engine’s Algorithms
The Internet is becoming “smarter” every day. The video-sharing website that you frequently visit seems to know exactly what you will like, even before you have seen it. The online shopping cart holding your items almost magically figures out the one thing that you may have missed or intended to add before checking out. It’s as if these web services are reading your mind—or are they?
Turns out, predicting a user’s likes involves more math than magic. In this article we explore one of the many ways of building a recommendation engine that is both simple to implement and understand.
Mahmud Ridwan
Mahmud is a software developer with many years of experience and a knack for efficiency, scalability, and stable solutions.
World-class articles, delivered weekly.
Toptal Developers
- Algorithm Developers
- Angular Developers
- AWS Developers
- Azure Developers
- Big Data Architects
- Blockchain Developers
- Business Intelligence Developers
- C Developers
- Computer Vision Developers
- Django Developers
- Docker Developers
- Elixir Developers
- Go Engineers
- GraphQL Developers
- Jenkins Developers
- Kotlin Developers
- Kubernetes Experts
- Machine Learning Engineers
- Magento Developers
- .NET Developers
- R Developers
- React Native Developers
- Ruby on Rails Developers
- Salesforce Developers
- SQL Developers
- Sys Admins
- Tableau Developers
- Unreal Engine Developers
- Xamarin Developers
- View More Freelance Developers
Join the Toptal® community.