Toptal Engineering Blog

Choosing between infrastructure-as-code tools CloudFormation and Terraform can be arduous. It’s helpful to have some advice from someone with practical experience scaling apps using both technologies.

Starting a Spring Boot application in the command line is as simple as it gets. But what if we want to run our application from another Java program?

In this article, Toptal Java Developer Igor Delac demonstrates how you can start a Spring Boot app programmatically using just a few lines of code.

The Tanagra.js library is designed to be simple and lightweight, and it currently supports Node.js and ES6 classes. The main implementation supports JSON, and an experimental version supports Google Protocol Buffers.

Retailers often face supply and demand issues that cause them to miss out on potential sales or tie up a lot of money in overstocked products.

In this article, Toptal Data Scientist Ahmed Khaled explains how retailers can boost revenues and cut costs with sales forecasts backed by artificial intelligence.

Kubernetes (“K8s”) won the battle of container orchestration tools. Now AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each offer a managed Kubernetes version. How do they compare?

Your code is described in your API definition using a Golang Domain Specific Language (DSL), then generated using the Goa CLI, and implemented separately from your application source code.

Working with non-numerical data can be challenging, even for seasoned data scientists. To make good use of such data, it needs to be transformed. But how?

In this article, Toptal Data Scientist Yaroslav Kopotilov will introduce you to embeddings and demonstrate how they can be used to visualize complex data and make it usable.