Digest #26: June 2024
June recap: new write-ups, checklist and tech articles from our blog
New tech articles from our blog
Feedback Is a Tool for Checking In With the World and Building a Plan for Growth
Our coach and mentor shares her thoughts on using feedback to check in with the world and build a growth plan.
The Power of Contrastive Learning: From Theory to Real-World Applications
Our ML engineer uncovers how contrastive learning helps AI models understand and interpret complex data better, leading to more accurate and efficient systems.
Lean Six Sigma: Bringing Value to Healthcare
Our Head of Marketing explains how the LSS methodology, initially developed for manufacturing, is being adapted to enhance efficiency in hospitals and medical facilities.
Technical write-ups from developers to developers
The developer's roadmap to secure web applications. It highlights common security attacks in web development and best practices for mitigating these risks.
Your step-by-step guide to effectively confihuring backups for Clickhouse.
Whant to know how to choose the right iOS architecture: a guide to MVC, MVVM, and Viper with UIKit? Explore this write-up.
How to hack the Hidden Path: a step-by-step guide to solving HTB's challenging machine
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Hybrid team performance maintenance checklist
Today, teams are distributed across time zones and cultures. A diverse team works in this context, with time differences reaching 12 or more hours. Team members are also distributed across generations, with some teams including 3-4 generations, from Baby Boomers to Zoomers.
A diverse team should breed creativity and innovation, but sharing values, principles, and information can present challenges.
Managers most often encounter these problems. How can PMs and HR work with these teams to share ideas and goals? This checklist will show you how!
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