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Consulting Business Models (3 Potential Paths)

Consulting business models can make or break the success of firms. Before you decide on a business model for your consulting firm, consider the following questions: The right professional services business model will support scalability and profitability. If you're actively considering business consulting models and find yourself at a crossroads, this is the perfect article for you to read. A consulting firm's business model can determine the trajectory of the organization.

RPA vs. ITPA - What's the Difference?

The promise of robots integrating into our everyday lives has long been on the minds of forward-thinkers and visionaries. Perhaps none were quite as bold in their future predictions as American chemist and Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, who envisioned a 21st century in which every home would not only have its own robot, but also an intelligent species of animals that could help with household chores.

Introducing Flexible Subscriptions: Websites Are Dynamic, Monitoring Should Be Too

Have you ever felt limited or “locked into” a fixed SaaS subscription plan? Have you ever been forced into a Sales call only to struggle with the decision – and costs – of upgrading to a higher plan tier to add incremental features or usage you need? Are you subscribed to a SaaS plan today that’s chock-full of features or capabilities you’ve never used (or asked for!) – but are still paying for? If so, you’re not alone.

Modernizing Government Technology: How Federal Agencies Are Progressing on Technology Transformations

When the U.S. Congress passed the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT) of 2017 as part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, it established both funding and a process intended to help bring aging federal IT systems and infrastructure up-to-date with state-of-the-art technologies common in the private sector. According to the legislation, the goals of MGT are to.

Continuously Securing Software Supply Chain

Catch this session to see a breakdown of the recent news related to software supply chain security and what you can do to meet new requirements and protect your software from such attacks. With new software supply chain attacks reaching the spotlight at an accelerating pace, security research uncovering novel attack methods and new mandates and guidelines starting to come into effect — it can be hard to stay on top of the latest developments and their implications.

GitHub Actions and Shipa Webinar

As a software engineer, leveraging GitHub is one of those tools that transcend your personal and professional development activities. Bringing open source to the masses, GitHub is a familiar platform for many. A newer addition to the GitHub Platform is GitHub Actions which was originally a workflow engine, now expanding into CI/CD. Combining the ubiquity of GitHub Actions to your GitHub project/repository with the powerful application abstractions that Shipa provides is a great developer experience. Watch this webinar recording combining the power of the two platforms.

mooving to...Remix

Learn from Kent C. Dodds, Co-Founder, Director of Developer Experience at Remix, about moving to Remix, a new way to build websites. This 30-minute conversation will review the ups and downs of accessible, scalable, performant apps. Discover tips to achieve the ability to write code once and deploy anywhere. Hear first hand how to build: New full-stack web framework for modern UX Fully fused frontend and backend of any website Simplified code without sacrificing usability

API performance testing with k6

Performance testing measures how well systems perform when subjected to various workloads. The key qualities being tested are stability and responsiveness. Performance testing shows the robustness and reliability of systems in general, along with the specific potential breaking points. In this tutorial, you will use k6 to do load testing on a simple API hosted on the Heroku platform. Then you will learn how to interpret the results obtained from the tests.

What Are the Best Practices for Inventory Auditing?

Usually, audits are a long procedure. It might take days or months to complete the audit process. However, still, there is no surety that the audit is done with full efficiency because some assets have gone to some other locations. But audit is performed to get deep analytics of finance-related information. Not just that it also provides several other crucial information as well related to assets & inventories. An audit is helpful in maintaining & following compliance as per the rules and regulations.