I have been thinking a lot lately about what is expected of a software architect, the name usually comes with the idea of someone who lives in an ivory tower, unreachable, isolated from the world, when architecture is needed for a project he will arrive, draw a bunch of UML diagrams, write some documents and…
Yes. It really is here. GDPR is running at full speed since May 25th and it’s here to keep us safe. And by us I mean, our personal information. And by that I mean, we get to explicitly choose to allow how and what our collected data is going to be used for. GDPR came…
Chatbots Chatbots are revolutionizing customer service, turning user experience more dynamic by reducing the number of steps and creating a closer bond between customer and brand. This tool has been gaining more ground in business especially in the area of retail that can meet the customer’s needs without its need for access to a second…
How many hours do you work on an average day? Let me rephrase: How many hours are you in the office on an average day? It’s not the same, is it? In my experience that’s really the problem and let me illustrate using simplified caricatural example: – First week: it seems we have a lot…
In an industry in constant motion, the ones who do not adapt to the pace of the technology evolution and business models could easily stay under the radar. The new customers needs require further customization, know-how and flexibility to deliver the best business solutions. And that’s what has always been part of the KnowledgeWorks’ DNA….
This week we certified all java programmers, some in associate, some in professional but all in Java 8. This certification attests that everybody know the basic concepts of Java, but by it’s own it’s no guarantee. Always exploring new features and using them in real life scenarios, participating in the community, and exchanging ideias both…
Today Sónia and Inês completed successfully the Certified Scrum Product Owner® course. It was great to interact with other product and agile minded people and refresh the concepts that help us to be more efficient and cost effective.
Last month we migrated on of our parent company products from bare metal to Amazon cloud. This represents a huge step in uptime and failover capability in the short term and the ability to take advantage of cloud features such as Lambdas, microservices, fast readonly RDS instances, balancers, etc in the long run. This effort…
