Generative AI is streamlining workflows, speeding time to market, maximizing efficiencies, and presenting capabilities that would historically be very expensive (if not impossible) to create via other means. Newer versions have added accelerated paths to quickly prototyping/experimenting with enhancements to service and product lines. Below are several reasons you can get your first Gen AI … Continued
One of my favorite things about Axian, is the birds eye view that we’ll often get on technology and its adoption. We’re in tens of worksites every year, and often get to see technology initiatives of all sorts (platforms, tooling, governance, etc…). We also get to lend a hand when rollouts go awry, or activities … Continued
When Success = Compliance For many of our customers success has come with accolades, trophies, …and a fresh round of compliance/governance to adhere to! For teams who haven’t started out with data compliance in mind (which is most), this often means that there are volumes of PII, PHI, or trade secrets that have accrued in … Continued
In 2020, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed spending on on-premises data centers for the first time. This watershed milestone highlights the significant shift to the cloud for organizations across the globe. For some companies, the migration to the cloud entailed like-for-like replication of on-premises infrastructure into a cloud environment. While this is a good … Continued
About GitHub Packages is a convenient way to store and serve your NuGet packages. There are a couple of reasons why you might want to consider using GitHub Packages: You need to share NuGet packages with an extended team and need to do so securely. You have an antiquated on premise NuGet repository, which limits … Continued
Microsoft is throwing a lot of resources at improving Teams. We certainly have been using Teams increasingly over the last several months. There are some things I really like about it, and some things I like less (eh-hem multi-tenant). One thing I have found recently, is using the record feature for meetings. I do recognize … Continued
In a given calendar year, our staff can be working in a LOT of different development environments. While Axian as a whole tends to focus on Node.js, Java and .NET runtimes/toolchains, we are also often found working with systems that comprise everything from Python, to Golang, Ruby and beyond! Needless to say this can create … Continued
Axian kicked off its inaugural Xbox 360 LAN party this November. We sustainably sourced (ahem…bought used from Craigslist/Ebay) 16 lightly enjoyed Xbox 360s, controllers and a LOT of games. In my experience, very little brings a team together like a Halo 3 Capture the Flag game and this event was no different. A big thanks … Continued
Let’s talk about teaching app development to 8-12 year-old girls. It’s difficult to keep any 8-12 year olds focused in general, so how do you do it with a lot of patience and fun? Last week, I volunteered at a STEM student technology camp at Pacific University to do this very thing. I was there … Continued
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the Technology Association of Oregon’s talk, “Role of a Project Manager in an Agile Environment.” The audience was full of product owners and project managers interested in the daily life of a ScrumMaster. What does this person do? (Like it’s a mysterious animal out in the wilderness.) A … Continued
