Financial Services Five Takeaways from Pendo Systems' Data in FinTech Panel Last week I had the good fortune of participating in a panel discussion hosted by Pendo Systems on the state of data in FinTech. The panel included FinTech and data
Product Strategy and Design Designing and Developing for iPhone X Designing and Developing for iPhone XThe iPhone X is a large departure from previous forms of iPhone devices—one that will be a disruptive force in the digital device marketplace
Cloud Webinar: A Macro View on Microservices On August 16, 2017, the Levvel team was joined by valued partners Red Hat and CloudBees to present a webinar on the macro view of microservices. Featuring experts from all
Product Strategy and Design Making the Case for Digital Transformation Executive SummaryOrganizations of all sizes have attempted to revolutionize their business under the umbrella of “digital transformation,” but many of these efforts have failed to achieve the desired results. Contrary
Engineering Getting Started with Chatbots and NLP: Part Two *Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series that explores the challenges and opportunities involved with chatbots and natural language processing to solve customer service needs. You
Engineering Getting Started with Chatbots and NLP: Part One Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series that explores the challenges and opportunities involved with chatbots and natural language processing to solve customer service needs. Chatbots
Cloud SAML v2.0 vs JWT: SAML2 Web Application SSO Use Cases This post continues our look at SAML v2.0 and how it compares to JSON Web Tokens (JWT). In the last post, we looked at the history, specs, and basics
Product Strategy and Design UX for Engineers A couple of months ago I finally bought a new car. As a tech geek, I was most excited about all the accompanying gadgets—bluetooth phone, nav system, drive settings,
Engineering Six Reasons I Love Rails I have been a Java developer since 1999 and have personally been involved in over 30 projects that put Java code into production. I have sold over 100 such projects.
Engineering Refactor Impossible (Part 1) The code is a mess! It’s inefficient and impossible to maintain! There’s no way forward, we need to completely rewrite this thing from the ground up! If you
Cloud Building an Internet of Things We love buzz words at Levvel. Cloud, crowd, PaaS, Big Data. All of them get bandied about fairly regularly in our hallways. But arguably my favorite one is Internet of
Product Strategy and Design Creating Niche Software to Disrupt an Industry’s Leaders Dan Godla is a guest contributor on the subject of entrepreneurship. Dan is the founder and CEO of ThoroughCare, a healthcare software startup. Dan has worked in the healthcare industry
Engineering JavaScript Workshop I recently had the opportunity to design and lead an introductory JavaScript workshop for students at the Tech Talent South code immersion program. I was grateful for the opportunity to
Engineering Modern .NET – Part II In our introduction post, we set the stage for the modern .NET developer. The .NET ecosystem and community have changed drastically over the last 5 years and now places a
Engineering Modern .NET Development Over the years Microsoft has received criticism for its closed and proprietary platforms, especially from the developer community. Sure, .NET had a good ecosystem for line of business applications, and
Engineering Modern .NET – Part III Update Nov 18, 2015 - VS Code is now open source, and .NET Core & ASPNET 5 are now in release candidate status. Now we can use what we have
Engineering Modernizing SOA with APIs On January 21, 2016, Dino Chiesa and I did a live Web Cast at the Apigee office in downtown San Jose entitled “Modernize SOA with APIs”. This is the story
Engineering What are APIs? (The Technology Perspective) The term, API (Application Programming Interface), was originally used to describe any programming interface for a library or module that could be composed into larger software systems. In the last
Engineering What is API Management? In my last post, I explored what APIs are. In this post, I build on that question by answering what composes a holistic API Management program. What problems is it
Engineering Applying Data Science Data science is a popular topic today, not only in the tech industry, but across many industries. Google Trends shows a 300% increase in the interest for data science in
Engineering Recommended API Security Reading Material Here is a list of must-reads for API Security: OAuth 1.0 SpecOAuth 2.0 SpecJWT SpecJWS SpecJWA SpecJWE SpecTLS v1.2 SpecHTTP 1.1 Basic AuthenticationOAuth 2.0 Token
