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AI as Your Prototyping Partner – Reduce Costs and Speed Up Innovation

Depending on your position, you may be thinking about how to make AI your business partner, or you might still consider it the elephant in the room. In this article, I’ll show how AI can streamline prototyping, reduce costs, and speed up innovation. I’ll present the most effective AI-driven tools and share practical strategies to help you iterate faster and bring ideas to life more efficiently.

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Meet Spade

Discover 5 essential strategies to bolster AWS database security, including encryption, access control, and serverless computing. Learn how to utilize Secrets Manager, monitor for credential leaks. Secure your company’s data today!

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Writing cleaner Jest tests

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Stop using Excel to analyse your cloud costs

This guide explores the transition from Excel to Metabase for efficient and secure cloud cost management. Learn how Metabase can enhance your cloud cost analysis process.

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Scaling the IT Ladder: Tactics for Growth and Waste Minimization​

Discover the secrets of successful IT scaling. Our article will guide you through the intricacies of team expansion, waste reduction, and common stumbling blocks, ensuring you’re equipped to maximize growth and minimize waste.

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Establishing Clear Roles and Responsibilities: A Key to Optimizing IT Team Performance

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Empowering IT Teams through Servant Leadership: A Strategy to Boost Growth and Reduce Waste

Explore how servant leadership, a potent approach in IT management, can unlock team growth and curb wasteful practices. Dive into the principles of servant leadership, and understand how it fosters a collaborative, creative, and supportive environment, leading to improved performance and organizational success.

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How to Speed Up Existing Azure Infrastructure Migration to Terraform? Discover our Time-Efficient Solution – Bid Farewell to Manual Configuration! 🚀

Discover 5 essential strategies to bolster AWS database security, including encryption, access control, and serverless computing. Learn how to utilize Secrets Manager, monitor for credential leaks. Secure your company’s data today!

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5 Strategies to Improve Database Security on AWS

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The Essential Areas of AWS Security: What You Need to Know

Discover crucial AWS security practices in this comprehensive guide by Exlabs. Learn about IAM, VPCs, encryption, and monitoring to ensure your cloud infrastructure is secure and compliant. Stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of cloud security.

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🌊 Riding the Wave: What Does a 23.45% CAGR for Serverless Mean for Business? 🌊

Serverless technology is revolutionizing the IT industry, and businesses that fail to keep up risk being left behind. Serverless CAGR of 23.45% between 2022 and 2030, is a proof that it is becoming the go-to solution for businesses looking to streamline their IT resource management. Why is it so popular among companies?

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5 things that every junior Java developer should learn to find the dream job

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Implementing concurrent access to Elasticsearch resources

Learn how to easily make use of Elasticsearch mechanism in order to achieve optimistic concurrency control. Learn approach that makes state of you applications much safer without making heavy impact on the performance.

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Facebook and Clickjacking Attack – Check If Your Website is Vulnerable

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most valuable use cases of Hashicorp Vault and the secret engines that are used to deliver that functionality.

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Tabnine & GitHub Copilot

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Use Cases of HashiCorp Vault

In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most valuable use cases of Hashicorp Vault and the secret engines that are used to deliver that functionality.

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Protect your data against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks with Content Security Policy​

Neglecting to implement a Content Security Policy (CSP) for your application can have unfortunate consequences for your business.

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Unlock the Benefits of FinOps: Streamline Operations, Increase Efficiency and Drive Business Growth

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7 code testing rules you should be aware of

Seven rules of software development testing you should always follow. Best practices for QA experts by Software Testing Qualification Board.

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Mateusz Wilczyński appointed the CTO of Exlabs

We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Mateusz to the role of CTO. Mateusz will serve as a technical partner for our clients, helping them with project governance, reliability & security as well as identifying future challenges & opportunities for their projects.

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Hashicorp Vault – is it worth it?

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How to rotate Secrets using AWS Lambda?

Custom secrets rotation in AWS Secrets Manager is not so simple. Learn about available solutions & process automation.

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What is CIS Benchmark?

Why should I use the CIS Benchmark standard for my AWS cloud setup? Is it difficult to get started?What is beyond CIS? AWS cybersecurity best practcies.

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Introduction to Secrets Rotation

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Terraform Module: ECS Secrets Manager

How to enable secure access to secret values for Docker containers run on AWS ECS? Use ECS Secrets Module by Exlabs (for free).

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AWS Account Security Assesment

Complete a survey to grade your AWS account security level. You will receive your security score & will be eligible to a 30 minutes consultation to revisit your results.

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Protecting Web Application: Cloudflare vs AWS WAF

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How to sleep well at night without experienced CISO (featuring DevSecOps, SSDLC, vCISO)

Does your company lack Chief Information Security Officer? It may seem risky, but do you really need one? What are the alternatives?

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Mastering Cloud Cost Analysis with Metabase

This guide explores the transition from Excel to Metabase for efficient and secure cloud cost management. Learn how Metabase can enhance your cloud cost analysis process.

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8 fallacies of distributed computing: 1. The network is reliable

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Generate CSV file from your data and analyze them

Learn how to generate CSV files from your data using React CSV generator & how to analyze data. Hands-on tutorial by our Frontend JS Developer – Damian Pawłowski.

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Funds section UX for the client from fintech industry

The most urgent actions were required in the “Funds” section, where users began to keep significant transaction history logs, multiple different assets, and various currencies. The “Funds” section gives the possibility of making withdrawals, deposits, and transactions between investors. In short, this is one of the most often used sections of the entire application. What did we want to improve & what were the effects?

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Transforming IT systems into agile data hubs​

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Text Search & Elastic: ecosystem – more than a search engine

This article is intended to help you understand what is inside the Elastic ecosystem and what tools we have there.

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Elastic – its engine

Have you ever wondered how it happens that search results are delivered to a user so quickly? Even when there is a big dataset behind the search engine API, searched items are usually delivered in milliseconds. How so?

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Text Search – it is not a simple problem. How to get started?

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Maximize your savings by automatizing workflows

Automatization of workflow processes with AI is the future that we already see happening today. McDonald’s is investing in AI solutions by acquiring Apprente, Dynamic Yield, and Plexure, their tools and know-how.

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How to generate PDF in Javascript – a step by step guide

Is it possible to programmatically generate PDF file using web technologies? You are right, it is. What’s more – it’s probably much easier than you thought.

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Have db logs killed our PostgreSQL on AWS?

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Static Web Pages are back in the game!

Static pages are back in the game now! Chceck security benefits, business opportunities and associated costs.

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Orchestrate data pipelines with Azure Data Factory​

How do you like maintaining lots of bash scripts defined in `crontab`. If you worked in a team responsible for a data flow you know what I mean. If it starts with one script it is OK. But if your crontab grows and grows it is no more fun. Or maybe you are running your BI processes which are doing well in your current warehouse but you encounter problems with the optimization and there are not enough resources to scale your workers up?

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Instruction: Left Join for Advanced Rubyists

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SQL is the language of Big Data

SQL is a very popular language. With new tools, you often need to learn their API however, the new “language”. There is no such need with a big data leader: Apache Spark. You may write effective transformations using SQL here!

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Databricks: How to upload data?

Databricks is a unified data analytics platform for massive-scale data engineering and collaborative data science. It is a powerful tool to serve so many purposes. How difficult it is to use? Fairly easy! How to upload data into it?

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CQRS – Another “buzzword” or game changer?

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Process as Code – next big thing in digital transformation

Growing organisations struggle to keep everyone aligned with policies and processes, ensuring smooth information flow and efficiency. Learn how to streamline processes, eliminate “ghost-roles”, evolve processes in a predictable maneer.

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Is your cloud protected against malicious file uploads?​

Protecting against malicious file uploads is a must these days as most applications store and process data files in one way or another. Building a self-driven, automated and accurate pipeline for eliminating those threats is not a simple task

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DevOps Transformation at DevOpsDays Warsaw

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AWS Summit London: Key takeaways for Cloud Transformation

Last Wednesday we took part in AWS Summit conference in London which brought together over 6,000 tech professionals to learn about AWS toolkit. Here’s what every business should takeaway from it.

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What is Content Security Policy & how to implement it?

Is my website secure? You bet it is! I’m using HTTPS… Hang on, there’s more?

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React/Redux todo app written in Ruby

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When should you modernise front-end?

The web world is moving fast and solutions that have been built a few years ago are quickly becoming outdated. Does it mean your company should throw away all of the work and investment made into those products and rebuild them from scratch?

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Code&Pizza #3 Meetup

Every month we try to spend some time after work on talking, integrating and sharing our knowledge and experiences in coding (and more as you will read later).

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Choosing the right front-end for the project

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Time tracking exercise and what problems it solved

Time tracking exercise and what problems it solved

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40 tools we use for efficient web development

We get asked regularly what services we prefer to use for certain tasks or problems, so we’ve created this list of products that helps us at Exlabs deliver better products.

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Software: buy or build? Do both.

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Best practices on keeping codebase clean

Few ways of ensuring you develop great, clean code with minimum effort.

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