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November 21, 2024
See How Blending AI with Automation Created a Game-Changing Approach to Chatbot Testing
By Jennifer Castro, Principal QA Automation Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners and Juan José Barboza, Staff QA Automation Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. With businesses continuing to seek more efficient ways to meet their customers’ needs, there is no doubt chatbots have gained traction when it comes to delivering customer service. Nonetheless, several challenges come […]
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October 17, 2024
The State of React State Management
By Eric Cassidy, GAP’s Staff Software Engineer Do you remember when Angular and React were new things? The web was slow, and that latency was losing you millions of dollars — said the tech billionaires. Mobile traffic was blasting into relevance. Manager-types shared articles and engineers experimented. It felt like the beginning of the age […]
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May 17, 2024
Exploring AWS Data Services: Achieving Smooth Integration
by Andrés Campos, Senior Data Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. In the realm of data operations, efficiency and agility are essential. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a suite of cloud computing services that seamlessly integrate with each other to streamline data workflows. In this article, we explore a practical data workflow for web applications leveraging […]
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April 12, 2024
Leveraging Off-The-Shelf AI Models Using Hugging Face’s Transformers Library
by Sergio Morales, Principal Data Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. In recent years, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has witnessed a transformative shift with the advent of powerful pre-trained models. These off-the-shelf models have become indispensable tools for developers and data scientists, enabling them to expedite the development of various applications without the need to […]
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March 19, 2024
Security Vulnerabilities in Websites
by Gabriel Guarna, Staff Software Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. Today, it’s imperative we improve the security of all our systems. There are more people with knowledge of hacking techniques, so there is a bigger need to search for vulnerabilities in our systems. The objective of this blog is to explain some of the most […]
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March 12, 2024
A Brief History of Microservices – Part I
by Jeison Sánchez, Senior Software Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of software architecture, microservices have emerged as a transformative paradigm, reshaping how we conceive, build and deploy applications. The history of microservices is a journey marked by a shift from monolithic structures to modular and distributed systems. Understanding this evolution […]
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February 7, 2024
12 Factor App — Codebase. Part II
by Felipe Quevedo, Senior Software Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. CI/CD Pipeline In this post, we are digging a little bit on what CI/CD pipeline is and how we can implement it on our project. We aim to achieve our requirement of guaranteeing all the deployments of the application are coming from the same codebase. […]
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January 26, 2024
Isolate your Test Executions with TestContainers
By Andony Núñez, Staff QA Automation Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners. What is TestContainers? TestContainers is an Open Source framework licensed under MIT License to create throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers or just about anything that can run in a Docker container. https://testcontainers.com/ Languages This framework was initially created for Java, […]
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January 25, 2024
Technology Architecture Assessment
The Architect RoadMap
by Santiago Arango, Software Architect at Growth Acceleration Partners. “An architect in software engineering is like a conductor in an orchestra, harmonizing various components to create a masterpiece of functionality and performance.” —Philippe Kruchten Intro Hello dear reader, thanks for being here and taking some time to read this article. I am sharing from my […]
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November 20, 2023
Event Driven Applications using Azure Event Grid
by Carlos Carrero Saldarriaga, Staff Software Engineer at Growth Acceleration Partners Introduction This blog entry aims to provide a brief introduction to Azure Event Grid, which is one of the integration services Azure offers to build event driven architectures. We will explore what “events” are in event driven architectures, and how we can use Event […]
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