Process automation is a worthy goal for any organization. Automation unleashes human innovation, increases process effectiveness, and empowers your operations to adjust to change. But taking a pell-mell approach to automation will put these benefits at risk—you might actually create new inefficiencies you’ll have to rectify later. So before you get started with process automation, keep these five key things in mind.
Learn how to deploy a React application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with the Elastic Beanstalk CLI and GitHub Actions.
We all remember Snake, right? That game you played on your flip-phone to while away those hours on the train or tube, attempting to stop a digital serpent from eating its own tail. Well Snake is actually part of digital history. It was the first mobile app ever released way back in 1997, the founding fathers of today’s web3 marvels with their AI, VR and machine learning.
Want to add some cutting-edge AI magic to your code? That's right, we're talking about integrating ChatGPT - the powerhouse of large language models - into your Python scripts. With ChatGPT, your code will be able to understand natural language and generate human-like responses, revolutionizing the way users interact with your applications.
With skyrocketing inflation and growing severity of weather-related losses, 2022 was a tough year for insurers. We were spot-on with our 2022 predictions—such as the need to improve the customer experience, increased adoption of connected underwriting, and the growing importance of ESG. While many of last year’s trends will continue into 2023, we have identified several emerging trends for this year.
Do you find yourself frustrated with loops that never seem to end? Do you find yourself wishing you could skip certain iterations or exit a loop prematurely? Python's break and continue statements are here to save you! One of the key features of Python is its ability to control the flow of code using control flow statements. Two of the most commonly used control flow statements in Python are break and continue.
Abstraction is one of the key concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. Its main goal is to handle complexity by hiding unnecessary details from the user. That enables the user to implement more complex logic on top of the provided abstraction without understanding or even thinking about all the hidden complexity. That’s a very generic concept that’s not limited to object-oriented programming. You can find it everywhere in the real world.
If you’ve ever worked with a database, you’ve likely worked with CRUD operations. CRUD operations are often used with SQL, a topic we’ve covered in depth (see this article, this one, and this one for some of our recent SQL tips and tricks). Since SQL is pretty prominent in the development community, it’s crucial for developers to understand how CRUD operations work. So, this article is meant to bring you up to speed (if you’re not already) on CRUD operations.
If you ever had to analyze an issue in production, I’m sure you know how important it is to have good logging. Good logging requires three things: While you still need to decide yourself which log messages you should write for each use case, you don’t need to worry about requirement 2 and 3. Various logging frameworks already solved these technical requirements. You only need to choose one of them and use it to write your log messages.
