Keep Your Project Running With Software Project Rescue (Project Rx)
You’ve just purchased your dream car, a vintage 1979 Porsche 911, cherry red with the whale-tail. You know there’ll be some unexpected maintenance costs but figure you can worry about that down the road. You cruise along in your Porsche as it purrs like a kitten—until it doesn’t. It starts with a strange noise in […]
Separation Anxiety: Moving Your Project
It’s true: Software projects often fizzle out or just plain fail. In fact, research has shown 55% of IT professionals claimed a failed project in the past year—usually due to a lack of engagement, poor planning, budget issues, scope creep, and developer or agency abandonment. With every doomed project, however, there comes a time when […]
Staying in the Driver’s Seat When Moving to the Cloud
The cloud is virtually unavoidable today. For any software-based business, from large corporations to startups, the benefits of deploying your software to the cloud are hard to ignore. Choosing which platform to use can be an anxiety-inducing task that many teams ponder for days, weeks, or even months. A major source of this anxiety is […]
Drowning in Data
It’s no secret companies are tracking virtually every interaction with customers, partners, suppliers and employees, but did you know the average enterprise uses more than 450 different software applications to do it? Businesses are producing enormous amounts of data, but if they’re not putting it to work for them, it’s nothing more than a bunch […]
When and Why AWS Billing Alerts Matter
Regardless of how you’re using Amazon Web Services (AWS), an important first step – after enabling multi-factor authentication – is setting up budget and billing alerts. Last month I shared the costly consequences of not taking these steps. This month, I’ll share another expensive lesson learned that underscores the importance of AWS billing alerts, along […]
Breaking Down Communication Barriers With Observability
Language can be a barrier to good communication. So can opposing interests. But as the saying goes, “Numbers don’t lie.” You can’t dispute what hard data tells you, whether you like it or not. In our business at 27Global, we rely on data every day to break down communication barriers between our geographically distributed development teams, […]
AWS Billing Alerts: 5 Steps to Saving Money in Cloud Services
A couple of years ago I was developing a new high availability (HA) system for a past employer. The project used a Mongo database to capture a gargantuan amount of financial data from live streams. By luck, Amazon had just released DocumentDB, which is essentially a clone of the Mongo 3.x API—a perfect fit for […]
Tech Internships: 5 Keys to Success at 27Global
Tech internships are competitive. As 27Global Consulting Intern Mitchell Stone wraps up his summer internship in our Denver office, we asked him to reflect on what he’s learned so far. Landing an internship at a custom software development company where you get to roll up your sleeves and get involved in the day-to-day activities is […]
DevOps: The Engine That Drives Product Development
Companies need a reliable engine to make their information technology run. DevOps is the engine that can transform your company from a family sedan into a powerful sports car. In my last blog on DevOps, we defined DevOps as a set of practices that automates processes and encourages coordination across all teams within a business, […]
DevOps: Software Development’s Quantum Leap
Let’s face it, running a successful company is as much art as it is science. Getting a group of people to efficiently work together can be a daunting and sometimes difficult task. The most successful companies, though, manage to create a culture that values efficiency and ownership, where people thrive, collaboration happens and customers are […]
