15 Minutes With: Amy Cliett on Lessons Learned from TechGirlz’ Virtual Pivot
Amy Cliett, Director of TechGirlz & WITS, talks with Tracey Welson-Rossman about the lessons learned pivoting these two in-person organizations to virtual.
15 Minutes With: Sowmya Gottipati on AI & AR in the Beauty Industry
Tracey Welson-Rossman sits down with Sowmya Gottipati, VP of Estee Lauder, Global Brand Technology, to talk about the iconic beauty brand’s innovations in AR & AI.
Building and Deploying Lambdas from a Docker Container
In my last post, I looked at how you could package your Lambda as a Docker image. In this post, I show how you can use the base Amazon images to build a “traditional” Lambda and ensure that it has libraries that are appropriate for the Lambda runtime environment.
Designing for Connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things
It’s important to have a deep understanding of connectivity demands before committing budget or resources to hardware design. Here are five basic steps to keep in mind when designing an IIoT project.
How to make a watch face for Garmin watches.
Time is an illusion. (Albert Einstein) Lunchtime – doubly so. (Douglas Adams) There’s a good chance you’re wearing a watch on your wrist right now, and if you’re not wearing a horologically significant or sentimental time piece you’re probably wearing a smart watch, and if you’re wearing a smart watch it should be a Garmin watch (they did NOT pay me to say this) Garmin watches are awesome. They are rugged, they hold the battery charge for days, some models…
Getting Started with Lambda Container Images
Lambda Container Images were announced at re:Invent 2020, providing a new way to build and deploy Lambda functions. They arrived just in time to solve an annoying build problem for me, so got my attention. And there weren’t any tutorials floating around when I first Googled, so I figured it was worth writing one. But first, let’s get one thing out of the way: Lambda Container Images are not a way to run arbitrary Docker images within the Lambda execution…
What Does Digital Transformation Really Mean?
Digital transformation became more important than ever in 2020. Here’s the process the Chariot team follows to ensure successful projects.
Android background processing – a decision guide
If you’ve ever done anything in Android that takes more than 16 milliseconds to process then you’ve probably heard of Android services and background processing in general. Why 16 milliseconds? At Android’s refresh rate of 60 frames per second, the main thread can not be delayed by more than 16 milliseconds to avoid frame skipping and, therefore, UI lagging. The problem is – Google is constantly changing the way background processes are allowed to run. This is mostly done for…
React Native vs Flutter vs Native – an ultimate guide for decision makers
When you’re planning to develop a mobile app the second most important decision you’ll ever make is selecting a technology to use (first being the content of the app) Ideally you’d want a version of your app for both iOS and Android and so there are really only 3 choices you have in 2021: 1. Develop natively for two platforms, using Kotlin/Java for Android and Swift/Objective C for iOS 2. Use Flutter (made by Google) 3. Use React Native (made…
Hunting the Wolf: App UX and Database Review
The Wolf Golf Scorecard app for Android, by Rod Biresch of Chariot Solutions, is a record-keeping application for a classic four-player golf game. Recently, Chariot had the opportunity to redesign and refresh the look-and-feel and usability of the application (first released in 2016) through a complete design deep-dive process.