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As 2024 winds down, we’re excited to share our Top 5 blogs of the year, hand-selected by our team for their relevancy, innovations, and practicality for software developers. These blogs cover a wide range of topics from how to write better code and leveraging AI, to developing custom voice models and improving elder care communication. Each post offers actionable tips, real-world case studies, and expert perspectives that are sure to inspire and empower developers, engineers, and tech enthusiasts alike.  At the top of our list is Hana Klingova’s practical and…

AI Developer Tools With the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) over the past few years, we’ve seen a surge in AI-powered developer tools. Since code is essentially text, it’s an ideal use case for LLMs. While there are many tools available to assist with software development, let’s focus on the most impactful ones: code completion and code manipulation tools. The most well-known tool in this space is GitHub Copilot, which gained immense popularity as one of the first to hit the market. However, there are now several new…

You’ve probably heard about clean code – whether you’re an experienced developer or a total newbie. But what the heck is clean code, and why should you even care?

When a user has a problem or an issue, it might seem logical to stop the conversation and immediately jump in with a solution. However, this can prevent us from truly understanding the customer’s needs and getting a broader view of the issue at hand. Active listening is an important component of any job - including in the software industry. We sat down recently with Dr. Erica Noll Webb, the senior research manager at Docker, to discuss the importance of customer-centric innovation and other timely topics related to her work.…

We recently hosted a Peer 2 Peer Tech Leader roundtable discussion in the Rocky Mountains. The group is composed of engineering leaders from a wide variety of software tech companies ranging from smaller 4-6 person engineering teams at startups to engineering leaders at FANG companies, and organizations in the government sector responsible for over 400 engineers. The primary goal for the roundtables is to provide a forum to network with peers, to share experiences, and to learn from each other. For each meeting a discussion topic is agreed upon -…

If you’ve visited our website, profiq.com, you’ve likely noticed a heading on our Your Team page that claims “Technology and a love of learning are in our DNA”. If you’ve wondered what that means in real life, this article is for you. It’s in our nature as a global software service provider to explore and quickly become proficient in new and emerging technologies, as well as consider potential applications, and even future improvements. With new technologies being created and improved rapidly, we always have to think ahead. This lets us…

What happens when you get 12 Colorado technology leaders at fast growing small to mid-sized software companies together on a Zoom Tech Leadership RoundTable to discuss,  ‘Are margaritas the key to developer velocity - if not, what is?’ That’s exactly what we did a few weeks ago, with the intent to bring tech leaders together to discuss their challenges and successful approaches to increasing velocity.  The structure we used was a Lean Coffee approach. We set up a Github repository of discussion topics in advance for input from the group.…

For nearly two decades, volunteer distributed computing projects have helped advance scientific research and understanding of infections and hereditary diseases. Scientists need to understand how diseases work to formulate therapies to fight them. One key way to arrive at this understanding is to create models and run multitudes of molecular dynamics simulations.  These simulations are huge and resource-intensive. Even with the help of big cloud providers and onsite clusters, scientists still need computation resources to power these simulations. Using client-server systems like BOINC, volunteers run simulations called work units using…

Whether you are watching Coachella live on YouTube, connecting with your followers via Instagram stories, or gaming with more than 10 million other daily active users on Twitch, there's no denying that live streaming video has become an indispensable part of our lives. All you really need is a reliable internet connection and a device such as a smartphone or a computer to receive content. At profiq, we’ve been intrigued by the possibilities of live streaming and have been actively pursuing it since 2015. You can read about our ventures…

Here at profiq we are interested in all of the latest technologies. One of the hottest trends, IoT, and home automation or SmartHomes in particular, are on our radar. As with any new technology, IoT has some technical challenges including the need for protocol standards across IoT technologies. Big players like Facebook, Amazon, and Google are leading the space with their own APIs and protocols that work within their own set of devices but not uniformly with devices or sets of devices from other manufacturers. Given these differences in technologies,…