Category: Developers
by Michelle Young | May 16, 2018 | Developers
This article is originally published at Toptal.I had a programming interview recently, a phone-screen in which we used a collaborative text editor. I was asked to implement a certain API, and chose to do so in Python. Abstracting away the problem statement, let’s say... 
by Michelle Young | May 9, 2018 | Developers
This post was written by Amin Shah Gilani, DevOps Developer for the WhatMatrix community.I love building things—what developer doesn’t? I love thinking up solutions to interesting problems, writing implementations, and creating beautiful code. However, what I don’t... 
by Michelle Young | May 2, 2018 | Developers
This post was written for the WhatMatrix community by Jonathan Bethune, Python Developer for Toptal.Those of us who are old enough can remember a day when software was delivered primarily by physical media. The spread of broadband internet and smartphones has led us... 
by Michelle Young | Apr 25, 2018 | Developers
This post was written for the WhatMatrix community by Phillip Brennan, Software Developer for Toptal. Regardless of the apparent evidence to the contrary, programmers are humans. And, as all humans, we like taking advantage over our freedom of choice. Whether that... 
by Michelle Young | Apr 20, 2018 | Developers
This post was written for the WhatMatrix community by Marko Misura, JavaScript Developer for Toptal. As a good JavaScript developer, you strive to write clean, healthy, and maintainable code. You solve interesting challenges that, while unique, don’t necessarily... 
by ip | May 4, 2017 | Data, Developers
BY KEN HU – DATA SCIENTIST @ TOPTALData EngineeringWith the rise of big data and data science, many engineering roles are being challenged and expanded. One new-age role is data engineering. Originally, the purpose of data engineering was the loading of external...
