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Streamlining Developer On-boarding with Containerization

by Lance Parlier | May 03, 2022 | Exelaration

Anyone who has worked in technology for even a short period of time has heard these words: “but it worked on my machine.” One of the more painful experiences for an...

The Pros and Cons of Hiring Remote Developers

by Will Drougas | Jan 24, 2022 | Digital Service Delivery

Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the tech industry (among many others) has had to grapple with the changing landscape of remote work. With a new variant making its unwanted...

Cybersecurity Myths You Should Stop Believing

by Alan Baines | Nov 08, 2021 | Exelaration

You hear about it in the news all the time: “This company just got hacked and had a major security breach!” Some think if companies made their security practices more difficult,...

Top Work from Home Apps for Staying Productive

by Nancy Moreno | Oct 20, 2021 | Exelaration

Remember when working from home was the sparkly unicorn of workplace perks, reserved for the favored few? The pandemic levelled the playing field as most of us headed home, laptop in...

Why Your Developers Are Leaving

by Steve Cooper | Sep 09, 2021 | Exelaration

“Big Chief’s gotta move on.” This is a family saying in our house, and we don’t really know why. When it’s time to leave or switch activities, we use this phrase...

Student Voices: Your Website’s Front End, Explained

by Matthew Enzinna | Aug 18, 2021 | Exelaration

There is a lot that goes into the development of a website, far more than can be expressed in this single blog post. But for those interested in understanding the process,...

Why Forward-Thinking Startups Are Outsourcing Their Tech Projects

by Steve Cooper | Jun 17, 2021 | Digital Service Delivery

Exelaration partners with lots of companies, but recently we have noticed an undeniable shift in our client base. A new type of client has emerged – the startup – and it’s...

The ELITE Grant’s Impact on Region 2 Employers

by Steve Cooper | Jun 10, 2021 | Exelaration

The Experiential Learning in Tech Employment (ELITE) Grant has launched as Virginia’s first ever work-based learning grant for mentored software developers. These two inaugural projects engage student engineers from Virginia Tech...

Does Your Team Have a Ban on Learning?

by Steve Cooper | Feb 17, 2021 | Exelaration

The quote landed with a thud. “On our project, we don’t want anyone learning on the job.” Someone said this to me in a meeting, and I couldn’t get it out...

Three Ways Digitization Can Help Your Business

by Andrew Lindberg | Feb 04, 2021 | Digital Service Delivery

Chances are you’ve heard about “digitization” for your business, but what does this actually mean? Digitization is simply the transformation of analog data to a digital format. From a business perspective,...

Code is NOT the Most Important Output of Your Software Development Team… Here’s Why

by Steve Cooper | Oct 26, 2020 | Exelaration

The job title “software developer” could not be more straightforward. The output is software, or code, and, if this is your job title, you probably have the impression that you’re measured...

Pros and Cons of a Custom Content Management System

by Andrew Lindberg | Oct 07, 2020 | Exelaration

A Content Management System (CMS) is an application (typically a web-browser based application) for the purpose of developing, curating, and organizing content for a website. WordPress is perhaps the most well-known,...