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Aliz is Google Cloud Breakthrough Partner of the Year in APAC

News Zsofia Lelner - April 6, 2020

We’ve been really excited to tell the world (and it was so hard to keep this a secret) –...

COVID-19 and the airline industry: tackling turbulence with technology

News Faye Gillespie - April 1, 2020

If your industry is especially affected by the current situation, and you're not sure how to handle the new...

Aliz is Now a Google Cloud Premier Service Partner

News Vivien Sujbert - March 13, 2019

Here's a Short Recap of Our Journey. We first became a Google Partner back in 2010, before Google Cloud Partnership...

The third Aliz office has officially opened, this time in Munich

News Vivien Sujbert - February 22, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that the third Aliz office has officially opened, this time in Munich. Since we...

New Name, New Corporate Identity

News Vivien Sujbert - September 2, 2018

This summer has been quite an eventful one for us. Not ‘eventful’ in the sense of something negative, rather...

Doctusoft Office Opened in Singapore

News Vivien Sujbert - July 13, 2018

We are happy to announce that our brand-new Doctusoft office has officially opened in Singapore. For a few months now,...

Big Data

Dataflow vs. Spark: 4 Key Differences to Consider

Big Data Nóra Ambróz - January 22, 2020

Both Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark are big data tools that can handle real-time, large-scale data processing. They...

BigQuery: Migrating from on-prem PostgreSQL

Big Data Sándor Murányi - April 25, 2019

Moving Data from On-Prem to BigQuery Nowadays, more and more organizations are using Google Cloud BigQuery to solve their needs...

The transition generation: Why Millennials need your data to make decisions

Big Data Balazs Molnar - April 4, 2019

The Millennial generation is transitioning humanity to a new era, one that will be completely fueled by technology and...

Reinvent Your Business with IoT – A Complete Guide

Big Data Istvan Boscha - January 10, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) has developed a lot throughout the past couple of years and there...

How Actionable Insights from IoT Data Analytics Can Give You Positive Business Benefits

Big Data Istvan Boscha - January 2, 2019

This is the first part of our series of posts about how the IoT can help to...

5 Good Reasons to Move to a Cloud-based Data Warehouse

Big Data Vivien Sujbert - November 5, 2018

The world of cloud-based Data Warehouses Does your company have a windmill in the parking lot? A nuclear reactor in...

5 Things You Can Do with Your BigQuery Quota in Google Analytics 360

Big Data Tamás Szatmári - December 5, 2017

Many companies don't know that by purchasing Google Analytics 360 suite, they get a free quota of monthly 500 USD....

Data Warehouse in BigQuery — Tracking Changes In Dimensions

Big Data Péter Farkas - March 8, 2017

In this series of blog posts, I’ll describe the difficulties we encountered when we created a data warehouse on...

How to Boost BigQuery Performance

Big Data Csaba Kassai - November 17, 2016

As we prepare for our workshop A Big Data Adventure in Google Cloud Platform at Crunch Data Engineering and...

How to Take Control of Your BigQuery Costs

Big Data Csaba Kassai - November 13, 2016

As we prepare for our workshop “A Big Data Adventure on the Google Cloud Platform” at Crunch Data Engineering...

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part III.

Machine Learning Pierre Lupi Chen - July 3, 2020

Here’s Part III. of my series about Machine Learning and personalization – read the first article here,...

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part II.

Machine Learning Pierre Lupi Chen - June 26, 2020

Here's Part II. of my series about Machine Learning and personalization – read the first article here. Recommendations...

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part I.

Machine Learning Pierre Lupi Chen - June 17, 2020

In this post, we discuss a prominent topic: How artificial intelligence (AI), and especially personalization can better serve customer...

AutoML: An Introduction To Get You Started

Machine Learning Edgár Prunk-Éger - January 29, 2020

AutoML is an exciting new trend in the Machine Learning (ML) industry. It revolves around analyzing data automatically and...

Computer Science Meets Humanities: Machine Learning Ethics

Machine Learning Zsofia Lelner - January 7, 2020

Although I work at a tech company, I have no technological background whatsoever. I graduated in linguistics from the...

How to Maximize the Potential of Machine Learning in Retail

Machine Learning Pierre Lupi Chen - December 10, 2019

For decades retail companies have been exploiting analytics within the different segments of their businesses, including marketing and operations. ...

Developing an Ancillary Recommendation Engine for Leading Low-cost Carrier in CEE

Machine Learning Vivien Sujbert - June 11, 2019

This is our story of developing a personalized ancillary recommendation system based on Google Analytics 360 Suite, Google BigQuery,...

Natural Language Processing: A Short Introduction To Get You Started

Machine Learning Nóra Ambróz - May 14, 2019

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to improve communication between humans and...

Google Machine Learning: Using AI Has Never Been So Easy

Machine Learning Nóra Ambróz - February 14, 2019

Machine learning (ML) has been around for decades, but at first, it was nearly as unapproachable for...

Machine Learning in Digital Marketing: Apply ML for Marketing like a Pro!

Machine Learning Vivien Sujbert - January 10, 2019

Did you know that 3 out of 4 organizations implementing machine learning increase sales of new products...

Retail x Digitalization: How to Use Technology to Overcome Today’s Challenges

Google Cloud Zsofia Lelner - February 19, 2021

More than a year has passed since we entered this strange new era. Besides its obvious disadvantages, COVID-19 has...

Being an Official Google Cloud Partner: What comes with the Badges?

Google Cloud Faye Gillespie - November 3, 2020

We flash some cool “bling” on our website; in addition to our branding, we show off our Official Google...

5 ways startups can benefit from using Google Cloud technology

Google Cloud Faye Gillespie - September 8, 2020

The startup sphere is as rewarding as is it grueling. The highs are mountainous, but the lows can be,...

Application operation on GCP

Google Cloud Gábor Farkas - July 13, 2020

At Aliz, we specialize in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions. Our team participates in the development of a successful...

COVID-19, Cloud Technology, and Network Analytics

Google Cloud Faye Gillespie - June 4, 2020

Last week, we kicked off a series that aims to expand on the implications of COVID-19 on the future...

COVID-19, cloud technology, and IT security

Google Cloud Faye Gillespie - May 20, 2020

In light of the challenges many businesses are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we set out...

4 reasons why you should use a GCP reseller

Google Cloud Faye Gillespie - February 19, 2020

These days, talk about digitalization and ‘the cloud’ is constant and urgent. In our ever-globalizing and ever-innovating world, the...

Analytic functions in Google BigQuery – Part 1: Basics

Google Cloud Péter Farkas - January 16, 2019

Google BigQuery, Google’s data warehouse solution, has many functions and capabilities. In Part 1 of a series...

How to Make Your Google Cloud Platform project more secure: GCE OS Security

Google Cloud Csaba Kassai - June 21, 2018

This is the fifth and last article in this series of posts. The first two articles (Article I., Article...

How to Make Your Google Cloud Platform Project More Secure: GCE Network Security

Google Cloud Csaba Kassai - May 31, 2018

This is the fourth article in a series of posts about Google Cloud Platform security. The first two articles (Article...

Data backwards compatibility: Evolving your database with no downtime

Coding Gábor Farkas - February 8, 2021

Evolving data structures in a continuously operated application with a NoSQL database can be challenging. These are some of...

Code review culture at Aliz: why and how we review code

Coding Ármin Scipiades - September 8, 2020

Code review has become a pretty widespread agile technique in software companies, but it’s often misused. Sometimes it becomes...

Scientific mindset in software development

Coding Gábor Farkas - August 8, 2019

The modern scientific method and good software development practices have a lot in common. The same principles that have...

Drive Magic II. – Still working around Google Drive APIs

Coding Balázs Németh - February 6, 2018

This is the second post of my series about working around Google Drive APIs. If you haven’t read my first...

Drive Magic – Working Around Google Drive APIs

Coding Balázs Németh - January 30, 2018

This is the first post of my series about working around Google Drive APIs. Google Drive. You can’t really exist on...

Rate Limiting in rxjs

Coding Gergely Sipos - October 17, 2017

I saw a question on StackOverflow recently that got me thinking. How do you rate limit HTTP calls with...

A Word on Typescript

Coding Gergely Sipos - December 8, 2015

In my last post, I’ve introduced some frameworks like npm and bower. Now let’s have a word on TypeScript. Too...

Yo! Npm, bower pls, thx!

Coding Gergely Sipos - September 15, 2015

Let’s start a web application development in medias res! We will use some fancy technology like NodeJs, ExpressJs, Typescript,...

Three secrets behind an application with five million users

People Leadership Gergely Orbán - December 17, 2019

What success is like from close up AODocs – a cloud-based enterprise solution for document management – is used by...

How Our Performance Evaluation Made Us Attractive

People Leadership Gergely Orbán - January 21, 2019

Substituting the recruiter I had the chance recently to get insights into recruitment when my HR colleague was on a...

Setting Learning Objectives at Doctusoft

People Leadership Gergely Orbán - October 5, 2015

When you feel competent at work, it’s like playing a cool game. It’s more motivating than any kind of...

Personal Goals in the Project

People Leadership Gergely Orbán - June 30, 2015

Before our last project kick-off meeting, my team took an hour to clarify our personal objectives and align them...

The Power of Thank You

People Leadership Gergely Orbán - April 15, 2015

Isn’t it great to be appreciated? Especially for the little things you have done? Much of what we do...

Candidate experience in our tech recruitment

Aliz Community Vivien Szalai - February 11, 2021

Our employees have always been the soul of our successful business. We are grateful and proud to have an...

The Sunny Days of a Working Mom

Aliz Community Csilla Hegedüs - June 8, 2020

.This story is about how I’ve discovered a new level of multitasking on a journey that began last autumn...

Transitioning from software development to data engineering

Aliz Community Vivien Szalai - April 6, 2020

Big data is one of the hottest topics in the tech world. If you are a developer looking for...

How to make remote work work: What our 10 years of experience have taught us

Aliz Community Zsofia Lelner - March 17, 2020

As I write this article (March 2020), there is a huge possible epidemic going on across the globe. When...

Career change: Becoming a developer – Part II.

Aliz Community Tünde Csapó - February 19, 2020

Here's Part II. of my series about diving into a developer life with an entirely different professional background. You...

Career change: Becoming a developer – Part I.

Aliz Community Tünde Csapó - February 7, 2020

This blog post is part of a series where I, a frontend developer at Aliz, share my thoughts on...

Meet the CEO – Part II.

Aliz Community Zsofia Lelner - November 29, 2019

This article is part of our series about the Aliz community and talent management as seen by our CEO,...

Meet the CEO – Part I.

Aliz Community Vivien Szalai - September 19, 2019

Background story My family belonged to a tight-knit minority group and I had always wanted to be a valuable member...

Employee well-being initiatives: Creating an engaged workforce

Aliz Community Vivien Szalai - May 8, 2019

In my previous blog post, I shared how important it is for us to provide a flexible and healthy...

Do We Believe In Home Office?

Aliz Community Vivien Sujbert - March 19, 2019

The never-ending battle for the title of ‘coolest office’ Companies invest increasing amounts of money in their offices so that...

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