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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read More than a year has passed since we entered this strange new era. Besides its obvious disadvantages, COVID-19 has also brought the renaissance of everything

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Google Cloud

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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read More than a year has passed since we entered this strange new era. Besides its obvious disadvantages, COVID-19 has also brought the renaissance of everything

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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read We flash some cool “bling” on our website; in addition to our branding, we show off our Official Google Cloud Partner badges. What is a

5 ways startups can benefit from using Google Cloud technology

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read The startup sphere is as rewarding as is it grueling. The highs are mountainous, but the lows can be, well, you get it. That’s why

Application operation on GCP

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read At Aliz, we specialize in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions. Our team participates in the development of a successful document management platform called AODocs, a

COVID-19, Cloud Technology, and Network Analytics

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read Last week, we kicked off a series that aims to expand on the implications of COVID-19 on the future of business and cloud technology. We

COVID-19, cloud technology, and IT security

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read In light of the challenges many businesses are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we set out to gather insights from experts across

4 reasons why you should use a GCP reseller

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read These days, talk about digitalization and ‘the cloud’ is constant and urgent. In our ever-globalizing and ever-innovating world, the opportunities to harness cloud technology and

Analytic functions in Google BigQuery – Part 1: Basics

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read Google BigQuery, Google’s data warehouse solution, has many functions and capabilities. In Part 1 of a series of posts, we look at the definition of

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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read This is the fifth and last article in this series of posts. The first two articles (Article I., Article II.) in the series focused on

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

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read This is the fourth article in a series of posts about Google Cloud Platform security. The first two articles (Article I., Article II.) in the series

Aliz Community

Candidate experience in our tech recruitment

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read Our employees have always been the soul of our successful business. We are grateful and proud to have an amazing team that is able to

The Sunny Days of a Working Mom

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read .This story is about how I’ve discovered a new level of multitasking on a journey that began last autumn as a working mom. Let’s see

Transitioning from software development to data engineering

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Big data is one of the hottest topics in the tech world. If you are a developer looking for a challenging career change, data engineering

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

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read As I write this article (March 2020), there is a huge possible epidemic going on across the globe. When the global spread of a new

Career change: Becoming a developer – Part II.

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read Here’s Part II. of my series about diving into a developer life with an entirely different professional background. You can read the first part here.

Career change: Becoming a developer – Part I.

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read This blog post is part of a series where I, a frontend developer at Aliz, share my thoughts on becoming a developer with an entirely

Meet the CEO – Part II.

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read This article is part of our series about the Aliz community and talent management as seen by our CEO, István. Read the first part here.

Meet the CEO – Part I.

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Background story My family belonged to a tight-knit minority group and I had always wanted to be a valuable member of this supportive community. My

How do we promote employee wellbeing? How do we promote employee wellbeing?

Employee well-being initiatives: Creating an engaged workforce

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read In my previous blog post, I shared how important it is for us to provide a flexible and healthy working environment for our employees. In

Do We Believe In Home Office?

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read The never-ending battle for the title of ‘coolest office’ Companies invest increasing amounts of money in their offices so that they can be more attractive

Coding

Data backwards compatibility: Evolving your database with no downtime

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read Evolving data structures in a continuously operated application with a NoSQL database can be challenging. These are some of the experiences we’ve had so far

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

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read Code review has become a pretty widespread agile technique in software companies, but it’s often misused. Sometimes it becomes a competitive sport between developers. Sometimes

Scientific mindset in software development

Reading Time: 7 Minutes Read The modern scientific method and good software development practices have a lot in common. The same principles that have made science successful in recent centuries

Drive Magic II. – Still working around Google Drive APIs

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read This is the second post of my series about working around Google Drive APIs. If you haven’t read my first article on Google Drive APIs, I

Drive Magic – Working Around Google Drive APIs

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read This is the first post of my series about working around Google Drive APIs. Google Drive. You can’t really exist on the web without ever encountering

Rate Limiting in rxjs

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read I saw a question on StackOverflow recently that got me thinking. How do you rate limit HTTP calls with rxjs? Some APIs have quotas where

A Word on Typescript

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read In my last post, I’ve introduced some frameworks like npm and bower. Now let’s have a word on TypeScript. Too much talk There is a

Yo! Npm, bower pls, thx!

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read Let’s start a web application development in medias res! We will use some fancy technology like NodeJs, ExpressJs, Typescript, and AngularJs. And if all goes

Machine Learning

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part III.

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Here’s Part III. of my series about Machine Learning and personalization – read the first article here, and the second one here. How to personalize

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part II.

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Here’s Part II. of my series about Machine Learning and personalization – read the first article here. Recommendations are not as vanilla as you may

Recommendations: from vanilla to personalization – Part I.

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read In this post, we discuss a prominent topic: How artificial intelligence (AI), and especially personalization can better serve customer experience – either your customers’ experiences

AutoML: An Introduction To Get You Started

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read AutoML is an exciting new trend in the Machine Learning (ML) industry. It revolves around analyzing data automatically and getting meaningful insights with minimum effort.

Computer Science Meets Humanities: Machine Learning Ethics

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read Although I work at a tech company, I have no technological background whatsoever. I graduated in linguistics from the Department of Humanities, meaning I had

How to Maximize the Potential of Machine Learning in Retail

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read For decades retail companies have been exploiting analytics within the different segments of their businesses, including marketing and operations. Such analytics are dusty, however, and

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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read This is our story of developing a personalized ancillary recommendation system based on Google Analytics 360 Suite, Google BigQuery, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The

Natural Language Processing: A Short Introduction To Get You Started

Reading Time: 8 Minutes Read Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that aims to improve communication between humans and computers. People speak in languages defined

Google Machine Learning: Using AI Has Never Been So Easy

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Machine learning (ML) has been around for decades, but at first, it was nearly as unapproachable for businesses as rocket science. Building artificial intelligence (AI)

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

Reading Time: 6 Minutes Read Did you know that 3 out of 4 organizations implementing machine learning increase sales of new products and services by more than 10%? The topic

News

Aliz is Google Cloud Breakthrough Partner of the Year in APAC

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read We have some exciting news… 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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read If your industry is especially affected by the current situation, and you’re not sure how to handle the new digital challenges – we’re here for

Aliz is Now a Google Cloud Premier Service Partner

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read Here’s a Short Recap of Our Journey. We first became a Google Partner back in 2010, before Google Cloud Partnership even existed; we were a

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

Reading Time: < 1 Minute Read We’re excited to let you know that the third Aliz office has officially opened, this time in Munich. Since we announced a few months ago

New Name, New Corporate Identity

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read This summer has been quite an eventful one for us. Not ‘eventful’ in the sense of something negative, rather a very exciting and empowering one

Doctusoft Office Opened in Singapore

Reading Time: < 1 Minute Read We are happy to announce that our brand-new Doctusoft office has officially opened in Singapore. For a few months now, the number of projects we

Big Data

Dataflow vs. Spark: 4 Key Differences to Consider

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read Both Google Cloud Dataflow and Apache Spark are big data tools that can handle real-time, large-scale data processing. They have similar directed acyclic graph-based (DAG)

BigQuery: Migrating from on-prem PostgreSQL

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read Moving Data from On-Prem to BigQuery Nowadays, more and more organizations are using Google Cloud BigQuery to solve their needs for a cloud-based enterprise data

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

Reading Time: 8 Minutes Read The Millennial generation is transitioning humanity to a new era, one that will be completely fueled by technology and massively different from what we got

Reinvent Your Business with IoT – A Complete Guide

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read The Internet of Things (IoT) has developed a lot throughout the past couple of years and there is a growing number of ways to use

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

Reading Time: 5 Minutes Read This is the first part of our series of posts about how the IoT can help to reinvent your business. In this part of the

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

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read The world of cloud-based Data Warehouses Does your company have a windmill in the parking lot? A nuclear reactor in the basement? A water well

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

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read Many companies don’t know that by purchasing Google Analytics 360 suite, they get a free quota of monthly 500 USD. This quota can be used for

Data Warehouse in BigQuery — Tracking Changes In Dimensions

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read In this series of blog posts, I’ll describe the difficulties we encountered when we created a data warehouse on BigQuery. This first post is about

How to Boost BigQuery Performance

Reading Time: 4 Minutes Read As we prepare for our workshop A Big Data Adventure in Google Cloud Platform at Crunch Data Engineering and Analytics Conference, we have started to

How to Take Control of Your BigQuery Costs

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read As we prepare for our workshop “A Big Data Adventure on the Google Cloud Platform” at Crunch Data Engineering and Analytics Conference, we have started

People Leadership

Three secrets behind an application with five million users

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read What success is like from close up AODocs – a cloud-based enterprise solution for document management – is used by five million users and must

How Our Performance Evaluation Made Us Attractive

Reading Time: 3 Minutes Read Substituting the recruiter I had the chance recently to get insights into recruitment when my HR colleague was on a three-week vacation and I covered

Setting Learning Objectives at Doctusoft

Reading Time: < 1 Minute Read When you feel competent at work, it’s like playing a cool game. It’s more motivating than any kind of compensation. Beyond all forms of compensation,

Personal Goals in the Project

Reading Time: 2 Minutes Read Before our last project kick-off meeting, my team took an hour to clarify our personal objectives and align them with the project goals. This turned

The Power of Thank You

Reading Time: < 1 Minute Read Isn’t it great to be appreciated? Especially for the little things you have done? Much of what we do throughout the day is often taken

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