An interesting look at how tech companies give their teams flexibility to innovate and perform better. In summary, you need to find the dependencies between your team and why they exist, and then rather than forcing a “right way of doing things,” give people building blocks.

you expect the answer to be around nurturing coding talent, but actually it’s about building soft skills (written/oral communication, team building, leadership, etc) to take advantage of AI advances. And the trick is to build everyone up to have a base level of ‘digital fluency’ skills, as it’s more complex learning multiple skills at the same time.

RPA is Robotic Process Automation, which is governed by software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence to gather and interpret applications and systems data. It can give you quick wins for process automation, but to be done at scale, like any transformation program it needs to be embedded with IT and the rest of the organisation so expectations and impact can be managed.

A comprehensive list of all of the Google Cloud products and online resources with concise and succinct descriptions.

NorthStack is a managed application hosting built on a modern serverless AWS stack. Deploy vanilla or headless WordPress, Node, (Laravel coming soon), or static sites with ease. Pay-as-you-go billing independently meters CPU, DB, Data Transfer, and Disk while the platform elastically autoscales in a serverless environment.

A workflow automation tool in GitHub. With an interface that will be familiar to anyone who has used IFTTT, Actions will help engineers run their workflows directly from GitHub. Summary - No more messing around with 10 different services just to get your code into production. Engineers will be able to automate time-consuming, low-level workflows and, as GitHub puts it, “Focus on what matters: code.” Just like repos, Actions will be shareable and discoverable.

Apisentris is a platform that turns database schema into RESTful API. Apisentris is built with developer-in-mind. It makes you develop APIs effectively and easily although you don't understand programming language.

ApexCharts is an open-source modern charting library that helps developers to create interactive visualizations for web pages with simple API.

In summary, it’s about using IoT sensors to provide data to help with planning to ease congestion and emissions, provide better transport options and improve health and safety.

Insights on developing a connected data platform to help drive effectiveness, including an easy to understand digital maturity framework. And an overview of multi-touch attribution, which will help better understand the relative contribution of each online channel to a given conversion.

In short, it’s about building process bridges between various software platforms in charge of different services so that voice can give meaningful customer experiences, rather than simply being a gimmick. For example, if you could edit your Dominos order using Alexa instead of simply ordering.

Aside from our quick lunchtime gaming sessions, we don’t particularly have time for games anymore. Nevertheless, this is an interesting peek behind the curtain of the most successful games developer, and how story telling is becoming more central to creating immersive experiences.

An edit of the most unusual, ambitious, and exciting new crowdfunding projects out there.

Sometimes it’s sensible to put down the gadgets and pick up a good old-fashioned book — to read about the latest gadgets, of course. But with so many tech-themed books around, which should you check out first?