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How can Spiceworks Ziff Davis help you during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The COVID-19 crisis is everywhere and affecting everyone, especially IT professionals. During this time of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, like many other enterprises around the world, Spiceworks Ziff Davis has also made work-from-home (WFH) mandatory for all employees globally. While this ensures the protection of our employees, it has caused great disruption because not every team was set up for immediate and effective remote work.

How to Create a Virtual Team: Our Remote Workforce Checklist

Many business leaders are allowing workers to telecommute, to attract more Millennials and remain competitive in the labor market. And now, with coronavirus (COVID-19), becoming a remote organization is more than just a bottom-line decision. It can affect the health and welfare of a company’s employees. To address this new threat, organizations are now setting up remote workplaces, in days, if not hours.

Our Checklist on How To Quickly Become A Remote Company

Many business leaders are allowing workers to telecommute, to attract more Millennials and remain competitive in the labor market. And now, with coronavirus (COVID-19), becoming a remote organization is more than just a bottom-line decision. It can affect the health and welfare of a company’s employees. To address this new threat, organizations are now setting up remote workplaces, in days, if not hours.

Free Software for Supporting Remote Workers During COVID-19

By now you’ve likely been flooded with dozens of client requests to set their employees up to work remotely. While it sounds like a simple request, it’s often easier said than done as many clients are missing the resources they need to effectively work from home. During COVID-19, if you’re searching for ways to quickly enable your clients to work and collaborate remotely while keeping their networks stable and secure, you’ve found it.

Why we moved from Slack to Discord?

Today, at Qovery we have moved from Slack to Discord. We are a software company that is solving developer problems - application deployment. Solving developer problems required to have a close contact with the developers community. For team communication, we used a dedicated Slack workspace, for community communication - another one. Discord has been a real lifesaver for us. Let's start to tell you why..

How living in a bubble helped us ship on time

Late last year, the Confluence team introduced the 7.0 platform release for Server and Data Center customers. It was our first platform release since 2016, and it focused on delivering improvements to administration, team productivity and enterprise needs. After a months-long development cycle, we shipped within a week of our goal – not too shabby, if I do say so myself!

Using Logz.io Features to Collaborate While You Work from Home

In this challenging global environment, we realize many of our customers will work from home for the next several weeks. Thankfully, Logz.io is designed to support distributed teams and work environments, and we wanted to highlight some of the ways you can use the platform both for remote monitoring and to collaborate better with your teams over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maintaining consistency in codebases with Go Vet

Maintaining success in a large open source project is one of the key objectives of Mattermost. We have hundreds of contributors and we want to create a project that could serve as a model in the Go community. Having said that, following idiomatic Go principles is the thing that we care most about while maintaining our code consistency. For this specific task, we utilized go vet and with this blog post, I would like to explain how we pushed the limits of this tool by extending it.

Mattermost 5.21: ChatOps integration with AWS, GitLab, and CodeShip, and more

Mattermost 5.21 includes improvements that will help your team work together more effectively. Some of these improvements, including the following ChatOps integration and plugins, were built during our successful open source chatbot hackfest that brought together 2,000 contributors from around the world.