Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Why Student Engineers Should Buy Into the Hype Around Serverless

We recently had the opportunity to speak to a student audience at Serverless Days and came up with some insights that we felt were worth sharing with a wider audience. Please take a look and let us know your thoughts @trycourier. Serverless architecture is relatively new, yet many startup developers prefer building their foundation on a Serverless framework. But what's with the hype?

Why Top Companies Track Customer Experience Analytics

It’s no secret that customer experience (CX) can significantly influence your brand image, customer loyalty, and bottom line. And with customer experience analytics, you can better understand how to improve the customer experience. You’ll gain insights into the customer’s point of view, experience, and what pain points they face with your offerings. In this article, we’ll discuss the top 3 benefits of customer journey analytics and how to analyze customer experience.

More visibility and better insights with Miro App for Splunk

As Miro is used for more and more use cases across a growing number of teams and organizations, IT and security leads need better visibility into what is happening within Miro. With these users in mind, we are constantly improving the ways we empower teams to monitor user activity, identify suspicious behavior, and make data-driven decisions in real-time. That’s why we’ve chosen to partner with Splunk, the Data-to-Everything platform that helps businesses manage and protect their data.

How to Set Up Multi-Channel Notifications in Your AWS Stack

How to Set Up Multi-Channel Notifications in Your AWS Stack In this article, we’ll walk through an example architecture for building your own notification service with AWS, and show you how to implement it in Node.js. We’ll also discuss a few considerations related to using AWS services for notifications. Let’s dive in!

Manage Dynamic Schemas at Scale with Rudderstack & dbt

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with the team over at Rudderstack. It focused on Data Engineering and managing dynamic schemas at scale. More specifically, Rudderstack-generated, dynamic schemas at scale. This blog will discuss the tools, software, and methods to do just that.

Best Cloud-Based Time Clock Software (In-Depth Look)

As we’ve previously written, old-fashioned employee time tracking methods such as paper timecards or Excel come with several downsides. First, the payroll process is time consuming and error prone, as you have to manually tally hours and overtime. Second, you don’t know if your employees are in fact on the job when they’re punching in, rather than a coworker (and those extra minutes or hours that employees report working can lead to a significant waste of money).

Elevating team collaboration with Miro and Google Workspace

Imagine a typical day at work that starts with checking Google Calendar to prepare for where you need to be and when. With engaging discussions, your teams create Google Docs to take notes on the important decisions coming out of the meetings and begin writing briefs to kick off your company’s next big project. Then you turn to Sheets to track the KPIs and leverage Slides to prepare the final presentation for your executive leadership by 4pm that day.

Automate EKS Node Rotation for AMI Releases

In the daily life of a Site Reliability Engineer, the main goal is to reduce all the work we call toil. But what is toil? Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and scales linearly as a service grows. This blog post describes our journey to automate our nodes rotation process when we have a new AMI release and the open source tools we built on this.

Why an AI chatbot should be the gatekeeper to your customer service

These are painful customer experiences we can all relate to and top indicators of poor customer service according to Zendesk’s 2021 Customer Experience Trends Report. With 75% of people willing to spend more money on a brand that provides a great customer experience, companies now know that customer loyalty depends on delivering exceptional customer service. However, brands often go about trying to improve customer experience in the wrong way, despite their best intentions.