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Wojciech Gąciarz

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17 min
Next to salaries, the onboarding process is one of the critical factors that decide if a new employee stays in an IT company for longer. Let’s take a quick look at how we approach this unique and paramount period in Synergy Codes and what you can expect.    Why is the onboarding process so…
How custom diagram visualizations support the data lineage in data warehouses

How custom diagram visualizations support the data lineage in data warehouses

For many companies that deal with multiple data sources, it’s essential to grasp how to provide transparency while greatly simplifying and eliminating errors rooted in the origin of the data. Our previous article introduced the data lineage in basics. As you know, data lineage delivers significant Business Value. Now it’s time to provide examples of custom diagrams and visualizations that support the data analysis and working with data warehouses.  Let’s check out some projects and expertise in building the functionalities based on custom diagram visualization methods that greatly help business users investigate big data and its analysis, especially needed in data lineage.

Paulina Kondratowicz

| 16 min

Artificial Intelligence — what is it?

Artificial Intelligence — what is it?

Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword that’s attacking us from everywhere. We have, e.g., AI-powered cameras and smartphones. When we just change the wording a bit, we can find smart homes, smart cars, smart lightbulbs. But in general, what is it? How does it work? And what’s more important — should we be afraid of it?  Sci-Fi becomes reality  There are numerous myths and misunderstandings when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. That’s generally because our world becomes more and more like what we know from science fiction. Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate, what’s science now, and what’s still fiction.  An excellent example regarding it…

Tomasz Świstak

| 20 min

Effective recruitment process through the eyes of Synergy Codes

Effective recruitment process through the eyes of Synergy Codes

Here’s a story of people who are recruiting and have been recruited to Synergy Codes. These are the learnings about the philosophy of the unique hiring process. People are the key to synergy Synergy is an interaction or cooperation giving rise to a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts. However, there is no synergy without relevant separate individual parts. In the case of an IT company, such fitting parts are passionate people who are happy to create, cooperate, and have fun from what they do. That’s why the recruitment process in Synergy Codes is different. It is not only about…

Wojciech Gąciarz

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Post-mortem meetings – why should you conduct them?

Post-mortem meetings – why should you conduct them?

Planning is the key point when starting a new project. It is required to plan the work of the devs team, find potential threats, and ask as many questions as possible to make the team’s work easier. However, even the best-planned projects are not free of mistakes. Everybody knows it and accepts it as something normal in the IT world.  But what about a situation where the team keeps making the same mistakes on subsequent projects? Or do different teams in the company repeats all errors that happened to their colleagues? Despite many completed projects, there are no lessons learned, leading to the perpetuation of bad habits and practices.  Do you…

Synergy Codes

| 12 min