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Here at 729 Solutions we want to promote tools and products that we actually like and use, New Relic is one of a kind software engineering tool that we use on a regular basis, so we thought we would showcase their great products. Here are three of New … Read more New Relic Product Overview

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program nurtures visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions with the creation of new technology and breakthroughs in engineering, computer science and biomechanics. You can find all of this years pha… Read more NIAC Showcase

Integrations can help make your GitHub instance more efficient and keep your team even more connected. Here are eight super common integrations GitHub users can use: CloudBees helps build, test and deploy applications to production, utilizing continuou… Read more 8 Super Common GitHub Integrations

Although our team is physically located all across the United States, 729 Solutions loves being based in San Francisco and working with other San Francisco Bay Area companies. I’m a San Francisco Native, and this is my home. I bought a house on the str… Read more Why We Like Working With Other San Francisco Companies

GitHub works because it is based on the idea that sharing ideas and collaboration can make building code better. Open source is truly the way to do this and GitHub continues to expand and make its product better because of the sheer number of developer… Read more GitHub Community Values

Sometimes it’s hard to decide when it’s time to go outside of your company for resources. In this blog post, we break down when you should keep the work in-house versus when it’s time to hire an agency to pick up the slack. Reasons to use in-hous… Read more When To Hire An Agency

Zendesk ticket types and what they mean for you Each ticket that comes into Zendesk is automatically assigned a life cycle of New. You can sort your tickets by their lifecycle designation to help prioritize your agents’ workflows and stay more focused.… Read more Zendesk ticket types and priorities: what you should know

As briefly described in one of our first posts about GitHub, there are many features provided that help make it such a good choice for developers. Here is a quick overview of each feature you can utilize within GitHub. Code Review – Make code rev… Read more GitHub Features

Exactly what is a favicon? You’ve heard of it – you think you know what it is… but… wait.  No. It’s referred to in many terms – an icon, bookmark icon, tab icon, URL icon, shortcut icon, website icon, website symbol, site icon, and mor… Read more What is a Favicon?

This post was updated on 2/25/2020 to reflect changes in the availability of apps in the GitHub Marketplace. GitHub apps are meant to help you streamline your process, to build and improve your workflow and help your team maintain a smooth-running syst… Read more 5 GitHub Apps to Help Improve Your Flow

One of the most useful features about your Zendesk Guide (Help Center/Knowledge Base) is that it can be customized to match your company’s branding. Integrated branding ensures that your customer has a seamless experience, and can easily identify your … Read more Applying Branding to Your Zendesk Guide

The Maker community is a long-standing space where people take DIY to the next level. Makers explore engineering in a non-constrained environment and give others jumping-off points for getting into things like electronics, woodworking, or 3D printing. … Read more 3 Unique Maker Youtube Channels to subscribe to Right Now

Amazon CloudFront is a web-based service that gets the distribution of your static and dynamic web content delivered to your users super fast! CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. If a user… Read more What is Amazon CloudFront?

What was it like running a development shop In San Francisco when 729 first got started 15 years ago? This actually dates back even further than that, I am a big believer in the idea that computer science and software engineering are separate but relat… Read more San Francisco Tech Through the Years

Elastic Beanstalk is built on top of the proven AWS infrastructure. It takes full advantage of Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and other AWS services. You get all of the economy and scalability of AWS in a form that… Read more What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Being part of a company with employees all over the world, we work primarily out of our homes… garages… and coffee shops in the cities we call home.  I’m sure I speak to the majority of the group in saying that I enjoy my pajamas and the dog as my… Read more Pajamas, RAFT, & Brainstorming

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. This means that users can rent virtual computers on which they can run their own computer applications and no matter how your computing requirements cha… Read more What is Amazon EC2?

If you’ve ever spent any time on project management, you’ll know that there are lots of project management methodologies and techniques out there. Waterfall, Kanban, and Agile to name a few. There are many more, and each one has its own advantages and … Read more What is Velocity Based Agile?

Amazon S3 is object storage. its purpose is to retain and recover any amount of data from anywhere. This data includes things like websites, mobile apps, and corporate applications to mention a few. S3 was built to be durable and AWS thoroughly underst… Read more What is Amazon S3?

The Knowledge Capture App is a new app currently in Beta that is available for Guide Professional Plan. You must also have a Help Center. The app works to bring your existing knowledge base into your tickets and puts all the great information within yo… Read more What is the Zendesk Knowledge Capture App?