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What Level of Zendesk Support Do you need? When it comes to deciding what level of Zendesk to start with it really comes down to the needs of your company and the needs of your customer service team, who will be your front line Zendesk users. If your b… Continue reading What Level of Zendesk Support Do you need?

Chef 14: Coming April 2018 According to Chef.io, the release of Chef Client 14 and ChefDK 3 is happening in early April, 2018. Chef claims this version will be fast and user friendly.  With promises of removing old code, increasing security, and p… Continue reading Upcoming Chef 14 Release

Agents Agents are your support staff, they will use your Zendesk instance the most and are usually the front line for your Zendesk team. The extent of their ability is set by admins defining permissions and privileges. Zendesk agents are at the center … Continue reading Understanding Agents and Admins in Zendesk

Question: What makes your clients flock to your product? Answer: Providing stellar out-of-this-world customer service!   How do you find the right customer service tool for your company? Finding useful and insightful customer service software is a… Continue reading Why Zendesk is the Best Customer Service Tool for Your Company

As mentioned in the previous 3D printing/droid post, setting up the printer with basic functionality took about three hours to go from putting it together to running and spitting out a mess of spaghetti. Once it was clear the machine was heating and fu… Continue reading Setting Up A New 3D Printer!

So you have Chef… now what? Read these articles and get started with your automation. Chef 101: The Road to Best Practices Nick Rycar gives us the low down on Chef basics by beginning with a list of commonly used terminology in the world of Chef such a… Continue reading 3 Noteworthy Articles on Learning Chef

Is technology beautiful? Or can art be technological? Maybe the answer to both is yes. Beauty and creativity can be found in unexpected places, oftentimes using or made with technologies both old and new.   80-year old wooden escalators were given… Continue reading When Art and Technology Meet

Do you work in the non-technical part of tech and find yourself needing a Wikipedia page open at all times when talking to your developers or find it hard to keep up when they start talking shop? Five MORE developer acronyms to have in your pocket for … Continue reading Common Developer Acronyms: Part 2

How do you use GitHub? Support for your Development Process: Learn How to Use GitHub GitHub is a web-based Git repository that provides a user friendly interface for you to use it’s many features. From version control and code review to project an… Continue reading Learn How to Use GitHub

In a world where we are constantly looking at and interacting with our devices, quality design is just as important as the technology running behind the scenes. Design has so many different aspects that must be considered for any project: colors, shape… Continue reading Four Innovative Design Blogs to Keep Your Design Team Motivated

Lambda – A 729 Solutions Favorite AWS Lambda is a favorite service of ours here at 729 Solutions. From the approach of paying for only what you use to the ability to run and scale your code – Lambda’s got it all. A Little About Lambda The L… Continue reading AWS Lambda

Every year, both science and technology march forward with new discoveries, breakthroughs, and inspiration. From a historical perspective (given the time that humans have been around), our recent advancements as the human race have absolutely exploded … Continue reading Four Technologies That Are Changing The Medical Field

729 Solutions is now an AWS Partner! As a 15-year-old development shop we have been helping customers host and deploy high-performance websites and applications and have used almost every solution over the years. We are proud to partner with AWS, one o… Continue reading 729 Solutions is Delighted to be an AWS Partner

“Life’s too short for bad software.” This is New Relic’s mantra, and here at 729 Solutions, we are believers in this as well! So, what IS New Relic anyway?  How Does New Relic Work? It’s detailed information about your hardware and software –… Continue reading Have you ever thought “How Does New Relic Work?”

Sometimes you find yourself in a meeting slyly googling the language the developer is using trying to keep up with the long list of acronyms and funny words used to describe tools, platforms, and languages in tech. Here are five acronyms to have under … Continue reading 5 Developer Acronyms for the Non-Technical Employee

729 Solutions is now a GitHub Partner! As a veteran systems integrator, we consider GitHub to be one of the essential building blocks of an effective development ecosystem. GitHub has selected 729 Solutions to be one of their key delivery partners and … Continue reading 729 is Proud to Announce We Are a GitHub Partner

Part of the catalyst for starting 729 Labs was to have a place to showcase awesome things that members of our team are working on, as well as show our “build, measure, learn” mentality through exciting projects. Currently 729’s own CEO Rob Fife is lear… Continue reading How to Choose Your First 3D Printer

As a child of the 80s and 90s, I fully believed that we’d all have flying cars by the time I grew up. Fast forward to adulthood and I’m somewhat disappointed that our cars remain stuck with their tires on the ground. Despite my disappointment, I still … Continue reading Five New Advances in Automotive Technologies

GIFs as Communication Being a company whose employees are scattered throughout the world, we find ourselves here at 729 Solutions frequently using GIFs to express our emotions, hammer in the point of our message, and just bring a little fun into our wo… Continue reading GIPHY & AWS

The Joy Manufacturing Co. presents, Ambition: A Minuet in Power, featuring a new kind of revolutionary, romantic gameplay. A young woman finds herself alone in the streets of Paris, far from home and abandoned by the love of her life. At that moment, s… Continue reading Ambition: A Minuet in Power – A New Revolutionary and Romantic Gameplay