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Knowledge X-Pollination: Week 1

Written by X-Team | Mar 28, 2018 4:00:00 AM

Recently, we've asked some of our X-Teamers what material they'd recommend to people interested in learning or improving their skills and knowledge in specific technologies or general skills useful for IT-people. It turns out they're quite the helpful bunch with plenty of good resources to share, so we decided that, every Thursday, you'll get a condensed version of their recommendations right here, on our blog.

The resources are separated into two parts — the first part includes tech-related resources. The second part includes resources on things that everyone should keep in their mind, but which aren't technology-specific.

So, without further ado, here we go!

Technology

AWS

  • Quite a nice find regarding saving time and costs if you’re working with heaps of AWS Lambda functions — give GO a chance.

The Blockchain

Go

Haskell

Mobile

  • A GraphQL API is an alternative to a REST API. Learn how to interact with a GraphQL API using Apollo in this tutorial for iOS.

  • Of course, you can use GraphQL in your Android project using Apollo as well. Read how, here.

Node

  • Best practices for designing, deploying, and debugging node apps in production.

  • A more concise but very much worth-your-time blog about the best practices for working with node.

React

Vuex

  • Since our guys are working on a Vuex challenge, here's their recommended Super-fast intro to Vuex.

  • State persistence, be it in localStorage or even offsite, is, of course, imperative (no pun intended). Thus we give you a guide to Vuex persist.

General

Productivity

  • Many people struggle to concentrate. And when you can’t concentrate, everything you do is harder and takes longer than you’d like. This post can help.

Speaking

  • A great post on how to become a public speaker. It lists three main hurdles you have to overcome and how to do just that.

  • From the same author, who often works as a talk evaluator, here is a guide to what he looks for in a talk and what kind of a talk submission has better chances of success.

UX

  • The term UX — A quick 1:50 video that will give you the summary of what is UX, and why it has no boundaries.

  • Objectified — An awesome documentary about design and how everything in our life is designed in one way or another, which lets us see how UX exists in our daily lives and we don’t even know

What do you think? Did you like what you found here? Would you recommend something else? Let us know in the comments.