Developing software infrastructure that doesn't add business differentiation as open-source is faster, more cost-efficient, and leads to better results than keeping it proprietary. It also allows more focus on business-critical software.The physical world that we live in defines our paradigms, how we think about bus ...
Part 1 of this blog series made large organizations agile and efficient by developing business capabilities through empowered, vertically integrated teams and tech stacks of manageable size. Part 2 uses inner-source to boost collaboration and the collective IQ of the organization. In part 3 here, we use a mono-repos ...
In part 1 of this blog series, we made large organizations agile and efficient by developing business capabilities through vertically integrated teams and tech stacks of manageable size. Doing so reduces dependency gridlock, meeting time, and increases the agility and efficiency of the business. A challenge with thi ...
TLDR: Often overlooked in discussions of micro-services are their positive effects on the human organization. Following Conway's Law, micro-services are a modular, vertically integrated technical architecture matching a loosely coupled, vertically integrated human organization structure. Both together enable efficie ...
A few months ago, COVID-19 forced us all to start working remotely. For some of us at Originate, this was already the norm. About a quarter of our team is remote full-time, but for a large part of the company, this was a significant shift in our day-to-day lives. We are comfortable holding meetings via Zoom with office...
One of our recent projects called for a feature to allow editors to manage and publish content. In other words, we needed to choose a headless CMS. We already had a React-based web app, and a React Native mobile app in the works where we wanted to present that content. So we needed to choose a Headless CMS. Unlike Word...
The real estate market is full of legacy systems, untapped data, and outdated processes from every angle. Whether it’s commercial, residential, B2B or B2C, all up and down the supply chain there are innovators tackling ReTech problems. The market is prime for technology acceptance and usage. In this article, we’ll exam...
This is not another article about working remotely, productivity hacks for a frazzled mind, or using technology to stop a pandemic. We are a tech company, but we are made up of human beings, locked in our homes with our canned beans and toilet paper, our unsettled families and happy pets. We are scared and isolated. We...
As the world shifts towards working from home and our governments mount responses to the SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) pandemic, we may feel that our fundamental way of life is being uprooted. Now more than ever, we must be malleable and adjust to what people are calling this new reality. Still, it’s inherently essential al...
Our company culture has long taken into consideration remote clients and a distributed workforce of Originators (what we call ourselves). From off-site management to delivery of fully built digital products, we have working remotely covered. Here is a look at some tips for working from home while keep ourselves moving ...