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For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has maintained its industry leadership in part by keeping a strong focus on risk management. For many years, the company took a similar approach to managing its technology and...

From experiments in robotics to old-school video game play research, OpenAI’s work in artificial intelligence technology is meant to be shared. With a mission to ensure powerful AI systems are safe, OpenAI cares deeply about open...

Since it was started in a dorm room in 2003, Squarespace has made it simple for millions of people to create their own websites. Behind the scenes, though, the company’s monolithic Java application was making things...

When Dhawal Patel joined Nordstrom five years ago as an application developer for the retailer’s website, he realized there was an opportunity to help speed up development cycles. In those early DevOps days, Nordstrom Technology still...

One of the management objectives for BlackRock’s Product Group employees in 2017 was to “build cool stuff.” Led by Managing Director Michael Francis, a cross-sectional group of 20 did just that: They rolled out a full...

Dan Farrelly uses a carpentry analogy to explain the problem his company, Buffer, began having as its team of developers grew over the past few years. “If you’re building a table by yourself, it’s fine,” the...

With the speed befitting a startup, Pear Deck delivered its first prototype to customers within three months of incorporating. As a former high school math teacher, CEO Riley Eynon-Lynch felt an urgency to provide a tech...

How many people does it take to turn on a light bulb? Kit Klein whips out his phone to demonstrate. With a few swipes, the head of engineering at Wink pulls up the smart-home app created...

It started with a Shaky Leaf. Since its introduction a decade ago, the Shaky Leaf icon has become one of Ancestry’s signature features, which signals to users that there’s a helpful hint you can use to...

It’s not every day that you can say you’ve slashed an operating expense by half. But Sheriff Mohamed and Josh Chandler did just that when they helped lead their company, GolfNow, on a journey from a...