Transforming healthcare for better systems and aiming toward better outcomes for all By Karishma Mishra In the last couple of months, my involvement with “Design for Markets” has focused on many groundbreaking ideas and initiatives at Philips Experience Design, Bangalore. Working on some of their projects has been an exhilarating…

By Kerem Ispirli The async and await keywords were introduced in C# to make asynchronous programming on the .NET platform easier. These keywords have fundamentally changed how code is written in most of the C# ecosystem. Asynchronous programming has become mainstream, and modern frameworks such as ASP.NET …

Serverless scalable self-hosted runners on AWS spot instances This post explains how to run GitHub actions on self-hosted scalable runners on AWS spot instances. By Niek Palm Source code for this post Introduction Last year GitHub released self-hosted action runners which already empower you to run GitHub actions on your own machines. At the time of, the feature was…

A test-friendly way of instrumenting Docker containers By Joana Deluca Kleis We, as good developers, create unit tests for every piece of code we write, so we can be confident to iterate on the code. Unit tests are fast, reliable and relatively easy to write and maintain. Integration testing on the other hand, is not a solved issue. I know this from personal experience. My team and I had been building a dashboard and some backend services for it. But as we started to shape our testing pyramid, we realized that most of our code is integration code: we didn’t have our own database (at least, not yet) and we…

Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest moving and least predictable industries. Just think about all the things that were inconceivable a few years back: deepfakes, AI-powered machine translation, bots that can master the most complicated games, etc. But it never hurts to try our chances at predicting the future…

Healthcare today is being reshaped by digitization, changing demographics, sustainability and more. It’s a whole new world. The developments in healthcare have also inspired some dramatic transformations among industry players. At Philips, the shift is seismic. If you still have the idea that it’s a consumer products conglomerate manufacturing lights…

Just as the disruptive mindset has transformed industries, businesses and markets, it has also revolutionised the way we work. Technology and infrastructure have given rise to a gig economy which has expanded employment possibilities beyond traditional full-time roles. A shift in the work mindset has contributed to changes that have…

You might tick all the boxes when it comes to having the skills and experience you need to get that coveted software developer job, but other qualities will make you stand out from others who want it too. …

This blog is written in partnership with Philips. All opinions are individuals’ own. Julia is a Web Developer, Co-Founder of the international Technology Network: Social Developers Club and a Tech-Blogger. Next to developing React apps and organizing tech-events, she shares insights about her daily life as a woman in information…