inspiration A Review of Season 5: New World Diving deep into new worlds is a great way to deal with the stress and anxiety of today's turbulent world. New World was the theme of Season 5, and here's how it all unfolded.
carbonneutral Our Carbon Footprint as a Remote Company At the beginning of the year, X-Team made a commitment to become a fully carbon neutral company by the end of 2020. We've just completed the first, big step in that process.
fwdconf FwdConf Day 3: Living and Working in Japan FwdConf is X-Team's asynchronous conference. This is a recap of its third day, where we discuss what it's like to live and work as a foreign remote developer in Japan.
interview Cathy Song on How She Became a Remote Programmer Cathy Song is a Senior DevOps Engineer who's been with X-Team since July 2019. In this interview, she gives us some insight into how she became a remote programmer.
fwdconf FwdConf: The Async Conference to Keep You Moving Forward FwdConf is X-Team's first asynchronous, week-long conference. In this article, we cover the state of serverless, parenting as a remote worker, how to be a better dev mentor, and more!
x-outpost XO-VIP: Colombia The XO-VIP is an event where we invite X-Team candidates to spend some time with X-Teamers, so they can learn about the X-Team culture. Last December, we organized an XO-VIP in Colombia.
interview Beyond Programming: An X-Teamer on Writing Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels When Jesse Bangs joined X-Team, he'd already self-published 7 novels. Writing novels is a dream for many people, so I interviewed Jesse and asked how he made it happen.
webinar Working Remote: How to Succeed With Virtual Teams [webinar] X-Team delivered a webinar for Girls in Tech that addresses some of the biggest questions about working remotely and how a company can succeed with virtual teams. Watch it here.
fwdconf FwdConf Day 5: Parenting as a Remote Worker FwdConf is X-Team's asynchronous conference. This is a recap of its fifth and final day, where we discuss the challenges and joys of parenting as a remote worker.
fwdconf FwdConf Day 4: State of the Location-Independent Life 2020 FwdConf is X-Team's asynchronous conference. This is a recap of its fourth day, where we discuss the motivations, challenges, and results of living a traveling lifestyle.
productivity How to Fall Into a Flow State of Mind Programming allows you to immerse yourself so deeply into it that you forget about yourself. This is a highly rewarding experience. Psychologists call it a flow state of mind.
fwdconf FwdConf Day 2: How to Be a Better Programming Mentor FwdConf is X-Team's asynchronous conference. This is a recap of its second day, where we discuss how you can master the discipline and the art of mentoring other programmers.
fwdconf FwdConf Day 1: State of Serverless 2020 FwdConf is X-Team's asynchronous conference. This is a recap of its first day, where we discuss the state of serverless in 2020 and what it takes to build your own product as a developer.
microservices Why and How to Move From a Monolithic App to Microservices in AWS You have a monolithic app hosted on AWS and you're considering splitting it up into microservices. Is it worth the effort? Why should you switch?
go Go Crash Course pt. 2: A Real-World Scenario If you've always wanted to learn Go, this is the course for you. The second lesson of this Go Crash Course will have you recreate a real-world Go scenario.
machinelearning Machine Learning Needn't Be Difficult: a Few Projects to Inspire You Machine learning seems like a field reserved for brilliant data scientists and Python wizards, but that's not really true. Here are a few projects to get you inspired about ML.
