inspiration Why and How We Created a Battle Royale Game for Slack X-Team is always trying to find new ways to energize and motivate its developers. That's why we developed the first-ever Slack-based battle royale game.
interview Arthur Andrade on Being a Pro Gamer While many X-Teamers game, it's not often that we have a pro gamer in our midst. In this interview, full-stack developer Arthur Andrade explains how he became a pro in both Rainbow Six and Smite.
inspiration Weird Stories as a Remote Software Developer Most non-tech people don't understand what a remote software developer does. X-Teamers share a few of their weirdest stories caused by people not understanding what they do.
giveaway How X-Team Supports Developers: the Expansion Pack We want to support developers on their growth path. That's why we've started organizing public giveaways. We recently concluded our first one, called the X-Team Expansion Pack.
interview Michal Nawrot on How to Balance Focus With Creativity Michal Nawrot is one of X-Team's full-stack JavaScript developers. In this interview, he explains what he needs to stay focused and motivated as a remote developer.
interview Michal Kawalec on Improving Programming Itself Michal Kawalec is one of X-Team's principal software engineers. In this interview, he talks about how he got into programming and how he tries to improve programming itself.
interview Anna Piekarska on Personal Growth and Motivation Anna Piekarska is a QA Lead who's been with X-Team for many years. In this interview, she explains what drives her to keep on learning and growing.
productivity 21 Best Remote Work Tools for Software Developers The right remote work tools can supercharge your productivity. This is a list of our 21 favorite remote work tools for software developers.
vacation How to Plan a Long Vacation in a Remote Team Everyone has a time when they need a complete break from work. When you feel that craving to fully disconnect for a while, you need to prepare. Here's how to plan a long vacation in a remote team.
webinar How to Energize Remote Teams [webinar] How can you energize your employees when everyone's remote? How do you avoid people feeling unmotivated because they're not around their colleagues? Find out in this webinar.
learning What it Means to Make Decisions Holistically and How We Do it at X-Team X-Team uses a decision-making framework called holistic decision making to make better decisions for its ecosystem of internal apps. Here's what holistic decision making is and how we use it.
gaming 13 Coding Games to Level Up Your Programming Skills Coding games are an oft-overlooked way of learning a new programming language or improving your knowledge of an existing one. Here are 13 coding games endorsed by X-Teamers that are worth a try.
reward Should Developers Have Incentive Plans? Is it possible to create an incentive plan for software developers that doesn't reward the wrong behavior? It's possible, but you need to change what the incentives focus on.
css 11 Best and Most Popular CSS Frameworks in 2020 CSS frameworks are essential to the work of a web developer. They save you time and make it easier to write CSS that's compatible across all browsers. Here are 11 of the best and most popular CSS frameworks in 2020.
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.
