At ACA, we live and breathe Kubernetes. We set up new projects with this popular container orchestration system by default, and we’re also migrating existing customers to Kubernetes. As a result, the amount of Kubernetes clusters the ACA team manages, is growing rapidly! We’ve had to change our setup multiple times to accomodate [...]
Bregt Coenen
Freelancing gives you the freedom to do your life and work your way, which as we know is awesome. But that freedom also means that work isn’t always in our control. A project explodes or implodes, an important client lays waste to your schedule or gigs start flooding in after a dry spell. Often, that means that you’re working more than [...]
Stijn Schutyser
I recently completed an internship at ACA for my applied informatics studies at university college PXL. In this blog post, I’d like to share my experience and some things I learned during my internship at ACA! 1. Perseverance During my first month I learned to persevere. I spent most of my time alone and scouring the web, researching for [...]
Bryan Deferm
In my previous blog post, I emphasized the importance of gathering data. However, in some cases you might not have any suitable data available. You might have raw data, but perhaps it’s unlabeled and unfit for machine learning. If you don’t have the financial resources to label this data, or you don’t have a product like reCAPTCHA to do [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
A positive company culture and a stimulating work environment is becoming more and more important to employees. Employee happiness increasingly ranks as one of the top reasons why people stay with a certain company and is, of course, very much linked to a company’s culture. In this blog post, I’d like to take a look at our own culture [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Atlassian offers great ways to resolve the need many companies have for billing and invoicing. The Atlassian Marketplace showcases numerous add-ons that integrate with Jira to help with that need. These add-ons can be extremely powerful, for example ending the need to compile numerous Excel sheets or gather paper files to invoice a [...]
Maxime-Samuel Nie-Rouquette
In the near future, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will bring your company to the next level. Increasing productivity, use of resources, maintainability, staffing efficiency and much more. But before that can happen, you need to collect data and provide enough examples to train your AI algorithms. Whether your company is active in the [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
All of us write every day: emails, texts, notes, presentations, … But few of us have really mastered the art of writing. In this blog post, I’d like to walk you through 5 golden rules for effective copywriting that will have the most profound impact on your copy if you don’t follow them yet. 1. Write for the customer, not for you Your [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Working for free? You probably think I’m crazy. While most of my colleagues would agree with you, I’m really not when it comes to the topic of this blog post. There are advantages and disadvantages to working for free (perhaps more than you imagine), and it’s often pretty difficult to actually make a right call. So, in this blog post, [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Let’s begin this blog post by remembering embarrassing memories from our past. Remember when you called your teacher “mom” in kindergarten? Or that huge zit on your forehead on your first day of high school? Let’s have a look at a picture from a couple of years ago. Those clothes… those hideous clothes. Why did you think you’d rock [...]
Ibn Renders
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