What’s the ideal store supply level for a product? How can we determine the number of future sales? Is it possible to reduce the number of product deliveries without going out-of-stock? ACA is building an intelligent stock management system for a customer with about 30 retail locations. Between these stores, that customer sells several [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
“First impressions count.” You’ve probably heard that sentence a million times, and when it comes to proposals, it’s true. You want to get the reader on your side from the get-go, and a strong, captive and well-written management summary is vital for that to happen. That makes sense, but how do you do it? What are some best practices? [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Launching a freelance career and getting to the point where you can call yourself successful is not easy. Usually, only the freelancers that really believe in themselves, take their career seriously, work hard and provide lots of value get to that point. Thanks to IT Match, I had the opportunity to ask some successful freelancers how [...]
Stijn Schutyser
If you’re familiar with working in Jira, you’re also familiar with the following scenario: an issue escalates and its priority or status changes. But not every stakeholder of the issue is notified in time, you’re missing the context, things hiccup for a bit and your SLAs suffer. There must be a better way to react faster to important [...]
Stijn Schutyser
It’s complicated Being a Product Manager is challenging. For one, no one really understands what exactly it is you do. Heck, half of the time you probably don’t even get it yourself. To make matters worse, there is not one magical recipe for being a great Product Manager. Oh no. Like ice cream, Product Managers come in many different [...]
Samia Suys
The Atlassian Open 2019 in Vienna took place earlier this month on September 9 & 10. In this blog post, Account Manager Aurore gives a concise account (haha!) of the event. Read on for the 3 things she learned! I was very excited and proud that I could join my colleagues for the Atlassian Open in Vienna. I wanted to get inspired, not [...]
Aurore De Poorter
Training machine learning models can take up a lot of time if you don’t have the hardware to support it. For instance with neural networks, you need to calculate the addition of every neuron to the total error during the training step. This can result into thousands of calculations per step. Complex models and large datasets can result [...]
Tom Van Wemmel
Just last weekend, the whole ACA team got together on a three day long epic adventure. This year, we visited Vlieland. Let’s recap our ACA amazing team weekend in this blog post! Friday: sailing, Seeduyn and Stoep Friday morning, somewhere between 7 and 8 a.m., two buses started their engines and began their journey to Harlingen in the [...]
Stijn Schutyser
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
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