GitStart is pleased to announce that it’s launching an online internship program for computer science students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Gitstart Fork: Fork is an internal tool we use which leverages the power of web hooks in order to do almost real-time syncing of code across a pair of repositories, seamlessly.

There has been a trend moving from using APIs where you have to constantly request data from a third party service towards Webhooks where the third party service you are using instead will send a POST request to your url of choice

A hybrid team is one that has a combination of onsite and offsite talent that works together to achieve a desired result.

GitStart has always been a remote first company since its inception. As many forward thinking companies have realised having a remote and distributed setup has several key advantages.

Companies nowadays are able to create massive valuations with very little investment and labor.

Great leaders do not feel threatened by others who give them critical or negative feedback.

The bedrock of superlative teamwork is a culture of trust, self belief and active experimentation, followed by concrete reflection. Building an org wide process of reflection and strong feedback loops improve the team’s confidence in what they are delivering.

Perhaps, the core distinguishing characteristic that will separate super successful organizations from the ordinary ones will be — “the capability for rapid cycles of innovation.”

Software as a service means that you can now get up and running in a matter of hours. Almost every practical arena of professional work has accompaining SAAS products which are standardized, work out of the box and can be customised to fit your exact needs.

Docker essentially popularized containerization. It creates containers on the host operating system by using Linux Kernel features like namespaces which are quite useful for process isolation, control groups, networking, and volumes.