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Nate McKie

Nate McKie, Vice President of Application Services at World Wide Technology

Vice President, Application Services

I’ve loved computers since I was a child. My father worked at RadioShack and I was constantly there, playing on the machines and learning about programming. I got my B.S. in Computer Studies, carrying that fascination from childhood into my adult career. I now have the honor and pleasure of overseeing Application Services at WWT, where we've been able to bring game-changing software solutions to many customers. We've supported everything from legacy application refactoring to large digital transformations, and we’ve seen how quality processes and a customer-focused mindset can make a significant impact.

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David Blatt

David Blatt, Area Vice President of Application Services at World Wide Technology

Area Vice President, Application Services

I spent my early career as a CPA and professional services consultant before moving into technology — and I’ve never looked back. I love seeing the impact technology can have on individuals and businesses. At WWT, I have the distinct pleasure of leading Services Delivery for our Application Services division. We support our clients by developing new applications, integrations and user experiences that change behavior and drive value.

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Article Application Services

REST API Integration Testing Using Python

Learn how to use Python to create a REST automation test suite.

Dec 14, 2020

4 min read

Article Application Services

How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core

There are numerous ways to clone an object in C# .NET Core. This article explores some of the approaches you can use to make a deep copy of an object and the pros and cons of each method.

Sep 29, 2020

7 min read

Article Node.js

Using Jest to Run Integration Tests

Jest is a popular unit test framework that can easily be extended to include integration tests. We'll discuss writing an integration framework in a Node environment backed by a MySQL database.

Sep 29, 2020

6 min read

Article Application Services

TypeScript Records and Mapped Types

Let's take a tour of TypeScript's Record and Mapped Type features by looking at their usage and evolution within a project.

Jan 4, 2021

9 min read

Article Application Services

Implementing Sockets and Making Your Application Real-Time

Making applications real-time is a common problem, even in popular tech stacks. This is a solution to ramp up quickly using Flask-SocketIO in an app that leverages Python server-side with a React client.

Jan 28, 2021

4 min read

What's new

Article Application Services

Designing With People: The Benefits of Co-Creation

There's a difference between designing for people and designing with people. It may seem like a small difference but it's a large shift in thinking and approach. Designing with people, referred to as co-creation, brings users into the design development process.

Apr 26, 2021

3 min read

Article Application Services

Applying Agile Frameworks Beyond Your Technology Teams

Agile practices have many related terms floating around in businesses: scaled agile, digital agile strategy, digital transformation, Scrum, Lean and many more. It is difficult to get a consensus on what each of these means amongst leaders inside your business. In addition, there is a perception that these practices are adopted only within software development. These misconceptions and unknowns can limit your business agility and long-term success as digital transformation is applied across functional departments.

Apr 20, 2021

8 min read

Article Application Services

The What and Why of Progressive Web Apps

Progressive web apps (PWAs) were supposed to be a silver bullet for cross-platform web development. That idea may still be viable, but it has been and will continue to be quite the bumpy journey.

Apr 20, 2021

9 min read

Lab

Test-Driven Development Guided Lab: Refactoring Existing Code

Legacy code, code that is not under active development or has been passed on to a new engineering team, carries a stigma of being difficult to change and/or maintain. It is often treated as a black box that cannot be altered due to fear of repercussions. This fear does not have to exist, and legacy code can be adopted and improved through refactoring practices. This lab will walk you through the process of adding "characterization tests" to the code that has been provided, and then guide you through several refactoring cycles to make the code easier to understand and maintain. Through this, you will learn and practice effective refactoring techniques.

Apr 19, 2021

2 min read

Case Study Public Sector

Agile Methodology Transforms Alaska USA Federal Credit Union IT Organization

World Wide Technology (WWT) used a customized approach to agile transformation to help Alaska USA Federal Credit Union's IT organization scale DevOps and agile capabilities.

Apr 19, 2021

4 min read

Article Application Services

The Role of a Facilitator in Agile Development

Facilitating regular agile retrospectives is a useful tool. As long as you’ve learned something that you can then use to get better, then you’ve been successful. The goal is to continuously improve with each retrospective.

Apr 13, 2021

8 min read

Article .NET Core

An Introduction to Regular Expressions in C#

Learn how to use regular expressions in C# to perform advanced searches in text and easily convert text, leveraging the best of regexes and C#.

Apr 1, 2021

10 min read

Never Start a Goroutine You Can't Finish

Using channels and goroutines in Golang can be tricky. It's important to make sure your goroutines will finish.

Mar 30, 2021

5 min read

Article Application Services

5 Key Virtual Classroom Features for Faculty Experience

Poor internet connection, echoing mics and cats on keyboards aren't the only challenges when it comes to e-learning. Here are five key areas to future-proof your faculty experience, both on and off-campus, to increase student engagement.

Mar 25, 2021

4 min read

Lab

Test-Driven Development Lab: Build a To-Do API

Putting test-driven development into practice is the best way to learn to apply TDD effectively. This lab allows you to explore TDD by implementing a "To Do" Application Programmer Interface (API) using JavaScript. This application uses a database to persist data, which means that you will need to follow best-practices to test interfaces to third-party systems effectively. During this lab, you will work to implement both the tests that drive the intended behavior of the application and the code that satisfies those tests. This lab is implemented using JavaScript (ES6). Some experience with JavaScript will be helpful to complete the lab, but there are code samples provided in the documentation that can help you if you are unsure.

Mar 24, 2021

3 min read

How Digital Apps Should Be Evolving

Back to Basics: A Quick Guide to Evolving Digital Experiences. When things seem most uncertain, it’s often best to get “back to basics” to evaluate the best path for evolving digital maturity and growth.

Mar 11, 2021

7 min read

Article Application Services

Usability Studies in an Agile Environment

Design, test, iterate and code should be the standard process in product development, but it takes effort to put them into agile delivery team practice. Learn how Nipper managed to carry out the usability studies in a rapid cadence.

Mar 8, 2021

10 min read

Article Application Services

A "Swifty" Way of Managing the Dirty Part of a CRUDy Set of Code

Learn how I and my team tackled one simple aspect of managing updates to existing data — whether or not a piece of data is “dirty.”

Feb 26, 2021

10 min read

Article Application Services

Radical Refinements: Transform Story Refinements to Be More Engaging & Effective

This article describes a common anti-pattern seen when refining the backlog and offers some actionable techniques to make story refining more efficient and engaging for all team members.

Feb 25, 2021

9 min read

Article Application Services

6 Ways to Build Healthy Remote Teams

Everyone dealing with remote working can start to develop coping skills to help them maneuver the new challenges and obstacles that this type of environment creates. There are unique stressors that can lead to burnout over time if they aren’t appropriately dealt with. In this article, we’ll discuss tools and techniques to help keep the team happy, healthy and functional. Working together, we can all promote resilience.

Feb 18, 2021

5 min read

Article Application Services

You Don’t Have Time to Skip Test Automation

When time is short, you might think that skipping test automation will speed things up. In fact, the opposite will happen. This article explains why.

Feb 18, 2021

5 min read

Article Application Services

Exploiting JavaScript Proxies for Fun: Part 4 - Proxied Property Procurement

Proxies were added to JavaScript in 2015, but still are a rare sight when developing. This article series will take a look at why that might be and some of the fun ways proxies can be used to enhance your code.

Feb 9, 2021

7 min read

Article Application Services

API Design Thinking

Years ago, I worked with a talented developer who said to me, “the best user interface is a well-designed, server-based API.” It struck me as strange at the time, but I have come to appreciate that an API — whether it be publicly exposed cloud services or simply a class deeply embedded inside the code of a mobile application — is a user interface and there is a user experience to consider. Good user experiences don’t just happen, they need to be designed.

Feb 5, 2021

6 min read

Article Application Services

The Power of Distributed Caching With Redis

Explore the nature of computing and data access to uncover the reason why distributed caching can be so effective.

Feb 2, 2021

6 min read

Article Application Services

Exploiting JavaScript Proxies for Fun: Part 2 - Private (Proxy) Party

Proxies were added to JavaScript in 2015, but still are a rare sight when developing. This article series will take a look at why that might be and some of the fun ways proxies can be used to enhance your code.

Feb 2, 2021

5 min read