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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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Leverage Your Tests to Find Memory Leaks

Many projects involve creating a suite of system tests alongside application features. These tests can provide some benefits that may not initially be self-evident. Generally, system tests are understood to provide several types of value: A mechanism for acceptance testing A regression suite for previously accepted application behavior Validating application behavior as part of your […]
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Ignite DevOps 2017 @ SEP – Chef

Last week I blogged about the Ignite Talks that happened at SEP last month. See below for the slides from the Chef Ignite Talk. Ignite Talk on Chef from Bob Nowadly Build awesome things for fun. Check out our current openings for your chance to make awesome things with creative, curious people. Explore SEP Careers […]
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Mistakes Were Made: iOS App in Xamarin

This post is an artifact from my recent participation in an experiment in “learning as a project” (I made that up). I went through the process of adding TouchID to an app in a platform I have never used before (Xamarin). I’ve constructed a list of all the mistakes that I made as I wandered […]
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SEP Ignite DevOps 2017

Last month at SEP, our DevOp guild hosted an internal meeting of Ignite Talks. The theme for the talks was Configuration Management. Below is a slide deck I used to kick off the meeting. Over the next several weeks we will post more slides for the talks on Chef, Salt-Stack, Puppet, Docker, Packer and Mac Automation. […]
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Elastic Search, LogStash, Kibana and Beats

I attended the Indy DevOps meetup last week to learn about Elastic Search, LogStash, and Kibana. Also known as the ELK stack. The speaker, Adis Cesar a Solution Architect at Elastic, also talked about something called Beats. What is Elastic Search? Elastic Search is a distributed computing platform for rapidly searching text. The inventor of Elastic Search built […]
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Why consider a Data Warehouse?

The need to collect, store and analyze large amounts of data continues to increase in importance for businesses across all industries. Marketing agencies have led the pack in processing large amounts of data in order to gain consumers attention in a crowded space. However, virtually every other area is beginning to see the value in […]
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SEP expands with the opening of a new software product design studio

SEP expands with the opening of a new software product design studio CARMEL, Ind. (January 5, 2017) ─ Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) is expanding its Carmel, Ind. operations with the opening of the new SEP Product Design Studio. The new space is an immersive, collaborative environment to assist in the development of software products and […]
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Starting Full-Time At A Place That Is Hard To Define

I knew I could grow there—fast. That’s how I respond when asked why I chose to work for SEP. Subsequently, my co-workers later told me they felt they ‘just knew’ I was a fit for this culture and the work we do here when I asked them why I was chosen. Knowing which job to […]
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5 Tools to Help Your Blog Post Shine

I have had blogging conversations around the office a lot lately and I thought it was finally time I wrote some of these tips I share with our engineers down. These are 5 tools to help make your blog posts shine. Hemingway Editor This is definitely my favorite go-to program lately. The HemingwayApp highlights common word problems […]
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