2017 was a year of growth and learning at HBC Tech. Our organization embraced new technologies and new ways of building application software.

At HBC Tech, one of the company’s current initiatives is to bridge the divide between the physical and digital experience. Saks Fifth Avenue has a considerable network of retail locations throughout the US, and our goal is to use technology to entice more people into these stores. More specifically, one initiative focuses on connecting new and existing Saks customers with our style professionals on the retail floor.

This Friday the HBC Tech Dublin office will be hosting the first ever Dublin Scala Spree, a day-long Scala Open Source Hackathon. The event is organized by the Dublin Scala Usergroup in cooperation with Dublin Functional Kubs and the Scala Center at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Date & Time: Friday, 15th September, 10am - 4pm Location: HBC Tech Office, Shelbourne Rd., Dublin 4, Ireland Sign-Up: Please register for the event...

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We’ve had a busy 2017 at HBC. The great work of our teams has created opportunities to share what we’ve learned with audiences around the world. This year our folks have been on stage in Austin, Sydney, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Boston, London, Israel and on our home turf in NYC and Dublin. The talks have covered deep learning, design thinking, data streaming and developer experience to name just a...

About a year ago, we (the HBC Tech personalization team) open sourced Sundial , a batch job orchestration system leveraging Amazon EC2 Container Service.

Can you recall the size and length of your typical retrospective? If your team operates by The Scrum Guide, your retrospectives likely have less than ten people in one room and last about an hour for a two-weeks Sprint.

Heading to QCon? Don’t miss these two sessions! If you can’t make it, stay tuned here for slides and recordings from the conference.

One of the big HBC Digital initiatives for 2017 is “buy online, pickup in store” - somewhat awkwardly nicknamed “BOPIS” internally. This is the option for the customer to, instead of shipping an order to an address, pick it up in a store that has the items in inventory.

April Meetups: 105 guests, 48 seltzers, 45 All Day IPAs, 19 pizzas & 2 great speakers.

The O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference is coming to New York City in June. From June 27-29, the top minds in AI will be meeting for “a deep dive into emerging AI techniques and technologies with a focus on how to use it in real-world implementations.”

We have a busy month lined up:

Don’t just read about DevOps culture, play-test it!

Sundial