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TWIST EPIC Hack-a-thon

Posted by Tarah Cleveland
Feb 12, 2019

Target Women in Science & Technology (TWIST) volunteers and four Dojo coaches recently hosted the first-ever TWIST EPIC Hack-a-thon on Jan. 15 and will be hosting another on Feb. 18. The TWIST EPIC Hack-a-thon is a new opportunity deriving from the EPIC Awards, a ceremony that honors 25 female high school students in the Twin Cities and surrounding metro area for being engaged, passionate, innovative and curious (EPIC) about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

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Ɔhaos Ǝnginǝǝring @ Target - Part 1

Posted by Brian Lee, Jason Doffing, Sean Peters
Feb 5, 2019

Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

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Graph Data Modeling - Asking the Right Questions

Posted by Aaron Ploetz
Jan 29, 2019

As the NoSQL Data Store Team, we work with application teams to select data stores appropriate for their use case. One area of datastore technology that we have been involved in with increasing frequency is the consulting and provisioning of graph databases.

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Design an Enterprise Library for React Components - Part 1 - Core Decisions

Posted by David T Nguyen, Brian Muenzenmeyer and Zachary Wolf
Jan 21, 2019

We will share the pros and cons our team weighed when designing, creating and publishing reusable React components.

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Power Detection

Posted by Kyle Shattuck
Jan 7, 2019

Target’s Cyber Fusion Center has an innovative perspective on how to detect when hackers use malicious hardware

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Spring Boot Service-to-Service Communication

Posted by Jeffrey Bursik and Pruthvi Dintakurthi
Dec 18, 2018

Spring Feign Client enables service-to-service communication while reducing development time and risk for technical debt.

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Introducing matrixprofile-ts, a Python Library for Detecting Patterns and Anomalies in Massive Datasets

Posted by Andrew Van Benschoten
Dec 11, 2018

Matrix Profile is a fast and powerful new tool for detecting anomalies and patterns in time-series data

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Engineer-Driven Tech Experience Works to Break Barriers for Diverse Students

Posted by Ana Bahr, Joel Crabb
Nov 21, 2018

Target engineers create an event for local high school students to inspire them to consider a future in tech

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How to Read the Internet (Effectively)

Posted by Andrew Van Benschoten
Nov 12, 2018

Learn to stay on the cutting edge of data science with just a few minutes of reading per day!

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Systematic Learning Matters (for Engineers)

Posted by Xinran Waibel
Oct 30, 2018

The payoff of learning to learn

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Presenting CodeRED Hack

Posted by Amaresh Siva
Oct 17, 2018

Target's daylong hackathon energizes engineers and fosters innovation

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Flottbot - Creating Simple Chatbots in Seconds, Not Days

Posted by Sean Quinn
Oct 1, 2018

Target's chatbot framework for automating tasks and other fun things.

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Forging a Path for New Engineering Managers with eMIP

Posted by Mitali Mathur
Sep 20, 2018

Target's new leadership program is already making a big impact on both emerging engineering managers and the technology organization as a whole.

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Data Streaming Using Apache Flink and Apache Ignite

Posted by Saikat Maitra
Sep 14, 2018

Build a data streaming application using Apache Flink and Apache Ignite.

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Announcing Opstoberfest

Posted by James E. Bell Jr.
Sep 7, 2018

Rethinking the future of enterprise operations and support

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Shepherding a Culture Change

Posted by Joel Crabb, Erica Prairie
Aug 29, 2018

It takes a village to build an engineering culture, but the ROI is worth it.

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A Dojo Story

Posted by Aaron Stewart, David Nguyen, Kin Wong, Bob Whalen
Aug 22, 2018

How one engineering team leveraged Target's Dojo in its plan for peak readiness

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Leveraging a Learning Culture for Certificate Management

Posted by Aaron Everett and Tim Sward
Aug 20, 2018

How Target took a fresh look at managing digital certificates through the lens of our learning culture

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Building the Ubiquitous Tech Experience: Empowering America’s Easiest Place to Shop

Posted by Tom Kadlec
Aug 14, 2018

Tom Kadlec, Target's senior vice president of infrastructure and operations, shares highlights from his talks at Google Cloud Next 2018.

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Running Cassandra in Kubernetes Across 1,800 Stores

Posted by Daniel Parker and Mike Showalter
Aug 8, 2018

Across 1,800 stores, we're running a Cassandra cluster inside Kubernetes. This post describes how we deploy, automate and manage this.

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Transforming Engineers into Innovators

Posted by Jill Lewis
Aug 3, 2018

Target engineers share how they leverage cloud technology to spark innovation at Google Cloud Next 2018

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TWIST Summer Job Shadow Event

Posted by Kate Wardin
Jul 30, 2018

Target hosts high school students for a unique opportunity to gain professional insight on technical careers.

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Building an Engineering Culture

Posted by Jill Lewis
Jul 24, 2018

Target’s Joel Crabb on Building an Engineering Culture

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Genesys Works

Posted by Russell Heidorn
Jul 16, 2018

How Target's partnerships help build the workforce of tomorrow

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Got Innovation?

Posted by Jake Luby
Jul 9, 2018

Making time for innovation while delivering product

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Iterative Data Science

Posted by Francisco Cancino
Jul 2, 2018

Best practices for data science to facilitate more effective product development

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Meet Target’s Stores Deployment Interface that Realizes Distributed Edge Computing at Retail Scale

Posted by Dan Woods
Jun 20, 2018

Dubbed ‘Unimatrix,’ the new platform enables unprecedented speed, ease and flexibility for continuously delivering software to our more than 1,800 stores.

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Recommending GoLang at Target

Posted by James E. Bell Jr.
Jun 18, 2018

Collaborating on the future of technology

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The Open Source Buzz on Port Authority

Posted by Krishnan Srinivasan
Jun 7, 2018

Taking our API-driven container security service beyond our walls for all security practitioners to use!

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Open Sourcing Automation At Target

Posted by James E. Bell Jr.
Jun 4, 2018

Target's Operations Automation Engine released as FOSS!

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Leveraging Log Streaming to Build the Best Dashboards, Ever

Posted by Eddie Roger
Apr 30, 2018

Using Fastly's log streaming to build out logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.

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Using Open Source Jenkins at scale

Posted by Sean J Quinn
Jan 24, 2018

Our experiences creating a Jenkins Master cluster on top of Docker Swarm

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REDstack

Posted by Eric Krenz
Nov 13, 2017

Hadoop Clusters as a Service

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K8Guard

Posted by Medya Ghazizadeh
Jun 26, 2017

The guardian angel for Kubernetes.

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Measuring the Performance of our OpenStack Cloud

Posted by Jacob Lube
Jun 20, 2017

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Target and Elasticsearch: Maintaining an ELK stack over Peak Season

Posted by Lydell Newby III
May 25, 2017

Elasticsearch, cloud, and scalability experiences

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Surviving (and thriving) Through Peak Season 2016 on the Digital Observability Team

Posted by “Kate Wardin”
May 23, 2017

A Scrum Master's Perspective

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Hadoop Rolling Upgrades

Posted by Matthew Sharp
May 22, 2017

Shooting for 99.99% Uptime

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How (and Why) We Moved to Spinnaker

Apr 7, 2017

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Distributed Troubleshooting

Posted by Dan Getzke
Apr 5, 2017

Troubleshooting distributed issues across big data environments

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Win the cloud with Winnaker!

Posted by “Medya Ghazizadeh”
Feb 13, 2017

Announcing open sourcing Winnaker an audit tool for Spinnaker

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How Target Performance Tunes Machine Learning Applications

Posted by “Patrick Pisciuneri”
Sep 29, 2016

a little intuition goes a long way

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(Data) Science or Witchcraft?

Posted by “Rishik Dhar”
Mar 1, 2016

Demystifying Data Science and Engineering

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Bare Metal Big Data Builds

Posted by Matthew Sharp
Jan 13, 2016

Using Ironic, Chef and Ambari to Automate Hadoop Data Node Builds

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Real-time Big Data at Target

Posted by Aaron Dossett
Nov 11, 2015

Target's open source approach to building data pipelines

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The Dojo

Posted by “Robb Neuenschwander”
Aug 14, 2015

Target's unique approach to building new technology muscles more quickly

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Modernizing our IT Environment at Target

Posted by Keith Narr
Apr 15, 2015

Through a new approach to technology and IT culture

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Robotics Analytics @ Target

Posted by Alex Sneed Miller
Apr 9, 2015

Utilizing machine data from robots to provide data driven insights and decisions

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Target DevOps Days In Pictures

Posted by Aaron Strey
Feb 26, 2015

DevOps Days Photos

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Outage Resolution Through Automation

Posted by Cody Lewandowski
Dec 29, 2014

Using Chef, GitHub, and Test Kitchen to quickly restore service after an outage

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Target FlashBuilds

Posted by Jason Walker
Nov 10, 2014

Crushing business problems with: One part flash mob, one part scrum, one part hackathon ... all to iterate to awesome

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Target Joins the W3C

Posted by Daniel Buchner
Oct 15, 2014

Collaborating on the future of technology

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Automating Cassandra

Posted by Daniel Parker
Sep 13, 2014

Cassandra + Jenkins + Chef

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Tuning Cassandra @ Target

Posted by Daniel Parker
Sep 2, 2014

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Welcome to the Target Tech blog

Posted by Dan Cundiff
Aug 8, 2014

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Peak performance

Posted by Aaron Strey
Aug 8, 2014

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