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Four Common Roadblocks to Overcome when Building a Modular Data Platform

When selecting a data engineering partner, speed and lower cost may seem like the right choice, but what really counts is long-term performance. Speed and lower cost may seem like the right choice at the onset, but what counts is long-term performance. In order to avoid data platform pitfalls, it’s important to explore common challenges organizations face when building them. Given our expertise, Augment also has solutions for overcoming them. From years of experience building long-term relationships with clients, staying around long enough to see data platforms succeed or fail, and being called in to fix broken ones, we’ve learned [...]

Curious about CI/CD… what it means and why you should care about it?

Augment’s got you covered! You may have heard the term “CI/CD” thrown around in software development discussions and internal meetings, but it’s not frequently discussed as to “why” it matters. CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (or Deployment, depending on the team). It is a set of practices that helps teams deliver code faster and safer. And typically can help mitigate longer-term stress when it comes to coding. To really understand the benefits of CI/CD and the reasoning behind its existence, let’s break it down further. Continuous Integration (CI) helps catch problems early. Whenever a developer pushes code [...]

Introducing Auggy AI: A Conversational AI Assistant

Embracing AI sounds easy but it’s often hard to know what and how to implement AI. To that end, we built an internal custom AI assistant. Our AI assistant Auggy is built to respond accurately to questions regarding our internal policies, manage project tasks, and provide updates on JIRA, to create, and view events, allowing for seamless scheduling and facilitating easy access to emails. In this article, we will explore the features of a powerful AI assistant that will be a perfect conversational partner for users. Fetching Information from the HR systems At any given time, several users might be [...]

Why AI

Why are we excited about AI? There is definitely a lot of hype around AI. The hype is exciting but also deafening sometimes. Everyone feels the pressure to build and engage with AI. It’s magical, life changing. That’s kind of all true. But there is a lot of work to be done to achieve that vision. We are excited about AI and making it a big focus at Augment because AI will make digital just more awesome. We’ve been building digital experiences driven by data since our inception and see AI as a natural extension. Digital experiences (like getting a [...]

Designer Diaries: Our discourse with AI towards customized design

UX designers often face creative blocks, making conceptualization and execution challenging, particularly when working under tight deadlines. Traditional design workflows can be time-consuming and relatively less productive. Hence in an attempt to rapidly generate new ideas, visualize complex information, and interact with the team, we chose to blend AI for the design process. So what role does AI play in the design process? Harnessing the power of AI to enhance human creativity can directly help enhance productivity. FigJam AI was our first choice to experiment with for an in-house website design project. Figjam has many interesting features that can take [...]