Deb Boyer, Author at Azavea

This Month We Learned – December 2020

By Deb Boyer, Peter Caisse and Justin Walgran on February 1st, 2021

In December, we learned about planning five years of a project all at once, superpowered performance debugging with tracing, and tracking down the one bad part of gigantic single line JSON documents with jsonlint.

Company

Bringing Open Data to the Apparel Industry

By Deb Boyer on August 31st, 2020

We chatted with the Open Apparel Registry team about how open data and open source are becoming a larger part of the apparel industry.

Post-it notes with sharpie for a product.

Company

Five Strategies for Building a Bootstrapped Product

By Jessica Cahail, Deb Boyer, Tyler Gilcrest and Stephanie Thome on July 28th, 2020

Without taking on copious outside investment, we have to support our products with only a share of our available time and resources. Here are five strategies we use to build successful bootstrapped products.

OAR map overlaid on top of hands sewing a garment.

Software Engineering

Connecting Data and People with the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on August 7th, 2019

Since its launch on March 28, the Open Apparel Registry (OAR) has grown to include over 18,300 facilities in 92 countries. We’ve already heard of a few fascinating use cases where data from the OAR contributed to decision making by brands and facilities.

Software Engineering

Introducing the Open Apparel Registry

By Deb Boyer on March 28th, 2019

We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Apparel Registry, an open source global map of garment producing facilities.