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  • Developing Countries, Capacity Building, and SDGs

    Utilizing earth imagery to achieve all 17 UN SDGs by 2030 will take considerate effort. In order to do this effectively, we must include training and capacity building in our solutions.

  • E84 โค๏ธ Gatsby & JAMstack โ€“ Introducing Gatsby [Spark]

    The JAMstack generally has become ubiquitous as a solid and reliable architecture for building applications for the web. As much as we didn’t know it, the JAMstack has been part of E84’s blood before the term was coined, as we worked through application challenges focusing on serving static applications and websites using AWS S3 and…

  • Exploring Serverless Portability

    With Functions as a Service (FaaS), cloud providers promise us the ability to deploy, run, and scale small pieces of application code without worrying about the underlying hardware or virtual machines. This comes with certain advantages, such as a pricing model that only charges for the amount of time the code is running, quick deployments,…

  • An E84 Coffee Labs Story: A Kitchen at Work that Feels More Like Home

    As a part of our new series โ€œE84 Coffee Labsโ€, weโ€™re exploring Element 84 coffee culture with different members of the team. Coffee is an important aspect of life at Element 84. Everyone has their own unique way of making and enjoying it. The warm and inviting office space at Element 84 immediately drew me…

  • Coffee as Culture

    Element 84 isn’t unique because most of us like coffee. Embracing everyone’s unique ways of making and enjoying it is what makes it part of our culture. Starting from a simple bean We all have our different ways of making it. Some like to use a pod in a machine, while others like that machine…

  • Why We Sold HunchLab

    We sold HunchLab, our web-based predictive policing and patrol management system, in the fall of 2018. Our CEO outlines why.

  • How We Select Projects

    As a mission-based organization, how we select the projects we pursue is an ongoing conversation at Azavea. We share our thought process here.

  • High Stakes, Hard Certs

    Deciding to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional exam at re:Invent. This certification is considered one of the toughest to achieve in IT, and it lived up to the hype. It was brutal. So brutal in fact, that after seeing that I passed, I questioned why I took it, whether it was worth it,…

  • Six Ways we Fund Innovation

    Without outside funding and given our commitment to openly sharing our knowledge, people often ask: How do you fund your innovation? We outline 6 main ways.

  • Temperate: Your Climate Adaptation Planning Companion

    Azavea rolled out Temperate, a climate adaptation planning app, in 2018. Get the details here.