Alana Hill, Author at Azavea

Highlighting NumFocus Projects: How Open Source Projects Empower Our Work

By Alana Hill on April 8th, 2022

NumFocus is a nonprofit that supports many open source tools used in Azavea's projects. Here, we highlight how they have supported our work.

Software Engineering

Our Top 3 Netlify Use Cases: Deciding When to Use Netlify

By Alana Hill, Tai Wilkin and Terence Tuhinanshu on March 23rd, 2022

Netlify is a platform for web developers and designers that offers hosting and serverless backend services. Here, we provide Azavea's top three use cases for it and its benefits for our software engineers and designers.

Company

Evolution of DEI Efforts at Azavea

By Alana Hill, Julie Garcia, Niki LaGrone and Stacy Deininger on February 25th, 2022

At Azavea we strive to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. As we consider how to thoughtfully grow and strengthen our workplace, we reflect on what we have learned over the years in order to chart our path forward.

Company

How a Small Tech Company Has Adjusted to the Hybrid Work Environment: Insights from 2021

By Alana Hill, Jillian Long and Zoë Cohen on January 10th, 2022

2021 brought a lot of challenges to tech companies and many have concerns leading into 2022. Considering how much we learned from 2021, as the year came to a close we gathered learnings from our colleagues to help us work effectively in 2022. We wanted to share some of these tips and plans for this upcoming year as a way to support our friends in the tech-for-good community.

Events

Announcing the Winners of Map Across America: A National Redistricting Competition

By Alana Hill on December 7th, 2021

DistrictBuilder, Azavea’s free redistricting tool, recently held a competition in partnership with the Public Mapping Project to encourage more participation in the redistricting process.