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Maintaining consistency in codebases with Go Vet

Maintaining success in a large open source project is one of the key objectives of Mattermost. We have hundreds of contributors and we want to create a project that could serve as a model in the Go community. Having said that, following idiomatic Go principles is the thing that we care most about while maintaining our code consistency. For this specific task, we utilized go vet and with this blog post, I would like to explain how we pushed the limits of this tool by extending it.

5 Security Best Practices for Your Remote Teams

There are many benefits of using a remote workforce, such as lowering overhead costs and gaining access to a larger talent pool. However, this trend also opens up more opportunities for cybercriminals to hack into your system and steal sensitive data. Cyberattacks can lead to customer loss, brand reputation loss, and productivity/operational loss. In fact, customer attrition rates can increase by as much as 30 percent following a cyberattack!

Google Chat vs Slack: Can Google's Team Chat Compete Against the Market Leader?

If you’ve been using G Suite for in the past years, you must have noticed one aspect of their offer – Hangouts Chat. While it has changed over the years, Hangouts has stayed as one of the most prominent team chat apps out there, primarily because it’s so well integrated into Google’s offer. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have noticed that we love comparing team chat apps in our team chat wars.

10 Free Screen Sharing Apps, Software, & Websites to Watch in 2020

Companies that collaborate through screen sharing software & co-browsing enjoy 2.4% annual decrease in support cost, year-over-year Screen sharing feature enables a user to instantly see another user’s screen and direct them through the toughest of conversations, guidelines, and interfaces. You can make the session more interactive by using a mouse to remotely annotate, highlight, scroll and click on the user’s screen.

Onboarding as a remote engineer with Mattermost

We decided to make Mattermost a remote-first company for several reasons. For example, employees don’t have to waste time commuting, we are able to hire from a wider talent pool of self-motivated individuals, and we have coverage in all time zones, which helps us respond to our customers around the world more effectively. And since we’re a remote company building collaboration software, we have plenty of opportunity to dogfood our own product.