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Our Client Partners

We partner with clients at all stages of growth to improve the quality of their software.

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Public Benefits

Benefit Kitchen

Helping low-income Americans discover benefits with a streamlined deployment pipeline

Image Marketplace

Obsidian Collection Archives

Preserving Black legacy through a digital platform for archival imagery

Nonprofits

Women Employed

Leading change for women’s advocacy through content-driven design

Healthcare

ConceiveAbilities

Helping families find simple and reliable information about IVF clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Healthcare

Health Worker Data Alliance

Supporting health workers through the COVID-19 pandemic with insights into well-being

Higher Education

Royal Academy

Helping a venerable institution adapt and thrive in the 21st century

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#Community #CollaborativeCraft #Podcast

July 6, 2021

Introducing Collaborative Craft, a new podcast by 8th Light

We're excited to introduce our brand new podcast, Collaborative Craft. The trailer is available now wherever you listen to podcasts.

#Community #Communications #Craftsmanship

May 25, 2021

Six Tips For a Successful Job Interview

Job interviews are an inescapable reality of the labor market, and unfortunately they’re still an imperfect science. This blog includes six tips to help you organize your thoughts and communicate your experience in a clear and impactful way.

#Architecture #Coding #Design-Patterns

May 18, 2021

A Color Coded Guide to Ports and Adapters

If you've struggled to form a mental model and fully understand the Ports and Adapters pattern (also called Hexagonal Architecture), this blog provides a concrete example alongside a more common architecture pattern to better grasp its nuances.

#DevOps #AWS #Terraform #Security

May 11, 2021

Minimally Privileged Terraform

By default, every newly created AWS resource lacks permission to perform any actions. AWS strongly recommends following the security practice of grating least privilege. This practice is trickier when defining what permissions to grant an automation user running Terraform in CI. Over the past year, our team has developed several strategies to scope down the permissions available to Terraform.

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