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At Solution Street, we believe recruiting is much more than filling an open position. It is about building relationships with talented professionals long before the right opportunity exists. That is why we encourage candidates to stay connected with us, even if the timing isn’t perfect. This philosophy has become increasingly important as recruiting continues to […]
Often when I talk to customers about using AI tools – especially ones that use Large Language Models (LLMs) – I inevitably get asked questions about the security and privacy of their data when using these models. It is not the question itself that surprises me (it’s a great and important question), but rather often […]
Last Friday afternoon, I received that call that no one wants – from the fraud department at my bank. They called to inform me that someone had hijacked one of my checks in the mail, doctored it up and deposited it at another bank. Kudos to both the other bank and mine for being on […]
For years, the business case for offshore software development was straightforward: lower labor costs. Companies could hire large teams of offshore engineers to handle coding, testing, maintenance, and other labor-intensive development activities at a fraction of the cost of U.S.-based talent. In our opinion this worked for large teams/projects of over 50 people. But two […]
June 25th, 2026
In today’s fast-paced world of web development, building apps that are solid, accessible, and easy to maintain is super important. We often get caught up in making things look good, but the actual bones of our web pages – the HTML – is an often overlooked part of the puzzle. The <div> Soup Div Soup: […]
May 26th, 2026
At a recent technical meetup, Solution Street consultant Ryan Gehl delivered a practical and wide-ranging presentation titled Amplifying Engineering Skills with Claude Code. The session focused on how developers can use Claude Code not simply as an autocomplete tool, but as a true engineering collaborator capable of accelerating coding, technical research, experimentation, and even lightweight […]
April 19th, 2026
Overview LocalStack is an advanced cloud service emulator that runs entirely on your local machine. It provides a robust local environment that mirrors essential AWS services, including S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda, among many others. This capability allows developers to perform local development and testing efficiently, significantly reducing the need to provision and manage actual resources […]
March 24th, 2026
Where It Started My son is trying to run a photography and design business, and we realized the process for delivering photos to customers needed improvement. Until now it’s all been manual – he takes the photos, edits them, adds watermarks, creates PayPal invoices, and sends everything through email. It works, but it’s slow and […]
February 21st, 2026
Introduction The latest Northern Virginia Software Architecture Roundtable (NOVA SART) meetup, hosted by Solution Street, featured a deep dive into one of the most consequential shifts happening in enterprise data engineering today: the migration from traditional ETL platforms to modern, AI-ready architectures built on platforms such as Databricks. Hirenkumar Dholariya, a senior data engineering architect […]
January 22nd, 2026
As part of my personal goals in 2025, I investigated voice cloning and text-to-speech technology. Specifically, I focused on OpenVoice 2’s instant voice cloning for a personal project that revolved around audiobook narration and production. In this document, I recorded my findings in the format of a technical walkthrough. The availability of AI-driven Text-to-Speech (TTS) […]
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