At Vulcan, we often talk about our power to convene people. Time after time, we're reminded that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and partnerships are a key aspect to success in the Impact space. Read on to learn more about our approach to partnerships.

The Holodome is a platform that renders 360 content without the use of head mounted displays. Learn more about its history, evolution, the technology that supports it, and the team that built it in this latest blog post!

The Allen Coral Atlas builds its two core products, maps of the world’s coral reefs and a monitoring system for those reefs, on imagery from Planet’s Dove satellites. Learn about the first set of data processing steps we are taking as we turn those images into maps and a monitoring system.

Elasticsearch® is a powerful and widely-used document store, which is easy to get up and running out of the box. However, production-grade operations and monitoring have some gotchas. Read what Vulcan's Impact team has learned about running Elasticsearch® on Kubernetes® in production.

On the Impact team at Vulcan, we're often asked how do we measure results, how do we measure success. While there are are a number of ways this is done in the commercial world, how to do this at the intersection of tech and philanthropy requires some more thought. Read on to learn how we measure impact here, at Vulcan.

Our oceans help feed our planet, support millions of jobs around the world, generate trillions of dollars in economic activity every year, and support most of the world’s life. But the health of our oceans is under threat from unsustainable practices like illegal fishing in protected areas, while human, arms, resource and drug smuggling on the ocean threatens the safety and health of communities across the globe. Learn more about how we're using data and machine learning to protect our oceans.

Happy New Year! And with the New Year, we're sharing a few of the sources that one can go to get news about conservation, environment, climate, and its intersection with technology.

Take a look back at 2018 with the Impact Team. We look back and explore some highlights and milestones, what inspired and fueled us and peak into what's in store for the new year!

Fast-paced software projects can experience bottlenecks at the continuous integration (CI) phase of the software development lifecycle. Click through to learn how the we're transforming the developer experience to move full systems integration testing earlier in the traditional CI workflow.

The Idea Velocity of an organization is defined by the time the organization takes to ship a well-defined idea into a customer’s hand. As such, Idea Velocity is a high order metric that an organization’s leaders should strive to optimize. In this blog post, I capture my take on significant attributes that directly impact an organization’s Idea Velocity.

The Allen Coral Atlas aims to empower educated coral protection and restoration, so that reefs eventually flourish. Charlie, the Product Manager of the Allen Coral Atlas project recently had the opportunity to travel to Sri Lanka to work with coral conservationists there. Click to read more about the trip, the partners we're working with, and how conservationists have reacted to the Allen Coral Atlas.

At Vulcan, we are investigating using machine learning to spot poaching in aerial imagery. Find out how we’re hoping to leverage ML alongside the expert knowledge of African park rangers to more reliably direct ranger resources and help them protect African ecosystems so that they remain untouched and vibrant for years to come.

Modernizing Wildlife Surveys with Machine Learning (MWS) is a project at Vulcan, in which we aim to make getting wildlife population estimates easier and reduce the amount of error at the same time. Read on to learn more about why this is important and what we can do about it.

Working on the Impact team at Vulcan is pretty unique. #OnlyAtVulcan can you work on curbing carbon emissions, wildlife conservation, stopping bad actors, and more, all in one day. Read on to learn more about what some of the topics Vulcan is concerned about and how Product Management fits in.

Recently, Vulcan held its 4th annual EarthRanger Conference. The EarthRanger Conference brings together leaders from various Protected Areas across Africa. Click to keep reading and learn more about EarthRanger, the conference, and the ways we make an Impact in Wildlife Conservation.

Today, it was announced that Paul Allen has passed away. The Impact Team shares our deepest condolences with the Allen family.

Last week, we announced the Vulcan Machine Learning Center for Impact (VMLCI). Learn more about the challenges and opportunities we face when tackling machine learning (ML) problems in the philanthropic space and what may be in store for the future of ML at Vulcan.

Welcome to Concept Notes: Vulcan Engineering Blog. Within the engineering team at Vulcan, we strive to build solutions to create a better world. But we can't do it alone. We've created this blog as one of the ways to share ideas and start conversations. Read on to learn more about what we do, and what to expect from the Vulcan Engineering Blog.