What is DevOps and How Does It Work?
DevOps is a methodology blending development and operations to enhance collaboration, productivity, and efficiency in software development. It eliminates barriers between stages of the development life cycle, focusing on continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. Key principles include automation, lean processes, and culture sharing. DevOps accelerates deployment, improves software quality, and fosters innovation. Companies like Amazon and Etsy have leveraged DevOps to boost deployment speed and adaptability, demonstrating its market advantage. Despite challenges like cultural shifts and skill gaps, DevOps enables organizations to meet dynamic market demands effectively.
CSS Creator Håkon Wium Lie Interview
We had a nice chat with Håkon Wium Lie, a prominent figure in the web industry. Håkon has made significant contributions as a standards activist and web pioneer. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the company was acquired by new owners in 2016. Håkon is most notably recognized for his work in the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) while collaborating with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.
What is smart outstaffing, and why should you use it?
Smart outstaffing or smart staffing is a modern approach to IT outsourcing focused on a more efficient way to collaborate with remote teams. Like conventional outstaffing, it includes hiring and managing developers. However, with the smart method, the customer acquires not just people with the set of necessary competencies, they also get access to the entire expertise of the contracting company. The emphasis is on the knowledge of not just one specialist but of a whole group that has relevant experience in many areas.
Hiring Remote Developers Vs. Developer Relocation — What To Choose in 2023?
The rise in remote work over the past few years has brought about a significant shift in the way companies hire and manage their employees. As a result, many organizations are faced with a choice between hiring remote developers or relocating in-person developers.
Technokratos: Localizing a marketplace with complex language requirements
Since 2015, Technokratos has been helping large businesses grow and develop through mobile apps, web services, and consulting. Like us, they develop digital services for a variety of industries, including fintech, ecommerce, etc.
START: Developing an A/B testing platform for a streaming service
START is an online cinema partly owned by Megafon. In 2021, START turned to Evrone with the task of creating a separate service for A/B testing. Its function is to accept a request with a user ID, distribute it among current experiments, and give this information back.
Mindbox: Redesigning an automated marketing platform
Mindbox is a cloud-based marketing automation platform for client companies. It helps them control email campaigns, set up personalization, and manage loyalty. Mindbox also removes the load from internal IT systems and allows you to transfer the collection, storage, and management of client data to a cloud-based CRM system with convenient management.
JSON Creator Douglas Crockford Interview
We had a nice chat with Douglas Crockford, a well-known American computer programmer who was involved in the development of the JavaScript language. Douglas is the author of How JavaScript Works. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format, the world’s most loved data format.
Teaching web applications to read QR codes and barcodes
Barcodes and QR codes are almost everywhere. We buy goods, pay bills, and even make purchases with them. Therefore, our customers require barcode scanner software solutions. On one of our projects in 2020, we were faced with the need to add barcode scanning to the Loreal Academy web application for product accounting. As a result, we checked all the available solutions that offer the ability to read barcodes online from a web application, and we will talk about their pros and cons in the article.
C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Interview
We had a great talk with Bjarne Stroustrup, the designer and original implementer of C++. He is also the author of The C++ Programming Language (Fourth Edition), A Tour of C++ (Second edition), Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition), and many popular academic publications.