In this piece we will look into the changes coming in .NET framework during 2020 and ways to get ready for the transformation ahead. It’s always complicated to update your old stack in small increments. There are some strategies that could help you to handle these changes.

It seems that React is doing it again. Rumour has it, that Q1 of 2020 is when the React team will ship a production version of the library, in which they’ll be including their new Concurrent Mode paradigm. Remember in February 2019, when we were all hustling to learn Hooks? I do, with fondness. It felt refreshing to finally have a good excuse to move away from Class components and their confusingly named lifecycle methods, streamlining code and enhancing readability. Buzzword this time is Concurrency. So, I gathered all the official documentation and a few examples, and sat down to […]

As remote work has become a must rather than a choice, we thought it may be useful to share a few things that helped us in managing remote teams. We have had a few hiccups along the way, but we have learned valuable lessons and today we are operating a business, able to fully adapt to and sustain remote work.

At Zartis.com, we’ve been operating a remote-oriented business with 100+ engineers. The article below is an overview of the main takeaways from our experience and interviews, conducted with our engineers.

When building software, you are in a constant state of decision-making. Size is involved in plenty of these critical decisions. That is why size matters. In this post we will make a small introduction to these elements and cover them in more detail in future tech blog-pieces.   Everytime we are making a decision, we should have the following sentence in our mind:   “We are people creating software for a purpose in a context”.   

The rise in popularity of agile methodologies and increasing adoption of DevOps has had a big impact on quality assurance (QA) and testing. The use of iterations in the Agile process, and DevOps’ reliance on continuous integration and delivery (CICD) have prompted a movement from manual testing towards automation testing. Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET), QAs and Testers focused on automation are far more commonplace in engineering teams than even a few years ago, and the framework options are growing on an almost daily basis. So how do you decide which test automation framework is the right one? In […]

If you’re a developer and you like to stay on top of things, chances are you’ve heard the term “Observables” by now. If you haven’t, you’re welcome, this is for you. And if you’re already familiar, well, this article might give them a new spin. First off, I want to make clear that this take on Observables is one based on my own struggles and experiences. Rather than giving you the academic blabber about what the RxJS docs and API specs state word-by-word, I’d rather tell them as I would have liked someone to tell me. This is my added […]

As part of our research into the factors that drive growth for tech companies, we spoke with Bartosz Robaszewski from the company Look4App, a software consultancy specializing in Blockchain technology. Bartosz shared some interesting insights during our conversation. Company Mindset: First up came the topic of mindset. For Bartosz, the most important thing is to have a growth mindset, without obsessing about the numbers – if a company can focus on continually growing its capabilities and the quality of its offering, everything else will go well, including revenue and profitability.  Team’s State of Mind: Another nice aspect of our discussion […]

This week we spoke with Ivan Gowan as part of the research into our forthcoming book on scaling a tech company. Ivan runs two businesses – Capital.com and Currency.com. While the two businesses are fairly complementary, the regulated nature of financial services has meant that the companies need to be kept separate. The most interesting insight to emerge from our discussion was the importance of aligning your business with the interests of your customers. Both of Ivan’s companies provide a platform for private individuals to trade – in the case of Currency.com there is a strong focus on trading crypto […]