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How To Find Product/Market Fit Once You Released Your MVP
Many technology startups fail because they waste too much time and money building things no one needs. 90% startups end up collapsing, and the majority of them do so because they lack product/market fit.
Monterail in the Financial Times 1000 List for the Second Time
Last year was proof that we can not only deliver meaningful, top-quality software for our partners but we also get recognized for our hard work and business results. We’re really proud to announce that Monterail was...
Guild Case Study: How We Used React Native to Share Over 80% of Code Between iOS, Android, and The Web
We started working with Guild around eighteen months ago, back when Ashley Friedlein and Matthew O’Riordan approached us with their idea for a messaging app for professional communication—a WhatsApp for business, as...
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Monterail's 9th Birthday
Monterail has just celebrated its ninth birthday! Isn’t this milestone a good opportunity to take a look at how we got here, draw some lessons from our experiences, and make plans for the future with even greater...
Top 7 HR Tech Events in Berlin to Attend in 2019 (June-December)
Technology is changing just about everything in how we do business and work these days. And when it comes to Human Resources, the change is not just about automating repetitive processes like payroll, but also – or...
How Will Your First Week At Monterail Look? — The Onboarding Process
There I was, taking a month off after I quit a job at a dynamic startup, trying to figure out where to apply next. I was sceptical about IT companies and reluctant to engage in futile job interviews, until a good friend...
HR Tech Market—What You Need to Know About It
You use them every day. Whether you work in a global enterprise or a disruptive start-up, they surround you and are quite indispensable at work. It’s them (and the accountant) who make sure everybody gets their payroll...
What Does It Mean to Be a Senior Dev at Monterail?
At Monterail, a developer's advancement is mostly concerned with a gradual increase of their responsibility for the team.
Why You Need Prototyping in Your Software Development
Imagine you are developing your next big project. Let’s say it is a web app that will be used by thousands of people and will take months to develop. This means a lot of billable hours for your developers, designers,...
How Event Storming Will Improve Your Business Processes
Ever since I started working with clients (that would be 6 years now!), and their evolving businesses, I’ve experienced these uncomfortable moments from time to time. These moments in the process of developing an...
How We Enhanced Our End-to-End Testing with Cypress.io
Automatic testing of web applications is bread and butter for any Quality Assurance specialist. But among so many testing suites available and various opinions about each of them, one can lose his bearings. We've come...
Is Vue.js Enterprise-Ready?—Large Scale Apps Use Cases
Being a frontend newcomer compared to other big players in the world of JavaScript such as React or Angular, Vue.js is increasingly used in large-scale projects. The growing maturity of the framework and its...
5 Rules for Clarity in Data Visualization
Have you ever wondered what makes data useful and meaningful? In the beginning, when the only thing before you is a sprawling set of data, it feels simple and honest, but doesn’t exactly say much. However, the moment...
How we Built a Highly Performant App with Ruby on Rails and Phoenix
So there you are: a backend developer with a few years’ experience in developing Ruby on Rails applications. Lucky for you, Ruby on Rails seems to be versatile enough to solve pretty much any problem you encountered...
How To Find Product/Market Fit Once You Released Your MVP
Many technology startups fail because they waste too much time and money building things no one needs. 90% startups end up collapsing, and the majority of them do so because they lack product/market fit.
Why Ruby on Rails Is Still a Good Choice in 2019
On the cusp of each new year, we’re usually pelted by articles proclaiming the death of this gem of a framework. And while Ruby on Rails is almost 15 years old, it’s nowhere close to passing on from the world of...
Vue vs. React in 2019: Which Framework to Choose and When
Vue and React are two frontend JavaScript frameworks popular in the developer world, with React taking the top spot on the podium for three consecutive years now. Both tools offer developers a productive approach to...
Monterail in the Financial Times 1000 List for the Second Time
Last year was proof that we can not only deliver meaningful, top-quality software for our partners but we also get recognized for our hard work and business results. We’re really proud to announce that Monterail was...
All The Numbers From The State of Vue.js Report 2019
The popularity of the last edition of State of Vue.js surpassed our expectations. We got over 8k downloads from people all around the world. Many of them used the report to convince their teach leads, CTOs, or even...