Posts about Business
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
How Our Office Design Helps Us Develop Better Software
One of the risks of collaborating with external vendors is working with people from some agency whom you don’t see on a daily basis. This means you don’t really know how they work and how professional they really are....
Everything You Need to Know About Outsourcing Software Development to a Polish Company
Companies outsource software development to improve various areas of business operations—for example, reduce operating costs, free up internal resources, or speed up time-to-market. Less obviously, outsourcing...
A Recap of 2018 in Eleven Points
Each January, we celebrate the ups and try to learn something from the downs that we had to deal with over the course of the past year. In 2018, the highs far outweighed the lows so, in keeping with last year's...
Working With Legacy Code — How Refactoring Let Us Escape The Black Hole
I’m pretty much sure that sooner or later every developer finds themselves working on a project that makes them face the issue of legacy code. For those lucky dogs who still haven’t experienced it firsthand—legacy code...
Crafting Visual Stories Using Data and Information
In October 2018 I was invited to give a talk at the fifth Future of Design meetup, called The Beauty of Data. My talk was called “Crafting a story in data visualization”.
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