JavaScript
Business
Development
Vue.js
Vue vs. React in 2023 - Comparison of Two Most Popular JS Frameworks
Vue.js and React.js are two popular frontend frameworks in the developer world, switching top spot on the podium each year in the categories of "most loved, used or popular". Both tools offer developers a productive...
Maja Nowak
• April 6, 2023
Business
Cost Optimization
A Well-Defined Project Goal Saves You A Lot of Development Cost
While developing your next - surely - ground-breaking project, it is tempting to follow the Silicon Valley-darling rules: "go big or go home," "think different(ly)," or - last but not least - "fake it till you make it",...
Kaja Grzybowska
• April 3, 2023
Business
Development
Ruby/Rails
Why Ruby on Rails Is Still a Good Choice in 2023 [Updated]
Every year, we’re pelted by articles proclaiming the death of this gem of a framework. And while Ruby on Rails (RoR) is over 15 years old, it’s nowhere close to passing on from the programming world.
Maja Nowak
• March 15, 2023
Project Management
Business
Agile
Introduction To Agile Retrospectives: Project Manager Dos and Don'ts
I remember hearing about Agile for the first time. The concept behind it seemed pretty straightforward: sprints, planning sessions, and backlog—it all looked like it could really help us accomplish more in the same...
Business
Our Experience Working With Partners in the Middle East
Monterail has had exciting projects with Middle Eastern partners and also keeps a regular presence in the region: our team visits Dubai often for meetings and events, such as the Step Conference. These were fruitful...
Carlos Oliveira
• February 28, 2023
Business
Cost Optimization
Two Ways to Optimize Development Cost: Cheap Delivery or Maintenance
Success in the software market results from three factors: the ability to deliver products fast, at scale, and within the defined budget. Fast time-to-market guarantees that we outpace the competition that probably...
Kaja Grzybowska
• February 2, 2023
Business
HR Tech
The Biggest HR Tech Conferences in 2023
The HR technology market is thriving, delivering a bevy of innovative approaches to a field notorious for its slow adoption of tech-based solutions.
Maja Nowak
• December 20, 2022
Business
Cost Optimization
Development Cost Optimization: Don’t Commit These Mistakes
When you are about to wrap your unique business idea into a working app, it is incredibly tempting to go full steam ahead - to reach out for the sexiest technology alive, spice it up with custom-made features, and put...
Kaja Grzybowska
• December 19, 2022
Product Design
Business
Culture
User Experience
Product Design Process: Discovery Phase [Updated 2023]
Working with an outsourced team can be a challenge. Different locations, time zones, and sometimes even cultures. You're in one location, while your hired team is elsewhere, building what will become your product. How...
Paweł Hawrylak
• December 4, 2022
Business
React Native
Mobile Development
6 Apps Built with React Native You Should Know in 2023
Seven years ago, in 2016, React Native was presented to the mainstream audience. Released by Facebook and based on already popular React, the framework made a massive impact on the development world. React Native’s way...
Oskar Mieczkowski
• November 30, 2022
Business
AI
HR Tech
9 HR Technology Trends To Influence Your Business in 2023
By design, Human Resources is all about people. But does it mean that we should keep it away from technology? Quite the contrary.
Karolina Kurcwald
• November 15, 2022
Business
Culture
How We Build Long-term Business Partnerships
We’ve recently celebrated our twelfth birthday at Monterail, and while the list of our clients and the projects we helped develop has grown longer over the years, our willingness to share what we know remains the same....
Matylda Chmielewska
• October 25, 2022
Business
Culture
Agile
How We Handle the Remote-First Approach at Monterail [Updated 2023]
In January 2020, we introduced the remote-first approach to our organization as one of our Key Initiatives for that year. The shift seemed radical at a time - little did we know that soon enough it would become the...
Business
Ruby/Rails
Old Ruby Codebase – When to Update, What to Consider (Checklist)
A programming saying to live by is “code that you don’t touch gets rusty over time”. We have to realize that our piece of software is not a completely isolated, independent unit (even when using containerization like...
Jan Dudulski
• September 15, 2022
Business
Development
6 Best Tools For Collecting User Feedback From Your Web Application
Building a digital product with a customer-centric approach looks nothing like a production line. Clients' needs are in constant motion, nothing is set in stone once and for all, and iterations and updates can go on...
Kaja Grzybowska
• July 26, 2022
Python
Business
When to Use Python and How Can It Benefit Your Business?
When thinking about starting a project, we tend to get bogged down by uncertainty about which technology should be used for the best results, and where.