Technology: insights from people who build products

Metaverse is a unique and revolutionary trend that takes the digital entertainment industry to the next level. The meaning of metaverse is simple: you can play games, make virtual friends, purchase virtual land, and build your dream estate here.  Despite the high market competition, Sandbox and Decentraland are top 3D...

Compliance has always been challenging for the FinTech industry. However, the regulatory environment has become even more complex in the last few years. For example, In September 2019, the transition period to the new standards of the EU Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) ended. Among others, financial companies had t...

NFTs (non fungible-tokens) marked the beginning of the new concept called the metaverse. With the advent of Meta, Facebook declared a gradual transition to an augmented reality experience using NFTs. It will become the foundation of next-generation social media.  Moreover, NFT and the metaverse also include game mechan...

The end of the 20th century marked the beginning of the Third Industrial Revolution, leading to the vigorous development of digital technologies for decades. However, such a rapid pace of growth only intensified the formation of the so-called consumer society and affected the planet’s ecology. And now, when the natural...

Many famous companies did not look like their early-stage ancestors. For example, Slack was a minor messaging feature of a game called Glitch and Flickr was conceived as an image-saving tool for the Game Neverending. Then, the founders decided to give up on the entire entertaining idea, focus on an in-built tool and de...

For decades, enterprises followed the strategy of total redesigning the company website every X years. Business owners often saw a redesign project as a universal tool for problem-solving. Sales have dropped, users spend less time browsing the site, and conversion is decreasing — let’s redesign our platform and fix eve...

To provide a quality user experience, you should ensure that you choose a proper way of managing data in your app. Moreover, this data must be carefully stored so intruders cannot access it. You cannot rely on the well-designed app’s interface and clean and lean code until you provide quality receiving, processing and...

Building the right customer-vendor relationship is vital for successful project completion. In the world of custom software development, each pricing model has its pros and cons, both for the customer and the contractor. The Time and Material model is a widespread form of financial collaboration that works perfectly in...

A successful project starts with planning and evaluation. Without a detailed roadmap, you risk ending up in the chaos of missed deadlines, underestimated tasks, and failed objectives. Agile story points estimation methods help developers see the bigger picture and update a client on approximate budgets and timeframes....

Creating an embedded system with further integration into the IoT architecture requires having skills, particular knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of the project needs. Such a development process comprises multiple layers of tech solutions, so you have to consider many risks.  You should have vast experience...

The estimation process is a common headache that agile teams face. At first glance, it is extremely simple: you have to predict the amount of effort to complete a particular pool of tasks. But estimation is a two-way street — it can benefit you while breaking a large user story into short and easy tasks, but one wrong...

IT outsourcing has attracted massive attention and turned into a thriving industry as the overall global market valuation was $526.6 billion in 2021. Plus, it will gain an additional $155.7 billion by 2027. This growth is caused by the increased demand for digitalisation and advanced products.  In addition to China and...