Software Development

Java has been the go-to coding language for decades, but as advancements in big data processing continue to emerge, Java developers are forced to learn new skills and explore additional programming languages. That is especially true when developers start working with massive amounts of data and need more elegant solutions, faster. As an alternative to […]

Believe it or not, it’s near impossible to develop bug-free software. Even the world’s most widely used applications have noticeable defects here and there, despite having large teams of Quality Assurance (QA) experts behind them. It’s a common misconception that QA teams should uncover every single bug through testing. In fact, their main objective is […]

While there are plenty of cases in life where vendor loyalty is rewarding, cloud services do not fall under this category. Full dependence on any one vendor is a dangerous thing as you’re trusting that it will be around forever or is impervious to a security breach. If you’re locked in with a single vendor […]

In the mad rush to capitalize on the benefits of the cloud, organizations are still overlooking one vital aspect: cloud security. When considering that 49% of cloud databases are not encrypted and 83% of company workloads will take place in the cloud by 2020, the opportunity for enterprise vulnerabilities is staggering. Breaches like this can […]

News of Blockchain’s potential has reverberated throughout almost every industry this past decade, and the hype is justified. In Deloitte’s 2019 Global Blockchain Survey, 53% of senior executives expressed that blockchain has become a critical priority for their organizations this year, up 10 percentage points since 2018. Furthermore, 83% see compelling use cases for the […]

As enterprise software platforms expand in complexity and importance, performance anomalies have become a serious threat that can result in millions of dollars in losses. Faced with this challenge, performance engineering experts have begun utilizing machine learning algorithms to predict performance issues, remedy them, and even avoid them altogether. Machine learning solutions can analyze and […]

The ability to make better business decisions relies on better access to information, which companies are finding through the implementation of data lakes. Data lakes are centralized repositories that can be used to store all of a company’s structured and unstructured data at any scale. They allow businesses to rapidly harness more data from more […]

Coding, deployment, monitoring, staging; everything within the software development lifecycle should be performance-oriented. If not, one of them quickly becomes a weak link and will negatively impact the rest. Maintaining this strict level of performance requires complete visibility, which means monitoring every stage and aligning stakeholders with the performance engineering strategy. In this article, we […]

As stakeholders in Colombia push for more sustainable and robust practices in CSR (corporate social responsibility), the importance of this necessary organizational movement is now being more widely recognized across the country. CSR in Colombia has traditionally been focused on philanthropic efforts with very little long-term impact. It is often seen as an endeavor for […]

As demand for high-performing, long-lasting software increases, time and materials contracts have become much more common in the software development outsourcing world, but there are still a few doubts about how their open-ended structure can be beneficial. Time and materials contracts generally involve the ability to work directly with an outsourcing company’s development team at […]

The software development outsourcing industry is experiencing a performance revolution, which marks a new level of technological progress in the sector. This dedication to performance is prominent in the American nearshore region, as US-based clients and their customers increasingly demand higher quality software that performs at superior levels of excellence. As demand for software grows, […]

As software becomes more complex across the board, new techniques emerge that simplify and improve the software development lifecycle, particularly within the area of product performance. Thanks to its natural compatibility with performance analysis, data science is a particularly valuable discipline for software development outsourcing companies as they aim for higher levels of excellence in […]