Our recruitment process is simple and has no secrets. We’ve written at length about tips & tricks on how to join Netguru and how pair programming helps us choose the best talent.

So you’ve decided to learn Ruby? Great to hear! It’s always a pleasure to introduce another person into the Ruby community.

This post will give you an idea what skills and knowledge are required for project managers and whether technical expertise is the protein or a spice.

How can you avoid the headache of having multiple heavy features or services on your web app? You may add more resources or refactor, or perhaps pile up on external services – but that doesn't help when users come back with more requests for new features.  We look at how combining Node.js with Lambda AWS and Serverless can solve some of these problems. 

What is augmented reality? Augmented reality has become quite a popular term in the past few years thanks to Google Glass, but the idea is older than the first Android phone. Do you remember the Terminator movie? The main hero’s vision mapped the nearby area and displayed additional information about objects or people. And that, in essence, was AR.

According to Statista, as of Q3 2019, there are almost 2.5 million apps in the Google Play store and 1.8 million apps in Apple’s AppStore. The demand for mobile apps is constantly growing. In 2018, the number of mobile app downloads worldwide reached 194 billion, compared to less than 145 billion in 2016.

Most web applications are fundamentally similar – they get input from users then process and store it. The end result usually shows the processed input to users in the form of an output. These applications are usually called CRUDs – this means that the infrastructure (the core components that work together) needed to support a typical product can stay almost the same for most startups. This article will show you the core components and how to design your infrastructure in a way that it is efficient, scalable and cost-effective.

Rapid advances in technology allow us to observe our environment on a larger scale and in greater detail. Due to this fact, the popularity of hyperspectral imaging is increasing, especially in agriculture, ecology and environmental monitoring, urban planning, and many more. Applications are limitless, such as detecting concentration of greenhouse gases, monitoring crop irrigation levels to prevent crop waste, or detecting and classifying pollution of water bodies.

Digital Transformation is in full swing in the banking sector, and it’s brought along a number of crucial advantages to financial institutions. But mobile banking – possibly the most important innovation from users’ perspective – comes with a number of risks. In this article, we will look at why security is such a complex issue for banking, and we’ll analyse ten security flaws that no mobile banking app should have.

Booking a room can sometimes be a challenge, especially when you are in a hurry and your meetings pop up unexpectedly. We all have situations in which we try to make a room reservation on the phone while moving from one place to another, which is not the most convenient option. That’s why at one of our hackathons we came up with an app which will allow us to make room reservations instantly, without having to open our computers and with minimal interaction with our phones.