To thrive in an increasingly competitive business environment, it is vital that you make your company as agile and flexible as possible. You need to be able to spot opportunities and pain points in the market and react to them before your rivals. 

Great news, Netguru is getting bigger again! 💪 We’re joining forces with 7ninjas, an agency specialized in custom software development. As a result, we’re onboarding 12 new people from their team, including UI Designers, front-end developers, React, Python and Node.js developers, as well as a Project Manager, a Pre-Sales Consultant, and an Office Coordinator.

Making sure your teams works like a well-oiled machine is no easy task. That said, it’s a task you should be committed to throughout the project to make sure the efficiency is maintained, instead of only achieving it temporarily. Maintaining the efficiency of our teams is one of the most important roles of a Project Manager in Netguru. While we tend to it in every project, there is no universal recipe for it, as each of our team setups is unique.

Refactoring essentially means improving your existing code without changing its functionality. It’s all about code quality and optimisation – not product redesign. Users never see the changes. So why do it? Because ultimately, refactoring can prevent your app from generating huge upkeep costs and save you money – making your business more successful.

At some point, you will have to decide where to host your amazing RoR application. Choosing between dozens of excellent hosting providers might not be so easy as each provider has its own trade-offs in terms of price, deployment / configuration flexibility, and scalability to name a few. To make your choice easier, we have compared five major RoR hosting providers – depending on your application requirements and budget you can make the right choice about where to host your application. 

Behind any product, business strategy, or excellent idea, stand people. They try hard to outthink the competition, and even early market success or scooping a hefty funding rund don’t let them rest.

A few years back, hybrid apps built with Ionic, Cordova or PhoneGap were a perfect and cost-effective alternative to native development. However, with technology moving forward, they might not meet users’ expectations anymore. React Native is a good alternative that can save your app from going under.

Stanisław Zalewski is a Senior Python Developer, responsible for building high quality apps that meet clients’ needs, supporting colleagues with his knowledge and experience, and helping with recruitment to the Python team. He feels right at home here and works towards a promotion to the leader position. He didn’t join Netguru the usual way, but through a merger between Netguru and Bitcraft, Stanisław’s previous company. According to him, the change was fast and smooth, and he’s happy to be where he is today.

Great and successful developers are often responsible but not necessarily so. Responsibility means that you know yourself and your own limitations while also maintaining awareness of what the project requires. I will try to explain who exactly is a responsible developer and why it’s fortunate to have one (or more) on board.

Ruby on Rails provides an excellent development ecosystem for building high performing web applications. It’s fast, reliable and supported by a massive community of talented Ruby on Rails developers –  we have leveraged this technology in most of our web development projects giving our clients the best solutions on the market.  But we’re not the only company using RoR – Airbnb, GitHub, SlideShare, Dribbble, Bloomberg, CrunchBase, and Shopify (to name a few) have also trusted Ruby on Rails and used it in their applications. Here is our roundup of the top 34 companies using Ruby on Rails in 2019.