A digital bank for SMEs, an online marketplace for business loans, a corporate credit card provider, and a company providing banking services to microentrepreneurs in Africa and China - a fintech revolution has come to France. We present the 10 hottest fintechs from Paris right now.
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Google IO started 2 days ago, and, as usual, we’ve got a lot of amazing news straight from Mountain View. One of the jaw-dropping announcements was the newest feature of the cross-platform development framework, Flutter.
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It’s been quite a while since talked about our failures here. Since then, we've made some new mistakes but used each of them as an opportunity to grow and we would like to share with you the lessons we learned. In Netguru, we strive to deliver the best work possible, but, we admit, we sometimes fail and, as long as we don’t make the same mistake twice, we accept it as a part of the learning curve. Today, I’d like to tell you about the popular mistakes a PM can make (and we know because we’ve made them all) so that you can avoid them in your daily work.
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Good mobile app architecture is the foundation of all well-designed software. However, when it comes to mobile applications or platforms, there’s always been a problem with a good architecture. In the case of Android, it might be because Google doesn’t support or even recommend any specific architecture. Apple, on the other hand, suggested the MVC architecture for UIKit, but their proposal aroused a lot of controversy and many experts claimed it was not a good solution. In this blogpost we’ll try to figure out how to choose the right architecture for mobile app development.
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Mobile applications have been with us for more than 10 years. Within that time, the mobile development market has significantly changed. At the beginning developers were limited to native platform-specific applications which were not able to work on different systems. The growing demand for mobile apps brought new ideas for shortening development time. And that’s how cross-platform development was born. Near-native platforms, such as React Native or Flutter, are gaining ground and offering better opportunities to build native-like experiences. Today, we want to discuss the pros and cons of such solutions.
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Traveling has never been easier before. We’ve got access to the most remote places in the world thanks to the plethora of offers to choose from. Tour operators, carriers and hotels fight to win clients, and as a result of massive competitiveness, we get lower prices and better offers. In theory. The wide range of options might cause confusion and decrease transparency on the market.
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Whenever you aim to completely change the way the industry operates, expect the road to be bumpy. That is especially true for any fintech app or service. At Netguru, we are proud to have the opportunity to work with those founders who are aware but not stymied by these challenges ahead.
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Swap is a P2P mobile payment app that allows users to send money to anyone on their contact list, any bank account, and any debit card number. The application has already established itself on the Mexican FinTech market. However, after the project matured, Swap's team needed help in adjusting the design to include new services and functionalities. They hired an external design team to help them with the transformation. It worked.
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When it comes to software development, selecting the right architecture should be a vital part of the planning phase, as it lays a strong foundation for almost every project. However, this step is often ignored, especially in mobile app development, where choosing the right architecture can be tricky - for various reasons. But a lack of good architecture may lead to some serious issues during the development process... So you really have to implement one, and you have to do it right — both in order to avoid potential problems that may arise and to speed up the entire development process.
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The Business Direction of Ruby on Rails Framework - a Revolution or an Evolution?
Michał Poczwardowski
In spring 2019 the version 6.0 will arrive. It triggered a reflection on the direction of Rails. The sixth version is on the horizon with changes that are exciting but also safe for business – a lot has changed since version 1.0. Version 1.0 was released in December 2005. The Rails core team is aligned with the business needs on the market better than ever. What does it mean in practice and what does it mean for the future of creating digital products?
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