The New York (NYC) tech ecosystem (Silicon Alley) currently ranks no. 2 in the country only behind Silicon Valley. Silicon Alley owes its dynamic growth since the mid-2000s to NYC’s large capital reserves and the developed financial market, efficient technical infrastructure, and deep synergies with old industries (e.g insurance, banking). Thanks to these facilitators, the NYC tech scene today hosts many world-famous tech companies, such as BuzzFeed, Etsy, MongoDB, FourSquare, Kickstarter, just to name a few. Despite the fact that NYC’s tech ecosystem is maturing, it’s still one of the fastest growing tech hubs in the United States which draws vast amounts of venture funding, startup exits, and acquisitions.
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Mobile application development doesn’t have to be an uphill job that consumes loads of time and resources. There are many different mobile-oriented solutions which facilitate development. One particular toolkit has quickly gained popularity. It provides a strictly mobile-oriented experience and comes from one of the most respected brands in the mobile development community. It’s called Realm Mobile Platform.
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Mobile analytics provide you with the information that you can leverage in taking data-driven decisions to improve engagement, promote retention and increase the revenue. Choosing the right tool for mobile analytics has an impact on your profits and the future growth. The cheat sheet will help you make the right choice.
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Running a business is a constant fight to increase efficiency and to simplify complex processes. Challenges pop up every day and you struggle to solve them. If only you had a proven method that would help you successfully sort out the issues.
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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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Ruby on Rails: Pros & Cons. What You Should Know Before Choosing The Technology
Michał Poczwardowski
Selecting a technology in which you will develop a web app is a challenge that every product or business owner has to face. If you make the right choice, it will give you a solid base for growth and expansion. If you choose wrong though, it may cost you an arm and a leg.
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Node.js vs Ruby on Rails Comparison: Which Environment to Choose for Your Next Project?
Natalia Chrzanowska
Node.js and Ruby on Rails (RoR) are two popular server-side solutions for web application development. Despite the fact that both environments can manage apps of any complexity, they are built around different concepts and architectures.
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Yes, technical writing can save your software project. And if the project doesn't need saving, it will save you time, money and, in the long run, lots of effort.
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Most web applications are fundamentally similar. They get input from users and then process and store it. The end result usually shows the processed input to users in the form of an output. Such applications are usually called CRUDs (create, read, update and delete). This means that the infrastructure (the core components that work together) needed to support a typical product can stay almost the same for the majority of different kinds of startups. In this article, I show what are those core components and how to design the infrastructure in a way that it is efficient, scalable (it grows along with the product) and cost-effective.
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Businesses hoping to harmonise and streamline their operations often look into adopting an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and its associated software. But nightmare stories abound, about how complex, expensive, and frustrating such installations can be.
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