How We Found a Cool Way to Link Business and DevOps
The DevOps philosophy, about development and software maintenance, will not surprise anyone. A new trend is gaining strength – DevOps 2.0 or BizDevOps. In it, three components merge into a single whole: business, development and support. And as DevOps engineering practices come form the basis…
What or who is DevOps?
In the life of every successful project, comes a moment when the number of servers begins to increase rapidly. The server with the application needs to cope with the load and you have to put into operation several more servers and a balancer in front…
Will automation replace manual testing or no?
We decided to write our opinion about the thinking, that the automation of testing will replace the testers themselves. First of all, because quite often we hear a similar opinion among the Junior QA, who is just taking his first steps in testing and is…
Your perfect tester
From time to time we need to find a tester. The scope of the search can be different: urgent or not, several or one, with certain skills or just an adequate junior. The questions always come to one thing – how to understand that we…
How to reduce costs and provide optimal IT support for a business model. Types of business analysis
Static analysis of applications Business logic and process logic are implemented using source code and related software structures and libraries. However, often the source code is a „spaghetti code” without a clear structure, which negatively affects the recognition and change of business logic. Natural Engineer,…
How to reduce costs and provide optimal IT support for a business model. Part 1
Achieving a balance between cost savings and optimal business model support remains one of the key challenges for many IT departments. They also need to figure out how to adapt the amount of IT support to the needs of the business model and at the…
How to forget about MS Word. Implemantation of Confluence
To implement Confluence, we choose two specialists from the technical writer’s department who studied and tested the capabilities of the tool. For continuous technical support, the system administrator’s department assigned us one specialist. He quickly responded to technical problems and helped to understand the basic…
How to forget about MS Word and get new automation process in business
MS Word regularly gives us “surprises”: “moved” screenshots, “floating” tables, blank pages when printing. This article is about how we were looking for a replacement for MS Word (and actually didn’t find), but found an opportunity to improve our documentation process globally. At App Soft,…
IOS app development: Swift or Objective-C?
The Swift language, as expected by its creators, is intended not only to replace Objective-C as a base for developing iOS applications, but also to replace C in all other areas, including IoT. But if Swift were as good as they say, then it would…
iOS development: quick start methods. Swift 4, Ionic, Phonegap / Cordova, Xamarin
Swift 4 This change is separate. Everyone who has already experienced the feeling of “In Swift 2 it was and is missing in Swift 3 ?!” can feel deja vu, but now changes are expected, rather, for the better. So: Applications written in Swift 4…