Zaporizhia Tech Ecosystem 2021

Ukraine has been recognized as a rapidly developing IT hub for several years now. It has earned numerous awards as the best outsourcing destination in Eastern Europe and maintains a leader in this domain. The turbulent 2020 has surpassed any other year by the number of exported IT services – a staggering $5 billion, which

How to Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

An MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is a product equipped only with basic features that should be enough to meet the needs of early adopters and attract their attention. For instance, it can be a tool with a single function. Building an MVP is crucial for tech startups, and here is why. Building an MVP allows

IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS: Examples and Difference

The cloud computing market has been steadily growing over the last couple of years, and it is expected to reach a staggering $400 billion in revenue by 2022. The reason behind such widespread adoption of cloud services is simple: businesses are continuously searching for more efficient ways to deliver their services and manage their workforce.

How Redwerk Contributes to Open Source Projects: Freenet Example

Open source projects have always been a major topic for discussion among IT professionals worldwide. Over the decades, open source software grew from free apps coded by passionate enthusiasts to globally adopted enterprise solutions and a rapidly developing multi-billion industry. Nowadays, you can hardly find a business that doesn’t use open source products in its

Redwerk + Microsoft: How We Implement the Time-Proven Standards

If we look back at 2020, one thing is certain: the year is one for the history books. Yet it also goes down in Redwerk history, albeit for brighter reasons. The year marked a significant milestone for Redwerk: our company obtained a long-deserved partnership with Microsoft. Entering a new decade, Redwerk professionals are fully equipped

Top Tech Events in 2021: Quarter 4 Ultimate Guide

Top Tech Events in 2021 The Ultimate Guide by Redwerk Quarter 4: October, November, December Attending tech events is an excellent opportunity for IT experts to gain knowledge and establish new valuable connections. However, the pandemic changed everything and is still affecting the world: traveling became more complicated, while event organizers face numerous restrictions and

MobX vs. Redux: Choosing The Right State Management Solution

When working with popular frameworks like React or Vue, we must organize convenient storage and manage the application state. For example, React allows one to manage the state of components out of the box using this.setState and this.state. Yet, with application growth comes the need for communication between components that often results in insufficient functionality.

E-Commerce Trends in 2021

Staying competitive has always been a motivating factor for every company hoping to remain viable for a long time. As a retailer, large business, or startup, you need to monitor changing consumer habits and online shopping trends. And these changes don’t get more significant than the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown’s unprecedented nature has caused a

Work-Life Balance Examples: Best Initiatives to Become Top Employer

Work-life balance is one of those topics that have been discussed countless times, but still no one can agree on what it is and how to attain this miraculous equilibrium. Some view work-life balance as an opportunity to work no more than 8 hours a day and still have time to hit the gym, run

Animations in Android Image Loaders: Comparison of Picasso, Glide, and Fresco

A modern Android application is hard to imagine without image loaders. They take over the rough work of loading asynchronously, processing errors, displaying placeholders, caching, and transforming pictures. Process automatization exempts the developer from the need to “reinvent the wheel”, giving an opportunity to focus on writing business logic instead of boilerplate code. As of