- March 30, 2018
- 10 min read
What is blockchain? In the recent time, the blockchain technology has become increasingly popular on the Internet. Unfortunately, not so many people understand what is it. Blockchain is a child of a genius, known under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. In the 2008’s publication, he defined his invention as a «peer-to-peer electronic cash system». He
- January 30, 2018
- 9 min read
When we hear “Ruby”, we frequently associate it with “Ruby on Rails”. Rails is a very functional and popular framework that is widely used for building APIs and web-applications. Rails consists of independent gems and ActiveRecord is one of them. This powerful gem simplifies operations with databases, allows to work with them in an object-oriented
- January 23, 2018
- 7 min read
Mentioning JNI lots of programmers subconsciously experience some unexplainable fear. JNI looks suspiciously difficult, and at first glance its mechanism resembles magic. However, those who looked closer into it highly appreciate its properties. If you haven’t heard about this technology, Java Native Interface or JNI is a standard Java mechanism that allows Java code to
- November 16, 2017
- 2 min read
Washington is considered to be one of the centers of information technology development. This state has the highest demand for IT professionals, the number of which exceeds tens of thousands. The number of jobs in IT is growing every year as the best companies and start-ups have a need in talented developers. According to various studies, Washington falls into the list of states, with the most qualified experts in the field of developing algorithms and programming in Python, Java, Ruby and C ++. Probably, the headquarters of Amazon, Zillow and Microsoft are not in vain located here.
- September 13, 2017
- 12 min read
Our company has been developing software for more than 12 years. And around a half of our projects are high-load multi-threaded distributed systems. Therefore, our developers use state-of-the-art technologies and latest frameworks in the process. In this article, we will focus on two recent frameworks mentioned Play, and ASP.NET Web API. Play Framework Lately, much
- August 31, 2017
- 3 min read
Beyond being the homeland of Nokia and maybe some essential nuggets of geography, how much do you know about eastern Scandinavia?
Well, Finland boasts the tech and startup scene rise in the recent years. And a growing number of digital companies needs a constant increase of qualified specialists...
- August 31, 2017
- 6 min read
Reactive Extensions (Rx) are a set of methods and interfaces that provide a rapid, easy to maintain and understand ways to solve Java developers problems. You got it right, Rx is a set of tools to help you write elegant yet simpler code. In case with Java, adding Rx library allows you to orchestrate multiple
- February 24, 2017
- 3 min read
Studying demand for software development technologies in the US, it’s hard to avoid Massachusetts as one of the leaders in creating tech workforce. No wonder – Harward, MIT, Boston University, and numerous other geeky colleges are situated in this state. Though nearly one in ten Massachusetts workers is employed in a tech field, programming continues
- September 14, 2016
- 2 min read
Following the demand for software development technologies around the globe,
we’ve chosen Belgium for our recent research. In this infographics, we are
sharing some interesting details on Belgian IT sphere and, as a good tradition,
compare demand for the most popular technologies...
- June 10, 2016
- 13 min read
On June 2nd, 2014, Apple unveiled a brand – new object-oriented programming language: Swift, a replacement for Objective-C, which had been up to that point the standard programming language for OS X and iOS application development. It was a bold move to outright change the main development language for such a popular platform; even so,