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Is React Native a Profitable Choice for Hybrid App Development?
The increasing popularity of iOS and Android has raised the bar for app developers, making mobile app development more challenging. Being in this field for almost 4 years now and having experienced the ups and downs of the industry, I have realized a few things: Trends in mobile application development keep changing. Users are equally […]
Implement Azure DevOps in your Organization for Better Outcomes
Like every other organization in the IT industry, Softobiz was also struggling with creating a streamlined workflow to reduce the time-to-market and make the business function better. We were using the DevOps approach and were benefitting from it up to some extent. However, in order to bring the best out of DevOps, it was important […]
Diwali 2019: How We Celebrated the Festival of Lights @Softobiz
Shining lights! Impressive decors! People dressed in ethnic attires! And a smile on everyone’s face – that’s how the environment was at the Softobiz office for the last 5 days. We had organized the “Diwali Celebrations” in the office this whole week. Diwali is the biggest festival in India. We all eagerly wait for the […]
Micro Frontends: Extending Microservices to Front-end Development
When Micro Frontends (or Microservices Frontends) was introduced in Thoughtworks Technology Radar in the year 2016, it was not a new concept. Companies were already using microservices on the backend level for developing web apps. This allowed them to break the entire web app into small modules where each team independently worked on a separate […]
5 Things to Consider Before You Switch to Microservices Transformation
Over 63% of organizations are using microservices – a global survey by Camunda reveals. The statistics make it clear that microservices are becoming mainstream. Also, the majority of companies are adopting microservices architecture to achieve significant results. While microservices have created a buzz around, organizations are thoughtlessly adopting their practices. It is true that microservices […]
WebRTC: New Age Solution to Uninterrupted Media Streaming
Do you still remember the time when uninterrupted audio/video calling over the Internet seemed like daydreaming? Well, technology has evolved, and everything is transforming at a fast pace. You no longer need to install third-party plugins or download native apps for video streaming purpose. Instead, you can easily achieve the same with the help of […]
Containers and their Orchestration using Docker & Kubernetes
As apps grew bigger, product development became complex. Companies began adopting approaches like microservice architecture for developing bigger applications. However, deploying apps faster was still a challenge. So, companies had to look for ways to streamline the deployment process so they could deploy their applications faster. Hence, the concept of containers was introduced. In this […]
Understanding the Event-driven Architecture
Varied approaches have appeared recently in computing like big data, serverless, microservice architecture, event-driven architecture, etc. Companies like Netflix and its contemporaries are using these approaches. For their application development, Microservice architecture plays a major role. But how do they benefit from microservice architecture if the services are not wired? How a single microservice can […]
Orchestration Made Easy with Zeebe and Kafka
Orchestration with Zeebe and Kafka as a workflow engine was approached to encounter the challenges faced by microservices. In other words, shifting from monolith to microservices was a bold move. But it also brought issues of complexity and lack of visibility. Therefore, these orchestration tools formed a layer to monitor and manage long-running business processes […]
Microservice Orchestration Vs Choreography
The microservice architecture is a collection of small services with each service having a specific function. These service modules can’t perform well in isolation and need some kind of medium so that they interact and share data. This leads us into one question: How to stitch these service modules together? There are two ways to […]
Microservice Architecture: An Independent Approach to Software Development
Skepticism by communities in software development dismisses Microservices architecture as nothing new, just an overhaul of the old SOA (service-oriented architecture). Despite all the uncertainties, microservices architecture pattern has emerged with a great amount of gratification to the enterprises – when it comes to enabling agile development and delivering complex enterprise solutions. According to a […]
5 reasons why companies are moving to Microservices Architecture
The microservice architecture is like a honeycomb. “Have you ever seen a honeycomb?” Well, not from close. From far off even, we can visualize the hexagonal paradigm of wax cells. Although honeycomb starts small, over a period of time we can see a strong fabric. Similarly, you can think of the microservice architecture approach in […]
Why your business needs Progressive Web Apps?
One of the major concerns that businesses have nowadays is that whether they should have an app or a website. This is not just a matter of today or tomorrow. Instead, the discussion has been going on for years. Some businesses favor website while others think apps are a better option. While both apps and […]
Growing your business with Softobiz
We all want to see our business grow. Rising from a small company to a big enterprise and achieving new milestones every day is something we all crave for. However, sustainable business growth doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a long-term process that requires expert mentorship, an intelligently crafted strategy, and collective efforts of a talented professional […]
Delivering innovation across industries
“Innovation is the calling card of the future.” Anna Eshoo Changing consumer expectations call for innovation across industries. It is no longer enough for a company to have expertise and competency in a single industry. Seemingly disparate industries look to other sectors for innovation, for example, health care now looks across to consumer electronics to […]
Kong – A must have API management solution
Integration of APIs during development is not a new venture. APIs augments innovation and unlocks new business opportunities. Tech giants, for example, eBay, Netflix, Expedia, mobile.de, etc., have jumped on API bandwagon to ensure the continuity of development models. Now, a number of vendors, for example, IBM, Oracle, or MuleSoft, offer API management solutions while […]
Combining strategy with DevOps culture for maximum efficiency
Does application development really need DevOps? What tools do we need? Do I need to revise my budget to shift to DevOps? “I am skeptical about the ongoing costs of CI/CD.” This is a story of every company, striving to achieve continuous integration and deployment. According to a recent study, about half of organizations have […]
Top 10 Open Source DevOps Tools we Use @Softobiz
Combining strategy with the DevOps approach can result in compelling business benefits. It can help you unlock high performance and achieve maximum efficiency. However, when it comes to implementing DevOps practically, you’ll need more than just reasons and theory. You’ll need a list of DevOps tools which most IT companies are using at present. Ten […]