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Alex Cristea - 10 Jul 2020

My work-from-home productivity system. What’s yours?

I am a full-time software developer at Thinslices, and I also have Team Leader responsibilities. Like many of us, for the past 4 months I’ve been working from home. I also have a toddler who is in his curiosity & house exploration stage. The good part is that it has a full-time mother, so I don't have to do too much kid management 😂.

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Alex Marciuc - 3 Jul 2020

Our ups and downs with Agile and Scrum these past 8 years

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say we were in a cargo cult, we’d seen some practices, learned some ceremonies and we tried to implement Scrum the way we understood it.

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Lucian Vasiliu - 25 Jun 2020

A quick overview of AWS Amplify

Today we’re taking a look at AWS Amplify. If you’re not familiar with it, Amplify is a development platform for building secure, scalable mobile and web applications provided by AWS. Moving away from the commercial definition of it, you’ll also hear AWS Amplify being described as a framework that provides products to build full-stack iOS, Android, Web, and React Native apps.

Technology
Paula Cristea - 18 Jun 2020

The opportunity for digital transformation in the post-pandemic age

Effective management of digital transformation is vital but challenging. This was the pre-pandemic reality. Even companies who had the right digital strategy in place ran a high risk of failure because of its execution. A 2019 McKinsey briefing points out that failure to be effective happened five times more often than success. Now, with the added pressures of social isolation, working from home, and generally living online, going digital is no longer an option to consider but a required next step. While some companies have made preliminary steps in this direction, others were caught off-guard by these last few months and find themselves without strategy and execution altogether.

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Lucian Vasiliu - 11 Jun 2020

What is TypeScript and why should you care?

What is TypeScript? To start with a definition:

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Alex Marciuc - 3 Jun 2020

Best practices for scaling up a project

Getting a new project is always a rush but so is scaling up an existing one. A healthy business relies on a good balance of bigger projects and smaller ones. Diversity is also key, especially in challenging economic times. Today we’re going to be looking at the different types of scale-ups we’ve experienced so far and what are some of the best practices we’d recommend for each of them.

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Dan Diac - 29 May 2020

Gear up with Ivory, a developer-centric framework

More often than not, we evaluate people based on their skills. How competent they are, how relevant their experience is, what technologies they use. Especially in the tech industry, we believe that growing our skills will prepare us to deliver better results. I also believe that having the right skills is the best way to do an excellent job. But it shouldn’t stop here. Skills and gear If you’ve ever played an RPG, you would know that besides skills, you should have very good gear. I think this applies to our day-to-day life as well. The gear plays an important part in success, as we can see now in the fast digitalization of some industries.

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Alex Cristea - 20 May 2020

The 10 commandments of a successful project handover

When a project ends, some clients are not entirely sure what they should be asking from us. They know that the source code and documentation are owned by them but they're not entirely clear on the exact steps of the handover. To make this process easier for everyone involved, we created a checklist to ensure an efficient project handover. We started from the premise that other developers will work on that project in the future and we asked ourselves "What information would this new team need to be able to re-start the project independently from our initial work?"

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Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2020

Meet Ivory - our highly opinionated acceleration framework

At Thinslices, we are developers and craftsmen and we don't like to create waste. We want to create value. For us, that means building efficient software that takes into consideration the constraints of our clients: limited budgets, faster time to market, and quality foundations to build upon. After many projects, we started to see a pattern. Most applications in the same industry cluster had a common set of features, such as user management, payments, or inventory management.

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Dan Diac - 8 May 2020

Lessons learned while building a prototype in less than 2 weeks

As software service providers, we have to do our best to tilt those decisions (and their budgets) our way. One way we’ve discovered we can do that very well is by creating a functional proof of concept or a prototype to show potential customers what it would mean to work with us. This is the story of how we broke our winning streak of proof of concepts turned into long term projects and some of the lessons we learned along the way.

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