Digital Product Insights

Node.js has played a significant role in the widespread adoption and popularity of JavaScript. The popularity of Node.js, based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine can be attributed to the speed and efficiency it provides the development environment. The platform makes it easy enough to get started on but once you move beyond the core functionalities of your app, knowing how to deal with errors and how to best structure your code can get difficult. How you fix these issues, whether it’s a patchwork or based on the right practices makes all the difference between a launch disaster and a rock solid production application. Having said this let's take a look at a few Node.js tips will help you get the most out of your applications.

Before settling on a contractor or software company, the very first thing you should focus on is to invest time and money in planning your software requirements. This will save you money in the future and ensure your expectations are clear. Secondly, if this app is part of your core product offering, outsourcing your core competency isn’t the best route. You should be looking to build product expertise within your internal team, attracting and recruiting the best technical talent as you grow, and looking out for someone who can oversee the technical roadmap throughout the lifespan of your company. A web development company cannot do this for you and neither can a contractor. Only a good CTO can.

Almost every business these days needs a mobile version of their website. It’s essential after all: one design for the iPhone, several designs for the ever-increasing number of Android devices, the iPad, Kindle, and moreover all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the coming years, we’ll likely have to design for many more new inventions. When will this insanity stop? It won’t, of course. We’re quickly getting to the point, where we're unable to keep up with the endless new devices. For most, it is impractical to build a website version for each resolution and each new device. Should we choose to ignore certain devices and go with the devices which give us more visitors even though we're missing out on the market from the devices we ignore? Do we have a choice?

Now, before we prod and poke at the No, let’s try and understand why this question deserves so much attention if the answer is so cut and dry.

The digital revolution is a welcome movement for all holidaymakers. In today’s market, the real winners of the travel industry have understood and embraced the importance of personalized service. Back in the day, planning a trip involved a visit to the local travel agent or purchasing a good guide book for the more confident traveler. Today, digitization has brought us choices. We’re a generation of DIY travelers looking out for cheaper, more personalized ways to travel.

How you choose to deploy your application will be determined by what you need from a hosting provider. With the rising popularity of Ruby on Rails, new options are being made available for Web app development. In today’s market, Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean are good options to go with if you’re looking for hosting providers which are cloud platforms. AWS and DigitalOcean address the needs of different audiences, and understanding what each does well will help you choose between them. Let's take a closer look at what Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean have to offer.

All across the world, we stand witness to a generation bit by the entrepreneurial bug from Eastern Europe, Nigeria, Scandinavia to India , all far beyond the famed Silicon Valley. This generation of entrepreneurs will change the economics of the world. Hopefully, you play a part in the change for the better. No amount of reading will entirely prepare you for the journey ahead since everyone charts a unique path, this is what makes the entrepreneurial journey so exciting. Even so, this list should give you an insight into what the ride will entail.

Python and Ruby belong to the new generation of high-level languages, focusing on simplicity and ensuring the programmer is equipped with the ability to get things done fast, rather than strict hierarchy and syntax correctness. Ruby gives you the freedom to choose from several different methods to solve the same problem, while Python comes with only one approach. Their differences are mostly rooted in their philosophies rather than outcome. What unites them is the goal to write clean, concise, readable code.

Shooting in the dark won't take you far. If you have no clue what’s happening in your application, all the automation and management in the world will only help you so much. Certain tools provide insight into the workings and status of your app. Some provide a dashboard for error tracking, some reach out to notify you when something needs your attention, and others test your app on a continuous basis. You'll find tools to monitor your application for the operations side with issues like uptime, and for the developer-side with issues like exceptions and errors.

The estimation process itself is not clearly defined in many software companies. Often estimates are made by comparing features to previous project features. These estimates are used to judge the effort required for a given task regarding time and money and in the hands of a project manager, summed up to get the completion date for the project as a whole. This completion date is then used to calculate total project cost.

There are more ways than one to develop a web application to meet different needs. Sometimes, a separate instance of the application is installed for each customer, in a setup known as a single-tenancy.

What technology should I work with, is a question we all sometimes struggle with while planning software development. Often, projects are bracketed into different segments like small, medium or enterprise size, depending on various factors like budget, timeframe, and complexity of the project.

With Node.js, JavaScript has embraced the server. Node.js has gained a lot of popularity with coders everywhere using it to create real-time web APIs and build a new matrix of interoperability across the Internet. Even so, Node.js is not a JavaScript framework. What exactly is this tool finding its way into Web applications, microcontrollers, operating systems wrappers, and robots? At its core, Node.js is a stripped-down, highly customizable server engine, but outside of this, you have to set it up for it to do anything. Node.js is an event-based platform, and everything which happens is a reaction to an event. In other words, it processes in a loop, ready to accept and respond to requests. This loop, known as the event loop, is the "runtime" part and this is what keeps a Node.js application running.

Very few companies entirely function independently. Outsourcing allows businesses to streamline their processes while cutting costs at the same time. However, figuring out when and how to outsource, can prove to be a complicated process. In fact, most have very contradicting opinions on outsourcing.

Software development projects are difficult to size up accurately, unlike other everyday objects like the table which comes with a fixed length, breadth and height. Most objects can be sized up using one or more parameters. Lines of Code (LOC) is the closest we’ve come to sizing up software. The rest of the derived data like effort, delivery schedule are dependent on the size of your software. In software development, it is tough to accurately determine how long and how much time it will take to deliver a product.