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  1. Dec 2021
    1. Now the fun begins. The user reaches the main screen, where they can choose people they like and find matches. Usually, this process is organized in the form of swiping: You swipe left when you think it’s not your person and you swipe right when you are sure you may have something in common.

      How dating apps work

    1. The term “microservices” was first introduced in 2011 at a workshop of software architects. They used it to describe the type of a common architectural style that they were using at that time. The idea of the technology itself appeared even earlier, in 2005, when "Micro-Web-Services" was brought up during the Web Services Edge conference.

      In the beginning, there was monolithic architecture. Most apps were built as a single unit, with all the processes tightly connected to each other. This caused a lot of trouble with deployment, bug-fixing, and updating, which is why there was a huge necessity to divide this structure into smaller parts.

    1. Today, the number of on-demand service apps is incredible. It’s difficult to imagine an industry that isn’t affected by them. Taxi, food delivery, shopping, cleaning, reservations, and more are available with just a few clicks.2020 boosted the popularity of such apps. People got stuck at home, so the necessity for on-demand services became high as ever. Moreover, new industries try themselves in providing people on-demand services, so the market is flourishing and evolving. If this scenario looks attractive and you want to offer an on-demand service app, here’s a comprehensive guide on how to create one. It will ensure that you’re going in the right direction.

      Today, the number of on-demand service apps is incredible. It’s difficult to imagine an industry that isn’t affected by them. Taxi, food delivery, shopping, cleaning, reservations, and more are available with just a few clicks.

      2020 boosted the popularity of such apps. People got stuck at home, so the necessity for on-demand services became high as ever. Moreover, new industries try themselves in providing people on-demand services, so the market is flourishing and evolving.

      If this scenario looks attractive and you want to offer an on-demand service app, here’s a comprehensive guide on how to create one. It will ensure that you’re going in the right direction.

    1. How to use Contentful Building a well-functional Contentful-powered website is easy if you follow the steps listed below. The usual development process with Contentful looks like that: Create a Contentful account — It’s easy. Just sign up if you don’t have an account, or log in if you already do. Create a new space, or “data bucket." It’s your place for content storage where all the content related to a project is kept safely. Create a new content model. At this step, you add various types of content that will be saved on your space: text, images, SEO metadata, videos, and so on. Customize it to your needs. Here you structure all the content types in the order they should appear on the website. Import data into the data bucket. Fill out the content model with the content you need. Test it. Contentful lets you run the website locally to make sure everything runs smoothly. Deploy it. Contentful doesn’t limit the choice of deployment platforms: you can deploy your website with Heroku, Dokku, Surge and GitHub.

      Building a well-functional Contentful-powered website is easy if you follow the steps listed below. The usual development process with Contentful looks like that:

    1. Speed is one of the most significant factors in modern online communication. Fast messaging is useful both in personal life and in a company workflow: Friends can discuss their day-to-day activities in real time, and colleagues can easily synchronize all the necessary processes. The demand for high-quality online messengers has grown, so it isn’t surprising that many companies wonder how to build a messaging app. Despite the popularity of leading applications, people are still looking for new opportunities to communicate.

      If you decide to build a public messenger or a chat application for your company’s internal usage, this guide offers a complete overview of the chat-app creation process.

  2. Nov 2021
    1. Today’s business environment is more competitive than ever. It’s not enough anymore to just have an outside banner or send a daily newsletter. The audience is sick with similar advertisements and calls to action. Nowadays marketing requires a far more creative and diplomatic approach, and that is why personalization is a must-have for well-built marketing.

      Personalization is a process of tailoring the content for various segments of the target audience.

    1. How to create your own chat website: a checklistOnce we determine what your live chat should do, we can start the development work. This process is usually divided into several stages:
  3. Oct 2021
    1. Visual content matters, that is where UI/UX design comes into play. Users love good-looking software. Make mobile your app or website captivating with Yellow.

      Being powered by first-class specialists, Yellow provides you with user-friendly and intuitive designs for web and mobile applications. We know how to effectively engage your audience with the product. Our team focuses on the project’s information architecture and organizes clear logical user flows of user transitions to get a truly unique interface.

  4. Sep 2021
    1. 2020 brought a true challenge to conducting business and sped up people going online. Online video calls now became the primary means of business and work communication, especially for companies that provide services. Working from home completely changed the usual workflow.

      As the demand for video calls increased, so did the supply. The competition in the video chat apps market became really tense. It may seem hard to build an app that will gain popularity, so let us show you the complete strategy of making a custom video chat app that will be able to compete on the market.

    1. The mobile chat applications market grew significantly in the past ten years. Almost everyone has a smartphone with two or three chat apps installed. Some people use them equally, some have one preferred, and some use one messenger for personal communication and another for work or school. The amount of such solutions is huge, and users can choose what corresponds to their needs the most.

      The previous year brought instant messaging communication to a new level. The global working remote and several lockdowns played an indisputable role in the increase of the usage of chat apps, and nothing is going to change in the near future. Mobile chat apps help people stay in touch with their friends and family, keep the workflow organized, or even find new people to chat with.

  5. Aug 2021
    1. Now it’s time to move on to the main stages of Bitcoin wallet development. The first thing you should know is that there are two options: you can use ready-made templates and a set of tools to create an application, customizing it to your needs, or develop your wallet that will ideally fit your requirements from scratch.

      There are few open-source standard libraries available on the market. They can be used as a basis for your future app. The standard library provides the necessary functionality, configures the wallet for blockchain, and executes financial transactions.

    1. It may come as a surprise, but Slack is actually an acronym. The full name of the app is Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge. Slack has become one of the most popular communications apps for business usage.Another fun fact: Initially, this startup was an internal communication tool for video developers at Tiny Speck. The experience in game development became their competitive advantage: Creators of Slack made the app user-friendly and entertaining.

      Besides one-to-one messaging, Slack offers its users the ability to create channels dedicated to certain topics, make group chats (that are not channels), conduct audio and video calls, create customized emojis, and share files.

    1. In the process, we've accrued vast experience in the development of secure and high-tech online communication systems for various industries, including corporate chat apps for optimized workflow, family-oriented solutions, and avenues for meeting new people.

      In the process, we've accrued vast experience in the development of secure and high-tech online communication systems for various industries, including corporate chat apps for optimized workflow, family-oriented solutions, and avenues for meeting new people.

    1. Summary: We developed a mobile solution that transforms a complicated learning process into an entertaining journey. The app is available on the App Store and Google Play and it is monetized through ads and in-app purchases. Although this trivia game was built for a narrowly focused audience, it received many reviews and downloads.

      Work: Our company created a trivia mobile game for believers that enables them to study the Bible in an entertaining way, memorize various facts, check out the answers, and compete with other users. The app has rich functionality that includes quizzes, a leaderboard, a daily challenge, different levels of test difficulty, lifelines, and more.

    1. It always happens like that: when just a couple of users (read: a QA engineer and a customer) are using the software simultaneously, it works fine. However, after release, everything may suddenly become worse as the app is getting popular and attracting users all around the globe. As the number of requests multiplies, it becomes clear that the server is simply not ready to accommodate a growing audience. When the load reaches the point where every new portion of requests is similar to a DDOS attack, the server eventually burns out and the app crashes.

      To avoid this, web application scalability should be in the DNA of your project.

      This metric is not primarily a matter of how capable your server is. Even the most powerful server still has limited RAM and CPU capacity. It’s rather a matter of the app architecture. Every web solution can smoothly grow if properly architectured.

      In the article, we’re going to identify web scalability definition, principles of scalable web architecture, and avoiding bottlenecks in development.

  6. Jul 2021
    1. WhatsApp has become one of the most popular chat apps in the world and its popularity doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. How do you make a competitive app like WhatsApp that will be welcomed by the audience? Here’s the answer.
  7. Jun 2021
    1. According to new data from analyst firm Apptopia, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, grocery delivery apps have begun to receive a record number of daily downloads. Today’s grocery apps offer more than just shopping for products online: they allow businesses to increase their sales, enter a new market of active mobile users, learn more about their customers, and make targeted offers that increase conversion rates and therefore revenue. In this article, we’ll discuss how to start a grocery delivery service by creating an app for your business, no matter if it’s a small store or a large chain.

      On-demand grocery delivery app is one of the most promising niches to explore in 2021. Vitality can be a key to your business’s success. By complementing high-quality software with compelling offerings, offering high rates to buyers, and using a customer-centric approach, you have a real chance to grow a powerful company.

      At the early stage of your brand development, the main task is to find a reliable team with sufficient experience in the development of delivery services. If you are looking for a partner, please contact us. We will be glad to help you in creating a market-leading grocery delivery app.

    1. We are constantly working on a variety of projects with all different scales. And among them, there are projects where the ability to make a high-quality search from a huge amount of data would be very useful. This is where Elasticsearch comes in!

      When your business involves analyzing statistical data from different sources, you need to know how to collect, store, index, transform it into other data, analyze it, and so on.

  8. Apr 2021
    1. Clubhouse has really made a fuss around the digital world. It’s hard to imagine a person who hasn’t heard about this app, celebrities who joined it, or pranksters who already managed to confuse the audience. Taking into account the skyrocketing popularity, “how to make an app like Clubhouse” has become an urgent question in the software development business.