The Software House Blog
How to optimize and upgrade a high-traffic application? A case study
Do you wish to make your high-traffic web or mobile app faster and more resistant to sudden spikes in usage? There are many things you can do to achieve that. Most importantly, you have to view this as part of a bigger process of analyzing the state of your app (why did it turn out like this in the first place) and making sure that these problems won’t happen again....
Node.js and dependency injection – friends or foes?
Dependency injection is a well-known technique, which can make it much easier to produce independent and scalable modules. It can be used in many programming languages and frameworks. However, when...
28 May, 2019
When is React’s useMemo hook actually worth it?
Hooks were introduced into the stable release in the 16.8 React update. One of them is useMemo, designed to help with performance and unnecessary calculations. When is it actually worth...
23 May, 2019
How to create a framework-agnostic application in PHP (3/3): switching framework and database tools
It’s high time for the final part of our adventure with the framework-agnostic PHP application. Today's goal is to prove, that our framework-agnostic app may be used not only with...
21 May, 2019
Static site generators? Let’s build a website from scratch! (2/3) – deployment with Netlify
Modern static site generators are nothing like the clumsy tools you might have used in the past. They can be used to generate elegant and blazing-fast websites. That’s exactly what...
16 May, 2019
Mutation testing, a.k.a. the power of mutants
Writing unit test is no longer considered to be a waste of time. When a programmer wants to add new functionality to our open-source test framework Kakunin, they have to...
14 May, 2019
8,000 speakers and 5,600 inquiries every year: Speakers Corner success story
“We have about 8,000 speakers, 25,000 different clients and about 5,600 inquiries coming in every year. It’s a lot of data”, says Nick Gold, the managing director of London-based speaker...
10 May, 2019
Designer explains: What’s the difference between UX and UI design in software development?
People tend to mix UX and UI terms. So, in this article, I’ll tell you about what’s the difference between UX and UI design and why having a GOOD designer...
09 May, 2019
CQRS and Event Sourcing implementation in PHP (2/4)
In the first part of the article about CQRS and Event Sourcing implementation in PHP, I’ve focused on explaining what are CQRS and Event Sourcing. I’ve mentioned the general idea...
07 May, 2019
Why did we convert our open-source tool from JavaScript to TypeScript?
At The Software House, the story of converting from JavaScript to TypeScript started about two years ago with our first open-source project called Kakunin. Right away we focused on code...
25 April, 2019
JavaScript static site generators: let’s build a website from scratch! (1/3)
Have you heard about static site generators? If you haven’t followed this topic for the past couple of years, the first thing that may be coming to your mind right...
23 April, 2019
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