Software Development

Web, 3D, Cloud, AI and good old doing it great

The best thing to build a platform on is on the stack you know. The second best is on the stack you would like to learn. One should never forget that the clients buy the service, not the technology.

Full stack web platforms for your business

Most problems could be addressed with platforms that are already available. But this is not why you are building your business. You are building it to address this specific problem in the right way and we can help you develop the full stack web platforms you need, to express your ideas, and provide the service to your users. We like the concept of a Progressive Web Applications. Many of our apps don't even need JavaScript to run, but just old plain browser. If you've made a choice for a stack we will follow you in Rails, Node, Java, and others.

Read more everyday stories from the development on the blog of our CTO, Kiril Mitov The Everyday Code series could be especially entertaining

Projects

A sample of a few projects we've worked on. We keep a more complete list at Software Development Projects

From Rails 1 to Now

We've managed and migrated rails platforms from Rails 1 to the latest version and we've seen most of it. We were there for RSpec 2 to RSpec 3, Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 to 2.X, migration from sprockets to Webpack and NPM and many others.

Migrate "everything" to Stimulus/React

In this project we migrated a large part of old legacy JS functionalities based on a number libraries and frameworks to Stimulus and React. This means specs, incremental changes and good decisions about where to use React/Stimulus and where not.

Liquid template language for users

In this project we introduced a Liquid template engine for the users of a platform. They could user the Liquid template engine for the content they are posting and the emails they are sending.

3D in browser/mobile and the world of JavaScript

End users use mobiles apps with their phones and they browser the web with browsers. The browsers are here to stay and especially in the 3D world they are getting a lot of boost with GLTF, WebGL, WebGPU and many of the frameworks. We can help you deliver the specific browser functionality you need.

Projects

A sample of a few projects we've worked on

Three.js to Babylon.js

The project took the long term decision to migrate everything to Babylon.js. We had to do the migration. Every call, ever API for both frameworks. They are kind of similar, but they are also quite different.

Sprockets to Webpacker

The project introduce NPM, Webpack and Webpacker as a contemporary method of delivering JS to a browser. We had to do the migration. From fragmented JS files to ES6 modules all compiled and packed with Webpacker and Webpack. All incremental. All without breaking thousands of paying customers.

GCC compilation

Compile everything delivered to production with Google Closure Compiler. One of the most challenging and rewording projects we've ever worked on. From tens of thousands of js code lines in a hundred repos to a single file compiled with GCC in a few minutes. This includes a lot of team training, presentation and debugging, and the end result is 30% smaller file then any other available method for bundling JavaScript.

Cloud, Dev Ops, CI, CD

How you build your infrastructure is one of the most important decisions. We would argue probably as important as the technology stack. We help teams we migration between different development and production infrastructure. We deliver videos to 74+ countries and we deploy to production 10 times a day in less than 10 minutes, with fully automated and autonomous procedures.

Projects

A sample of a few projects we've worked on

In house to AWS Integration

The project was to migrate an and in-house solution to an all AWS. This include not only video content deliver for users in halt the globe, but S3, Cloudfront, EC2, SNS, Lambda and more.

Half with Docker and half on Heroku

This was a tough one. The web platform is deployed on Heroku. There are now more than 10K+ deployments. But the heavy lifting and background processing are on a different infrastructure orchestrating docker containers. Just the secure communication between the two could be challenging.

Github to private Jenkins and repos

The project was to introduce, configure and maintain a Jenkins instance that is building hundreds of projects as Github and Gitlab were no longer an option for the business case. Private repos for the git, backup procedures and keeping it all working securely on the internet for a remote team in a number of cities.

AI, machine learning and Math

There are R&D projects that could bring a lot of business value. Such projects include, but are not limited to AI, machine learning, business analytics, business intelligence and generally decisions based on anything from small volumes of incomplete data or large volumes of redundant data full with a lot false positives, negatives and outliers.

Projects

A sample of a few projects we've worked on

Find the edges of a Geometry

A library of 3D Geometry parts of a robot was lacking proper information about the surfaces and edges of the parts. It would have taken thousand of engineering hours to properly enhance it. We've build an algorithm to generate the needed information, enhance the geometry and be able to convert it to different formats and visualize it.

Automatic assembly instructions

The project was to build an AI to generate assembly instructions for devices. The feedback loop is through generating and learning based on authors feedback. Tensorflow and GCP.

2 Billion events

The project is to provide business analytics and intelligence over 2 billion user generate events. Find patterns, decide on false positives and create business recommendations based on the data.

Good old specs

Development teams can boost their productivity with a proper spec suite, but nothing hurts more in our world than specs that are there, are not well maintained and fail from time to time. We all have stories of specs running every night, taking 5-6 hours and the last time they've actually passed was 3 years ago when the project was just starting. Along the way you've lost all the power of the specs and you've gained all the problems.

We can help with that. Refactor, clear, improve and even maintain the specs so that they bring value - reduced regressions, more maintainable code and less bugs on production.

Projects

A sample of a few projects we've worked on

Reduce execution time for an RSpec suite from 1h 40m to 18 minutes.

The project was to remove a lot of redundancy and legacy specs and to change the way JavaScript features were tested. tests. We migrated everything to model specs and system specs and removed redundancies. We've managed to reduce the execution time of the specs (by refactoring also much of the production code). The team was just stuck with the way they were doing specs and it was not the right way. This project involved a lot of training on the usage and development of specs specifically written with RSpec.

Introduce Jasmine and in-browser testing

The project was to set up an infrastructure and introduce the team to Jasmine and in-browser testing. It included a lot of training and presentations. The end result was that legacy Capybara specs we written as Jasmine specs that could better test the features provided to the users.