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What to Know About Angular Nearshore Development
The Angular framework came onto the scene in 2009. It has since grown wildly popular with ...
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Building an Extended Reality XR Strategy: A Guide for Your Next XR Project
It is 9:00 a.m. and you are getting prepared for your daily meeting. Your team introduces the ...
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Are Low-Code/No-Code Platforms (LCNCP) a Threat or an Opportunity for the Software Development Sector?
LCNCP seek to simplify the creation of software by requiring little or no programming knowledge. ...
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Bringing Scenario-Based Learning Alive through Augmented Reality
Introduction "The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most ...
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A Guide to Nearshore Agile Development
With the current shortage of skilled and experienced software engineers, many companies are looking ...
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Benefits of Nearshore DevOps Outsourcing
When an organization is able to implement DevOps successfully, they see startling results. Highly ...
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Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT): Amplifying the Role of Information Technology in Drug Development
Abstract Decentralized Clinical Trials or “direct-to-participant trials” or “virtual” studies are ...
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Elasticsearch Demystified - Part 2
This is part two of the Elasticsearch series. In case you have not read the first part, please ...
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Delivering Engaging Classroom Training for a Mix of In-class and Remote Participants
Last year, one of our clients approached us with a pertinent question: We have been conducting ...
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What is Adaptive Machine Learning & How Does It Work?
Companies in every industry must effectively process large amounts of data to find the valuable ...
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How Agile and DevOps are Interrelated
When organizations successfully implement Agile while also using DevOps, they can produce ...
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Virtual Reality (VR) in Healthcare - Current State and Common Use-cases
While Virtual Reality (VR) is synonymous with gaming, its applications are vast and varied in other ...
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Docker And Kubernetes: Guide For Beginners
Part 1 – Introduction to Kubernetes In the past 5 years most of the new software projects have used ...
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Nearshore vs Onshore Software Development: Which is Better?
When a business is deciding between nearshore vs onshore outsourcing, it will need to factor in ...
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Multivariate, Unsupervised, Scalable, Explainable and Robust Anomaly Detection - Part 3: Further Improvements & Results
Despite the many advantages brought by Robust Random Cut Forests (RRCF), as described in the ...
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): A View into the Future
NFT is the modern representation of unique assets made possible by blockchain technology. To ...
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API Testing with Cypress
Cypress is one of the most popular tools for test automation. Initially, it was created to ...
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Developer’s Insight into UI and UX
User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) are generally considered to be the domain of ...
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Why DevOps Recommends Shift-Left Testing
In today’s modern day and age of cutthroat competition and volatile market conditions, companies ...
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Managing the Risks of Machine Learning for Mid-Sized Enterprises: Podcast
Dr. Ivan Marin, Principal Data Scientist at the Encora, in this podcast, walks us through an ...
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Hyperautomation in Healthcare - Typical Use Cases and Benefits
A word coined by Gartner, “hyperautomation” involves “the effective use of complementary ...
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How Nearshore Outsourcing Helps Maximize Cloud Development
Valued at USD 274.79 billion in 2020, the global cloud computing market is projected to grow at a ...
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The 5 Benefits of Healthcare Compliance Automation
With manual processes, human errors are inevitable. Businesses can use compliance automation ...
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Top 6 Benefits of Nearshore Outsourcing
As the global demand for software engineers rises, so does the use of outsourcing by organizations. ...
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Create a Blockchain Asset Tracking System Using an ERC-721-Inspired Smart Contract
Introduction Most asset tracking currently is done using something as basic and as insecure as a ...
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How to Build a Distributed Software Development Team
Building a distributed software engineering team can be a challenge for companies without the ...
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Safeguarding IP with off-site/offshore service providers
When engaging with off-site/offshore service providers, one of the most frequently asked questions ...
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Differences Between Offshore vs Nearshore Outsourcing Explained
Meeting your software engineer staffing needs is, to put it simply, complicated these days. The ...
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Right Now is the Right Time to Migrate to the Cloud
How can Cloud Migration bring certainty to uncertain times? What are the business values to be ...
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Multivariate, Unsupervised, Scalable, Explainable and Robust Anomaly Detection - Part 2: A New Contender
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The Benefits of Healthcare Data Visualization
Health data visualization, in a nutshell, is the consolidation of disparate medical data from ...
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Ahead-of-Time Compilation vs Just-in-Time Compilation - Part 1 of Understanding Angular
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What is Nearshore Outsourcing in Software Development?
If you’re wondering, “What is nearshore?”, or “What is nearshore software development?” you’re ...
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#EncoraPeople. Edwin Gagokahn, Head of Software Development, Encora
At Encora, I feel that I’m at home more than in any other place. Here, I feel have everything I ...
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How to Deploy RabbitMQ on EKS using a Helmfile
RabbitMQ is an open-source message-queuing or messaging broker software. Applications connect to a ...
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Agile Team Delivery
Dedicated Agile Software Engineering Teams Integrated into your Engineering unit, we provide ...
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Multivariate, Unsupervised, Scalable, Explainable and Robust Anomaly Detection - Part 1: Issues with Traditional Approaches
Anomaly detection is one of the most important classes of problems in the modern world: from ...
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Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information
“De-identification” means protecting an individual’s privacy by removing identifying information. ...
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Lessons learned from migrating a 10+ year old on-prem monolithic SaaS product to the cloud
Synopsis: “Lift + Shift + Re-engineering” a successful SaaS product from on-prem to cloud can never ...
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AI-driven Interoperability improves operational excellence
Even though not all EHRs are made equal, clinics can benefit from an interoperable EHR that ...
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Blockchain & Identity
The Web 3.0 Revolution Blockchain is a technology designed for the exchange of value or goods ...
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Ethereum ecosystem for real applications Part 1/2
To start a blockchain project, one of the first things that needs to be defined and implemented in ...
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Creating value from the Metaverse in real life
When we imagine the future, it is often in terms of science fiction movies and books where advanced ...
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gRPC - The Framework for the future
Application programming interfaces — more commonly known as APIs — are at the heart of the most ...
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Metaverse in our ‘day-to-day’ experiences
Introduction Metaverse is a term that was introduced by Stevenson in his novel, Snow Crash, in ...
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Blockchain's impact on industries
In general, there is widespread interest in Blockchain for business technology due in large part to ...
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What is Synthetic Data?
Great applications can’t be created without data of the same quality. But there are situations in ...
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A Gym in the Metaverse
A proof-of-concept approach on Metaverse technologies Metaverse is a concept that raised a lot of ...
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A Guide to Software Supply Chains and How to Secure Them
The most recent ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) report on cybersecurity listed ...
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Digital-driven Efficiency in Pharmacy Operations
With the rise in technology, there has been a significant change for independent pharmacies. ...
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Preventive Health Using Big Data
Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are turning to big data analytics for help with preventive ...
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Performance Improvement of Front-end Stack
Introduction Just Imagine you are visiting your favorite online store and the webpage takes 50 ...
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When is Blockchain an appropriate solution?
Blockchain’s properties related to security and integrity can open multiple new use cases. But, is ...
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PWA Progressive Web Application
The introduction of smartphones in the early millennium revolutionized the whole tech world. We ...
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Choosing Accessible Typography
When setting up a design system or presentation, there are several options for fonts that could ...
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Introduction to GraphQL
Have you ever heard about GraphQL? In this article we introduce you to this API standard that is ...
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Blockchain Applications
Introduction The last 3 years have helped us become more familiar with blockchain with ...
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How to identify and treat data leakage
An important pitfall to avoid when designing production-grade machine learning systems is called ...
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Design handoff best practices
In a world where information has to be clear for those who receive it and objective for those who ...
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Four Benefits of Working with Agile Development Teams
Agile software development requires an adaptable and flexible team willing to respond rapidly to ...
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AI in the Metaverse
There is no doubt that AI will play a significant role in the future of the Metaverse. As we move ...
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The Value of Small Data
In “How Data Democratization Can Unlock Game-Changing Business Performance” we mentioned that ...
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Role of Web3.0 and Metaverse in Workplace 2.0
Changing reality of the workplace Are our current realities preparing us for eventual virtual ...
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Making the Case for Prescriptive Analytics in Healthcare
The healthcare industry is under pressure to deliver better outcomes due to increasing consumer ...
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7 Examples of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare
It is no secret that data has become important in recent years. As our ability to collect and store ...
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Metaverse: Social Implications of an immersive digital world
The metaverse is a digital world that allows people to interact by breaking down 2-D barriers. This ...
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Agile 2022 Key Takeaways and Highlights
Last month I had an excellent opportunity to attend the Agile 2022 from July 18th to 22nd in ...
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Do you ever think of “Code less Automation”?
If yes, then why do we use and build an automation framework/tool that asks us to write code to ...
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ElasticSearch Demystified- Part 1
Relational databases have dominated the industry for the past few decades. They store the data in ...
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Surfing to Extended Reality: what is it? and how does it work?
With innumerable possible applications, extended reality is becoming more and more important and ...
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Technology-driven Loan or Mortgage Origination Can Drive Operational Efficiency
Digital collaboration solutions can help streamline many banking processes, from customer service ...
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What is Web 3.0?
We are currently amidst a significant shift in how we interact with the internet. Web 2.0, ushered ...
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9 Agile anti-patterns to watch for and avoid
While the Agile Development methodology has become a predominant part of the software development ...
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Blockchain for a better world
Technology that could revolutionize the roles of actors in the business
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7 Factors Driving Automation Success
These days, when releases need to happen faster than ever, companies must adopt a smart automation ...
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Static Code Analysis: Types and How it Works
Static code analysis is a boon to the busy development team. And development teams these days ...
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8 Agile frameworks used in software development
Though the agile manifesto was written with software development in mind, the agile philosophy can ...
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DevOps and SREs: Better together?
Software development is an ever-evolving industry and expectations around it are higher every day, ...
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MLOps: Machine Learning pipeline
Introduction A machine learning pipeline is the materialization of applying MLOps techniques, ...
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Fostering psychological safety in Agile
The agile methodology is an excellent way for organizations to work more efficiently and ...
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5 tools for Agile development
While Agile frameworks are widely adopted, tools are where the rubber meets the road. This post ...
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Making your learning organization future-ready is not always about tech
The idea of creating a learning organization to propel the growth of a company has been explored ...
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Upgrading Terraform: Why and how to?
Introduction When we talk about Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, Terraform might be the first ...
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Studying Agile Practices in Onshore-Nearshore Software Projects
One of the biggest challenges when starting or continuing software development in a project that ...
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Why Agile Is Best Suited for Nearshore Software Development
Encora recognizes the vital role that Agile methodologies play in achieving the level of success ...
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Drive tangible long term value with Agile transformation
Many organizations are racing to embrace Agile frameworks, not just for technical projects but as a ...
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QA Tips for E – Commerce Domain Testing B 2 C
Have you ever thought about how much a single bug can impact an application? A sample list of ...
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Web Proxy Tools (Fiddler and Charles)
Almost every application these days communicates over HTTP: websites, RESTful services, and even ...
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5 key technologies that power the Metaverse
The Metaverse is an open, shared, and persistent virtual space where users can exist as digital ...
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Agile 2022 sessions that I'm most excited about!
Agile Alliance’s premier event, Agile 2022 is back in Nashville, TN this year. Agile Alliance’s ...
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Fast Delivery with Feature Environments
How often do you want to deploy to production? Weekly, daily, maybe as soon as possible? In this ...
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How to define the architecture for scalable applications
One of the biggest challenges when developing an application is to deliver acceptable performance ...
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Exponential Smoothing Methods for Time Series Forecasting
Recently, we covered basic concepts of time series data and decomposition analysis. We started ...
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Excellarate is now a valid SSAE 18 - SOC 2 Type 2 service provider
The Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 18 (SSAE 18) is a standard from the American ...
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Automating loan origination for faster decision making and better operational value
Financial and alternative financial lending generates economic benefits for an enterprise needing ...
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Detect and Prevent Enterprise Risk from Dark Web
The Dark Web has only been recently identified, but its cloak of invisibility has prevented ...
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Differences Between Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Computing
If you’re wondering “What is the difference between multi-cloud and hybrid cloud?”, then you’re not ...
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A Guide to Open Source Management
Open-source software is here to stay and will continue to grow in use. A recent survey conducted by ...
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The Kaa IoT Platform Tutorial
“If you think that the Internet has changed your life, Let’s think about it again. The Internet of ...
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A Visual Guide to Time Series Decomposition Analysis
A step-by-step guide to performing additive and multiplicative decomposition
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What is a Cloud-First Strategy and What are its Benefits?
The advent and evolution of cloud-based technology have given organizations a wildly innovative ...
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Architectural Design Patterns: Microservices Architecture
The divide-and-conquer paradigm has changed the software development landscape dramatically in the ...
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Best Practices for Documenting Design Systems
Why is it that more and more teams and businesses are creating and documenting design systems? ...
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UI vs UX: How are They Different?
User interface (UI) and user experience (UX) are closely related terms that are often used ...
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When to automate a test case?
Tests are an important part of the software development process. Indeed, there even exist some ...
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Policy-As-Code Definitions and Benefits
A popular approach to policy management is called policy-as-code. This is a practice where policies ...
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Using low code software to accelerate digital transformation
Digital transformation in its traditional sense has seen monolithic applications that took years to ...
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Driving innovation using low code software
Healthcare providers and payers rely on technology to provide and pay for services to their ...
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The aesthetics of the user experience
Users tend to believe that products that look better will work better, even if they're not more ...
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4 Use Cases of Low Code in Healthcare
Low-code tools have revolutionized the way we develop software. These platforms allow you to create ...
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Fundamentals of Time Series Data and Forecasting
Time series forecasting is the use of statistical methods to predict future behavior based on ...
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API Security: What it is and Why it Matters
Cybersecurity threats are on the rise in general and with APIs specifically. Because organizations ...
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GitOps Patterns (inside and outside Kubernetes)
In this blog, we are going to talk about GitOps, its patterns, pros, cons and challenges, including ...
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What is a DevOps Tool Chain and How to Build One
The key concepts that DevOps centers on are the ideas of continuous integration, continuous ...
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AI and DevOps: How Can a DevOps Team Take Advantage of AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping our lives and the modern DevOps team is no ...
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Monitoring and Observability
The way we build systems is changing, and with it, traditional methods begin to fail to handle ...
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Selenium vs. Playwright: Is the king in trouble?
For many years, Selenium has reigned virtually unchallenged in test automation tools. Although it ...
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Best Practices for Implementing SAFe
SAFe(Scaled Agile Framework) is generally used for the entire organization where business agility ...
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What are Mobile Analytics?
Today more people favor accessing the web through their mobile devices instead of their desktop and ...
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The Internet of Things: Testing Strategies
The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer an abstract term that refers to future ...
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Airflow 2.2.3 Enterprise Job Scheduling Engine - Getting started
Apache Airflow was developed by Airbnb’s Beauchemin in 2014 as an open-source enterprise job ...
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ACCELERATION. Towards a Terrestrial-Centered Design for AI
Recently, the Co-Founder & Chief Technologist of Databricks, Matei Zaharia shared a research ...
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The Importance of Portfolio Management as Part of Scaling Agile
Whether you are a growing SaaS company or a large enterprise with several business lines and ...
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How ExternalDNS works with Kubernetes AWS ALB Ingress and Helmfile
DevOps Engineers are responsible for deploying Helm charts for Kubernetes applications on different ...
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Measures of Success for Growing Beyond a Project or Team-Based Agile Environment to a Company-Wide Practice
Usually this time of year, the newest State of Agile Report is released from VersionOne ...
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The Shift from Data-Centric to Event-Centric Thinking Underscores Digital Business Transformation
One of the better outcomes of Digital Business has been that organizations are becoming ...
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Inclusive Design: Strategies and Tactics
“Designs shapes our ability to access, participate in, and contribute to the world” Kat Holmes ...
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How Can Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Help Us Reimagine the Customer Experience?
We hear a great deal about customer-centricity and integrating the customers’ journey at all touch ...
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How Technology Companies Use Mediated APIs and Microservices to Renovate Monolithic Applications
Companies are faced with the pressures and challenges to move faster to deliver new value to their ...
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Data Science Needs More Than Scientists—It Takes a Team
There’s lots of talk today about Data Science, and as a resource, Data Scientists are definitely in ...
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Software Composition Analysis
Open source dependency management as a risk mitigator in modern software development
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Architectural Design Patterns: Cluster Immune System
With new architectural design patterns and strategies, software deployment is becoming increasingly ...
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An AI-Powered Customer Experience Requires Breaking Down Data Silos
In 2011, Gartner predicted that by 2020 customers will manage 85% of their relationship with an ...
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What is Agile Product Development
Organizations choose Agile product development because it allows them to develop products in a way ...
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The Shift from Data-Centric to Event-Centric Thinking Underscores Digital Business Transformation
One of the better outcomes of Digital Business has been that organizations are becoming ...
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Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are correlated parts of computer science. ...
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HOW ANALYTICS MEASURING OUTPUT AND OUTCOME BRING VALUE TO SCALING AGILE
Of course, those of us with roots in product development and engineering have read the Agile ...
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THE 5 PRINCIPLES TO BUILDING AN APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SECURITY MINDSET
Security is top-of-mind with everyone, as it should be. All of us know that security threats are ...
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Configure Alert Manager for Prometheus in Kubernetes (AWS EKS)
A client wished to setup and configure an Alert Manager in Kubernetes (AWS EKS) which sends alerts ...
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HOW THE C-SUITE CAN THINK ABOUT SCALING AGILE FROM AN ENGINEERING PRACTICE TO BUSINESS VALUE
There is a lot of discussion about the business value of scaling Agile. I just read the Harvard ...
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PROGRAMMING WITH DATA
Since I joined Encora last year, I have had the opportunity of learning about Machine Learning (ML) ...
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Resilience Testing: Definition, Examples and How to Do It
Resilience testing is a type of software testing performed to evaluate how an application will ...
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Maximize Results with the Cloud with Strategies for Migration and Optimization
The adoption of cloud-computing by all types of enterprises is increasing, and completely ...
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How To Build a Custom Disaster Recovery Process for AWS Applications
Have you ever considered a scenario in which you lose half of the information that you stored in a ...
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WHEN BUSINESS GETS IN THE WAY OF AGILE ADOPTION
In our recent white paper titled, Achieving Agile at Scale, we discuss some of the challenges ...
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Software Quality Standards: ISO 5055 Overview
Poorly designed and developed software can be dangerous at worst and costly at best. Weaknesses in ...
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ACHIEVING AGILE AT SCALE
A Discussion About the Agile Mindset, Culture Change, Persistent Challenges and Common Practices ...
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SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS
Open Source Dependency Management as a Risk Mitigator in Modern Software Development
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Architectural Design Patterns: Infrastructure as Code
Introduction No service will ever fulfill its destiny until deployed, but that’s the easiest step, ...
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Open XDR and the Future of Cybersecurity
When “X” means everything. Aimei Wei is the Founder and VP of Engineering at Stellar Cyber. She has ...
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AI: Unlocking the Data in the Human Spectrum
Can AI and software help to cure extremely challenging health problems like diabetes? Marc Rippen ...
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How Recruiting Has Changed During COVID
Effective recruiting across the board has always been challenging, particularly when assembling a ...
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Why Collaborative Learning is the Future
Student-based learning enables the modern learner to own their academic journey regardless of how ...
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The Future of the Data Revolution
Can data & privacy co-exist? Harrison Tang is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Spokeo. ...
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Product Led Growth for B2B Developer Tools Companies
What is Product Led Growth and how can it benefit B2B and mainly B2D companies as the main go to ...
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The Future of Sales for SaaS Companies
Sales Development (SDR) teams drive Sales pipeline at most high growth SaaS companies. What is ...
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Turning Software Developers into Security Heros
How security products can be force multipliers that help us to deliver faster to production. Shira ...
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Systems of Inclusion: Building Trust and Empowerment
Building Trust & Empowerment through Inclusive Corporate Decision-making and Problem-solving. ...
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Software Devs: We’ve Got Work to Do!
Millions of custom software apps need to be built right now. Let's explore one working method: ...
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Democratizing Market Research & Consumer Insights
How can brands constantly stay on the pulse of all consumers during this ever-changing world we are ...
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Deliver Better Analytics Faster with DataOps
How does DataOps lower the cost of asking analytic questions? Christopher Bergh is the CEO and Head ...
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The Future of E-commerce
Innovating the online retail experience with artificial intelligence that combines real-time ...
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Free the Developers Using NoCode
Supercharging the way Product Managers work with Product data. Angela Castillo is a seasoned ...
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Ending Email Overwhelm
Why is email making you less productive and what to do about it. Prasanth Nair is an ...
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Synthetic User Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring
Whatever your business is, you likely depend on online assets like web or mobile applications to do ...
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Principles Of Accessible Digital Design
The definition of accessibility is “the quality of being easily understood, used and appreciated”. ...
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Keeping Data Under (Your) Control with Apache Airflow
Clients are demanding more and more insights based on their data but, to achieve that, some ...
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Top 4 Technology Trends for 2022
As we enter the third year of the pandemic, the technology landscape has changed substantially. As ...
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Building a Great Customer Experience for Today's Digital Business Starts with People and Leads to Better Outcomes
Digital Business starts with people, and it follows with developing the right engagement that ...
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What is Mobile Web?
You’ve likely been using the mobile web for years, even if you didn’t know it. The mobile web is ...
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Cheat Sheet to Quiz Your ML/AI Candidate Partner
No matter the industry sector, artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to transform ...
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Build an AI Project Team with the Right Skillsets to Avoid Risk of Failure
An AI/ML project is often more challenging than an “ordinary” software project. It comes with ...
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WHEN ENGINEERING BUILDS BUSINESS VALUE FOR A COMPANY, IT SHOULD GET CREDIT FOR IT
It’s not only about Agility, it’s much bigger than that
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Comparing Different Types of AI/ML Partners
Companies looking to take advantage of Machine Learning (ML) must overcome one significant ...
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Stakeholder Buy-In Helps AI/ML Projects Succeed
As machine learning and AI continue to transform the business world, companies are increasingly ...
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What is Product Engineering?
While there are an almost infinite number of different types of products in the world, they can all ...
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Poorly Defined Goals Put Your Next AI Project at Risk
Any technical project needs clearly defined goals for the best chance at a successful outcome. When ...
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Strategies to Reduce Risk in Machine Learning Projects
Even as AI makes a transformative impact throughout the business world, companies must strive to ...