30Aug

Overview of Bots in Social Media and Messengers

With bots’ popularity rising every year, many people tried to prophesize that bots would revolutionize the entire IT industry … but as we all know, that didn’t quite happen. So what gives? In this article, we’ll examine the ins and outs of modern bots: what their functionality looks like, which websites, services, and software they can be applied on, and which technologies can be used to create them.

29Aug

Developer Guide to GDPR

It’s been over a year since the GDPR came into full effect, thus panic associated with the changes has already subsided; nevertheless, the GDPR compliance still raises a handful of issues, which we’ll subsequently cover in this article.

26Aug

DevOps Overview: Rethinking How Development and Operations Work

In this article, we will examine the intricacies of the DevOps approach: why is it vital for today’s software development, which tools are being used, what are the use cases of various companies that utilize DevOps — and which learning resources you can use to become more knowledgeable in this area

22Aug

Building React Components Using Children Props and Context API

React provides a number of powerful patterns to compose components; for example, Containment, Specialization, and Render Props. Today we’ll dive into the Containment pattern which, on the surface, looks like an easy-to-understand interface — but the example provided in React docs doesn’t have an explicit explanation of how to pass data from the parent container to its children.

14Aug

Web Usability Essentials

Web usability and usability testing are those few buzzwords you can’t afford to ignore. In this piece, we’ll review the basic principles of web usability, look at how users actually use the web and how you can benefit from that knowledge to make your websites and apps better.