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One of our customers, a major software provider in construction, agriculture, and geospatial industries, has one of the leading solutions for building design and building information modeling (BIM). Just think about the complexity of designing a building and the complexities of designing, fabricating, and installing air ducts, plumbing, electrical wiring, etc. In order to improve the software for their customers, their software product that we’ll call “BIM-APP” tracks all the user interactions and any system errors to log files. The […]

So Long, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 I think that you’re supposed to know when it’s time to say goodbye. – Judy Sheindlin We get it. You’ve been running your SQL Server 2008 for ten years now, and its performance has made you very happy. It’s been as steady as a rock and helped guide your business while keeping your data safe and you really can’t ask for a better show from your database software. Unfortunately, it’s now reached the end […]

Apple and Google are setting new ground rules for mobile applications on the App Store and Google Play. This year will see the releases of iOS 12 and Android 9 Pie. That’s why both mobile behemoths are streamlining their platforms to prepare for future devices. With these changes, companies and developers are going to have to update their mobile apps or face a ban from the two platforms. However, there’s no need to panic. This inevitable app upgrade brings an […]

As a technology company there is a stark truth that exists every day: not all tech is created equal. For us, there was no greater example of this than when we crafted a global mobile app that had to work in China. While China has continued its upwards trajectory over the past two decades, they have maintained an increasingly strong approach regarding internet access and technologies available to their citizenry. When our client approached us to build their global app, […]

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but your face is the key for your phone. While facial recognition may have once been relegated to the world of science fiction, it is now our reality and plays such a common role in our everyday lives that few bother to think about the enormous technology and infrastructure behind it. For instance, Apple’s FaceID technology on their iPhone X utilizes their ‘TrueDepth’ camera system that projects over 30,000 dots onto […]

An online marketplace company managed a 6-terabyte database using an old version of Amazon RDS PostgreSQL version 9.3. With the gaining popularity of their platform, they needed a way to scale the performance and size of their database near term to 15-terabytes. They also had several performance issues including a daily batch script that was taking almost 2 hours to complete that was starting to exceed the maintenance window, and simple tasks like adding a new column to their largest […]

Have you ever missed a photo op because you were in a crowded place and random people wouldn’t get out of your way? Sometimes it can be almost impossible to take a clear photo in the real world. If you decide to try and wait for the people to clear out of busy areas, you might be standing there waiting forever! But, no more waiting, we have a much more time-effective solution! Watch the following video to learn more about […]

So, you want to upgrade your existing mobile application by adding some cool new features to it? Or do you want to build a new app from scratch, leveraging the most advanced features available on the market? Let us introduce an easily customizable video chat module, which we regularly use in various mobile applications. Watch the following video to learn how we can embed video chat directly into your mobile app quickly and easily. Why does your mobile app needs a video […]

Big thank you to everyone who attended our webinar on May 1, 2018 – Accelerate Database Migration to AWS with DB Best! Dmitry Balin and myself talked about how DB Best and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help you improve performance and reduce costs by migrating your on-premises databases to managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), to virtual machines using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or database warehousing solutions such as Amazon Redshift. I also did a couple of […]

With the release of SQL Server 2017, you now have the option to deploy the database engine and just about all of the related services on either Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3+, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v12 SP2, Ubuntu 16.04, or the latest Docker image that uses Docker Engine 1.8+ on Ubuntu 16.04 as of April 10, 2018. Microsoft recently published a very slick marketing white paper titled Top six reasons companies make the move that highlights various […]