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We continue with our short video series about Kharkiv- the second largest city in Ukraine, where DB Best’s biggest development center is located. This past weekend was entirely dedicated to the celebration of the International Women’s Day, which as a matter of fact is a National Holiday in Ukraine- something for other countries to consider 🙂 Men were running all over the city looking for presents and flowers for their loved ones. Girls and women looked especially beautiful and simply […]

In less than 2 years DB Best professionals have written and posted over 100 technical articles on database migration and management related topics. These articles have gathered more than 20K views, thousands of likes and dozens of comments from various database management professionals from all over the world. In this post we would like to present a concise and informative review of our most rated articles:  

Ukraine and its political crisis have stayed on the front pages of all the newspapers, and have been constantly broadcasted by the major TV Channels worldwide for several months now. One of the positive outcomes- at last almost everyone knows where Ukraine is located geographically! The informational flood in the media without any doubts leads to confusion, panic and uncertainty, especially on behalf of our clients, whose projects are being partially or entirely developed at DB Best Development Center in […]

Transferring photo and video files between mobile devices is one of the most common everyday tasks performed by smart phone users. In one of our recent projects we had a task to define and implement the most efficient way for data transfer between the two most popular platforms: iOS and Android.   The biggest challenge we faced when working on the project was that the file transfer speed was very slow (~0.16 Mbit/s) when using Bluetooth, which had to do […]

Before we dive into 2014 with it’s new goals, challenges and opportunities, we would like to take a second to recap some of our top achievements in 2013. Big thanks to all our clients, partners and DB Best team who made it all happen! 🙂     Please, follow the link below to view the special summary infographics we’ve put together DB BEST 2013 Year In Review  

Today we are going to start our new video series “News from our R&D Lab”. In these videos we want to show case some of the new technologies and interesting projects our engineering team is working on. We are happy to share some knowledge that can be useful to other developers around the world. Hopefully, our current and future customers will appreciate it as well. Today our Technical Lead is going to introduce Near Field Communication (NFC) – is a set […]

What can possibly be better than freshly baked cupcakes? Only cupcakes baked according to the unique home recipes, with an amazing selection of flavors, made with love! This is exactly what “That Takes The Cake” is all about. In a recently launched That Takes the Cake website we tried to reflect this warm, homey atmosphere, and personal touch given to every single customer at this great bakery shop. A great user experience, including easy navigation, simplistic design, and functionality were […]

The new, innovative and user friendly application is the first smartphone app in the world, which allows consumers to track their water consumption wherever they are. It offers detailed consumption graphs, real-time leak alerts and consumption forecasts. This application was developed by our Custom Development team for our client Arad Technologies, one of the world leaders in Water Metering.

In this article we will talk about the challenges and solutions around building a peer-to-peer network for iOS and Android mobile devices using Bluetooth. This experience is based on one of the recent projects of our mobile team. Main idea A peer-to-peer or P2P network is not a new concept. It has been beautifully implemented in some of the very famous products like Napster, Kazaa, Skype to name a few… In this article we will present some technical aspects and […]

Our clients often turn to us with a pretty typical set of questions regarding deployment and hosting of the web applications that our team developed for them. Those questions cover a different range of topics: pricing, reliability, scalability, expected traffic growth, load balancing and etc. We broke those questions into a set of blog posts that we’d like to present to you.   What hosting company do you recommend for our project? There are so many great choices out there […]