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You are almost ready to submit your application to both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Now what? Odds are you’re seeking a way to make some money from your application. You definitely want to see a return on the investments into the development and promotion of your app. We at DB Best have developed quite a few mobile applications for startups. So, we can share our experience with different approaches to monetizing your app. 1. Paid application […]

We’re happy to announce the latest groundbreaking release of DB Best Database Compare Suite. The new version allows for working both with NoSQL and SQL-based databases, comparing data between them. In addition to that, Database Compare Suite update 4.13 brings several important improvements and bug fixes, including: Added the support for Apache Cassandra Provided the search option for database objects Updated the data operation properties Continue reading to discover all of the major improvements implemented in Database Compare Suite 4.13. […]

What is UX? Whenever you open an application, be it your banking app, Twitter, Facebook, or your email, every single interaction that you have with it has been thoughtfully considered. User experience (UX) is a crucial consideration when designing any application. A good UX is the difference between a Flappy Bird level of success and one of the millions of apps that no one has ever heard of. Why consider UX an essential stage of your development strategy? When startups […]

How can a world-leading multimedia content producer migrate Oracle to Amazon EC2 with minimal downtime while also reducing licensing costs? In this blog post, we discuss how we saved our customer 28% in Oracle licensing costs, implemented a reliable HA/DR solution, and migrated their immense environment to the AWS cloud with near-zero downtime using Oracle Data Guard.

To better understand the client’s existing infrastructure, requirements, and potential limitations, let’s explore the customer’s environment prior to our successful migration.

Although it may seem easy, it’s tricky finding the right development for your organization. With over 350 experienced professionals in our team, we’ve seen it all with hiring developers. That’s why we put together this post with a few of the red flags that you should be on the lookout for when hiring your next developer. 1. Knowing the project details Scenario: A candidate is ready to start the project, but he/she seems to know very little about the project […]

The key to an effective marketing campaign lies in the ability to make timely adjustments based on results. When one of our customers came to us saying that it took one month to analyze campaign results, they asked us to work with them to build a new business intelligence solution for marketing automation. Our customer, a public Fortune 1000 services company, provides residential and commercial services. With nearly a century of experience, eight well-known brands, and over 7,000 company-owned and franchise […]

One of our customers, a global digital media company, came to us with an interesting problem. As part of their General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance program, our client identified two tables that contained hundreds of millions of rows of historical user login data. GDPR states that you can process personal data while there is a contractual obligation with your client. However, once you terminate the contractual obligation and you have no legitimate interest with the data, deleting historical data […]

Most people prefer connecting with people, not huge companies. DB Best brought to life the idea of connecting car owners and car renters directly, enabling car owners to lend out their vehicles for rent, and renters to find and hire cars in their location — all with just a few simple clicks of a peer-to-peer car rental mobile app. DB Best delivered a simple and secure peer-to-peer mobile application for iOS and Android and integrated them with kiosks for storing […]

As cloud computing becomes more and more popular and demanded among our customers, quite often we at DB Best need to answer the simple question: “How can I get the best value for running my SQL Server workloads on AWS EC2 instances?”. Issues like mistakenly using older generation EC2 instances or not optimizing your EBS volumes can prove to be costly. Likewise, not all hardware supporting the AWS infrastructure is created equal, despite the fact that they try to keep […]

If you have been deploying SQL Server workloads to the Microsoft Azure platform using virtual machines, you may have noticed that not all virtual machines, solid-state drives, and network components are created equal. There might be issues in your deployment templates that could result in SQL Server not performing as well as expected. For example, in a presentation given by André Arko at StrangeLoop 2016, André claims that Netflix benchmarks AWS EC2 instances that they use for production and if […]