Over 20 years ago, future ex-Stack Overflow CEO and Trello creator Joel Spolsky wrote an enduring blog post on “the worst strategic mistake” developers and enterprises can make: writing code from scratch. He says, in part: “You are throwing away your market leadership [when you start from scratch]. You are giving a gift of two […]
When Austen Allred, the CEO of polarizing code boot camp BloomTech, tried to migrate his virtual school off of Slack, he almost learned a $78,000 lesson on the concept of data ownership. This is hands down the most unacceptable interaction I've ever had as a CEO. Having paid Slack millions of dollars, exporting our data […]
Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey is out. This year, over 65,000 devs from all over the world participated. Here’s what you need to know — rapid-fire style. Most developers aren’t scared of AI Over 90% of devs say AI tools aren’t great at handling complex coding tasks, and 70% said AI isn’t a threat to their […]
Blossom Founder Thomas Schranz says, “Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” If you’re a product owner, you know how important your role is. The product is your product. You’re ultimately responsible for its success (or its failure). What do we know about software product development? Well, we’ve helped Fortune 100 companies, medical device […]
In a dark room, a hacker who is definitely a “10x engineer” hunches over their computer screen. They’re typing so fast that you might wonder if they hold a Guinness World Record for it. After a few seconds, they punch the air — “I’m in!” they exclaim, as if there’s a direct correlation between typing […]
Earlier this year, the no-code platform Bubble dramatically changed its pricing. Customers were not excited. Reactions ranged from what you might describe as “defeated acceptance” all the way to white-hot outrage. On a LinkedIn post by Bubble Co-CEO Emmanuеl Straschnοv announcing the changes, one user replied, “I’m absolutely in favour of price increases. I think […]
Over the last few years, Software-Development-as-a-Service (SDaaS) has started challenging the app dev status quo. Mott Ford, an account manager and director at Onymos, has been hearing about it more and more from the engineering leads, project managers, and development teams he talks to. “Onymos is something legitimately disruptive. People try to relate to it in […]
The idea of US companies using “nearshore” software development teams (i.e., teams in Latin America) over “offshore” ones (i.e., teams in Asia and Eastern Europe) started gaining popularity in the late ’90s. That was around the time when Shiva Nathan, the Founder and CEO of Onymos, was taking on his first management role at Oracle. He […]
To put it bluntly — enterprise mobile app development is a lot harder than enterprise web development. Shiva Nathan, the founder of Onymos, has years of experience successfully managing web and mobile app dev projects. We asked him to share his considerations for the latter below. 1.) Do you even need a mobile app? The […]
Since a presidential and congressional decree in 2004, October has been observed as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The focus of this awareness month is to promote action and conversation around the safety and security of our ever-evolving digital world. The proliferation of cyberattacks is expected to majorly impact business and the economy. Some estimates suggest that the cost of damage […]