When an application needs to deal with some long running tasks, we probably should move those tasks to run asynchronously as background jobs. Let’s examine what we need to do in order to enqueue and execute some tasks in the background. Set up Delayed Job With Rails Active Job we can easily define our jobs

Ruby on Rails gives us, out of the box, a few very useful query methods that can reduce number of database queries. In most cases that will significantly improve application performance. This post will try to explain and compare some of the most commonly used methods like joins and includes, and to explain few different

If you mention outsourcing to an American or a UK company owner, they would immediately think of some distant Asian country. In reality, there is a region much closer to home, teeming with tech-savvy individuals. Like all the post-socialist countries, Serbia is presently experiencing its very own IT renaissance. Companies which employ young skillful workforce

Trade has long ago moved online and many of us have either heard of, or used services of the following companies. Now, one might think that he or she knows all the companies listed, but only the giants have caught your eye since there are many more e-commerce companies whose net worth is measured in

Is your startup lacking funds to finish a project? Many startups were facing the same problem and some of them came up with an easy enough solution: giving equity away to a web development company to finish the project. Such a move is not solely related to financing issues, some startups decide to bring these

It has been an exciting year for Serbian startups. Many old ones have proven worthy and numerous others have sky-rocketed to startup stardom. As previous year, it is noticeable that nearly all of them are designed for a regional and global market, using Belgrade, Novi Sad and other Serbian cities as human resource hubs. We

The final piece of the puzzle! Our series of blogs took us on path a programmer takes from as early as his apprenticeship days, across various Engineering posts, such as Senior and Software Engineers, all the way to a Staff Engineer, responsible for handling multiple projects and teams. Not many people advance thus far, and

It’s time for a company takeover! Well not literally, but professionally, since the path from a Senior Engineer leads to the ownership of entire projects and even organizations. In order to become a Staff Engineer, a programmer must first gain the title of an Advanced Senior Engineer and our blog post reveals the necessary steps

The journey continues! In our previous blog we have seen the arduous path a Pre-Apprentice must take just to become a Software Engineer, the lowest professional job in the industry. In the following paragraphs we will show you what a novice engineer must achieve in order to firstly become an Advanced Software Engineer and then

“If you are going through hell, keep going”. A phrase attributed to Winston Churchill aptly describes the path a novice in the IT industry takes to become an Engineer of Distinction. This uphill struggle costs both money and time (measured in years), but the end result will hopefully prove worthy. In our latest series of