Articles by Sasha

Latest Technology Trends That Influence Future Of Businesses

Every year, Future Today Institute publishes a report about the latest technological trends, which will affect different sectors of the economy. In 2017, the number of innovations mentioned in the forecast, was almost doubled if to compare with the previous year. Technologies evolve faster than ever. And to keep your company's pace with the time, you should pay attention to the latest technological trends. What innovations in IT sphere will be in demand in 2018 and how to apply the emerging technology trends to business development?

Celebrating the 8th anniversary of Stfalcon.com!

This year our team celebrates its 8th anniversary! Since 2009 we have implemented more than 120 projects, including the largest logistics and postal services. The number of our employees grew over 45 professionals. As you know, the one who works hard plays hard also! «Especially for you!» the most interesting moments of the Stfalcon.com Birth celebration... Let’s go!

Development of a High Load Project Like Amazon

Amazon in the past year has produced a real boom in the financial market, when the company’s shares rose in price immediately doubled, overtaking the value of Google stock. The net revenue of Amazon.com in 2016 amounted to $136 Billion, and the number of active users has long exceeded the mark of 300 million. Maintaining and processing such a huge amount of data requires tremendous resources. In this article, we will find out, what to consider when developing a high-load project, considering the experience of Amazon.com.

What Mobile App Monetization Strategy to Choose in 2018

The way you are going to earn money from mobile app will influence the popularity of your future solution. Correctly chosen app monetization model will increase the loyalty of your target customers, meanwhile, the wrong monetization strategy may make them even to delete your app. Today we will find out how to make money from apps and what mobile app monetization strategy to prefer in 2018 to stay in the win.

Fixed Price vs Time and Materials - which pricing model to choose?

When choosing the model of cooperation with IT company, you should pay attention to opportunities that open this or that pricing model. Among most popular pricing models in IT are Time and Materials and Fixed Price contracts. What is the difference and why we suggest using Time and Materials to win the desired goals?

The role of QA manager in the offshore development team

One minute of Amazon’s downtime will cost its owners at least $66,000. The larger the project, the higher the cost of errors that cause incorrect resource operation. While no one is immune from force majeure, it is still cheaper to prevent a problem than to deal with consequences. In the IT-development field, greatest «law officers» are QA-specialists. What is the role of QA in the project team and what career can build the quality control specialist in IT?

GitHub: manual for non-technical entrepreneurs

GitHub is the world’s largest hosting service for storing and working with IT-projects, but that’s not all. The resource cooperates nearly 24M developers and more than 100 thousand organizations. Last year 50% of the world’s TOP10 enterprise companies have used GitHub Enterprise, among them Walmart, Apple and General Motors. How can you, as an entrepreneur, use GitHub for your business?

How to create an apartment rental service like Airbnb

Airbnb has changed the way people tend to search for accommodations all over the world. This startup has conquered a global market of the apartment rental, though it does not mean that Airbnb like services cannot cut at least a small piece of this pie in frames of a local business. How to make a website or app for renting apartments?

How to develop a successful IT project on GitHub

Our company’s public account at GitHub has taken the 4th place among more than 2K of IT-outsourcing companies in Ukraine. Great contribution to this success is made by Android developers but the Open Source community is also supported by other company’s employees for many years. In this article, our experts have prepared recommendations on how to create a successful IT-project on GitHub.

Top-5 Android shopping apps

Smartphone users spend more than 30% of their time in mobile apps, and nearly a quarter of buyers start searching for the item in the brand’s shopping app directly. Although the mobile app development cost is quite high, the number of online stores on Play market grows each month. Solid arguments to take a closer look at existing shopping apps.