Insights
Learnings, thoughts and resources for our clients and the software engineering community.
Custom Software vs. SaaS: Why Custom Software Wins
Off-the-shelf SaaS (Software as a Service) products are often the go-to for organizations because they tout perks like quick setups and predictable pricing—factors that are especially attractive for start ups and small teams.
But as organizations grow and their needs become more specific, the cracks in SaaS begin to show.
How Hapi’s Dependency Model Simplifies Deployments in Security Sensitive Environments
At Big Room Technologies, when we build backend services, we tend to use Hapi rather than Express. While both are powerful web application frameworks, they take different approaches to security, code dependency, and features.
Agile at Big Room Technologies
About a decade ago, we moved away from using a traditional waterfall approach to project management and started using Agile development processes. This move gave developers the flexibility they needed to iterate and make a better product, and business people to be able to manage and assess timelines, milestones and budgets.
Why The Biggest Tech Companies Are Switching to Node.js
Node.js is an application runtime environment for writing server-side applications in JavaScript. It's unique I/O model makes it much more flexible and best for scalable and real-time situations that are more demanding of our servers.
The Art of Project Management
Pull up a chair as we explain what it is that our project managers do - how they add value to projects, and along the way hopefully demystify some of the tools and concepts that we leverage here at Big Room Technologies in order to help our clients be as successful as possible.