Tag Archives: software development

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February 28, 2025

Transforming App Development with AI, Part 2: Case Studies and Success Stories

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaking things up in app development, making everything from automation to personalization feel like magic. Companies across industries are harnessing AI to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and deliver innovative products to their users. In this blog post, we’ll explore some real-world examples of companies that have successfully integrated AI into their apps and app development workflows.

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February 14, 2025

Transforming App Development with AI, Part 1: Integrating AI Across the Development Lifecycle

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AI is rapidly transforming app development by optimizing workflows, refining user experiences, and enhancing decision-making at every stage of the development lifecycle. From ideation to post-deployment, AI tools are enabling development teams to work smarter, and more efficiently. Here are some practical examples of how AI is transforming each phase of modern app development, as well as some recommended tools to get you started.

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January 29, 2025

Transforming App Development with AI: Series Overview

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AI Development

Today’s digital age demands speed, innovation, and precision — qualities that traditional app development methods often struggle to deliver consistently. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), a transformative force reshaping the way apps are conceptualized, designed, built, and maintained. AI is not just a buzzword; it’s a game-changer that empowers developers to work smarter, create faster, and achieve more.

This blog kicks off a comprehensive series on how AI is revolutionizing app development. Over the coming articles, we’ll take an in-depth look at how AI integrates into every stage of the app development lifecycle, from conception to deployment, and how it addresses some of the most pressing challenges faced by developers today. The goal is to equip you with actionable insights and practical knowledge to harness the power of AI in your projects.

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August 17, 2020

The Uncertain Future of Moore’s Law

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In 1965, Gordon Moore, CEO and co-founder of Intel, made a prediction that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit (the main component on a computer chip) would double every two years for at least the next decade. This prediction, known today as Moore’s Law, has continued to be fulfilled since 1965. While it is known as Moore’s Law, Gordon Moore’s prediction is not truly a law; rather, it is a trend that chipmakers around the world have been encouraged to match via technological advancements, research, and development. 

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January 25, 2018

The Rise and Future of Coding Bootcamps

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If you work in the tech industry, coding bootcamps are something you have probably heard of, possibly attended, or know someone that graduated from one. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, the industry of coding bootcamps is fairly new, with the first ones starting around 2011-2012. In the short time they have been around, these alternative education programs have gained significant popularity, making their presence known in the tech world.

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June 7, 2016

Release Practices at Grio

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In a previous blog post, I covered the “textbook” definition of continuous integration, along with a handful of tools and practices that fulfill or help to fulfill said definition. These tools and practices include breaking up your app into components (e.g. front-end and back-end, or, for much larger projects, using microservices), utilizing “watch” utilities locally to iteratively run tests, and choosing test-oriented frameworks (e.g. Rails, Django, Grails, etc.). However, I didn’t talk much about any specific continuous integration setup, nor some of the third-party services that go together to make an efficient release process. I also didn’t talk much about how continuous integration fits into the larger cycle of deployment and release management. I aim to cover some of those topics here, and fill in the larger picture of how CI helps to ensure code quality and stability in a software project.

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February 4, 2016

Keeping an Eye on Code Knowledge

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In growing companies, as software systems become complex and extensively engineered, maintenance can be a challenging problem. Moreover, when high profile bugs arise and/or a lack of system availability arises, it can have disruptive consequences on a business. Hence there is little room for mistakes in these crucial systems.

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January 7, 2016

Late Subscribing and Polling APIs with RxAndroid

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Howdy, lazy bum! Enjoying the ReactiveX magic? Want to take a look at polling?

I’ll be walking you through a solution I put together for one of our up and coming apps! It works rather well, I learned a lot, and so far no complaints…although there are no users yet either!

Feeling quite charitable, I’m going to let you in on some useful bits and pieces as we build up to polling: threading, late subscribing, replay, manual re-triggering and error handling (a must for preserving replays).

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December 30, 2015

Prototyping with P5

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When I wanted to create a proof of a concept project for one of the game ideas I had, I found many tools and gaming frameworks. However, most of them had a steep learning curve which required a significant time investment before the game could be played. Then I discovered P5, a Javascript library inspired by the Processing language, which made it very easy to get started.

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August 19, 2015

Keep Your App on the Rails with BDD – Part 1

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A common way to describe requirements on Agile projects is through the use of user story mapping, and, as a result, user stories. This post will not cover this process, but rather the process of taking an existing set of user stories and leveraging them within our development workflow to ensure that an application is built as accurately and efficiently as possible. To this effect, we will set up tools (Rails, RSpec, Capybara, FactoryGirl, and Guard, to be precise) for implementing our app using behavior-driven development. Structuring our app in this way gives us much better odds of producing robust, low-defect code that delivers on the requirements we set out to build.

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