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Engineering

Getting to Know Monorepo

As a concept, Monorepos have been around for more than a decade. Google, Facebook and Microsoft have been using this architecture for ages. But it’s only now, as better tooling hits the market, that startups and open source projects are jum...

Android, Engineering

Kotlin Coroutines, Threads, Concurrency and Parallelism 101

Kotlin coroutines have been stable since Kotlin 1.3. As a result, we can finally get rid of the experimental flag and start our exciting journey into the uncharted magical world of concurrency.But wait a second…we can’t just dive in unprepa...

Engineering

News From DockerCon19

Docker Containers are hands down one of the most popular ways to deploy apps. So, of course, STRV’s Backend Team couldn’t miss the biggest Docker conference of the year: DockerCon.Even though the conference focused primarily on Enterprise f...

Engineering, Product

AR in Mobile Games

As STRV’s resident game developers, Simon Kautzky and Martin Novak are two very busy guys. Luckily, we got a moment to sit down with them to hear about their current titles, what it’s like building games designed for user relaxation with Un...

Backend, Engineering

How to Set up Blockchain in Your Node.js Project

We’ve covered how Blockchain works, and how to use it. That’s enough theory. Let’s get to the fun bit—actually putting our knowledge to use.MULTICHAIN & A SMALL APPI won’t be guiding you to write your own Blockchain implementation. We’r...

Engineering, iOS

WWDC STRV Selection

WWDC 2019 presented features, tools and devices that have the potential to change the industry. From One-Shot Object Detection to RealityKit and ARKit 3, let’s get into the best of the five-day event. The event started with a Keynote presen...

Backend, Engineering

How Blockchain Works - and How We Can Use It

Blockchain technology. You’ve heard about it. You probably know it’s used for cryptocurrencies. But few people actually understand how it works, and how to use it.So, I figured I’d outline what Blockchain is, and how it compares to traditio...

Engineering, Frontend

105 React Development Tools and Resources

Ultimate list of React Resources curated by STRV frontend team: Project starters, Courses, Twitter accounts, Podcasts, Newsletters, Blogs, Browser Extensions, Handy Tools, Code Quality Tools and VSCode extensionsTECHNOLOGIES React - The off...

Engineering, Backend

ReasonConf2019 shows evolution of ReasonML

The most interesting talks from ReasonConf 2019? How Ubisoft used ReasonML to build its club app, how to sneak ReasonML into production and how companies can successfully leverage OCaml to meet their business goals.The main goal of this ann...