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E2E Testing without the boring part — A tutorial on Cypress (part 1)

How to use Cypress to make E2E tests on your web application, unit tests on your backend, and more...

Our Tech Stack — In a nutshell

Node.js Internals: An introduction to Node’s runtime and architecture

Automated provisioning and deployments with Ansible, Docker, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

Node.js Internals: Libuv and the event loop behind the curtain

Node.js Internals: Event loop in action

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E2E Testing without the boring part — A tutorial on Cypress (part 1)

How to use Cypress to make E2E tests on your web application, unit tests on your backend, and more...

June 17, 2019

Our Tech Stack — In a nutshell

When we started Softup Technologies, we wanted to use best industry practices and deliver high quality solutions that our clients deserve...

June 17, 2019

Node.js Internals: An introduction to Node’s runtime and architecture

Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for executing Javascript outside the browser...

March 2, 2020

Automated provisioning and deployments with Ansible, Docker, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

In this article we will talk about automating the whole server provisioning and deployment process of an application.

November 1, 2019

Node.js Internals: Libuv and the event loop behind the curtain

During Node’s original presentation in 2009, Ryan Dahl’s (i.e. creator of Node) thesis was: “I/O needs to be done differently”...

March 17, 2020

Node.js Internals: Event loop in action

In this part, we will go through some Node.js code snippets to see how the event loop behaves and how it affects code execution. But first...

March 30, 2020

Building a ML model that predicts news category given a news title

In the following article, we will discuss about the Naive Bayes classification algorithm, its mathematical representational and we will train a model on Python...

April 28, 2020

Node.js Internals: Not everything happens on the thread pool

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to Node is that every asynchronous operation is handled by Libuv’s thread pool. There are ...

April 14, 2020

Softup partners with Swiss project RisiAlbania to connect European companies with Albanian developers

Softup Technologies has finalized a partnership with RisiAlbania (an innovative project, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, in ...

September 16, 2020

Serverless architecture reference (P-1)

At Softup Technologies we tend to build robust, easy maintainable applications and trying to keep the infrastructure cost at the minimal. This is ...

August 17, 2020

How to deploy a monorepo to multiple Heroku apps using GitHub Actions

This article shows how to deploy a Node.js and React.js monorepo to multiple Heroku applications using GitHub Actions.

September 9, 2020

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Buyer's Remorse

This is PART 2 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges...

December 19, 2020

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Billing Models

Software development is the type of industry that is always on the cutting edge of technological advances. It’s the foundation that ...

December 2, 2020

Software Outsourcing Challenges: No Skin in the Game

This is PART 3 of a blog series that details the challenges of outsourcing software development...

January 15, 2021

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Paying for Bad Experiences

This is PART 4 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges...

November 15, 2021

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Vendor Lock-in

This is PART 5 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges...

February 12, 2021

How we structure our Terraform project

The difficult part about structuring a Terraform project is that several solutions exist and there is no universal guide. The code structure...

April 28, 2022

Empowering Career Growth @ Softup Technologies

Growth is essential for any individual, and since companies are a union of individuals, growth becomes essential for the existence of a company as well. Without growth...

March 15, 2022

Automating infrastructure deployments with Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions

In this article, I will continue to present one way how we can automate our infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions.

April 28, 2022

Build a webhook system using AWS and Ruby on Rails framework

Have you ever wondered how you could use Amazon Web Services to start your ownwebhook triggering system? Many developers...

February 7, 2022