Growth & culture
What Is Offshore Software Development?
Building an in-house team of skilled developers can be tricky if your company is located in a place where experienced developers come at a steep price. In practice, the [...]
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- Jun, 2019
- 8 min
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Growth & culture
What Are the Benefits of Outsourcing IT Services?
Whether it’s a large enterprise or a small startup, businesses of all kinds are now choosing to outsource IT services for many different reasons. Naturally, outsourced services offer many [...]
- Jun, 2019
- 9 min
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Python
What is Python used for? Key benefits and examples across 3 industries
What do Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, and Instagram have in common? Aside from being tech giants, they’re all built with the same core technology: Python. Created almost three decades [...]
- Jun, 2019
- 8 min
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Python
Elasticsearch with Python: 7 tips and best practices
Elasticsearch is an open-source distributed search server that comes in handy for building applications with full-text search capabilities. While its core implementation is in Java, it provides a REST [...]
- May, 2019
- 14 min
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Python
How to use Elasticsearch with Django
Are you building a Django application that needs to search through a massive data set? You might be considering to use a standard relational database. But you’ll quickly find [...]
- May, 2019
- 12 min
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What is Python used for? Key benefits and examples across 3 industries
What do Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, and Instagram have in common? Aside from being tech giants, they’re all built with the same core technology: Python. Created almost three decades [...]
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- Jun, 2019
- 8 min
web development
What is Python used for? Key benefits and examples across 3 industries
What do Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, and Instagram have in common? Aside from being tech giants, they’re all built with the same core technology: Python. Created almost three decades [...]
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- Jun, 2019
- 8 min
data science
24 Python machine learning libraries for data science projects
Python is one of the most popular languages among data scientists and web developers today thanks to a large number of libraries that do just about anything, including machine [...]
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- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
startups
Agile software development: 7 best practices
At Sunscrapers, we believe that Agile is more than a collection of software development techniques or ceremonies. For us, Agile is a group of methodologies teams can mix as [...]
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- Mar, 2019
- 7 min
project management
Unpacking the dedicated team model + 3 best practices from our team
The demand for skilled software developers almost always surpasses market capacities. When building in-house teams become too time-consuming and expensive, companies usually into outsourcing opportunities. And that’s spot on [...]
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- Apr, 2019
- 5 min
growth-and-culture
What Is Offshore Software Development?
Building an in-house team of skilled developers can be tricky if your company is located in a place where experienced developers come at a steep price. In practice, the [...]
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- Jun, 2019
- 8 min
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Python
6 best Django tutorials and books for advanced Python developers
So, you’re a mid-level Python developer and want to learn Django? This article is for you. Finding beginner Django tutorials is easy. But if you’re a little more seasoned [...]
- May, 2019
- 7 min
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Python
Python best practices: Static typing in Python with mypy
Static typing is an approach to writing code that allows developers to specify the type of variables and return type of functions before the code is actually run. By [...]
- May, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
The Ultimate Tutorial for Django REST Framework: Functional Endpoints and API Nesting (Part 6)
Here’s another part of my tutorial for Django REST framework. Catch up with the work we’ve completed in the previous parts of the series: The Ultimate Tutorial for Django [...]
- May, 2019
- 6 min
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Growth & culture
Unpacking the dedicated team model + 3 best practices from our team
The demand for skilled software developers almost always surpasses market capacities. When building in-house teams become too time-consuming and expensive, companies usually into outsourcing opportunities. And that’s spot on [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
The Ultimate Tutorial for Django REST Framework: Filtering (Part 5)
I’m back with another part of my tutorial for Django REST framework. Be sure to catch up with the work we’ve completed in the previous parts of the series: [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 7 min
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Growth & culture
6 proven practices for scaling agile development teams
Most software development and product companies have more than one development team that works on their digital product. If agile works for one team, there’s no reason why other [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 6 min
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Python
14 Python resources for intermediate and advanced Python developers
Python developers can choose from a great variety of learning resources. But sifting through all the books, tutorials, and courses can be difficult if you’re looking for something particular. [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 7 min
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Growth & culture
The extended team model: here’s how to make it work
Having the right people on board is essential to the success of any business, from startups to multinational corporations. Hiring the best talents is one of the most challenging [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 8 min
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Python
12 best Python tutorials for beginners
Are you a Python newbie looking for quality learning resources? Or maybe you want to go over all the Python development basics to make sure you’ve got it all [...]
- Apr, 2019
- 6 min
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Python
9 productivity tips for software developers: touch typing, dotfiles, and more
The keyboard and the mouse are the most common devices that interface us with computers. We don’t have brain-computer interfaces just yet, and we need to rely on them [...]
- Mar, 2019
- 5 min
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Web development
The ultimate guide to DevOps (+ 15 DevOps best practices from our team)
DevOps is one of those buzzwords that mean many different things to a lot of people. That’s why understanding what DevOps is and how it can benefit your organization [...]
- Mar, 2019
- 4 min
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Growth & culture
Agile software development: 7 best practices
At Sunscrapers, we believe that Agile is more than a collection of software development techniques or ceremonies. For us, Agile is a group of methodologies teams can mix as [...]
- Mar, 2019
- 7 min
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Growth & culture
Outsourcing best practices: How to manage agile collaborations with challenging clients
Let me begin by saying this: in outsourcing partnerships, it’s not the clients that present a challenge, but communication. Which is quite tough to master in general. This article [...]
- Mar, 2019
- 9 min
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Project management
Outsourcing best practices: How to outsource R&D projects
Smart organizations launch Research and Development (R&D) projects to drive innovation into their product line to gain a competitive advantage. Still, many companies consider R&D as a somewhat uncertain [...]
- Feb, 2019
- 5 min
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Project management
Outsourcing best practices: 6 tips for coordinating internal and external development
Partnering with a dedicated team provided by an outsourcing software company can be just as challenging as rewarding. Internal and external development teams that work on different areas of [...]
- Feb, 2019
- 4 min
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Python
Python best practices: How to contribute to Python open-source projects
One of the things we love about Python is its rich ecosystem that comprises countless modules, libraries, and frameworks – together with all the passionate developers who make it [...]
- Feb, 2019
- 5 min
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Project management
Offshore software development: Our recipe for success in New York City
We always have a blast when working with clients from New York City. They’re driven, inspired, and full of incredibly smart ideas. If you’re wondering how a company located [...]
- Feb, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
The Ultimate Tutorial for Django REST Framework: Pagination (Part 4)
I’m back with another part of my tutorial for Django REST framework. Be sure to catch up with the work we’ve completed in the previous parts of the series: [...]
- Feb, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
Python best practices: What every Pythonista should know about Unicode
In my experience as a Python developer, I found that understanding the difference between Unicode and UTF is essential to avoid any confusion about how Python handles Unicode data. [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
30 built-in Python modules you should be using
One feature of Python that has made it so popular is the sheer number and variety of tools that make a developer’s life easier. Modules and libraries help to [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Project management
How to choose the right custom software development company
Companies can’t survive on the market without quality software. The right software can make or break a business. It helps to boost employee productivity, creates amazing experiences for customers [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Python
6 expert tips for building better Django models
As the old programming adage goes: Show me your algorithm, and I will remain puzzled but show me your data structure, and I will be enlightened. An application’s data [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Data science
24 Python machine learning libraries for data science projects
Python is one of the most popular languages among data scientists and web developers today thanks to a large number of libraries that do just about anything, including machine [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Data science
8 best practices for data cleaning we swear by
Every business loves its big data. Collecting data is a must for companies that want to uncover valuable insights with data analytics. During the last decade, we’ve witnessed a [...]
- Jan, 2019
- 5 min
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Startups
The NYC tech scene: an insider’s guide
New York City is often scored one of the least likely cities for HQ2. The Big Apple’s complicated infrastructure, high tax burden, and considerable costs of living, that doesn’t [...]
- Dec, 2018
- 5 min
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Project management
Building tech products without technical competences
I’ve worked as a Manager in both software development companies and product development teams. I know what kind of problems non-technical founders face. While working at software development companies [...]
- Dec, 2018
- 5 min
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Web development
How to avoid prop-drilling in React without using Redux (Part 2)
In the first part of my blog post series about the methods of limiting prop-drilling in React, I showed that prop-drilling is generally beneficial and you may usually want [...]
- Nov, 2018
- 5 min
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Web development
How to avoid prop-drilling in React without using Redux (Part 1)
Using Redux to manage your application state means that you’ll be dealing with a number of consequences – some of them beneficial and some detrimental when it comes to [...]
- Nov, 2018
- 5 min
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Data science
Data warehouses – what they are and how to classify them (Part 3)
This is the third and last post in our series about data warehouses. If you missed the previous ones, check them out here: Data warehouses – what they are [...]
- Nov, 2018
- 4 min
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Data science
Data warehouses – what they are and how to classify them (Part 2)
Here’s the second post in our series about data warehouses. If you missed the previous one, check it out here. Data warehouses – what they are and how to [...]
- Nov, 2018
- 5 min
