Is it better to have one book finished or two books halfway done? Some time ago, we ran into a similar problem at work. We were delivering just a few finished features and functions, while… Read More »The beauty of mob programming
When a software development company, focused on internet advertising, decides to try out both online and offline advertising, it’s quite a challenge. As they say: the shoemaker’s children go barefoot. And when it comes to… Read More »Running a brand campaign for the first time
About 4 years ago we got an idea that we could use a new framework written in TypeScript. One of the main reasons was that we wanted to switch to Angular 2, which is written… Read More »Ad management the world hasn’t seen
Communication is the foundation of a good relationship! We all know that. The same rule can be applied to our web services. The way they communicate with each other is the cornerstone of our architecture.… Read More »How our services talk to each other
Continuation of Part I of the Article… Adaptation and trial period The adaptation period began with new colleagues from Brno and Prague spending first 2 to 4 weeks in Opava at our main branch. That… Read More »Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part II.
About five years ago, following a great effort, we opened new offices in Prague and Brno with a big bang. After a few years, we closed them both in silence. In this blog entry, we… Read More »Why our offices in Prague and Brno met their infamous ending – part I.
One of our newest services is the Private Marketplace. It is used for arranging so-called Private Deals in the online advertising business. For example, the sales agent of aktualne.cz will negotiate a deal with the… Read More »How we ran the A/B test for the first time
It was just one of those regular meetings with users. We had recently rolled out a new product and our users had had a chance to work with it for some time. This meeting was… Read More »Why the user should be kept in the loop – the story of a cool-looking chart
Just like everyone else, one of the problems that we face while developing web applications is the slowness of the website from the user’s point of view. Once upon a time, in the prehistoric times… Read More »Why are we pessimistic about optimistic UI for web applications?
