Insights by Paula Cristea

The fintech sector is brimming with exciting trends for 2024 and beyond. These innovations redefine financial services and unlock a wealth of opportunities for entrepreneurs. From streamlined invoicing to next-generation treasury solutions, fintech startups are tailoring their offerings to address your specific needs.

In January 2024, our collaboration with Resourcify took off, focusing on a series of specific technological advancements aimed at enhancing their digital ecosystem. At the heart of our collaboration with Resourcify are several key objectives designed to expand their digital platform and overall operational efficiency. We aim to transition their platform from Angular to React, strengthen their infrastructure, streamline backend code, and update their database systems. Integral to achieving these goals is our contribution to incorporate automated testing, a strategy that will guarantee a smooth and effective transformation process.

Who among us has not chatted with Chat GPT or Bard Gemini in the last couple of days? While these are the most popular AI apps used in today’s digital work, thousands of other platforms streamline work and life across many more use cases. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing at a breakneck pace. A new analysis by the International Monetary Fund shows that AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complimenting others. In more advanced economies, roughly 60% of job roles could feel the impact of AI. On one side, about half of these roles could see benefits from AI integration, improving efficiency and productivity. However, for the other half, AI might start handling essential tasks that humans currently do, potentially reducing the need for labor.

The application industry continues to be the fastest-growing industry in the world, and at the same time, the most competitive. Companies and businesses from all over the world are developing new apps each day and finding new ways to stand above the competition is getting harder and harder. Thankfully, our team at Thinslices is here to help you in designing and developing the next breakthrough app in the market.

When we first met the BMJ team, we were fairly nervous, as would anyone who has heard of The BMJ ( British Medical Journal). Luckily, technology is the great equalizer in our industry so we fell in sync quickly with their team, and, together, we decided to take on the challenging task of reinventing the front end of bmj.com. This is the first chapter of our collaboration, within which we’ll be explaining the “why” behind this project, and discussing the architectural decisions we took to achieve this project.

An interview with Sean van Oossanen, UX Designer We're back with another article on our collaboration with BMJ. This time, we look at the design system currently being developed for several products, bmj.com included. Having developed our own design system, we were pretty excited to have a chance to work with another company and share our experience.

Openness is one of our core values so we thought we’d get a head start on answering these questions and maybe give some candidates the peace of mind they need to start a conversation with us.

The biggest difference between the two is that React is a library and not a framework per se. Imagine it like an actual library; a huge place with wonderful books, aka “coding pieces” in software development, that you can use to add new functions to a website or app. Angular is a framework; picture it as an actual frame. To fit a certain picture into that frame you have to cut it, meaning you can’t go back. In software development, a framework comes with a specific standard for an app or website. It is limited, setting an unchangeable project architecture. Once cut, you can’t uncut it.

It’s okay to feel a little reluctant when you first begin a collaboration with a remote software development team. Managing a team located hundreds of kilometers away can make you feel a little insecure, and that’s alright. But you need to build your product on time, on budget, and to top code quality standards, and hiring an internal development team doesn’t always make financial sense.

Why do we love it? Because it helps us create the most engaging web apps efficiently and fast with minimal coding. Since its release back in 2013, the goal of React.js was to provide outstanding rendering performance, considering its core strength is on individual components. Although it won the “battle” against Vue.js in 2019, things are changing fast in the software development realm; ASP.NET Core occupies the pole position with 70.7%, followed by React.js with 68,9%.