“Make it faster.” Developers hear these words all the time. In this incredibly fast-moving world, users expect speed from the technology they use. They have no time or patience for slow-moving applications. That’s why, during the app development process, Distillery focuses on finding...
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What is any developer’s favorite activity? Coding, of course. However, if a developer does nothing but write code, the situation starts looking pretty sad. In order to achieve optimal results, software engineers need to communicate with each other. In the software development process, documentation is one of the...
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As Amazon’s “Alexa loses her voice” Super Bowl commercial reminded us, Alexa has become an increasingly integral part of our daily lives. According to a Voicebot report, the Alexa skill count has now officially passed 25,000 in the United States, and Amazon reported selling “tens...
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During the past seven years, PubNub — a startup founded in California in 2010 — has evolved into something they call a global Data Stream Network (DSN). At its base, it’s an IaaS-solution intended to fulfill demand in the field of real-time messaging. Currently, Distillery is one of four PubNub certified development...
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On one of our recent Distillery projects, we faced an interesting dilemma: how to implement voice control for the system we were building. After searching for an appropriate service, we ultimately settled on Alexa, Amazon’s voice service. Overview of Amazon Alexa Unlike other representative voice technologies such as Cortana, Siri, and...
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Data is the oil of the 21st century — a valuable commodity prized and hoarded throughout the business world. In an attempt to turn users’ preferences into business profits, every internet activity is stored and analyzed. As a result, internet profile data is increasing rapidly, both in size and rate...
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In my experience, most performance improvement tasks take the following form: “This request is working too slow. We have to make it faster.” Sound familiar? In general, to find and remove all mistakes and nonsense parts in the program code, the request itself and all related actions...
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Software projects often start with such innocence. A developer creates the basic functionality and then extends the functionality with various rules of domain logic. Project classes grow larger and more complex to accommodate all these changes. The classes...
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It’s not a secret that tools are selected for the specific task, and our project was no exception. Since the requirements had been clearly defined before the beginning of the development, the backend architecture was chosen to meet...
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In this post I'll outline the basics of getting Kubernetes running on top of AWS. When we are done, you should have a Kubernetes cluster running atop of AWS with a simple web application that is publicly accessible. What...
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