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React Developer Salary: Everything You Should Know About It

December 23, 20198 min read
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React Developer Salary: Everything You Should Know About It
Updated 05.03.2026 React compensation changes fast, so we asked two MWDN leaders who deal with hiring and delivery every week to review this piece – Vitalii Vystavnyi (Managing Partner) and Mykhaylo Merkulov (COO). Their input is simple: salary numbers only help when you connect them to what the role actually owns (web vs React Native,...

Mobile app ideas 2020: how to come up with a masterpiece

December 12, 201915 min read
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Mobile app ideas 2020: how to come up with a masterpiece
Updated on 04.03.26 Heart, lungs, liver, spleen, [gadget]. It seems the list of vital human organs has increased by that last one, as people are growing inseparable from their Internet connections. The legendary “average adult in the U.S.” now spends about 3 hours 45 minutes a day on a mobile device, and among other results,...
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Software testing: The key approaches and methodologies

November 18, 201910 min read
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Software testing: The key approaches and methodologies
Imagine you enter a clothes store and see every piece of clothing in the same color and size. That’s basically a description of software that never went into testing. Either it suits your needs (accidentally), or it’s completely useless. The purpose of developing a software product is to satisfy a wide range of needs —...

Top 11 classic successful outsourcing examples: software

November 7, 201913 min read
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Top 11 classic successful outsourcing examples: software
Edited on: 01.16.24 Outsourced software development and IT outsourcing, in general, are huge things now. As with all the huge things out there, this one is already wrapped in myth in some aspects and has its fair share of both glorious successful outsourcing examples in business and Halloween-ish urban legends. Meanwhile, the market is growing:...

IT Outsourcing vs Offshoring: are they the same thing?

October 23, 20197 min read
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IT Outsourcing vs Offshoring: are they the same thing?
The time has come, hasn’t it? Once your enterprise is confidently and officially past the “cozy local business stage”, some things just can’t be done in-house anymore. At this point, a smart executive officer is bound to consider outsourcing (or offshoring?) some activities. Viable reasons to outsource are abundant to the point of overflow. Maybe...

What is lean software development and is it underrated?

October 22, 201910 min read
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lean software development
Updated on 03.03.26 A while ago in the 20th century, Toyota managed to climb out of serious problems using a special approach to manufacturing. The method involved, among others, defining and ruthlessly cutting away anything that didn’t bring value into the product – as well as empowering the professionals involved. The system gained acceptance, and has...

The difference between software development and software engineering

October 15, 20198 min read
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engineer vs developer
Let’s talk about one of those things that even tech geeks get confused about. Is there any difference between software engineer vs software developer? In most cases, these are used interchangeably — everywhere, from tech articles to job descriptions. So even the companies that intend to hire a specialist are not sure whether they are...

What you, as an employer, will want to know about a Python developer salary

October 8, 201910 min read
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What you, as an employer, will want to know about a Python developer salary
It could safely be called an achievement day for Cathy, a recruiter at a middle-sized SaaS company located near a university town. As the newly employed Pythonist was heading home to start his job on Monday, she thought about the hunt. Not that there was a lack of specialists – what with the hype around...

How to use Ruby on Rails: A Complete Guide

September 26, 201910 min read
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How to use Ruby on Rails: A Complete Guide
For both a beginning developer and someone distantly related to programming, Ruby on Rails (ROR) will sound familiar. It’s the name you might have heard in the same context as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Yet, ROR has nothing to do with a programming language. Just as Facebook’s React Native, it’s a development framework that is...