Introducing Our Developer Blog: Smart Up

What happens when you encourage your entire software development team to experiment out in the open? Well, that’s what we’ve asked our engineering team in Krakow, Poland to do. Our team is comprised of some of the best developers out there, who love experimenting, hacking, and creating new things to not only drive their own projects, but build some of the coolest features for your SmartRecruiters Talent Acquisition Suite.

That’s why we started “Smart Up”, our developer blog: it’s where our engineering team can share their thoughts on the state of software engineering. We know that their experiences will not only shape our thoughts on product, but might help you in discovering the secrets in your own development as well.

Here’s a summary of the insights we’ve shared so far:

Amazon Alexa: 5 Tips To Hear Before Starting Development (In NodeJs)

Artur, one of our software engineers, explains what he learned when building an Amazon Echo application. He found the Echo development interesting as “AI assistants seem to be a virgin territory,” and ripe for new innovations in software engineering. The Amazon Echo has exploded in popularity, and now is a great time to explore its development.

Devoxx Belgium 2016

Wojtek, our Senior Software Developer went to Devoxx Belgium, the biggest Java community conference in Europe. In this article, he shares what he liked about the conference. There was a lot of discussion around Machine Learning, Artificial intelligence, Security, Drone Technology, and more.

What Is A Framework?

Przemek works on our Frontend technology team, and wrote a piece of how to a select a framework that’s right for you (hint: popularity isn’t the first piece of criteria). Why reinvent the wheel when a decent framework is ready for you to build your software on top of it? Plus, frameworks give developers a common language to communicate problems they’re looking to solve.

We Tried Groovy EE – And What We Have Learned From It

Artur is back again with an explanation of Groovy: a Java Virtual Machine Language that first appeared in 2003. In Internet years, that’s practically ancient! So why use it now for full fledged development? It has it’s caveats and traps, but for building microservices, it can be useful.

Alert Or ActionSheet Style?

When trying to get your users to progress forward on an action, what works better? An alert or an ActionSheet? Tomek, one of our iOS Developers and Software Architects, discusses how and when to use each based on Human Interface Guidelines, popular discussions, and experience.

Our developers are working hard everyday to create the best hiring experience out there, and the trials, experiments, and experiences are shared here to help you and your team develop your own great experiments and products. What development technologies are important to you and your team? Let us know in the comments!