At the beginning of a project, a roadmap is put in place to determine budget and time constraints, as well as any necessary features needed during the product development process. New feature requests often come from an apps’ final users, but if a product is not in production yet, new
The invention of smartphones and tablets has revolutionized how people go about their every day-to-day life. One study conducted by the Pew Research Center recently discovered that over 5 billion people worldwide own mobile devices. That number is expected to continue to rise sharply over the coming years. With so
Duolingo came on the scene in 2011 operating as a teach and translate language learning app. It has since transformed into a $700+ million business, and become the first EdTech app to top $140 Million in annual revenue. Pretty good numbers, for a language learning app that still doesn’t charge
California is considered the world’s 5th biggest economy, ranking higher than some European countries. This is not a surprise as it’s home to Silicon Valley, the world’s premier innovation hub and headquarters of multiple tech giants, as well as secondary tech hubs like Silicon Beach. Given the numerous data breaches
As machine learning developers, we always need to deal with ETL processing (Extract, Transform, Load) to get data ready for our model. Airflow can help us build ETL pipelines, and visualize the results for each of the tasks in a centralized way. In this blog post, we look at some
Mobile app development is one of our core competencies here at Rootstrap, and we embrace best practices for development and delivery just as much as we do for backend and web applications. As Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery requires maintaining multiple backend environments (Development, QA, Staging, Production), with fully automated deployments to
The usage of mobile apps in healthcare, MedTech, and eHealth has skyrocketed in the past 5 years. According to Liquid-State, in 2018 there were over 318,000 mobile healthcare apps available for patients, and approximately 200 new healthcare apps being built each day. This number is staggering, and we can assume
Django and Flask are two of the most popular Python web frameworks. In this article, we’re going to review their main strengths and weaknesses to help you decide which one is a better fit for your project. Django Approach Django opts for an all batteries-included approach. From a powerful ORM to an authentication
Open Source software (OSS) is a key initiative for developers at Rootstrap to stay sharp and engage with the developer community. In this blog post I’m going to talk about a particular project named Django Drip Campaigns and how was the process of publishing it as a pypi package. Pypi (that stands
Since Uber’s first ride request in 2010, the tech giant’s cutting edge engineering has revolutionized the rideshare industry. While today’s tech stack may be well equipped to build an app like Uber, the location-based startup was the first of its kind to put a taxi app with real-time GPS in
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