Most popular articles

In the spotlight

Business insights|Published: Apr 14, 2023

Why digital transformation is important for remarkable business growth

Digital transformation is essential for businesses to remain competitive in today's fast-changing business environment. By integrating digital technology into all aspects of a company, businesses can fundamentally change their operations and deliver value to customers, as well as increase revenue and gain better planning and decision-making. This post talks all about digital transformation and how a service partner may be of assistance.

All time favourites

Backend Engineering|Published: Oct 14, 2024

What is developer experience (DX) and how to tell if your project delivers a good one?

what_is_developer_experience_cover_with_climbing_rocks

Cloud Engineering|Published: May 15, 2024

How to create a reference architecture with Kubernetes on Azure an extensive guide

Data Engineering|Published: Apr 25, 2023

Unlock the power of your analytical data platform for data-driven decisions

Cloud Engineering|Published: Aug 9, 2024

When to adopt platform engineering: 5 key insights for strategic success

VirtusLab's ArticlesRSS

All Backend Engineering Business insights Cloud Engineering Data Engineering Frontend Engineering Scala

Scala|Published: Dec 17, 2024

Scala, Bazel, Akka, and monorepos: A technical perspective of monorepo migration

Companies, especially mid-sized and larger ones, face the challenge of structuring projects at scale. Arguably, almost every technology and paradigm can be used by a single developer to write a small piece of code, but obviously, this is not enough for any organization—engineering solutions must allow people from multiple disciplines to develop and maintain the application efficiently throughout the whole application lifecycle.

Scala_Bazel_Akka_and_monorepos:_a city made out of containers

Cloud Engineering|Published: Dec 11, 2024

What is platform engineering and its role in modern IT

Platform engineering builds Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to simplify infrastructure management, improve developer experience (DX), and boost productivity through self-service capabilities.

Backend Engineering|Published: Nov 28, 2024

9 Developer Experience (DX) tools to use in 2025

Being software engineering consultants we have a unique perspective on how different developer experience tools work with our client’s tech stacks. We have gathered a collective experience of our engineers and prepared this list of 9 developer experience tools that our clients and their developers found helpful.

backpack_with_ropes_in_mountains_cover for developer experience tools

Backend Engineering|Published: Nov 26, 2024

Bazel-fueled monorepos for microservices

Code organization is easy when work is done in a small team, and the codebase is not yet extensive. However, as the project's scope grows and new sub-teams appear, the question of how to subdivide and manage the growing codebase becomes increasingly important.

Backend Engineering|Published: Nov 13, 2024

Deep dive into Bazel queries: from basics to advanced use cases

This article will guide you through a notable subset of Bazelʼs querying features backed by examples. These are useful for debugging, exploration, and tooling. We’ll start with basic Bazel queries with target patterns, then we will move on to demonstrating Bazel aquery and cquery.

Frontend Engineering|Published: Oct 31, 2024

Understanding micro frontend architecture: benefits, challenges, and best practices

The micro frontend architecture gives engineering teams flexibility in developing and maintaining different parts of the application. However, this comes with drawbacks, such as an increased total size of the code and an additional layer of complexity. In this article, we will go through the pros and cons of this architecture and share our recommendations for implementing it in your project.

Understanding_Micro_Frontend_Architecture_cover_wooden_blocks

Backend Engineering|Published: Oct 14, 2024

What is developer experience (DX) and how to tell if your project delivers a good one?

Developer Experience (DX) has emerged as a crucial factor in the success of any software development project. At its core, DX represents the overall happiness, productivity, and ease with which developers can create high-quality work. But how can you truly measure the DX of your project?

Frontend Engineering|Published: Aug 31, 2024

What is the best micro frontend framework right now? Insights from our experience

There is more than one way to build a micro frontend architecture. The most sensible, and popular, is via the appropriate framework. If you're short on time, here's our quick take: single-spa is likely the framework you'll want for your project right now. It is light, fast and reliable.

Cloud Engineering|Published: Aug 9, 2024

When to adopt platform engineering: 5 key insights for strategic success

Learn the key indicators and strategic steps to determine the right time for adopting platform engineering to enhance productivity and streamline operations.

Cloud Engineering|Published: Aug 7, 2024

Internal developer portals: a springboard to platform engineering

Discover how internal developer portals boost platform engineering by centralizing deployment and enhancing developer experiences. Learn more from VirtusLab!

Backend Engineering|Published: Jul 31, 2024

What are the best IDEs in 2024? Our perspective, based on 10+ years of experience

In this article, we will take a closer look at 3 IDEs, that we believe to be the best in their own right, and a few others that are worth taking a closer look at. We will explain their unique features and the types of projects for which they are best suited.

Business insights|Published: Jul 8, 2024

What is cloud repatriation?

Cloud repatriation came about as an answer to the challenging landscape of the current economy. IT managers save millions of dollars in subscription fees and other costs by moving their projects and data from the public cloud to private data centers.

1 2 3...7