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Scala|Mar 7, 2025

Infrastructure as types: introducing TypeOps

Modern infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions have automated much of the cloud provisioning process, yet they still lack robust correctness guarantees, leading to costly misconfigurations and inefficiencies. TypeOps introduces the power of type systems to DevOps, enabling compile-time validation of infrastructure code, reducing errors before deployment, and ensuring more reliable and scalable cloud operations.

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Data Engineering|Mar 4, 2025

What are the benefits and advantages of machine learning?

Machine learning enhances the accuracy and precision of various tasks by processing large amounts of data and identifying patterns. If your organization is considering implementing a machine learning-based solution, we encourage you to explore the advantages and benefits of ML and discuss some potential limitations and what you can do to minimize them.

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Business insights|Jan 31, 2025

Leaders in Logistics Summit 2025: VirtusLab joins as a bronze sponsor

The Leaders in Logistics 2025 Summit gathers experts and individuals from the logistics industry, with a particular focus on senior parcel delivery & e-commerce professionals. VirtusLab is proud to announce that we are a bronze sponsor of this year’s edition. The 2025 Summit will take place on 12-13 March at the Estrel Berlin Hotel. Read more to find out what you can expect from this year’s edition.

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Data Engineering|Jan 21, 2025

What is a data platform?

Discover how a robust data platform streamlines the data lifecycle, boosts analytics, ensures security, and drives business insights. We elaborate on what a data platform is, its layers, benefits, and what there is to know when you build one.

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Data Engineering|Jan 15, 2025

What is data transformation?

Data transformation involves altering, refining, and structuring information into a standardized and usable format. It plays a key role in enabling effective data analysis, supporting decision-making, and driving organizational growth. Read more about different types of data transformation, as well as its benefits and challenges.

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Data Engineering|Jan 10, 2025

How to manage data for your project? Comparing batch processing with stream processing.

In this article, we will compare two approaches to data processing, namely batch and stream processing. Each of them has different characteristics and serves different purposes, but we will attempt to break them down to help you decide which one would better suit your project.

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Backend Engineering|Jan 8, 2025

Overcoming monorepo challenges with Bazel for your projects

In this article, we will examine common monorepo challenges and show how Bazel helps turn a large codebase into a more manageable, efficient ecosystem. Also, we included a link to a working repository where the ideas described here are implemented.

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Scala|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.

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Cloud Engineering|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.

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Backend Engineering|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.

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Backend Engineering|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.

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Backend Engineering|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.

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