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Our collection of knowledge, best practices, and tips we’ve learned over the past 15 years.

JP's excellence on front end development combined with an ability to grow as a developer made him an attractive candidate to become a full time US employee with Shop-Ware. Plus JP had always wanted to move to the US.

Admios has won two '2021 Best Places to Work' awards in two countries we operate: Panama and Argentina.
You're an entrepreneur who wants to develop an amazing digital product. You’ve got the killer idea, the marketing team, the business model, and yet there’s one thing that’s proving harder than usual: hiring the software developers.

Admios blockchain engineer covers the basic technical components of blockchain and takes you step-by-step how to build a smart contract and cryptocurrency using the Ethereum Network.

Admios has partnered up with Ecologi to offset its carbon emissions by supporting forest protections in Peru, seed planting, and wind energy projects in Taiwan.

Over the last 15 years, Admios has worked with dozens of TA, recruitment, and engineering teams. Our goal is not to tell you how to recruit, but rather to mimic, mirror, and fit your existing process and make it easier for you to find, screen, and hire technical talent.

Daily standups have been somewhat of a ritual for startups and software teams for the past 20 years. But recently people have come to despise them, thinking they are a big waste of time. What’s the purpose of these meetings, especially now that we’re all remote?

Diversifying your teams through gender, race, cultural background, and sexual orientation leads to more innovation, revenue, and adaptability to change. But creating diverse teams doesn’t just happen on its own, you need to create dedicated initiatives and build a plan around team diversity.
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Two of our experienced frontend developers debate the pros and cons of Angular vs React. Watch now to learn the best application for each as Giancarlo and Josue debate their sides.

The Agile Manifesto provides premises to develop software in a better way and bring value and innovation to customers and engineering teams. Unfortunately, consultants, executives and SEO's have tried to control it suffocating the very principles it was founded upon.
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Learn the differences about career paths in software development and how each can bring successful employees to your team.

Learn how Admios is taking ownership and inspiring more women to start a career in software development.
The secret's out - Admios has been ranked FIRST PLACE on Best Companies for Youth Professionals Panama 2020.

A quick overview of Apache Storm and what it can offer.

A quick overview of Apache Kafka and what it can offer.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have an engineering dream team? Find out how junior engineers play a critical role on any engineering team.

Learn how to evaluate a software developer candidate even though you might not have experience or exposure to software engineering.
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Our Director of Operations, Ricardo Chavarria, recently spoke at Scrum Day Panama 2020 about our scrum process at Admios and some of the improvements we made in 2020.

Review the Rails application templates and start implementing them on your own.
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Learn about the main differences between Angular and React in modern software development.

This article is part of our larger series on helping engineering leaders grow their software developers into high-performing senior devs, project leads, and managers.

This article is part of our larger series on helping engineering leaders grow their software developers into high-performing senior devs, project leads, and managers.

This article is part of our larger series on helping engineering leaders grow their software developers into high-performing senior devs, project leads, and managers.

This article is part of a series on helping engineering leaders grow their software developers into high-performing senior devs, project leads, and engineering managers.
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Learn more about the benefits of hiring a software developer engineer in test to increase test coverage across tech stacks.

Step by step guide on how the Websockets protocol is being implemented in Rails.

Learn more about the feature called Time-To-Live which allows you to store records in a time-expiring fashion in DynamoDB.
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We believe soft skills are key for any business to function and for any team to prosper. Learn about the four most important soft skills we believe every programmer needs to have.

Angular.js has been out there for a while now and is definitely a popular option to take into consideration when selecting a front end technology.

Development Operations (DevOps) is a new culture. It first appeared in 2008 during a Patrick Debois talk and several DevOpsDays later, DevOps engineers are key players in any software project.

So you have a deadline to hit and know that you can’t with existing resources? How do you add resources quickly? Flexible capacity. Read more about it here.

Are you using software that requires obtaining the proper copyright license? This infographic provides a quick overview for common software licenses.
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There is a better way to build and maintain content intensive marketing websites. Learn more about CMS and SSG here.
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Companies that care about their employees invest heavily in professional development. Learn about the professional growth plan that we use here at Admios for our software developers.

Objective-C, and now Swift has a fantastic way of allowing programmers to add functionality to an existing class, even if they don't have access to the original source code.

Learn more about what makes great React and Vue on our quick rundown.

If you’ve decided flexible capacity is right for your team, here is how you can convince your boss to get approval.

Have you ever wondered how your favorite text editor works under the hood? How does it read your files and has access to save them? Learn more about Node’s file system API.

When Angular first started it was a significant improvement over existing frameworks. We no longer had to set every single attribute or trigger an event for any change in the UI.
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Before you can integrate new remote developers onto your existing team you have to evaluate how remote ready you are. Fill out the following scorecard and tally up your score at the end to see how you did!

Learn more on how to achieve the interaction of a React.js component with some 3D Objects generated with Three.js.

The Java Virtual Machine is no longer Java language exclusive. There is a large number of programming languages available for it, and some of them have grown both in maturity and popularity in the last couple of years.
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This blog was written by Ricardo Chavarria. As Admios’ Director of South American Delivery and Operations Ric has managed remote teams spanning 9 countries on projects ranging from web applications to complex data pipelines.

Programming is kind of like a game of chess. You have to protect the most important pieces: your code deliverables. So as in a game of chess, the first sacrifice is your pawns.

Couldn’t make it to the RubyConf 2019 in Medellin? No need to worry, read about my favorite presentations here.

While working remotely with clients for 15 years, we’ve come to realize the importance of culture and how to keep it.

Here at Admios we've been working with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SCC), for quite some time now, and we had the idea to meld our use of SCC with our use of the Mule Platform to build a Mulesoft SCC Connector.

Pushing code for the past 15 years for some of the Bay Area’s top companies, we’ve learned a thing or two about optimizing DevOps. Click here to learn more about this.

At Admios we’ve raised the bar high to obtain top-notch talent. Learn more about what our recruiting process looks like.

Learn more about databases, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and most importantly, how to have full database migrations from Data Center Servers to Relational Database Service (RDS) ones.

This is my personal story of how I ended up becoming a full-stack engineer, even though this was not the career I pursued in college.

We’ve been working remotely with US-based clients for over 15 years. Learn more about how we’ve integrated our devs into our client’s culture even though we may physically sit a thousand miles away.

Learn more about Mule 4, the migration process, and generate an estimated time frame for future migration projects.

Amazon Rekognition is a service that enables you to add image analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects, scenes, and faces in images.

How do you find great developers in a sea of resumes? Read more on how are confident in hiring the best talent who match our skillset and core values.

Introduction to the Scala language and why you should be interested in learning it.

The following tutorial explains how we build our own native component that can send messages back and forth between Javascript and the iOS/Android code. Click here to learn more.
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One of the worst ways to start a developer at a new job is to have them immediately start coding on your project. Instead, the initial days of any new hire should be spent making sure they have sufficient knowledge and training to be successful once they start coding.

Artificial intelligence is a big trend right now, especially, machine learning. The amount of available data on the internet is growing every day so it makes sense that we want to analyze it and turn it into useful information.

As part of my work here at Admios, I have large files that need to pass through an API. To do this, I split the files into smaller sections. In this post, I’m going to share my process with you.

Javascript is suffering from the same disease as every other language out there. Here are some small tips that will help you write more efficient Javascript code.

Selecting the appropriate technologies is critical during the inception phase of a project. Most recently, we’ve been adopting a microservices architecture as a solution that satisfies our clients’ needs for modularity and availability.

These days everyone seems to understand the benefits of a co-located development team. However, there can be some downsides to colocation if it is abused.

Meta programming is what powers Ruby on Rails. Find out more about this programming technique.

In a recent project I worked on, I chose Parse as the backend for our game. About halfway through a 16-month development process, Parse announced that it would close down and that we would have until January 2017 to switch off of their platform. The hunt for a new solution begun.

E-commerce involves commercial transactions conducted electronically through the internet, to make it simpler, let’s call it online shopping. As developers, we need to know how e-commerce works.

The main goal for both of these connectors was to gain real experience using the Mule platform. While we could have used any service, no one on our team had worked with Watson before so we figured why not use.

Last month Admios turned 10. As I reflect back on the last decade, I am proud of all we have accomplished. Code written by Admios developers runs at major banks, hedge funds, and dozens of silicon valley startups and enterprises.

Is your company in dire need of a team of engineers and developers to create and maintain the software you need? Then a distributed team might be what you’re looking for.
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Is Admios what your firm needs? Learn the difference between outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring to see if Admios would be a good fit for your business.

In the past 15 years we’ve learned a thing or two on what makes the best partnership for our clients. Here are the top 3 factors we evaluate when deciding to work with a client to ensure a mutually beneficial relationship.

Staff augmentation is a more affordable, sustainable, and reliable alternative when in need of more employees. Learn more if it is the right choice for your business.
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Nearshoring involves outsourcing work to a team that is typically within the same time zone as your company, and that has a similar culture. The result? A happier you, a happier team, and a happier customer.

We are frequently asked about the best things to do in Panama. While there are a number of great places to spend time in Panama City, the Casco Viejo district is our favorite.

What should you look for in a staff augmentation firm? What are the right questions to ask to ensure you find the development talent you’re looking for? Read our blog post to learn more.
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Admios blockchain engineer covers the basic technical components of blockchain and takes you step-by-step how to build a smart contract and cryptocurrency using the Ethereum Network.
Admios has won two '2021 Best Places to Work' awards in two countries we operate: Panama and Argentina.
At Admios we’ve raised the bar high to obtain top-notch talent. Learn more about what our recruiting process looks like.
You're an entrepreneur who wants to develop an amazing digital product. You’ve got the killer idea, the marketing team, the business model, and yet there’s one thing that’s proving harder than usual: hiring the software developers.
One of the worst ways to start a developer at a new job is to have them immediately start coding on your project. Instead, the initial days of any new hire should be spent making sure they have sufficient knowledge and training to be successful once they start coding.
Admios has partnered up with Ecologi to offset its carbon emissions by supporting forest protections in Peru, seed planting, and wind energy projects in Taiwan.
Is Admios what your firm needs? Learn the difference between outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring to see if Admios would be a good fit for your business.
Nearshoring involves outsourcing work to a team that is typically within the same time zone as your company, and that has a similar culture. The result? A happier you, a happier team, and a happier customer.
Over the last 15 years, Admios has worked with dozens of TA, recruitment, and engineering teams. Our goal is not to tell you how to recruit, but rather to mimic, mirror, and fit your existing process and make it easier for you to find, screen, and hire technical talent.
This blog was written by Ricardo Chavarria. As Admios’ Director of South American Delivery and Operations Ric has managed remote teams spanning 9 countries on projects ranging from web applications to complex data pipelines.
Learn how Admios is taking ownership and inspiring more women to start a career in software development.
Learn the differences about career paths in software development and how each can bring successful employees to your team.