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Better customer experience with machine learning?
What does a typical sales ad look like? Companies or entrepreneurs do not have the time or copywriting skills to produce sales texts....

Valuemotive
Apr 24, 20232 min read


What is DevOps?
In the past I've talked with a lot of people about what DevOps is, read about it and searched for it but the answers seemed to vary quite...

Joonas Koistinen
Jan 25, 20238 min read


Hobby project spotlight: “vetovoima”
Here’s the story of how software architect Matias Klemola turned an abstract idea into an arcade game How did you come up with the idea...

Matias Klemola
Oct 25, 20224 min read


Testing WebAssembly with Jest/jsdom
If you have WebAssembly working in your frontend app, your next step might be adding a unit test for it. However, if you’re using jsdom...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Oct 5, 20201 min read


Git workflows revisited
Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash Git’s strength is being a tool that can support a wide range of development workflows. It’s therefore not...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Feb 4, 20203 min read


Are Daily Scrum meetings worth it?
Daily Scrum is a meeting held every day during an agile scrum software project. The main goal of the meeting is to ensure that...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Jan 13, 20202 min read


Agile Estimation Challenges
Agile development, especially scrum, often includes a work estimate of the project (and/or the sprint). Work estimates can also be...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Dec 9, 20192 min read


Friday Hacks — A weekly tradition at Valuemotive
At #Valuemotive, we believe that constant learning is an indispensable tool for every career and organisation. For that reason, Friday...

Thao Pham
Oct 30, 20193 min read


Supercharge your Node.js app with Nest.js
The default choice for powering your Node.js is often Express.js. It’s a great choice — it’s lightweight, simple and popular with a vast...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Jun 11, 20192 min read


Union types in TypeScript: modeling state
Get familiar with union types in TypeScript with practical examples. You will get rid of of complex and buggy boolean logic by using...

Matias Klemola
May 16, 20195 min read


Case Anaxeos — developing smart vest for dogs
In the beginning of 2018 Valuemotive participated in the development of the Anaxeos smart vest for dogs. Our responsibility was software...

Panu Horsmanlahti
Apr 13, 20182 min read


Making of Parking Spots🔎- Lessons from creating a React Native app
This article takes a brief look into my first ever React Native (or RN for short) project. I’ll explain the overall architecture of the...

Yacine Quarab
Nov 15, 20174 min read


🚗 From idea to reality: how Parking Spots app came to be 🚙
Beautiful Finnish parking lot scenery How does any (great) app idea begin? By finding a need for something and then filling that need...

Yacine Quarab
Nov 3, 20172 min read


Design for Data Scientists: Searching for Purpose
Or 3 Lessons from (Not) Applying Design What is design and why should I love design as a data scientist? These were the questions I...

Martti Sutinen
Aug 30, 20176 min read


How to: Easy Serverless AWS GraphQL API — boilerplate and instructions
The stack Introduction From start to finish, this article should help you set up your first minimalist GraphQL API that runs on an AWS...

Yacine Quarab
Aug 21, 20174 min read


Unit Testing React Native Components with Mocha and Enzyme
React Native Tools for testing React Native components have taken huge steps forward during the last six months, and it is now possible...

Teemu Tillikainen
Aug 1, 20164 min read
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