Communication Lessons I've learned while working in development 📚 Ever since I left college and started working at Cloudoki, I have come to learn A LOT about the real world of development - lessons that no amount of formal
Communication The quest to a non-tech's heart Talking to an audience about something they might not be as familiar with as you are, is like going on a quest. Although it might seem impossible at first, once the path is clear of dragons and goblins you should be on the way to efficient and productive communication.
30secondsessions 30 Secondsessions – The Big Squeeze 2021 The Big Squeeze was, as the name puts it, a whole lot of concurrent content delivered through multiple formats, "squeezed" into a bit-over-half-day event. If this sounds overwhelming or simply prone to error, let me tell you it really (!) wasn't.
30secondsessions 30 Secondsessions – EU Startup Summit 2021 How have European startups fared during the pandemic and what is the outlook for the future? This event was aimed at startup founders, entrepreneurs, and investors in Europe, so read on to get a quick take on the event!
culture Why we invest time in Google My Business (and ditched Facebook) Cloudoki is not known for digital marketing, but in the background we spend a lot of time automating our marketing process. We assumed that social media would be our primary outlets... until we started to discover some alternatives.
30secondsessions 30 Secondsessions – Destination Scale This event from Kong Inc. took the problem of platform proliferation and examined how businesses can drive operational efficiencies, scale processes and save developers’ time.
UX Design Tools In 2020 Taylor and Jordan from UX Tools released a survey and collected responses from over 4.000 designers. They wanted to find out how designers in 2020 changed the
culture Candidate Experience For us at Cloudoki, candidates are as important as our clients. They are potential future members of our family, but above all they are people. This is our motivation: to
30secondsessions 30 Secondsessions – API Days Helsinki 2021 APIs are pushing across industries and improving experiences.  This event focused on platforms and ecosystems, so read on to get a quick take on the main topics from the conference!
30secondsessions 30 SecondSessions - IT Spree Cloudoki was present last week at IT Spree, organised by the city of Ghent, to tickle a group of about 80 youngsters' curiosity in tech...
About us Why did we go "blog-first" Cloudoki doesn't try to be an expert in "mad-men" communication and sales, we try to be experts in technology and let the rest take care of itself. If a website is about presenting your best self, we feel our opinions and journey through tech is our best, unsalted image.
JavaScript JS: Don't block the event loop What does it mean when someone says to not block the event loop? In my early days of JavaScript programming I was posed with this question and it was one of the most significant ones in my learning process.
Developers VS Testers It is not difficult to find memes, all over the internet, joking about the relationship between testers and developers. Oh! That ancient battle! But… Should they really be rivals?
About us Our nests/offices Portugal Office LisbonIn Portugal you can find us in this little metropolis called Lisbon. Near the city centre, the coolest office you'll ever set foot in, is hidden in a
UX A new set of usability heuristics At a recent UX digital meet up, I was introduced to a new set of usability heuristics for the web, proposed by Børge Kristensen and Marie Soelberg, that closely match the current issues that users experience on the web.
PO A day in the life of a PO - day nine For about 8 years, I had the intense pleasure of working as a seasonal Festival Stage Manager. (compare) Welcome to project Utop.ia Day nine Nine used to be my
Tech Database singleton table Despite not a being common pattern, I've ran into situations where I needed to use a sort of singleton pattern in the database. Here's a way to handle it. Usually
Events 30 Secondsessions – Destination Zero-Trust This event from Kong Inc. provided numerous insights into zero-trust security and other leading API-related topics and was well worth the time.  For the key takeaways and emerging topics – read
hackfridays Learn, Play & Produce Hackfridays produces hands-on hackathons for Developers and people* about development, application architecture, integrations, IoT, AR, VR, gaming and design thinking.
About us Before anything, we're family Cloudoki is an international team of junior, mid and senior experts in API-centric application architecture and development. We build top notch next-generation software for web, mobile and native, serving startups, scale-ups, SME's and Enterprise clients.
30secondsessions 30 Secondsessions – API Days Paris 2020 APIs are in the mainstream now, with adoption accelerating and supporting the move to the New Normal.  Read on to get the main takeaways from the conference! This engaging event
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Tech A React Custom Hook for Forms Forms are one of the most usual components of modern web applications. There's a lot of shared functionality between each form implementation so it's useful to have a common approach
Tech Kubernetes management with Eksctl Nowadays we have in the current market several ways of deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters. On premises/virtualised deployments with KubeAdm and as a service within cloud providers like AWS,
