As developers at Mobile Jazz, we know the headache of finding, reproducing, and fixing bugs in mobile apps. Several years ago, we got so fed up debugging mobile apps remotely that we started building a solution for ourselves. We did it by creating a way to remotely access the logging facilities of users’ devices. We built a makeshift server for application logs that allowed us to fix bugs across devices and continents.

Formed in 2016, Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) is the world’s largest publicly quoted sports betting and gaming company, bringing “excitement to life” for five million customers worldwide. The merger of Paddy Power and Betfair in 2016 created an additional data challenge for an already highly data-driven organization. The merged company had to bring together 70TB of data, from dozens of sources, into an integrated platform.

Recently I found myself in a predicament that many of you can relate to, trying to update an aging application that has become too difficult to manage and too costly to continue operating. As we started to talk about what to do, we concluded it was time to start decomposing that application into smaller more manageable pieces.

Bugfender 2.0 is Live: Over the past year we’ve been hard at work developing Bugfender 2.0, and we’re proud to announce it’s now live. To get started, simply log into your Bugfender account!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerged as a hot topic in 2017. Although scientists have been working on the technology and heralding its numerous anticipated benefits for more than four decades, it’s only in the past few years that society’s AI dreams have come to fruition.

Where is AI going and how we can work with it in the future of BI?

Open source software (OSS) just celebrated its 20th anniversary and not only does the community have a lot of milestones to celebrate, but also a lot to which they can look forward! OSS continues to disrupt the status quo in groundbreaking ways, but it’s also becoming increasingly mainstream. Thus, if you’re an IT leader of any-sized organization, you should be thinking about and planning for how to incorporate OSS into your infrastructure.