2024 E-Commerce Trends: How Web Development Can Power Your Business

The freelance market is rapidly reshaping mobile development, fueled by remote work trends and significant growth (projected double-digit gains annually). Businesses everywhere leverage freelancers for potential cost savings (often 30-50%+ compared to agencies), global skill access, and flexible scaling. But finding value – reliable quality, not just the lowest price – is the key challenge,…

Mobile interactions overwhelmingly dominate the US digital landscape in 2025, accounting for over 60% of total digital media time. This mobile-first reality demands a smart application strategy: should your business build a Progressive Web App (PWA) or a platform-specific Native App? These represent fundamentally distinct paths—PWAs leveraging the web's broad reach and flexibility, while Native…

Websites are evolving, offering engaging app-like "Progressive Web App" (PWA) experiences. But unlike native apps often requiring recent OS versions, potentially leaving segments of the diverse US audience behind, how do PWAs ensure everyone gets a functional experience? The key is progressive enhancement. This approach involves building a solid baseline website that works everywhere, then…

What powers a PWA's ability to work offline or send push notifications – key features for engaging US users? Meet the Service Worker: the JavaScript cornerstone enabling these crucial app-like capabilities. Operating on a separate thread from the main browser UI, a Service Worker acts as a programmable network proxy. It intercepts network requests and…

Seeking native app engagement combined with broad web reach for your US audience? Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) offer a compelling solution in 2025, effectively blurring the lines between a website and an installed application. Built using standard web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) enhanced with modern APIs, PWAs are designed to work for every user. They…

Your company website often serves as the first digital point of contact for potential customers. It functions as more than an online pamphlet; it's a platform for customer interaction, brand building, and can directly influence revenue generation. The design, usability, and overall user experience shape perceptions of your credibility. Making informed decisions about your web…

Is your Ruby on Rails API struggling under load? Often, the bottleneck lies in serialization. Meet jsonapi-serializer (formerly Fast JSON API), a gem laser-focused on optimizing this exact process. Born from performance needs at Netflix, it tackles slow JSON generation head-on. The difference?  Benchmarks show it can be significantly faster than libraries like Active Model…

Your website is critical, but issues are inevitable. How efficiently they're resolved often hinges on the quality of your issue reports. Vague reports can drastically inflate debugging time, which already consumes significant development resources – some estimates place it near 50% of a developer's workload. Conversely, a well-structured report, complete with clear steps, environmental details,…