Insights
Learnings, thoughts and resources for our clients and the software engineering community.
How Hapi’s Dependency Model Simplifies Deployments in Security Sensitive Environments
At Big Room Studios, when we build backend services, we tend to use Hapi rather than Express. While both are powerful web application frameworks, they take different approaches to security, code dependency, and features.
Agile at BRS
About a decade ago, we moved away from using a traditional waterfall approach to project management and started using Agile development processes. This move gave developers the flexibility they needed to iterate and make a better product, and business people to be able to manage and assess timelines, milestones and budgets.
Why The Biggest Tech Companies Are Switching to Node.js
Node.js is an application runtime environment for writing server-side applications in JavaScript. It's unique I/O model makes it much more flexible and best for scalable and real-time situations that are more demanding of our servers.
The Art of Project Management
Pull up a chair as we explain what it is that our project managers do - how they add value to projects, and along the way hopefully demystify some of the tools and concepts that we leverage here at BRS in order to help our clients be as successful as possible.
Product Owners: A Guide to How BRS Keeps Their Clients Involved Every Step of the Way
Here at BRS, we’re fond of saying that our clients are product owners, and we build processes to drive this home. Pull up a seat, as this post is aimed at shedding light on exactly what that means, as well as illuminate how it’s reflected, practically speaking, in our applied agile process (and the methodologies we use to stay organized).