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Software development insights compiled for you by the people of bitcrowd

· 6 min read
Darren Cadwallader portrait

While it’s rare that building a thing in the most correct way also gives the fastest result, at bitcrowd we’ve achieved exactly this by building our clients’ component libraries on a solid design system. As a bonus, even backend developers get totally on board with what used to be seen as a niche design or frontend wish.

· 7 min read
Darren Cadwallader portrait

Congratulations, your product has survived long enough to need a redesign! This is something to be proud of, as is the fact that you’re also about to invest more in its future. But a redesign is a daunting task, with the successful launch day laying far over the horizon.

Bitcrowd has successfully lead many redesign projects, both for long-term clients whose products we’ve been building ourselves for years, and for new clients who find they don’t have the expertise or capacity to complete the task in-house. This post is an outline of how we work to bring as much certainty and security as possible to the process.

· 12 min read
Christoph Beck portrait
The dev team receives the envelope with the application specs from a dead letter box in the park at night. Two months later, they deliver the code. Their client deploys their app, and everything works as expected. So what was in that envelope?

· 18 min read
Christoph Beck portrait

Bluesky's source code is widely open source, so you can run your own social network with it. - Provided you stay with a comparably small user base. What's missing? A performant DataPlane implementation. Closing this gap would be an important step towards building digital independence.