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The buzzword “composable commerce” has dominated digital strategy conversations since Gartner popularized the term in 2020. But behind the marketing hype lies a longstanding, proven practice of integrating specialized, best-of-breed technology components into a flexible and scalable ecosystem....

2025’s tariff shakeup is here, and it’s rewriting the rules for e-commerce. With sweeping U.S. and North American reforms—like a new 10% baseline import duty, the end of the $800 de minimis exemption for shipments from Hong Kong and China (all imports from these regions now face steep tariffs of 12...
Is DeepSeek AI development the right choice for your organization? Download the full white paper to get your hands on comprehensive technical details, in-depth performance benchmarks, and actionable insights from CTOs—for CTOs (and AI innovators). DeepSeek has quickly established itsel...
This white paper explores how Vercel frontend deployment innovations, including developer experience optimization, fluid computing, and AI-assisted development, enable organizations to accelerate development velocity by 30-50%, improve global performance by 30-50%, and reduce infrastructure man...
For technical leaders seeking a comprehensive understanding of Agentic AI technology—including architectural innovations, implementation frameworks, and detailed technical guidance—download the full white paper for an in-depth analysis, technical deep dive, and actionable strategies to accelera...

Download the white paper to get your hands on a comprehensive guide on the privacy and performance benefits, as well as implementation, optimization, and security best practices of client-side AI. Below is a taste of what you can expect, with more in-depth details, code samples, and actionable...

AI for retail starts with composable commerce—where every click feels personal, every journey is seamless, and every interaction counts. Grid Dynamics’ composable commerce platform blends MACH architecture with advanced AI to craft shopping experiences that sense, adapt, and respond in real time....
When it comes to the best web development frameworks, finding the right balance between efficiency, creativity, and maintainability is key to building modern, responsive designs. Developers constantly seek tools and approaches that simplify workflows while empowering them to create visually strikin...

Wealth managers, asset managers, and banks face mounting pressure when it comes to regulatory remediation—the process of responding quickly and accurately to inquiries from regulators like FINRA and the SEC. These demand answers to complex questions about past transactions, communications, and deci...

The Grid Dynamics Pre-composed Commerce Starter Kit for Google Cloud is an AI-powered eCommerce platform representing a strategic solution for retailers facing the dual challenges of delivering exceptional customer experiences while reducing order fulfillment costs. This MACH-based (Microservic...

Most enterprise leaders dip their toe into AI, only to realize their data isn’t ready—whether that means insufficient data, legacy data formats, lack of data accessibility, or poorly performing data infrastructure. In fact, Gartner predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI pr...
Elevate your customer service with the AI-powered Customer Engagement Suite from Grid Dynamics and Google Cloud. This comprehensive solution combines Google's advanced agentic AI capabilities with Grid Dynamics' proprietary accelerators to deliver personalized self-service, real-time agent assistan...

This retail AI trifecta combines Grid Dynamics' expertise with Google Cloud's advanced technologies to modernize retail experiences. This powerful solution integrates AI search and smart merchandising on a pre-composed commerce foundation to deliver seamless, personalized shopping journeys. By l...

As consumerism inevitably evolves, retailers must find new ways to understand their customers and refine their digital and in-store experiences. At the heart of this evolution is an AI-powered eCommerce platform with AI search, enriched product catalogs, and precision merchandising—key elements...

Download the full case study now to explore how this tools distributor reimagined their automotive ecommerce experience for future success. By downloading, you'll gain access to exclusive insights that can help inform your own digital transformation strategies. Whether you're in the automotive i...
Optimize your warehouse operations with the Intralogistics Optimization Starter Kit. The platform creates digital twins of your current environment, enabling you to test layout modifications, workflow improvements, and resource allocation changes before physical implementation. Analyze real-time da...
Discover our Q1 2025 highlights, including industry innovations, community initiatives, and a look at what's ahead for Grid Dynamics.

Explore how AI, Agentic workflows, and cloud-native technologies are reshaping insurance underwriting, claims, and risk management in 2025.

For many businesses, moving away from familiar but inherently unadaptable legacy suites is challenging. However, eliminating this technical debt one step at a time can bolster your confidence. The best starting point is transitioning from a monolithic CMS to a headless CMS. This shift to a modern c...
The IoT Control Tower is a robust analytics platform designed to address the complexities of modern industrial operations. Leveraging agentic AI, it integrates real-time IoT data with domain knowledge to deliver actionable insights and operational guidance. Core capabilities include anomaly detecti...
Grid Dynamics' Google Agentspace solution transforms enterprise knowledge work by connecting Gemini's AI capabilities with company data. As Google Cloud's launch partner, Grid Dynamics addresses information silos and knowledge accessibility challenges for Fortune 500 companies. The solutio...
Grid Dynamics' GenAI Content and Catalog Optimization transforms catalog management using generative AI to enhance product information, improve search, and streamline content creation. As Google Cloud's launch partner, Grid Dynamics brings 18 years of e-commerce expertise and 8 years of enterprise...
Grid Dynamics and Google Cloud have partnered to deliver a transformative search solution combining Google's Vertex AI Search for Commerce with Grid Dynamics' 14 years of search expertise and proprietary Merchandising Experience Platform (MXP) accelerator. The solution delivers impressive result...
Grid Dynamics' Pre-composed Commerce Platform for Google Cloud offers a streamlined solution for implementing composable commerce architecture. Developed with commercetools, this starter kit accelerates digital commerce implementation by up to 40% while reducing the complexity of composable systems...
Ready to transform your enterprise with adaptive, AI-driven automation? Download our complete white paper to discover how Agentic AI can drive operational efficiency, enhance customer experience, and boost revenue growth for your organization. In an era where speed, operational excellence, a...
Structured products are tailored financial instruments that combine traditional securities like bonds or stocks with one or more derivative components, offering investors customized risk-return profiles that standard investments can't match. Currently, the industry is at a technological...
Discover the AI trends set to reshape businesses in 2025—boosting efficiency, driving innovation, and transforming industries to stay ahead in a fast-changing world.

Stay ahead by understanding the four key trends transforming enterprise cloud infrastructure and AI in 2025, from modernization to security and hybrid cloud solutions.

India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are rapidly transforming into strategic innovation hubs, driving global leadership and technological breakthroughs. With over 1,700 GCCs employing 1.9 million professionals, these centers are incubating the next wave of Fortune 500 CEOs and pioneering ad...
Experience the future of software development with Creative Canvas, where human engineers orchestrate a team of specialized AI agents to build sophisticated applications at unprecedented speed. Watch as our demo showcases the development of a Customer Data Platform (CDP) through seamless collaborat...

Many organizations have already embraced practices like Agile and DevOps to enhance collaboration and responsiveness in meeting customer needs. While these advancements mark significant milestones, the journey doesn't end here. Microservices offer another powerful way to accelerate business capabil...

The insurance industry is behind the digital modernization curve because of its reliance on outdated, inflexible, and cumbersome legacy systems. Although the sector manages trillions of dollars in assets and plays a vital role in global economic stability, insurance technology needs to keep pace wi...

As a retail leader, are you in complete control of your search, browse, and recommendation strategies? Do your digital experiences align with your business goals while delivering what customers expect? Can you control product rankings to highlight specific items in search results, adjust categories...
Discover how the AI for Visual Process Monitoring Starter Kit from Grid Dynamics transforms operational efficiency. Learn how this AI-powered solution leverages Vision Language Models (VLMs) to enable real-time monitoring of retail, logistics, and manufacturing processes. Explore its ability to ana...

Discover how Contentstack, commercetools, Google Vertex AI, and Grid Dynamics accelerate e-commerce innovation through the integration of generative AI and composable commerce.
From AI/ML workloads and multi-tenancy to test labs and edge computing, uncover 5 practical examples of Kubernetes-based platform engineering.
Your quarterly tech update: acquisitions, AI trends, digital commerce insights, and transformative solutions for enterprise growth and innovation.
The GenAI Investment Suitability Assistant is an innovative wealth management starter kit that transforms how financial advisors match investments with investors. Using advanced semantic vector search and multimodal large language models, this solution streamlines the complex process of investment...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of a transformative shift in banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) documentation, redefining how institutions manage, process, and analyze vast amounts of data. In an industry where precision and compliance are paramount, traditional meth...

The headless CMS market is experiencing unprecedented growth as organizations recognize its potential for delivering flexible, personalized digital experiences. Recent market analysis reveals striking momentum—the global headless CMS software market, valued at $851.48 million in 2024, is projected...

Accessibility is a critical factor for businesses across various industries, including retail, technology and media, insurance, FMCG, HORECA, and manufacturing. The potential impact of neglecting accessibility can be immense, not only from a legal standpoint but also in terms of lost revenue an...
Discover the top digital customer experience trends to shape 2025. Explore AI, personalization, and CX strategies in this free ebook.

Discover how to transform LLM prototypes into powerful commercial solutions with LLMOps & RAG. Download our free ebook for expert strategies and insights.
Experience how the developer portal streamlines your entire software development lifecycle through a unified, self-service platform. Watch as we demonstrate portfolio management, environment control, release automation, and BlindSpot detection features that help development teams focus on innovatio...
The success rate for new products remains startlingly low—up to 95% fail to gain market traction, and 90% of startups fail within their first three years. Even major companies face significant product failures, as seen with Microsoft's Zune, Amazon's Fire Phone, and Coca-Cola's New Coke. The whi...

Buckle up, web enthusiasts! We’re about to explore the fascinating world of Google’s Web Vitals—the crucial initiative that has reshaped how we approach web performance and user experience. My name is Maksym, and with more than 8 years in front-end development, I’ve seen firsthand how Web Vitals ha...
Discover how insurers can leverage AI to simplify regulatory compliance, optimize pricing, and enhance customer service in today's competitive insurance market.

The rapid adoption of generative AI in enterprises has created both excitement and challenges for organizations seeking to harness its potential. As companies move from proof of concept (POC) to production, they face numerous obstacles that require expert guidance to overcome. In this context, the...
In today's fast-paced and data-driven world, accurately predicting demand is more critical than ever for businesses aiming to stay competitive. Traditional forecasting methods often provide a single-point estimate, which can be useful but falls short in accounting for the inherent uncertainties and...

AI is emerging as a transformative tool in regulatory compliance. Recent regulatory actions underscore the urgency of this technological shift. Earlier in 2024, LPL Financial agreed to pay more than $6m in fines and restitution to settle claims brought by the Financial Industry Regulatory Author...
Experience the power of Semantic Layer in modernizing enterprise data management. This demo showcases how to unify diverse data sources, streamline access, and connect reporting tools seamlessly. Watch as we transform complex architectures into accessible information hubs using Cube, Snowflake, and...
Read about our Contentstack Experience Award, insights on AI-driven product discovery, GenAI applications, and emerging trends in D2C manufacturing and wealth management.

Discover the latest D2C manufacturing technology trends in our ebook. Learn key innovations driving the industry forward and how to stay ahead in 2025.

In this engaging discussion with Leena AI's CEO Adit Jain, Rajeev Sharma, Chief Technical Officer at Grid Dynamics, dives into how Generative AI is transforming workplace dynamics—reshaping roles, responsibilities, and sparking new ethical conversations. Whether you're looking to understand AI adop...
Discover how Google conversational search powered by catalog optimization, smart matching, and conversion-focused ranking enhances product discovery and drives purchase decisions.

An average company adopting cloud today could achieve 180% ROI in business benefits, although few are getting close to these returns. Migrating or replatforming to a cloud data platform is a complex process. Even a basic "lift-and-shift" migration requires careful planning—designing the target...
Congratulations on advancing your artificial intelligence and generative AI initiatives! While it’s exciting to focus on the potential impact these technologies can bring to your business, it’s equally important to consider how AI and human intelligence are key to unlocking unprecedented business p...

During the pandemic, many manufacturers encountered sudden demand shifts and supply chain disruptions, affecting everything from raw materials to finished products. And until recently, the Baltimore port incident triggered widespread delays in cargo handling, affecting industries from automotive to...
Grid Dynamics won the 2024 Contentstack Experience Award for Most Innovative Project by empowering this global sports brand to rapidly deliver personalized digital experiences. When a leading sporting goods retailer with a global footprint faced challenges with its outdated content managemen...

In the era of precision medicine and on-demand experiences, intelligent content management is the nervous system of pharma innovation and engagement. By seamlessly connecting data, insights, and knowledge across the organization, it accelerates discovery, enhances decision-making, and ultimate...

Originally published on Top Company Guide The automotive industry is facing unprecedented challenges with increasing competition, shifting consumer preferences, and the drive for sustainability. These challenges place immense pressure on manufacturers to innovate and optimize every aspect of the...

This is the second part of the two-part selection guideline for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework selection. The first part provides the recommended approach to IaC framework selection. The second part reviews the actual IaC frameworks and makes specific recommendations for relevant use cases....

Prior to August 2023, cloud resource configuration management automation was dominated by three frameworks: AWS CloudFormation for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes API-based tools for Kubernetes, and HashiCorp Terraform. Terraform, in particular, held the position of the go-to solution for clo...

Deploying open-source large language models (LLMs) like Mixtral-8x7B, Mistral, and Llama 2 requires a significantly different LLMOps architecture compared to using closed-source models from providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, even though data vectorization, embeddings creation and observa...

Discover how to unlock new revenue streams through embedded finance. Learn to leverage APIs, AI, and strategic partnerships to integrate financial services seamlessly, and equip yourself to transform everyday interactions into profitable opportunities.

Discover how artificial intelligence is reshaping business models and driving innovation in this exclusive interview with Rajeev Sharma, Chief Technology Officer at Grid Dynamics. Key highlights: Fostering innovation: Learn how Grid Dynamics cultivates a culture of continuous innovation...

Digital commerce has undergone a seismic shift over the past few years. In the blink of an eye, over 2 billion global digital buyers were flooding the internet, and projections indicate that 95% of all purchases will be made online through digital channels by 2040. With this, the number of online s...

Given the global impact of the CrowdStrike event, the principles of good digital platform engineering must be emphasized more than ever. Today’s digital network ecosystems have highly automated processes mixing machine intelligence with manual activities. When building and enhancing these mission-c...

Dissect the five transformative technology trends redefining wealth management. Get actionable insights on leveraging AI, advanced analytics, and digital ecosystems to optimize operations, and deliver superior client experiences.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of rules, protocols, and tools that allows different software applications to communicate and interact with each other. It acts as a facilitator that lets software programs exchange data and functionality without delving into each other's compl...

Have you come across a retail marketing message lately that states, 'Bring the fitting room home and find what you love'? Many retail brands today showcase their customer-first mindset through 'try before you buy' experiences, allowing customers to order products online, try everything, and return...
Welcome to the latest quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter, where we highlight exciting developments in the tech and business world. In this edition, we celebrate Grid Dynamics' recent MACH Impact Awards and bring you insights on composable commerce, generative AI, and cutting-edge inno...

Unlock supply chain excellence: eight 2024 trends & strategies for manufacturing business. Download eBook.

With the deluge of data dominating the insurance sector today, traditional insurance models are struggling to keep up with evolving customer needs and technological advancements. Enter embedded insurance—a game-changing approach that seamlessly integrates coverage into products and services at the...

In 2022, Clarks, the iconic 200-year-old footwear brand, faced a critical digital crossroads. With massive global sales and an outdated e-commerce platform, Clarks partnered with Grid Dynamics to architect and launch an all-new Clarks.com. This case study reveals how they transformed from a legacy...

Optimize cloud management by leveraging AI to interpret natural language queries, providing immediate and insightful responses to complex metrics. This capability simplifies the analysis and troubleshooting of cloud environments by transforming intricate data into easily understandable insights. As...
Harness the power of advanced planning and reasoning capabilities provided by large language models (LLMs) to produce comprehensive, end-to-end test scenarios. This includes the generation of unit tests, integration tests, and performance tests, all within a highly customizable workflow framework....
Enhance the efficiency of legacy system updates by thoroughly analyzing existing codebases, generating detailed specifications, and developing new code in the target language. This approach addresses common issues related to documentation generation and system redesign, making the modernization pro...

Contract manufacturing involves outsourcing production to third-party manufacturers, which allows companies to focus on core competencies such as design, branding, and distribution. The global contract manufacturing market was valued at USD 246.51 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD...
The Composable Commerce Help Desk empowers businesses transitioning from monolithic suites to composable ecosystems with robust and customized customer support capabilities. It seamlessly integrates Freshdesk, a market-trusted customer support solution, with commercetools' e-commerce platform, leve...
Composable Commerce empowers businesses to choose and integrate best-in-class components from third-party vendors to create custom commerce solutions. This approach, driven by MACH architecture (microservices, API-first principles, cloud-native infrastructure, and headless flexibility), enables rap...
Unlock the power of your business data with the GenAI for Business Intelligence Starter Kit from Grid Dynamics. This powerful solution leverages generative AI to help business users overcome the steep learning curve of understanding complex databases, querying data, and interpreting results.

Against the backdrop of escalating healthcare costs, surpassing $6 trillion by 2028, and a looming shortage of 10 million health workers by 2030, the urgency of 100% digital health integration is stark. This alarming trajectory demands a shift towards prevention and proactive care to curtail skyroc...
Discover how the Contentstack, Constructor, and Grid Dynamics partnership can transform your customer acquisition strategy with an expertly integrated search and content approach.
Discover how Policy Pulse leverages AI to transform regulatory change compliance, efficient quote renewals, and enhanced customer service. Policy Pulse empowers insurers to swiftly adapt policy documents to new regulations, streamline the renewal quote process for customers, and enhance customer se...
Explore the top 6 technology trends in e-commerce that blur the line between physical and digital experiences using a MACH-based flexible business model, AI-powered personalization, and unified customer data. Download this e-book to uncover how each trend promises tailored shopping journeys for ever...
Step into the latest quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Stay updated on cutting-edge technology trends, glean insights from industry experts, uncover best practices for implementation, and embark on a journey towards sustainable, scalable technology transformation. G...
For the past few years, cross-site scripting (XSS) has consistently remained on the OWASP Top 10 list of Web Application Security Risks, making it one of the most prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities affecting web applications today. Despite advances in web technologies and growing awareness amo...

Discover how we've reshaped tire recognition technology through advanced AI methodologies, leveraging deep learning visual models and seamless integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In collaboration with a prominent automotive industry leader, we've addressed the critical need for precise tire...

Financial services face significant risks from cybercriminals due to insecure cloud and DevOps practices, leading to data theft, financial losses, and reputational damage. Download our whitepaper to discover effective strategies for securing your ecosystem, from identification and protection to res...

Demand forecasting is a crucial aspect of retail supply chain management that involves predicting future customer demand to make informed decisions about inventory levels, production, and resource allocation. It is a statistical analysis that considers numerous variables to optimize the predict...
Navigate the rapidly changing insurance landscape with our in-depth analysis of 2024 trends. Gain valuable insights and stay ahead of the competition

E-commerce has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, driven by soaring customer expectations. Shoppers now demand seamless omnichannel experiences, lightning-fast site speeds, and rapid innovation to meet evolving market demands. However, traditional monolithic architectures struggle...
The Cloud Microservices Platform accelerates the construction of a microservices platform from months to days. It comes pre-packaged with a set of tools, capabilities, policies, and design practices to modernize and seamlessly integrate, deploy, monitor, and manage applications on Kubernetes, signi...
The GenAI Data Migration aims to minimize the time and complexity involved in code migration, upgrades, or replatforming projects. It utilizes modern LLMs for detailed code parsing, identifying dependencies, and transforming code into instructions or alternative snippets. It is also capable of gene...
The Data Observability simplifies data quality onboarding for modern businesses by offering checks for tabular, structured, and unstructured data. It includes built-in quality assessments for null/missing values, statistical distributions, data freshness, volume, and anomaly detection through unsup...
Greetings and welcome to another exciting quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. As the season brings a festive touch to the air, we extend our heartfelt wishes for a joyful holiday season. Inside this edition, dive into the realm of technology with the latest trends, in...
How AI, connectivity, automation, security, resilience, and personalization are redefining the potential of manufacturing

Explore the technical prowess of conversational AI in e-commerce, from intricate customer service and business intelligence solutions to personalized shopping experiences. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technolog...
The AI Focus Groups enables enterprises to quickly obtain customer insights across multiple areas, including brand messaging, product improvements, customer service, and social media campaign performance. By analyzing user-generated content from social media, comments and reviews, personas are crea...
Grid Dynamics and Dataiku teamed up to create the Inventory Allocation Optimization, which will help you minimize shipping costs, order splits, and stock-outs by optimally allocating inventory across multiple warehouses, distribution centers, or stores. Watch this video demo and learn how to integr...
Explore how the AI-assisted Price Management and Optimization can improve the quality of your pricing decisions and workflow automation. You'll learn how to optimize list prices for individual and multiple SKUs based on volume or profit objectives and accounting for cannibalization, halo, and pull-...
Learn how the Next Best Action for Commercial Pharma, an industry-tailored communication recommendation engine, helps pharma sales teams meet their targets. Empower sales reps from day one with relevant and explainable next best actions related to channel, timing, and content type for specific heal...
Discover how the AI-assisted Promotion Management and Optimization can improve your promotion ROI, prevent hidden profit losses, find profit opportunities, and automate promotion management workflows. You'll learn how to optimize promotions based on volume or profit objectives, manage large product...
Discover how the Demand Sensing and Forecasting helps retailers, brands and manufacturers make accurate and comprehensive procurement, transportation, workforce allocation, inventory, pricing, and promotion decisions. Detect market changes, adjust supply chain and inventory strategies, predict futu...

Embark on a journey into the heart of the electrification revolution with our white paper. As we stand at the precipice of a transformative era, explore the forces propelling electric transportation and smart manufacturing, offering unparalleled opportunities for early adopters. The strategic...

In a dynamic world where advertising success depends on data-driven decisions, the partnership between Yieldmo, a digital advertising platform, and Grid Dynamics has birthed a groundbreaking solution–a scalable, configuration-driven Machine Learning Platform. This innovative platform addresses...
SAP Commerce Cloud (formerly SAP Hybris) has been a widely adopted commerce platform for over a decade. Throughout the 2010s, it was consistently rated as a leading solution in the market, providing retailers with a solid platform for efficient e-commerce operations. However, the digital commerce e...

Organizations take great care to secure cloud platforms, relying on sophisticated access control systems. Multi-factor authentication, identity management, and fine-grained authorization aim to fully lock down valuable data and infrastructure. However, what if these complex safeguards unexpect...

In the ever-growing world of e-commerce, providing customers with an efficient and relevant product ranking experience is crucial for driving sales and maintaining customer satisfaction. Online retailers invest significant resources into optimizing their search and recommendation systems to ensure...

How telemedicine, the IoMT, integrated healthcare data, digital health commercialization, and GenAI-powered drug R&D will shape the year ahead.
In the ever-evolving landscape of transportation, modern Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) have transcended traditional notions of mobility. Beyond mere modes of transportation, these vehicles have emerged as platforms for innovation, where cutting-edge technologies redefi...
Booking online travel is not easy, unless it's on the best apps. But what makes their UX so good? We take a closer look.

Lessons in the perils and pitfalls to avoid—and the opportunities to seize—in the course of your app...
Outsourcing software development is a long-standing trend in the IT industry. While many US companies take the well-trodden path, moving their business operations to India or China, others are thinking about hiring talent a little closer to home and outsourcing to Latin America. This article fea...
The Generative AI Product Design Starter Kit elevates product ideation sessions by empowering users to generate design alternatives using sketches, references, and text prompts as inputs. It offers a wide range of tools and functionalities for tailoring product shapes, textures, and aesthetics, fac...
Generative AI holds immense value in diverse industries, reshaping business operations and customer interactions. In marketing and retail, it enables personalized content creation, virtual try-ons, and conversational product discovery, enhancing customer experiences. Healthcare benefits from AI in...
Explore 10 pioneering AI trends, uncover the power of generative AI, and witness how Grid Dynamics is spearheading innovation. Download now to gain exclusive insights to transform your organization and stay at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Embark on a transformative exploration into the realm of advanced product discovery, where artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision converge to redefine the way users interact with digital commerce platforms. Our latest case study delves into the revolutionary strategie...

In the pharma industry, composable commerce acts as a powerful alchemist, blending potent ingredients into a personalized elixir of success. Like a skilled alchemist mixing precise elements to create transformative potions, composable commerce seamlessly combines diverse digital capabilities, empow...
The past few years have been really challenging for tech hiring. The rapid evolution of technology and digital transformation have intensified the demand for specialized skills, while mismatches between traditional education and employer needs have contributed to persistent software developer short...

Welcome to the future of wealth management, where transformative technologies are redefining the landscape. Our latest white paper details the powerful role of generative AI in reshaping how wealth management firms operate, offering you a comprehensive guide to navigate this groundbreaking shift....

In the dynamic realm of supply chain and inventory management, where decisions shape the balance between profit and loss, inventory distribution stands out as a key driver of revenue growth. This white paper explores the strategic significance of optimizing inventory allocation, emphasizing its tra...

Are you currently navigating the landscape of application hosting and management with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as VMware Tanzu Application Service? Perhaps you're contemplating a pivotal (pun intended) decision: the transition to cloud hyperscaler Kubernetes engines like Amazon Elas...
Silicon Valley has long been the epicenter of the global tech industry. Developers worldwide dream of the chance to work in top companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, while others latch on to cutting-edge startups. Given its thriving culture of creativity and innovation, it’...

Did you know that the journey for a groundbreaking drug from concept to market spans a staggering 12 to 18 years, with a jaw-dropping price tag of $2.6 billion? What’s more, only a tiny 10% of candidates even make it to clinical trials. But here's the good news–Generative AI is stepping in to res...

In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, the pharmaceutical sector faces unique challenges in fully embracing this technological revolution. Often, the industry experiences a multitude of isolated AI pilot projects that struggle to transition into full-scale product...
Co-created by Grid Dynamics Director of Data Engineering, Dmitry Mezhensky, and Yieldmo Head of Analytics and Data Science, Sergei Izrailev Yieldmo, a Grid Dynamics client, is an advertising platform that helps brands improve digital ad experiences through creative tech and artificial intellig...
AI-powered e-commerce is taking center stage as more and more retail brands utilize next-gen solutions to delight customers and gain competitive advantages. Pairing human creativity with modern tech capabilities not only optimizes operational efficiency but also crafts a dynamic, anticipa...
In the rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the performance of an application can dramatically influence a company's success. Users expect fast, efficient, and smooth experiences, and failing to meet these expectations can result in losing customers to competitors. ❔But what does it really...

In today's competitive business environment, automation of business processes, especially document processing workflows, has become critical for companies seeking to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors. Traditional methods often struggle to keep up with the volume and complexity of the ta...

In our fast-paced world of ever-evolving technologies, manufacturing leaders are redefining their strategies to focus on delivering optimum value to customers. In this white paper, we delve into the revolutionary power of generative AI and its profound impact on the manufacturing industry.Gone are...
In today's competitive labor market, finding and retaining top talent is a crucial challenge for companies looking to meet their strategic goals. To build their future workforce, more and more IT firms are thinking beyond traditional hiring approaches and exploring expanded talent sourcing ecosyste...

Supply chain resilience is key to forecasting and mitigating the disruption of critical operations. This white paper suggests a modular framework for: Viewing technology through the lens of achieving strategic goals, approaching it as a ‘house’ built around organizations’ distinct needs and obj...

In the pursuit of innovation, a notable 91% of enterprises have prioritized modernizing their legacy applications, as reported by VMware. This push for modernization has yielded significant results, with a May 2022 Forrester report revealing that 77% of enterprises have witnessed substantial reve...

Building solutions using closed-source large language models (LLMs), including models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, or PaLM2 from Google, is a markedly different process to creating private machine learning (ML) models, so traditional MLOps playbooks and best practices might appear irrelevant when appl...

Customer retention is critical for retailers and CPG companies today because brand loyalty is a fickle thing in the digital age. However, to effectively prevent customer churn, a few fundamental questions need to be answered: Who will churn? You need to identify the specific user segment that y...

About the author, Gatis Vuguls, Principal Architect–Insurance: I have dedicated the majority of my professional career to working on complex insurance core system transformation projects, typically replacing outdated systems with modern solutions like Guidewire InsuranceSuite. Along the way, I have...

Envision yourself as a store owner looking to boost foot traffic. You hatch a plan: stand at the front and actively promote your items to those walking by. With enthusiasm, you wear a striking outfit and hold up a blank board, ready to publicize a special deal. However, when it’s time to pen the...

Generative AI, fueled by advanced unsupervised learning techniques, is revolutionizing businesses across various domains. As generative AI continues to evolve, it is vital to delve deeper into its core techniques and how they can be leveraged to address unique business challenges.In this whit...
In today's highly interconnected world, technical talent has become a global phenomenon. Software engineers across the world are actively driving innovation, building cutting-edge solutions and digital experiences that power our daily lives. Silicon Valley no longer holds a monopoly on bes...
Recent sustainability legislations and regulations make due diligence a business imperative for effective supply chain management. Increasingly, regulations and local government bodies are regulating how enterprises must approach, operate, and report on their supply chain operations, both directl...

Most industry leaders, specifically manufacturers and retailers recognize the immense strategic value of optimized marketing messages and streamlined customer service to thrive in a competitive market. Research shows that 81% of customers are more likely to make repeat purchases after a positive...
From new-born startups to established enterprises, businesses are constantly trying to catch up with the market pace. In order to do so, they need to receive results faster, reduce waste, increase development efficiency, and introduce changes while minimizing risks. This pursuit has led to a new so...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation. Grow with G...
As talent shortages strain resources in traditional tech strongholds like the US and Western Europe, many companies are looking to outsource at least part of their software development activities. Over the years, Eastern Europe has positioned itself as a leading global hub for software engineering...

The pharma and life sciences industry is experiencing a data revolution. As everything becomes more digital, the amount of biomedical data is exploding. This presents an opportunity to tap into valuable insights to advance R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and more. However, companies struggle to...

Can a mere joke trigger a catastrophic product supply shortage? Can mischievous squirrels wreak havoc on large-scale business operations? And what's the connection between beer, road closures, and transportation delays? These may seem like bizarre scenarios (see the postscript at the end of this...

What do we know about startups? They’re super exciting but risky. Statistically, approximately 90% of startups face an uphill battle each year, either struggling to secure their unique value proposition or grappling to find the right investors. The initial excitement quickly gives way to t...

The Grid Dynamics' UX/UI team undertook a comprehensive redesign of a client's web and mobile apps, recognizing the pivotal role of digital customer experience in boosting revenue and conversions for consumer-facing businesses. Following a design thinking approach, the team's tasks included definin...

While composable commerce unlocks a flexible and scalable technology ecosystem to build digital solutions that meet unique business needs, the biggest differentiator among different composable ecosystems is how various packaged business capabilities (PBCs) are seamlessly integrated to ensure harm...
For many years, e-commerce applications have been built from custom development services, leveraging great open-source frameworks and tools. However, making all these components work together as one ecosystem—from technical aspects to managing teams and aligning their milestones—is no easy feat.W...
Artificial intelligence is currently a hot trend. We’re witnessing a wide range of creative implementations of this technology, from using ChatGPT to write a script to applying generative AI to create new product designs. While these applications are fun, they show the groundbreaking potential of t...
Due to the post-pandemic acceleration of digital transformation, distributed work, and reduction of resources, today many companies put great emphasis on cost-efficiency and process optimization. They are embracing new operating models to adapt to the evolving business landscape and harness the ben...

Discover the transformative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the software development industry. At Grid Dynamics, we've conducted an extensive study to quantitatively assess the performance enhancements provided by GenAI tools across various software development tasks and...
Create a remote development team of high-end engineers from scratch or find tech professionals to strengthen your in-house team with Grid Dynamics. In the long run, partnering with Grid Dynamics is much easier, safer, and less expensive than hiring locally.Here is the list of available talent for...

The diversity of modern data technologies leads to new challenges in establishing a consistent and accurate data view for data consumers. In light of this issue, a semantic data layer introduces a means of harmonizing a single point of view for business metrics, no matter how many different data...

Given that resilience denotes the capacity to effectively rebound from disruptions, obtaining insight into all the interconnections and processes of the supply chain becomes paramount. In earlier discussions, we have delved into the fundamental data foundations that lay the groundwork for establi...

In the dynamic world of digital commerce, the landscape has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. From monolithic systems that offered comprehensive solutions but lacked adaptability, to the rise of microservices and headless architectures, businesses have sought more flexible and cus...

Discover the future of private cloud and its potential to revolutionize infrastructure for applications and data processing in this insightful expert discussion. The conversation centers around the challenges posed by public cloud services, including cost complexities and unpredictable expenses, an...
The GenAI Intelligent Document Processing is a next-generation solution for document analysis and processing workflow automation. Explore our demo video showcasing a streamlined RFP workflow where we explain how to upload RFP files and supplementary documents in various formats; preview and pose qu...
The GenAI Catalog Optimization enables enhanced and optimized product onboarding and related go-to-market activations. This enterprise-scale solution generates creative and compelling product titles and descriptions aligned to your unique brand voice, and it can translate the copy into multiple lan...

Composable commerce has emerged as a transformative approach to e-commerce that offers unprecedented flexibility and scalability to businesses. Where traditional monolithic suites burden organizations with unused features and an inflexible software ecosystem, composable commerce unlocks a ‘best-f...
In today's interconnected world, where technology continues to shape every facet of our lives, software developers become a cornerstone of innovation and progress. As businesses, governments, and individuals increasingly rely on software solutions to streamline operations, enhance user experiences,...

Recent years have brought new challenges that require manufacturers to rethink their priorities, with supply chain sustainability unquestionably topping the list. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks not only entice companies with the promise of sustainable value, but also deman...
The demand for online marketing solutions and omnichannel experiences has led to an explosion of digital information. As a result, the necessity for content management tools has significantly surged. At the same time, the online landscape for content management is fiercely competitive, making it...
The extended software development team solution has been gaining widespread popularity in the US and Western Europe, revolutionizing the way businesses approach project development. By seamlessly integrating in-house software developers with tech experts from abroad, this model offers a dynamic and...

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In the past decade, the automotive industry has witnessed a revolution, prioritizing an enjoyable and seamless user experience. Whether it's EVs, internal combustion engines, or hybrids, performance and quality have become key value propositions of this automotive evolution. With embedded systems...

Supply chain cyber security risks have become more complex than ever, with attack surfaces increasing due to the involvement of more suppliers and vendors in sensitive data operations. Consequently, supply chain cybersecurity must adapt to and protect against new infiltration mechanisms, resource...
MLOps and DataOps principles, such as infrastructure-as-a-code management, continuous integration and continuous delivery, proper monitoring, and a standard approach to working with data assets, are essential components of a modern data estate. In this case study, we show how we helped a global...
As 2025 rapidly advances towards 2026, the web development landscape has grown in leaps and bounds. To keep up with these modern websites and applications, web development frameworks are crucial in streamlining and simplifying the process of building robust, feature-rich websites and web applicatio...
Achieving supply chain resilience, especially since disruptions have become an inevitable part of business operations, is an overarching priority for any manufacturing organization today. Reaching this goal, however, is not straightforward, and is full of risks. To prevent these risks, manufacturer...

The P&C insurance industry in the US operates within a complex regulatory landscape, where states hold the reins of regulation under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. The act establishes a framework where state governments have the primary authority to regulate the insurance industry, promoting a de...
The terms software developer and software engineer are often used interchangeably, leading to confusion about their roles and responsibilities. However, understanding the distinctions between these two titles is crucial for those looking to hire the right talent. In thi...

It should come as no surprise that Generative AI is the #1 tech trend in 2023, but it certainly isn't the only one. Building a foundational composable commerce ecosystem of best-in-class tools to support and personalize customer buying journeys should remain top-of-mind for retailers and brands who...

2023 continues to be a challenging year for manufacturers, with ongoing supply chain disruptions, economic and geopolitical shifts, as well as talent shortages adding to the anticipated hurdles. This white paper dives into the why and how of strategic cost optimization for the manufacturing Informa...
As we venture further into the digital age, the demand for skilled IT professionals continues to grow, presenting significant challenges for businesses worldwide. This prompts organizations to seek innovative solutions to meet the escalating talent shortages. Over the years IT outsourcing has em...
Every developer strives to improve the speed and quality of coding, as well as formalizing processes and standards. Automation can help streamline these processes significantly, especially when it comes to reviewing pull requests—one of the most tiresome tasks in software development. When crea...

The quality of various strategic and tactical decisions, such as capacity planning, supplier selection, and inventory ordering, directly influences the efficiency and resilience of a supply chain. Limited visibility into various stages of the supply chain, insufficient data availability, and lack...
Staff augmentation is quickly becoming a buzzword in the IT job market, prompting global businesses to hire remotely. This collaboration model yields numerous benefits, including access to a broader talent pool, flexibility in scaling resources, and cost-effective solutions. In this article, we...

Automated visual quality control (VQC) is a critically important capability for many manufacturers because it helps to dramatically reduce quality control costs, waste, return rates, and reputation damage. Modern computer vision technologies make it relatively easy to develop custom VQC solutions...
Dedicated development teams are growing in popularity and are widely adopted as companies look for productive, cost-effective ways to build business-critical digital tools. This model offers companies of all sizes numerous benefits. While it is challenging for most organizations to keep up with eme...

In today's data-driven world, efficiently managing data is critical to business growth and competitive advantage. However, many organizations struggle to extract maximum value from their data due to outdated data architectures that limit their ability to store, process, and analyze large volumes of...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation. Grow with G...
According to the 2022 Disability Statistics: Information, Charts, Graphs and Tables report, around 10% of the world population lives with a disability. People with hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive ability impairments require web applications without any barriers for communication or inte...

Of the three main cloud providers–Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure (Azure)–GCP can definitely be considered a pioneer in terms of solutions evolution. Many of the IT products we consider to be “industry standard” today, were created or based on Googl...
Cross-platform technologies have revolutionized the way developers create mobile and web applications. These frameworks allow developers to use a single codebase to build applications that run across different devices and platforms instead of writing separate code for each platform. Moreover, eac...
2023 is a year of uncertainty and confusion, and the IT industry is no exception. From record-setting layoffs to skills shortages, technology professionals, recruiters, and organizations face conflicting data around the talent market. However, this year also presents businesses with incredible oppo...
Increasing customer expectations, disruption of operations, and intense competition have placed the entire manufacturing industry under pressure. Pharma manufacturing, in particular, faces extremely complex supply chain management processes that require commercial pharma companies to monitor and un...
Offshore development is a well-established practice in the modern IT industry. It enables companies of any size, be it budding startups or established enterprises, to attract top talent from all over the world, gaining equal footing with tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Hi...

The world of AI is constantly evolving, and recent advances in text-to-image models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have been truly groundbreaking. These models are already transforming how artists and designers work, enabling them to experiment with their ideas and create stun...

Traditional product design can be a complex and challenging process, requiring multiple stages of ideation, modification, restyling, 3D modeling, prototyping, and testing. One of the main challenges is finding the balance between creative freedom and practical constraints, such as cost, manufactura...

When our team embarked on the project to redesign the interface of a critical reporting tool for one of the world’s largest athletic apparel companies, we knew we had a big challenge ahead of us. Not only did we need to extend the interface toolkit, but we also had to ensure that the new design wou...
The nearshore software development model is becoming more popular among customers who want to receive high-quality results from software engineers based in countries located within a small-time difference. Google, Tesla, Porsche, Johnson & Johnson, EY, IBM, and many other w...
The global IT talent shortage has almost doubled compared to what it was a decade ago. 54% of companies worldwide report significant challenges in finding the right talent, and the Nordics are no exception. The Scandinavian countries are known for their highly developed and advan...

Industrial IoT (IIoT) has become mainstream in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy, smart cities, and agriculture. IoT solutions enable intelligent decision-making for use cases such as predictive maintenance, visual quality control, and anomaly det...

It's time to strategically amplify your impact in the ever-evolving landscape of generative AI...

With the recent advancements in generative AI, and the ongoing explosion of multimodal biomedical data from large biobanks, electronic health records, medical imaging, and biosensors, it is now possible to capture the complexity of human health and disease more accurately. In this whitepaper, w...
When it comes to outsourcing, India is one of the first places people think about. The country has made a name for itself on the global IT scene as the biggest hub for innovation, technology, and expertise. However, just as outsourcing to India became an industry-wide practice, a few stereotypes an...

Cybersecurity is now a board-level discussion and the topics covered in this video can inform how to fortify your business from attacks. Learn about the shortcomings of MFA and how identity, leveraging biometrics and artificial intelligence, is the new perimeter.
Razer set out to transform their business to enable faster change on the front-end and to build a foundational eCommerce platform that can continue to evolve and grow as their business evolves over the coming years. Razer is a market leader in gaming products with an aspiration to be the global gam...
Denise Fender & Kevin O'Brien from FitFlop talk about their digital transformation journey and the success of their eCommerce replatform with SAP.

The founder and CEO of investment firm Lane Generational, likes our stock ($GDYN)! Check out this ‘Power Lunch’ CNBC interview where he talks about who we are, some of our top tier customers like Raymond James and, ultimately, why he likes Grid Dynamics...
The MACH Alliance was formed in June 2020 to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape. It aims to guide and show the business advantage of open tech ecosystems that are Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless. To accomplish its mission, the MA...
Developing and releasing new software into production quickly is key to maintaining a competitive advantage in the evolving digital landscape. This has led many companies to adopt DevOps practices to improve their speed and quality. DevOps, which stands for development and operations, is a...
Traditional monolithic e-commerce platforms lack the flexibility or scalability required to meet the evolving needs of modern consumers. Digital commerce modernization can help with these issues by identifying and prioritizing business functionality for migration to microservices.

Composable commerce is a game-changing concept that elevates online shopping to new heights. It represents a shift away from a platform-centric perspective to a customer-centric approach, emphasizing the importance of delivering a superior experience to the end user. There are a number of e...
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid acceleration of digital transformation across many industries. While this concept is primarily associated with the adoption of new technologies to fuel business growth there is more to it. Digital-first approach necessitates a fundamental shift in an enterpris...

As businesses grow and expand in the increasingly digital on-demand economy, managing inventory has become a far more convoluted process. For example, many retail and manufacturing companies have to deal with complex environments with multiple sourcing locations, including regio...

Discover how we improved a Fortune 500 Pharma company's email click rate by 50% with a custom Next Best Action recommendations engine. Along the way, you'll learn how the final repeatable, scalable NBA solution uses BigData and ML best practices to: Empower sales reps with customer, content, an...

Adoption of machine learning (ML) methods across all industries has drastically increased over the last few years. Starting from a handful of ML models, companies now find themselves supporting hundreds of models in production. Operating these models requires the development of comprehensive capa...

The commercial vehicle manufacturing industry has been held back by the limitations of enormous on-premises systems for far too long. And now, since the outset of the global pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, the sense of urgency to maintain availability, adapt to the changing supply chain landsca...

Automotive manufacturers are embracing AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of large enterprises will have adopted some form of robotics in their warehouse operations. Additionally, 25% of manufacturers will have transitioned by then to a...

Generative AI has gained immense interest thanks to the unprecedented success of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that most of the world has come to love, built by OpenAI. In fact, ChatGPT has become the world's fastest-growing consumer application in history, gaining 100 million users in just 2 months afte...

Cloud technologies are increasingly becoming the way to set IT infrastructure across various sectors. Today, many businesses opt for a cloud-first strategy for deploying their software, applications, and databases, rather than relying on traditional on-premises systems. In fact, over the past se...

Inventory optimization encompasses the process of determining the optimal level of inventory to hold that balances the cost of holding the inventory with the cost of inventory stockouts. Holding too much inventory can lead to increased storage costs, spoilage, and poor turnover metrics. On the...

It goes without saying that the driving business goal of any Commercial Pharmaceutical company is to increase drug prescriptions by influencing and educating doctors about the drugs and medication they sell. This marketing process entails Commercial Pharma sales representatives reaching out to doct...

The telecom industry has faced numerous challenges in recent years, including waning revenues and return on invested capital (ROIC), as well as difficulty keeping up with post-pandemic customer demands. It would be expected that, by now, telecom operators would have adopted AI-powered solutions to...
In today's globalized world, product outsourcing has become a game changer for businesses looking to cut costs, access specialized expertise, and streamline their operations. However, with so many options available, deciding which outsourcing strategy is the right fit for your business is overwhelm...
With the current uncertain economic environment, many leaders are searching for ways to cut costs and redistribute their savings to growth areas. It puts them in a challenging position of simultaneously trying to cut back on spending while positioning their businesses for future growth. For ma...
In today’s consumer-driven digital economy, personalized customer experiences in the Telecom sector are no longer a “nice-to-have”. They have become a fundamental component of digital commerce strategies across industries. Why? Because the number of channels consumers use to interact with brands th...

Recent years are marked by dramatic changes in the Telecommunications business environment, driven by the pandemic, economic turbulence, and political instability. As Forrester put it, “Constant consumer change is a defining element of the “new normal.” Consumers changed their shopping habits, thei...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation.Grow with Gri...

The financial services industry is one of the fundamental pillars of the global economy. Given the broad spectrum of functions this sector performs, financial institutions have to stay on the edge of modern tech innovations, provide personalized experiences to their customers, and enhance their ope...

The financial services industry plays an essential role in our daily lives, whether it's helping us manage our finances, purchase a home, or plan for retirement. By offering a wide range of financial products and services, such as loans, credit cards, insurance, investment management, and payment p...

In today’s consumer-driven digital economy, personalized customer experiences in the B2B commerce sector are no longer a “nice-to-have”. They have become a fundamental component of digital commerce strategies across industries. Why? Because the number of channels consumers use to interact with bran...

If the chaos and uncertainty of the past few years has taught supply chain leaders in the grocery retail chain sector anything, it’s that leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics in the cloud can help them to maintain a competitive advantage in the global m...
The role of technology in driving business growth and innovation has never been more important. One of the top technology trends for forward-thinking companies in 2023 will be emphasizing investments in engineering talent and culture. Attracting and retaining top engineering talent has always bee...
Over the past few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) made a huge leap from a fancy buzzword out of the science fiction realm to a powerful technology that is virtually reshaping our reality. What was once perceived as a figment of our futuristic imaginations is now a fundamental part of our ever...
Hyper-personalization has emerged as a key driver of customer engagement in the digital age, and in 2023, hyper-personalization technologies and strategies are expected to surge. By leveraging the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, companies can now create highly c...
In game development, the costs associated with creating art assets are often estimated to be about 30-40% of the total game budget. This makes game asset creation one of the most important applications for generative AI tools and services. In this blog post, we explore the capabilities of Midjourne...

Building e-commerce analytics and product recommendations capabilities should start with data. And while data is abundant in the world of retail, it often comes from dispersed sources owned by either independent teams or external vendors. That was exactly the issue that one of our large retail c...
We built an Augmented-Reality-powered space and product measurement application for a leading specialty retailer in the storage and space organization market. By offering the AR functionality in the client's mobile app, consumers save significant time and effort by being able to measure, coordinate...

Without data observability in their production pipeline, this Fortune 500 manufacturer encountered multiple data issues that drastically impacted time-to-market, added significant development overhead, and complicated the product development roadmap. A data observability solution simplified, accele...

Modern cloud providers offer compelling opportunities to modernize IT infrastructure and gain operational efficiency through DevOps, containers, and cloud-native design practices. However, migration to the cloud can be quite challenging. Those who join the cloud movement soon realize that there...

The effectiveness and efficiency of quality control processes are among the top concerns for most manufacturing companies, and are also important considerations in logistics, agriculture, and other verticals. Over the last decade, visual quality control automation using computer vision has proved t...

With Industry 4.0 on our doorstep, the business landscape presents a completely new set of challenges and possibilities. To achieve the flexibility required to navigate this new environment, companies need to add extra storage, new applications, advanced networking technologies, better hardware, an...

There has been a noticeable surge in interest in augmented reality (AR) in recent years, as demonstrated by the release of new updates from major technology companies such as Apple and Google. With that in mind, the mobile development team at Grid Dynamics conducted some additional research into AR...

Order sourcing decisions can be defined as the logistics decisions related to how customer orders and internal inventory requisitions are fulfilled: what nodes (warehouses, distribution centers, stores, etc.) the inventory should be sourced from, what carriers should be used to ship it, what sh...
As 2023 technology strategy planning and implementation are well underway, industry leaders in the retail, manufacturing, insurance, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries are keeping a close eye on the latest trends in digital transformation and innovation. One of the crucial areas in which...

Over the past decade, the complexity of manufacturing processes and assembly lines have significantly increased. Whereas in the past, businesses relied on linear assembly lines, today’s assembly lines can produce customized products, as seen in the automotive industry. However, introducing customiz...

The global market for the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to reach $413.7 billion by 2031, according to a recent report published by Allied Market Research. The key industries driving this growth include manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, energy, and smart cities. The digital transform...

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network blog Conveyor belts are an essential material handling tool for various industrial processes, and one of the most effective ways to quickly and continuously transport large amounts of materials or products. However, high throughput rates make i...

A virtual world where we live, work, shop, and interact with others may have sounded like science fiction a few short years ago, but it’s fast becoming a tangible reality. This virtual world is called the Metaverse: a digital ecosystem made up of decentralized, user-generated platforms that provide...
Originally published on Forbes Digital transformation, as we know, represents an ecosystem of technologies that provides an enabling foundation to run any business. The confluence of technology and interaction happens in a crucible of an organizational culture powered by solid talent. While ev...
With tens or even hundreds of thousands of options at their fingertips, shoppers are switching brands at unprecedented rates. While traditional values like price (30%), quality (16%), and delivery costs (15%) are still significant decision-making factors, a report by McKinsey shows that availabil...

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network blog Industrial machine, equipment, and vehicle operators are often faced with the challenge of minimizing maintenance costs under strict constraints related to safety, equipment downtime, and other SLAs. Over-sufficient or preventive maintenan...
The Internet of Things (IoT), which was merely a concept a few years ago, has now become one of the major disruptors across industries. Its implications are profound and far-reaching: from optimization of operations and effective management of physical assets to improving the health and general w...

Optimizing internal warehouse delivery processes, especially enhancing the efficiency and speed of the order picking process, has a massively positive impact on business profitability, if done correctly. There are two components of the order picking process that need to be optimized in order to...
Welcome to the first edition of our quarterly newsletter. The Business Driver is curated to help you grow your business and inspire your teams with fresh ideas and valuable insights. Learn about the latest technology trends, cutting-edge industry innovations, implementation best practice...
Leading organizations in the coming year will be ‘Fast and Furious,’ as they focus on speed and scale with technology investments...

These days, there is an ever-more pressing need for app development to be fast, dynamic, and scalable. That’s why Grid Dynamics teamed up with Apollo, the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo’s supergraph adds a revolutionary layer to your organization’s technology st...
Exceptional customer experience is critical for retailers in the post-pandemic digital age, but monolithic e-commerce systems simply don’t have the advanced capabilities, scalability or flexibility needed to meet the rapidly changing demands of today’s digital consumers. With composable commerce an...
India, one of the most populated countries in the world, is also one of the most tech-savvy. Making a name for itself on the global stage, much like the US, the country has tech hubs comparable to Silicon Valley in the cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, and Thiruvananthapuram's Technopark. Wi...
The tech talent shortage has been an issue for years, first accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic when an estimated 4.5 million American workers quit their jobs. The Harvey Nash Group Digital Leadership Report states that 4 out of 10 businesses can't keep their key employees as long as they used to...

In the past decade, an estimated 2.6 billion people’s lives have been upended by catastrophic events such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and pandemics. Such events wreak havoc not only on people’s everyday life, but also on business and trade, sending the global economy into a tailspin. So...

As we see with more significant frequency across many industries, companies that invest in emerging technologies can gain a competitive advantage. Just a few of the many benefits include optimizing productivity and operations, improving employee and customer satisfaction, reducing errors, and mitig...
Keeping up with consumer demand for personalized experiences across multiple channels is paramount to digital commerce brands. Conventional monolithic applications can no longer solve this challenge. Today it takes a modular architecture approach known as MACH to enable fast, easy change management...
While traditional values like price, quality, and delivery costs still matter in the digital commerce world, it’s the search experience that has now become the strongest driver of new purchases. With hundreds of thousands of options at their fingertips, shoppers expect to find what they are looking...
For retailers, it’s no secret that a critical component of a commercial website is a delightful and compelling user experience. If customers can’t find your website though, the value of that user experience goes out the window. Recognizing the combined value of user experience and SEO, this global...

A company’s ability to generate a steady flow of new customers, and retain existing customers at the same time, can decisively determine whether a business is successful or not. Customer retention is particularly important because the cost of user acquisition is much higher than the cost of user re...

The insurance industry is constantly changing due to emerging disruptions, shifting demographics, and new entrants, forcing traditional players to adapt. Each time there's a major leap in technology, customers expect the industry to respond with new products, new methods of distribution and new w...
Shimano, a $5B bicycle components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment company, engaged us to improve the overall performance of their EU B2B platform. We conducted an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and SAPShimano, a $5B bicycle components, fishing tackle, and rowing equipment company, sought to e...

Looking to take customer engagement to the next level, the client requested a mobile application that could run on the iOS platform, and be expanded on the Android version later, for a specific group of customers, providing a personalized and unique customer experience. To create the best possib...

A smart manufacturing approach that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and quality control automation results in a faster, more efficient and cost-effective production chain. But how does it work, how valuable is it, and what technology foundations need to be in place for best resu...

Modern manufacturing, transportation, and energy companies routinely operate thousands of machines and perform hundreds of quality checks at different stages of their production and distribution processes. Industrial sensors and IoT devices enable these companies to collect comprehensive real-t...
If you’re not thinking about the business impact of the metaverse yet, it’s high time to wake up and e-smell the digital coffee. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 25% of people will spend at least one hour per day working, shopping, studying, or using social media in the metaverse. Tech giants like Fa...
Companies across industries have embarked on digital transformation initiatives for several years. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t spur this movement, but it certainly accelerated the need for digital transformation across the enterprise.
Outsourcing is an integral part of the modern tech industry. Yet one question remains: How to choose the best location for outsourcing tech talent? We’ve selected 8 emerging outsourcing and IT services destinations that have the potential to compete with the traditional industry leaders, based o...

Manufacturers are embracing AI technology to gain a competitive advantage over the market. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of large enterprises will have adopted some form of robotics in their warehouse operations. Additionally, 25% of manufacturers will have transitioned by then to a micros...
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It comes as no surprise that modern businesses rely on software development as a primary source of agility and digital growth. Europe’s great need for software development services has been driven by a worldwide skills shortage and the business demand for digital transformation. Most business...
Originally published by Total Retail E-commerce has come a long way since companies like Amazon.com and eBay first launched their online businesses. While pre-pandemic online transactions only amounted to 13.8 percent of global retail sales, consumers quickly shifted to online shopping when the...
This case demonstrates how the shopping cart and checkout functionality of an on-premise, legacy, monolithic eCommerce platform was modernized to a cloud-based serverless solution. The customer, an American chain of luxury department stores, required modernized e-commerce capabilities in the...
As cloud adoption is becoming a rule rather than an exception, the question is no longer about whether to migrate to the cloud or not, but rather how to maximize the value of the cloud and cloud applications. Services are available from inception through development into production, engineering up...
Whether it’s pandemic, war, or climate change, there have been and will continue to be crises that impact the smooth running of supply chain and inventory management processes for businesses across industries. To mitigate risk, streamline processes, and prepare for the future, leading Grid Dynamics...
Consumers today increasingly value memorable experiences over products themselves. Leading organizations are turning to cloud-native platforms and advanced analytics to create unified customer 360 solutions, enabling seamless, personalized digital engagement across every channel and touchpoint. By...
Unplanned downtime, product defects and compliance issues are expensive. It costs industrial manufacturers billions annually, and for industries across the board, it is one of the largest causes of lost productivity and revenue. To overcome these challenges, leading manufacturers are using AI-power...
Stiff market competition and tough economic strains are putting pressure on businesses to find data-driven solutions for more informed decision-making. Optimize pricing decisions with mathematical precision, automate price management processes, reduce operational costs, measure the true impact of p...
With increasingly data-driven business ecosystems around the world, leading technology, retail, manufacturing, and finance companies turn to Grid Dynamics to build data and machine learning platforms with MLOps processes to translate data into business value, capture substantial value from improved...
In today’s digital age, visually appealing web applications are not enough to please customers. Providing compelling customer experiences through fast, easy-to-use web applications is a critical component of any competitive business strategy today. Deliver a downright delightful user experience, ra...
The IT outsourcing industry used to be one of the few non-natural resource sectors of the Russian economy that had an active presence in world markets. Russian IT companies developed a reputation for innovation and creative problem solving that helped them build a successful track record on the int...

We share our experience of migrating a monolith app to micro frontends using webpack module federation What does a web application usually look like? Most often it is a monolith with a single code base where the whole team merges the code, and a single pipeline where everything is deployed at...

A meal kit company that specializes in delivering healthy, organic, ready meal kits was about to start its journey to the cloud. The company was recently acquired by a leader in the food and beverage industry who intended to merge the business under one umbrella, with the same brand, customer man...

In today's digital experience economy, product recommendations are becoming one of the core experience personalization components of web applications, working to increase brand engagements and sales conversion rates. In this whitepaper we provide a step-by-step guide on implementing a recommende...
Mexico has recently become the top choice for organizations looking to hire their software development experts from the three most prominent tech hubs in Latin America — Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey. The number of ambitious tech graduates, developers’ impressive levels of expertise and c...

The manufacturing industry has been held back by the limitations of enormous on-premises systems for far too long. And now, since the outset of the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the sense of urgency to maintain availability, adapt to the changing supply chain landscape, and meet customer...

Knowde, a leading digital marketplace for ingredients, polymers and chemistry, was looking to provide more relevant, timely, and personalized search experiences for their customers. Following a MACH approach to composable commerce, we implemented a powerful new search system that supports: mul...
It is no surprise that the outbreak of COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of AR technology. The transformative challenges posed by the pandemic urged businesses to find new approaches to customer engagement, and advances in human-computer interaction and AR have high potential in that regard. Th...

When it comes to insurance, customers don’t want to feel like their claim is just another drop in the ocean. This presents insurance companies with a monumental task: how to offer a tailored, user-friendly experience that fits each customer’s needs? Especially given that insurance companies have...

Machine learning (ML) is changing the way businesses are conducted. These days, most sectors employ machine learning in their solutions, and the commercial pharmaceuticals sector is no exception. Leading commercial pharma companies are experimenting with ML models to commercialize their products wi...

This is the third article in our series introducing NBA to the commercial pharma industry. This article will explain how the customer engagement index (CEI) is calculated to enable NBA to recommend channels to sales reps based on historical health care provider (HCP) data and behavioral preferences...

There is no doubt that customer-centricity and personalization tools are driving digital transformation investments in commercial pharma. The big question, however, is how to operationalize data-driven insights that help pharma sales reps overcome the challenge of limited access to health care prov...
Originally published in Forbes Enterprise companies accumulated massive amounts of data over the years in pursuit of the promised rewards of big data. The question that now often comes from management is, “There must be some value, somewhere—can’t you find it?” The data democratization moveme...
Discover how we migrated an AngularJS application to Angular 4. We share our step-by-step experience of migrating a financial web application. In the life cycle of each long-lasting, enterprise-size web application there comes a time when it becomes too large to integrate innovations, add brand...

Unique shopping experience portal to optimize personal assistant interactions for select customers, designed and implemented as a greenfield AWS-native solution. Our client is an American chain of luxury department stores focusing on high-end curated products and excellent customer servi...
Romania is proving to be one of the top choices for globally-minded companies in search of software development service providers. The country boasts a reasonable price-to-quality ratio along with a growing talent pool of IT experts who possess both soft and technical skills, not to mention broad e...

Automated health monitoring, including anomaly/fault detection, is an absolutely necessary attribute of any modern industrial system. Problems of this sort are usually solved through algorithmic processing of data from a great number of physical sensors installed in various equipment. A broad range...

The past few years have put supply chain logistics to the ultimate test. Whether it’s pandemic, war, or climate change - there have been and will continue to be crises which impact not only manufacturing supply chains but also their consumers around the world. And while no industry can predict when...

Migrating to the cloud is one thing, but maximizing cloud value related to your unique business goals as an insurer is a whole different ballgame. In this whitepaper we provide guidance and best practices on how to build a robust technology foundation that is tailored to your needs and fit for futu...
In our new and increasingly all-digital reality we see immersive technologies like AI, ML, AR and VR trending, all with the goal of engaging modern consumers in commerce anywhere and everywhere with deeply personalized, convenient and relevant experiences. How are luxury retailers achieving thes...

As a business in the digital age, developing, deploying and managing applications in the fastest, most secure and cost-effective way possible is critical to achieving and maintaining a competitive edge. In pursuit of achieving these milestones, we have seen the application development process shift...
In the early hours of February 24, the democratic and sovereign country of Ukraine was shaken awake by missile strikes as Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of the country. Thousands of Ukrainians experienced unspeakable horror as Russian troops advanced through Ukrainian cities. Despite it all...
Let’s face it; the current state of today’s digital technology revolution would not exist without the cloud. With this undeniable truth, the pressure on business leaders to embrace and optimize strategies for the cloud is mounting inexorably. And we see this with the growing rate of cloud adoption...
The stakes have never been higher for the luxury retail industry to meet consumer demand for personalized digital experiences across multiple channels, including taking a deep dive into new fields of augmented reality and virtual reality. We have already seen a major shift to digital as a response...
Ecommerce software has come a long way and achieved remarkable progress, turning from relatively simple applications into complex platforms rich in features and functionality. Back in the days when Amazon and eBay started their first online businesses, monolith architecture was virtually the only o...

This article was originally posted on the Insurance Edge. The insurance industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) providing companies with the ability to automate, personalize, and even accelerate customer gr...
Guide on web pages media (images, GIF, animations) optimization. Image optimization techniques & examples (compression, lazy loading). Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. To be effective, all images o...

Digitization is revolutionizing the way the insurance industry does business, with newfound ability to automate, personalize, and accelerate customer growth through artificial intelligence and machine learning. These changes benefit both insurance companies and customers in the long run: Insurers a...
Since there is a lot of hierarchically structured information in the real world (e.g system folder structure, animal/plant classification, company management, etc.), and the tree chart is a perfect data structure for the storage of hierarchy information, an effective method of tree visualization be...
Consumer demand for personalized digital shopping experiences has skyrocketed over the last few years, and constant change is to be expected. Add to this the fact that every retail environment is unique, with specific product catalogs and exclusive customer experience needs. One of the most crucial...

In modern life it is almost impossible to imagine a day without a mobile phone. We use them all the time, carry them around everywhere we go, and store very personal information on them, to the point where they become more than just a phone and more than just a gadget. With the technological adva...

Modern enterprises operate with tremendous amounts of data, and data management has become an integral part of business decision-making processes, KPI management and reporting. However, getting advanced insights from data and ML models is a sophisticated process that many companies still stru...

Data is the lifeblood of insurance. Having accurate information regarding customers' demographics, medical history, and socioeconomic status allows insurance companies to understand their clients well enough to offer protection tailored to their specific needs. However, times are changing. Insur...
Data quality control is a mission-critical capability for virtually any modern enterprise. Why? Because data quality issues can disrupt business processes and services, invalidate any type of analytics performed in the company, and damage a company's reputation. However, despite the importance of d...

With the recent invention of the transformer architecture, we have seen major breakthroughs in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain. It is no surprise that attempts to transfer these techniques to other domains is also currently trending. For example, since 2020, the self-attention (SA) mec...

User experience and customer interactions have become critical differentiators, driving a paradigm shift in the insurance industry. As business success is measured by the quality of customer experiences, insurers now have a chance to gain a competitive edge by delivering unparalleled service in thi...
Recent years are marked with dramatic change in the business environment driven by the pandemic, economic turbulence and political instability. As Forrester put it, “Constant consumer change is a defining element of the “new normal.” Consumers change their shopping habits, their brand loyalty is sh...

All the buzz in 2022 is about digital customer experience. Forget about digital transformation - we’ve been there, done that and got the t-shirt! Now is the time to focus on your customers’ needs, wants and wishes, and transform the ways in which you can deliver on them across all your channels....
Over the last few years, the demand for complex scalable architecture with independently deployable modules and loosely-coupled units has increased. Recently, one of our clients, who has an online chemical platform, requested a solution to develop a complex extendable architecture that allows cross...
In the process of hiring new people in any company, there are several interrelated actions that need to be taken by the recruiter, the candidate and the company's specialists who participate in the stage of assessing future employees’ level of knowledge. In a general sense, hiring can be divided...

Modern cloud providers offer compelling opportunities to modernize IT infrastructure and gain operational efficiency through cloud-native design practices, DevOps, containers and more. However, moving to the cloud isn't easy. Those who join the cloud movement soon learn that there are a lot of m...
A world-leading manufacturer of electronic components needed an application to track component lifecycles, demands, delivery timelines, and to calculate costs and risks through reports and data visualizations. Facing the dual challenge of rapid time-to-market and the need for scalable, cost-efficie...
As the complexity of modern software development and maintenance grows, so too does the cost - in terms of time and money. It comes as no surprise then that the evolution of technologies continues to make progress in hiding complexity under abstractions for ease of operations. This has always been...
Deep learning is perhaps one of the most efficient AI tools for businesses looking to succeed in highly-digitized and fast-paced markets. Computers can use algorithmic models to analyze large amounts of unstructured and structured data better and faster than the average human, leading to greater...

On their quest to future-proof their smart manufacturing operations and create a more connected, predictable environment, Jabil Inc, a leading global manufacturing solutions provider, required a cloud-native data platform to meet these goals. Grid Dynamics, partnering with AWS, took the task hea...

We live in a multicultural society with more than 7 000 languages spoken across the world today. To better serve the needs and preferences of global consumers, retailers need to understand the unique nuances and characteristics of the diverse languages their customers speak. It is no longer enoug...

In the modern world, advanced recognition technologies play an increasingly important role in various areas of human life. Recognizing the characteristics of vehicle tires is one such area where deep learning is making a valuable difference. How? Read on to find out. Solving the problem of r...

In today’s highly digitized world, business models need to change to keep up with consumer demands. With the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are having to reimagine their business models entirely, and they’ve had to do it at a massively accelerated pace. The manufacturing industry is n...
Poland has long been recognized as a reliable country for tech talent outsourcing. It is one of the biggest IT hubs in Eastern Europe. According to Glassdoor, the estimated total pay for a Software Developer is \$114,943 per year in Poland. Junior developers with less than one year of experie...
When it comes to human capital, many organizations face a lingering dilemma concerning workforce management. There are two extremes: overstaffing and understaffing. Overstaffing leads to underuse of existing employees and causes labor costs to increase. Understaffing, on the other hand, cripple...
Customers nowadays are seeking a holistic experience across channels when it comes to retail. Despite the increased popularity of online shopping, many still prefer an in-store experience. For example, one study shows that 70% of UK consumers over the age of 45 still prefer human interaction over s...
Customer loyalty has always been a top priority for retailers. And the digital transformation trend hasn’t changed that fact. Instead, what digital transformation has done is expand the playing field. It has enabled a vastly increased number of customer touchpoints, the creation of a 360 view of ea...

Customer-centricity is all about having a holistic view of your operations and customer interactions in order to better meet the needs of your consumers and maximize the value delivered to them. Historically, for many manufacturers, the shift to a more customer-centric model focused on the transf...

Three post-pandemic technology trends have emerged as particularly critical for smart manufacturers to address in 2022 and beyond: Implementing a refreshed, customer-centric digital go-to-market strategy to more effectively target B2B and D2C customer segments. Improving supply chain agil...
In an era where customer experience and product discovery innovations are a top priority for businesses, we are witnessing a shift from traditional recommendation systems towards session-based recommendation systems in the digital commerce sector. Why? Because they produce personalized recommendati...
There are many architecture approaches used in the Android development field nowadays. You have probably already chosen your preferred methods and strive to use a unified approach when writing your applications. However, in some cases many approaches have to co-exist in the same project, often in...
In the current on-demand marketplace, customers dictate the rules of engagement. And with the rapid rate of cool new features becoming available, businesses need to be ever-present and just as rapid in development and delivery. Our client, one of the largest department store chains in the US, en...

In an era where customer experience and product discovery innovations are a top priority for businesses, we are witnessing a shift from traditional recommendation systems towards session-based recommendation systems in the digital commerce sector. Read this case study to see how we designed and...
We are pleased to announce that Daxх and Grid Dynamics have completed merging our business activities, and starting in February, 2022 Daxх will begin operating as Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. Daxх was founded in Amsterdam in 1999. Over the past 22 years, we helped mo...
In this white paper, we’ll outline the evolution of omnichannel digital commerce and the 2022 trends shaping its future. You too can curate exceptional customer experiences using cutting-edge digital commerce technology - from composable commerce platforms and AI-powered product discovery to AR, VR...

Visual search is changing the product discovery game for retailers in the accelerated digital playing field. Replacements.com, the world’s largest retailer of tableware, drinkware, silver-flatware and estate jewelry entered the game with a bang! With a catalog of over 11 million products, many with...
Remote development centers are opening their doors all across Europe and Asia. Many IT companies consider this model as a way of setting up their business for success. Even tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple choose to use the R&D framework for software development and oth...
Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, the online shopping craze is not slowing down. Thanks to ongoing pandemic precautions, a rapidly increasing number of people are turning to digital commerce platforms to shop for everything from daily groceries to clothes, shoes, gadgets, gif...

In today’s data-driven digital economy, businesses collect an abundance of data to inform and optimize their processes and strategies. An emerging trend in data collection is to analyze road traffic data, including vehicle detection and tracking, mobility patterns, traffic volume, road network perf...
The global fintech sector is highly competitive and billions of dollars are being put into startups and major corporations alike. By the end of this year, funding is expected to surpass $120 billion worldwide. From banking apps to cryptocurrency,...

Modern technical systems cannot operate optimally without special tools for health monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance. This is the case even for relatively simple systems, such as a service elevator. As for more complex industrial systems - like a power plant or an assembly lin...

The world of technology-driven businesses is so fast-paced and dynamic that sometimes you just can’t achieve workable and scalable growth with an in-house team. This often means that the only sustainable way to get the job done is to attract resources from the outside. In this article, we’ll discus...
With a talent pool of 250K highly-skilled software engineers, Ukraine is considered one of the leading IT hubs in Eastern Europe. Ukraine’s education system focuses intensely on STEM disciplines, and many engineers enter traineeships near the end of their studies, making them seasoned professionals...
A significant talent shortage and the Covid-19 pandemic have changed the tech world, leading some established recruitment practices to quickly become outdated. According to Finances Online, 65,7% of all organizations are now focused on building talent pools of the future, while 42% are invest...

The manufacturing industry is under immense pressure to adopt cutting-edge technology solutions in order to remain competitive in an increasingly digital and on-demand economy. You have to be faster, smarter and more agile to meet customer and industry demands, and process efficiency is fundamental...
Because of the significant talent shortage in the US and Western Europe, many companies are considering Eastern Europe as their primary destination for IT outsourcing. Many world famous organizations like Google and Apple have already opened software development offices in the region. Acco...
Like many other countries these days, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are faced with a tech talent gap. The global talent gap amounted to 40 million job positions in 2021, and is expected to reach 85.2 million by 2030. Data analytics, IT, mobi...
Covid-19 changed the way businesses function, forcing companies to quickly reshape their work landscape. The only way for them to thrive in the wake of the pandemic was to learn how to build and maintain their talent pipeline in a virtual environment. We decided to explore what the ‘new no...
Let’s just imagine what it’s like for a major e-commerce website in the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday shopping rush: they’ve horizontally scaled their server, prepared a proper marketing campaign, and calculated their revenue projection. It takes a lot of planning to pull everything off...
The global tech market is continuing to grow at an impressive rate. Gartner predicts that IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.5% from 2021. Part of the reason for that is the coronavirus pandemic, which forced a lot of com...
The Judge School of Business at the University of Cambridge estimated software errors cost the global economy almost $300 billion annually (source). That is why more and more businesses hire QA testing teams to save money, improve quality and reduce software errors. Considering tech talent shortage...
Studytube is an enterprise-level education and EdTech services company, headquartered in Amsterdam. It offers a B2B solution for managing, sharing and disseminating knowledge within organizations. The company operates as an e-learning platform, developing customized educational content to...
As the world undergoes the digital transformations, accelerated by the global pandemics, omnichannel shopping experience becomes a new norm. Ship from Store turns out to be an important step on the path of establishing effective and convenient retail practice. But the transformation bri...
In the midst of the pandemic, companies are concerned not only with financial losses but what economists are calling the Great Resignation. The American workforce is leaving in droves, and companies are struggling to adapt. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a&...
Software team development structure is an important factor in your project’s long term success. What makes a good developer team? Well, it requires more than just finding experienced developers. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to the ideal software development...
As of now, the latest healthcare tech trends are online medicine, telehealth services, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. According to the 2021 Future of Healthcare Report, nearly 80% of Healthcare systems are planning to increase their investment in these digital healthcar...
64% of companies outsource their software development. Setting up your own offshore development center is a strategic decision that ensures stability and protects security-sensitive software. However, to run your offshore ODC lean and fast, you will spend a fortune, get to grips with the local legi...
World-famous companies hire Java developers for building outstanding apps and websites. Here are some more interesting facts about Java: 90% of all Fortune 500 companies use Java 4,673,459 websites* are currently developed on Java EE 35.6%** of developers in...
The software development industry in Ukraine has reached the mark of over 200,000 tech specialists, with about 85% of them working in software development companies. The IT industry in Poland counts 295,300 software developers, 20% of whom are employed by companies that offer software development s...
Over the past two decades, Eastern Europe has become one of the top supply regions for software development services. Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Belarus account for a combined 5% share of the global IT outsourcing market. The region has achieved worldwide recognition as the home of highly ski...
In a previous article, we reviewed the main attributes of loyalty programs including customer profiles, points systems, and rewards types. We looked at what types of business inputs are required to design a loyalty program and which business rules and strategies need to be clearly defined. In this...

Do you feel well-equipped when it comes to data-driven personalization? A recent McKinsey survey of data leaders found that only 15% believe their company is on the right track with personalization. Read this whitepaper to explore the new generation of Customer Analytics and Personalization sol...

With a new AWS-based solution, Grid Dynamics significantly improved the performance of this top tier agency's advertising efforts which allowed them to enhance their business. Publishers were able to manage the cost of their ads space by defining a more specific audience which would later be sold b...

ITOps is at the heart of today’s enterprise technology innovation teams. Often, they’re tasked with overseeing complex and diverse IT environments and face unprecedented challenges due to the volume and variety of data they encounter. In this white paper, we explore how an effective AIOps...

Semantic query parsing, described in “Semantic query parsing blueprint”, is a powerful technique to improve relevance of the search results. It has proven especially successful when a search solution deals with semi-structured data, such as ecommerce product catalog, customer profiles or real estat...
If there’s anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, it’s that businesses must constantly reinvent themselves in order to survive. Deloitte’s 2021 Global Shared Services and Outsourcing Survey listed standardization and process efficiency (88%), reducing costs (84%) and driving a di...

To improve the gaming experience for players, a leading video game publisher sought to personalize in-game interactions, streamline model development, and increase long-term engagement and lifetime value (LTV) of users. Grid Dynamics addressed these challenges by implementing a reinforcement learni...

To optimize promotions across various channels and countries, a video game publisher encountered challenges in accurately forecasting demand 24 months ahead and effectively managing new game releases. Grid Dynamics addressed these issues by developing robust demand forecasting models and what-if an...
In this article, we provide a list of foreign countries that have already set up their R&D offices in Ukraine, overview some problems related to setting up a remote development center, and explain how to establish remote offshore development centers with the help of a trusted partner. ...

Providing each customer with personalized treatment that helps improve long-term engagement is one of the most fundamental problems in marketing communications. This task is particularly important for businesses that rely heavily on long-term customer relationships, including telecom, video games,...

C++ and the automotive industry have become deeply intertwined over the last four decades. In the early 80s, engineers used C (the predecessor of C++) to make electronically controlled ignition and fuel injection systems, and today electronics comprise 35% of the car’s price. Over the last decad...
Having complete control over data quality can seem daunting and prohibitively expensive. But is that really true? Is it as difficult as it seems? There are many tools out there in the marketplace to help with data quality, but it’s true that many of them are pricey, have a steep learning curve,...

A global industrial technology leader in transportation and mobility faced multimillion-dollar annual losses from fuel distribution challenges, including leaks, theft, and meter inaccuracies. By deploying a cloud-native AWS analytics platform in just seven days, the company implemented AI-powered a...

Modern business intelligence (BI) tools provide users with a wide range of data consolidation, preparation, querying, and reporting capabilities that empower them to make better business decisions. However, the adoption process is non trivial even for the leading BI solutions. In this article...
IT outsourcing to Ukraine is getting more popular: Ukraine is becoming a leading IT outsourcing destination in Europe due to its booming tech ecosystem, which is predicted to reach US $8.4 billion of industry export volume in 2025, a large talent pool of more than 285,000 IT professionals, and stro...

Meet Lucy, a nice young lady and enthusiastic fashion shopper. Spring is in the air and Lucy just passed by somebody wearing this truly amazing dress. She positively needs to get something like this, right now. Easy! Lucy opens her favorite clothing store’s website, taps the search bar and type...
There are thousands of nearshore companies today, and businesses are fishing around for the optimal partner to meet their needs. Nearshore software development companies are a perfect medium between costly local providers and risky offshore ones. No wonder such global giants as Google, Tes...
In a previous article, we reviewed the way that loyalty programs can help businesses improve sales, increase profits, establish long-term relationships with customers, and encourage them to become advocates for your brand. To achieve these goals, modern loyalty programs are increasing in complexity...
Tech talent is a crucial component of any business operating in the modern world. No matter the industry, some kind of technology is involved in various operational processes of every company — and for good reasons. The competition among companies is tough today. If a business plans to get...
The banking industry is in the middle of a significant transformation. Fintech startups and other non-traditional companies are gaining market share at the cost of traditional banks, and customer attrition is at an all time high. Source: CB INSIGHTS According to Boston Consulting Group, cor...
You can hire a software tester with Grid Dynamics, Freelancer, Toptal, and about a hundred other services. But which one will match your needs? To help you make a data-based decision, we made this analysis of the best freelance websites for software testing. Inside this article, we’ll talk ab...

Ever tried to stretch your imagination and picture how your bedroom would look like with that new lovely wallpaper? What about new tiles for a bathroom? Sounds like a tedious task, especially as you go through dozens of design options, combine and compare them. Well, no more! Modern augmented reali...
The modern world is rapidly changing every day, bringing new levels of complexity and new challenges. This means both customers and retailers are continually making adjustments to their behaviors to meet changing desires, expectations, and environments. At the same time, the market has never b...
The modern manufacturing industry is almost miraculous in how it manages so many moving components at a predictable and reliable cadence. However, despite this obsession with perfection, anomalies have a way of creeping in. Technical failures, human error, and other discrepancies can lead to sig...
TV broadcasters have long held an indisputable title as the main players in the home entertainment industry. But, with the advancement of broadband technologies, this industry has been rapidly taken over by the online streaming platforms, which now became the most prominent...
Today, many areas of our life are transitioning to online solutions. But despite this trend, there are still plenty of times when we need to move around in the physical space in order to take particular actions or achieve certain goals. In most cases, having an address, a unique name, or a set of c...
In this manual, we share our experience of using D3.js in React to build custom, scalable, and engaging charts via creating reusable components. We recommend this article for: React developers ready to start with D3.js Web developers engaged in implementing data-driven UI Anyone inte...
Hard to find local startup programmers? It’s not just you. The majority of startups that are looking for developers turn to remote hiring through online job boards, matching services, and tech vendors. We analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of Grid Dynamics, Upwork, Remote.io, Toptal, LinkedI...
Outsourcing software development to Eastern Europe is a workable solution for 40% of leaders who continue to experience talent scarcity in IT. According to Clutch there are over 2500 IT outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe with a tech talent pool of 1.3M developers. And this is no surprise that...

Customer retention is the primary pillar for building virtually any subscription-based business, including software, video game, media, and telecom businesses. Nowadays, it is common to use advanced machine learning techniques to predict customer churn probability as accurately as possible. However...

Personalization and recommendation models are widely adopted by technology and entertainment companies as highly efficient tools for digital experience improvement and conversion optimization. The traditional model development and productization process, however, requires significant engineering...
There are a number of technical, educational, and organizational issues that commonly lead to failure in test automation. This is confirmed by two recent surveys from 2017 and 2018, which found that only 19 percent of teams are able to implement test automation correctly on the first attempt. Th...
Don’t count your developers before they’re hatched. How to be sure that you’ll build a successful remote software development team? First, set your baseline by having a clear understanding of the product you want to produce. Second, hire the right people for your future software development team. R...
In this article, we’ll be discussing Next.js image component usage and the performance and accessibility benefits it offers. So if you’re interested in improving the performance of websites and want to learn a bit more about how this component works under the hood, then you’re definitely in the rig...

It takes on average 10 years and $2 billion to develop a single FDA approved drug. This drug development pipeline is long and rigorous for a good reason, but it is also too slow to react to sudden global threats such as the Covid-19 outbreak. An alternative to discovering a new drug from s...
In order to remain competitive in 2021, the US entrepreneurs have to enhance their product value proposition by doing a meticulous value proposition analysis. Cost-effectiveness is one of the key indicators in the evaluation of the value chain: from the cost of raw materials to the salaries of the...
When hiring an offshore software development team, businesses tend to see it as a handful of engineers in some faraway land whom you send detailed requirements or designs to be constructed. And while Agile frameworks are widely used for in-house development, there are still concerns if Agile is com...

Every business is focused on a rapid time to market and return on investment. It’s no longer enough to implement a data lake, businesses require a data platform that can provide immediately actionable insights. But building a data platform from the ground up can take a significant amount of tim...

The coin recognition system is a great showcase of the power of modern deep learning image processing models. While coins themselves are relatively simple objects, many coins look very similar and it is surprisingly challenging to build a system that can reliably identify a particular coin. That is...
Why outsource in Lviv, Ukraine? Lviv is home to more than 461 tech companies and 26,500 tech workers, 80% of whom are software developers. With more than 4,000 graduates joining Lviv’s tech scene every year, Lviv’s IT outsource services sector makes up 14.4% of GDP, which is approximately $280 to $...
Remote development centers are here to stay. This became especially obvious after the first lockdown, when even the most conservative tech nations had to face the undeniable truth — remote development is safe, productive, and cost-efficient. Offshore development center trends The definiti...
Launched in 2013, Pricena is now a leading price comparison website which allows online shoppers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, and South Africa to make informed purchasing decisions. Pricena provides full information on the prices, product specs, shipping charges, deliver...
The emergence of wearable devices brought with it a range of new challenges for companies and their quality assurance engineers. Because it is a relatively new space, companies need to ensure they can deliver new applications on wearables and provide a great experience for the end users or other bu...
Have you ever heard of Spiral Dynamics? It’s a sociological theory about the cultural levels of a society. There is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies based on it. And the concepts behind this model can also be applied to any organization o...
Want to know what IT outsourcing trends will dominate the global market in 2021? Sink your teeth in our data-based research on the global IT outsourcing trends in 2021. We’ve scoured the web and organized the most important IT outsourcing statistics on the global tech talent shortage, the gro...

Working from home was never more fun than these days of pandemic and lockdowns. We all stay connected with video conferencing, and, with obvious benefits of seeing friendly faces of our colleagues, we get all the drawbacks of exposing not-so-glamorous aspects of our work-from-home lives...
You can hire senior remote developers in any part of the world and feel no difference between remote and local cooperation. 44% of companies are now more likely to use IT outsourcing suppliers than they were just five years ago. In this article, we’ve collected online recruitment tips and hard-w...
Allowing any element of a digital product to fail can have significant implications. Functional failures have tangible consequences for conversion rates, which ultimately impact the entire business. Difficulties with browsing web sites affect user impressions of the brand meaning they may very we...

It’s no secret that leading a healthy lifestyle improves your overall quality of life. A healthy lifestyle involves following a good diet, limiting excessive alcohol or smoking, taking the time to exercise, and getting enough sleep. This same philosophy can be applied to the way your business t...
What set of criteria is used to define the best offshore development countries in the world? Are low development rates and availability of tech expertise enough for choosing an outsourcing destination in 2021? While in lockdown, it’s not that easy to travel and explore outsourcing destinat...
Cloud migration has been a hot topic for many years but for many organizations it's far from being complete. According to a recent Forrester's State Of Public Cloud Migration report, about two-thirds of firms plan to move their workloads to public clouds in the next 12 months. When we design a c...

It's an e-commerce web application for a top-tier North American retailer. Quite a large application system - a few hundred developers are working on it. The system was rebuilt from scratch from a heavy monolithic enterprise application platform to a number of separately deployed components inter...

What do Skype, Boeing, Bosch, and eBay have in common? In addition to billions of dollars in revenue and millions of clients worldwide, it is the choice of outsourcing location that unites the aforementioned companies. They were among the first to see the potential of software development companies...
Managing remote teams is not a new thing in the software development world. The pandemic has forced the tech industry to admit what some have known for years: software development can be done remotely by managing remote teams wisely and be as productive as in-house development. Even before the p...

Every company wants to take advantage of their data to turn it into actionable insights. It can be used to build customer 360, reduce customer churn, plan marketing campaigns, and optimize pricing, inventory, and supply chain. Data is also key to increasing productivity and the efficiency of the wo...
Companies around the globe use nearshore outsourcing to cut costs and enhance their capabilities. In this article, we explain how businesses can maximize the value of their nearshore outsourcing partnerships, give tips on choosing nearshore outsourcing companies, and provide you with a handy list o...
Nearshore outsourcing has become one of the most well-known practices of profitable businesses. 79% of Dutch companies confirmed they’ll continue to outsource IT services at the same or at an increased pace. 56% of German companies stated they outsource IT tasks to external service providers....

Tech companies had been among the first to integrate remote work and hire remote developers on a permanent basis far before the pandemic hit. So by now, many of them have learned how to manage remote developers and no longer have any doubts about remote work being as productive, successful, and col...
NLP technologies are rapidly improving, changing our user experience, and increasing the efficiency of working with text data. For instance, web search and language translation innovations changed our world, and now Deep Learning enters more and more areas. While writing these sentences, the editor...
After the initial excitement that data lakes would help companies maximize the utility of their data, many companies became disillusioned by rapidly diminishing returns from their big data efforts. While it was easy to put large volumes of data in the lakes, turning that data into insights and real...
There’s no way around it - preparing an annual CI/CD roadmap is boring. For the last half a decade it has simply ended up with listing the same "automate X", "extend pipeline Y", or "implement dashboard Z" actions. Always referring to similar tools and barely ever featuring any novel ideas. The...
Whether you’re a solopreneur, a medium-sized business, or a multi-million-dollar company, you need software to improve your business processes, magnify efficiencies, increase productivity, and ultimately, your revenues and profits. Custom software development is the process of building dig...
Forecasting is ubiquitous in modern enterprise operations — a wide range of tasks, from inventory management and price optimization to workforce allocation and equipment maintenance, cannot be efficiently performed without data-driven forecasting. In many of these applications, one needs to not...

The software development industry in Israel is going through challenging times. On the one hand, Israel, preceded by China and the US, makes it to the top three fastest-developing tech startup nations. On the other hand, software development companies in Israel report that they’re experiencing an I...

After we made all the necessary decisions regarding the general architecture, it was a time to think about the implementation details. We needed to build all the necessary screens and organize navigation between them. Navigation details have already been described in the first part of the artic...
Over the last ten years, the role of data in modern enterprise has continued to evolve at a rapid pace. Companies launched initiatives to define and execute their data strategy, appointed Chief Data Officers, and created large teams to collect, manage, and generate insights from data. With increase...
While microservices architecture is a great way to design modern systems, most enterprise applications are still built as monoliths. While working with both Fortune-1000 companies and startups we often hear the same three questions: Should I use microservices architecture for the new system...
You might already have an opinion on the subject in question. You’ve examined a bunch of articles, surfed the internet, consulted your friends or colleagues who’ve already tried that dedicated team thing. You’ve probably found that some companies are perfectly happy with their custom software de...

Before moving to the problem of choosing and applying a package manager in our project let’s define the list of features we want from a dependency manager usage perspective: A simple, reliable and efficient integration with CI / CD User friendly interface Minimum effort for imp...
In 2015, the European Parliament adopted a reformed Payment Service Directive, also known as PSD2, which can be considered as the starting point of “open banking”. The new rules aimed to promote the development and use of innovative online and mobile payments through opening consumer banking data u...

What are the top 5 cybersecurity threats directed at tech companies? Which 4 major preventive measures against data breaches should you use? What are the data security risks related to remote work? Data breach protection is a set of activities aimed at securing databa...
After initial migration to the cloud, companies often discover that their infrastructure costs are surprisingly high. No matter how good the initial planning and cost estimation process was, the final costs almost always come in above expectations. On-demand provisioning of cloud resource...

Video streaming applications stand among the top telecom businesses in 2020: the use of streaming services has grown by 43% in the US, 50% in the UK, and 60% in Germany. We researched the video streaming market and talked to Anatolii Zavialov, an iOS developer at CuriosityStream, to provide you wit...
These days, when machine learning-based result ranking becomes a de-facto standard for e-commerce search implementations, it still relies on the high quality of the matching. No matter how sophisticated your ML ranking algorithm is, if relevant products are not retrieved from the search index, it w...

The trend of implementing and migrating to microservices isn’t new. The industry is full of war stories where companies invested a lot of time, money, and effort to migrate microservices architectures but were never able to realize the full benefits. Every company’s journey is unique and mistakes t...
Machine learning is an essential part of the modern search system. ML models are helping in many areas of search workflow, such as intent classifications, query parsing, facet selection, and, most importantly, results re-ranking. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of expanding the...

Mobile applications help enterprises reach higher levels of success by increasing sales and providing improved experiences to their users. The share of sales generated via mobile applications continues to rapidly rise year over year, reflecting the increasing importance of mobile technologies i...

How does a data scientist typically perform their standard job stack such as data processing and training models? In the case of playing around with test data or models, all the work can be done locally. But when that isn’t the case, data specialists often resort to the help of cloud solutions, w...

In the modern digital world, we still rely on manual data entry for many important business processes. Needless to say, this leads to slower data processing, frustrated employees and costly errors which could be avoided with automated reliable data entry and processing. Often, even the data which...

Modern businesses in e-commerce, banking, insurance, manufacturing and many other areas generate huge amounts of data every day. Effectively utilizing that data helps increase business value by making the right decisions at the right time based on insights generated from targeted data analytics....
In this article, we detail the results of our performance comparison of popular cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouses using popular benchmarks. The goal of the investigation was not to do the most comprehensive comparison of them possible, but instead to uncover usable and valuable information to...
The increasing push towards remote work, combined with the ongoing transition from back-end to front-end development has led to a rapidly growing need for full-stack developers. This need has also led to a massive shift in the developer marketplace. Both in terms of the work context (HOW work ge...

According to Hedges & Co. report, US online sales of auto parts and accessories amounted to $12B and, while new car sales projection are looking bleak, the future of the automotive aftermarket is quite positive. Both specialized auto parts retailers and online commerce powerhouses like Amazon...

Dutch IT companies are outsourcing software development in order to optimize costs and combat local tech talent shortage. 79% of software development companies in the Netherlands confirmed that they will continue to outsource ICT services at the same or at an increased pace in 2020. Due to remot...

Supply chain optimization is one the toughest challenges among all enterprise applications of data science and ML. This challenge is rooted in the complexity of supply chain networks that generally require to optimize decisions for multiple layers (echelons) of distribution centers and suppliers, m...

This report is based on a survey of marketing, merchandising, and pricing directors and executives and aims to assess their priorities, challenges, and plans with regard to decision automation in the area of revenue management. The main topics of this study include the following: What are the...
Evolving beyond a mere tech advantage, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone a long way to cement itself as a mainstay of modern-day retail. In other words, AI solutions are a competitive necessity for retail. Designed to assist business and technology executives in understanding and deploying AI e...

In this white paper, we provide practical recommendations to technology and business leaders on how advanced data analytics and engineering capabilities can be leveraged to rapidly and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 disruption. These recommendations are largely based on early examples of respo...
In an era marked by growing velocity, volume, and variety in data, managing this constant influx of competing data points and information is crucial for businesses aiming to stay ahead. Data platforms help achieve this—but building and customizing them is key to success. In our experience workin...
A robust pricing strategy that aligns with market trends is perhaps the most crucial competitive differentiator today. In this white paper, we introduce you to how an advanced price intelligence platform enables businesses to automate their pricing and promotion strategy with unparalleled analytica...
In an era where customer data offers valuable insights into user behavior and action, understanding and leveraging this data is crucial for business success. The field of marketing analytics—from its nascent days of predictive analytics to the modern-day marvels of machine learning—charts the journ...
Most modern application systems consist of multiple middleware components. This includes databases, queues, search engines, storage, caches, and in-memory data grids, identity services, etc. They also include multiple stateful or stateless microservices and mobile application proxies — all connecte...
E-learning development is now a multi-billion industry that empowers education across the globe with EdTech. The variety of tech solutions we use nowadays are way more complex than the once popular Content Management Systems (CMSs). In this article, we analyze the EdTech trends in 2020 that stimula...
Before the global quarantine of 2020, 56% of companies all over the world allowed remote work. From this point forward, this number will only keep increasing — some companies have had to rapidly shift their in-house teams to remote work, while others hire developers remotely to extend their existin...

With the increasing popularity of Progressive Web App (PWA), we thought it would be the ideal time to explore the differences between PWA and other approaches to building mobile user experiences. To conduct this research, we gathered a list of the most important mobile application criteria and fr...

North America has become a continent with a consumerist economy where manufacturers, retailers, and service providers compete fiercely for customers. As we know, one of the most effective ways to attract customers is to lower one’s prices without the impact on the quality of the goods or s...
In the previous article we discussed the Endeca rules model and explained how to re-implement this model using Elasticsearch. We needed to implement inverted search to trigger our rules and we leveraged powerful percolator feature in Elasticsearch which greatly simplified our implementation...

The COVID-19 crisis is clearly the biggest economic disruption the world has seen in the 21st century. This disruption impacts virtually all industries and all areas of enterprise operations through market demand, supply chain, and human capital. The adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and p...
In the current situation, remote work has become a life-saving solution for the majority of companies. Even the most conservative proponents of office work, like banks, have come to realize that remote work is not all that scary, and with a well thought-out approach it can be even more efficient th...

OPINION: Coronavirus is rapidly reshaping our world. It is demanding businesses to redefine how they engage customers, employees, and supply chain by shifting operations online. Learn best practices for designing and launching new digital services at lightning speed by adopting an “agile co-creatio...

In recent years, many organizations have provided public access to their digital ecosystems via APIs. This has transformed APIs from being a tool, into being a product. At the same time, wide adoption of microservices has led to an increased number of internal APIs used by organizations as well....

Personalization and recommendation algorithms have been around for many decades, and basic methods such as look-alike modeling and collaborative filtering are widely understood and adopted across the industry. The advancement of deep learning greatly expands the toolkit available to developers of p...
Search engines have been with us for several decades already, and we are using them daily in our digital lives, so why are we still talking about search? Isn’t search a solved problem already? Search probably would have been a long solved problem if human language were a well-defined, thought-th...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver, estate jewelry and watches, including patterns being produced by manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use the compa...
React has been climbing steadily since it broke 556 million downloads per month in March 2020. Moreover, React.js offers a desirable level of flexibility and performance for building scalable solutions with interactive UIs. No wonder a growing number of companies are beginning to embrace this techn...
Have you ever wondered why some startups achieve effective teamwork to make history, while others remain dysfunctional? The best teams accomplish great feats with the help of effective communication built into the core of team collaboration. Piece of cake, right? Not quite. Project managem...
For almost all industries the digital experience has become a primary importance. And ongoing rapid technology advancements mean that many companies need to reconsider the technology choices around their Content Management System (CMS). CMSs have changed a lot in the last ten years and are now fa...

Online retailers operating large catalogs are always looking to improve the quality of their product discovery functionality. Keyword search and category browse experience powered by their search engine is a first stage of sales funnel where fast and relevant search results can produce delightful a...

Faceted navigation, a.k.a. guided navigation is a de-facto standard user experience for any serious online retailer. Facets seamlessly introduce your customers to the structure and attributes of an online catalog and provide shoppers with powerful tools to slice and dice their results with useful f...
So you’re working with remote employees? Most probably, you’ve already noticed that they take a special approach in terms of management. Remote teams are different from ones located in one central office in a few key ways. Teams that work across separate locations demand a particular appro...

Online retailers are always looking for ways to provide delightful and frictionless shopping experience to their customers. Product discovery, powered by search and category browsing, stays at the top of the sales funnel and has the highest impact in converting visitors to customers. At the...
Tired of unstructured work with freelance developers? Hire dedicated developers to manage directly and add order to your day-to-day work. Use this step-by-step guide to hire one dedicated developer or successfully set up an entire team of dedicated developers. In this article, you’ll learn:...
Merchandising is an essential part of modern online retail. Automated merchandising platforms allow business users to control search and browse results by affecting product ranking decisions, providing curated content and referring customers to relevant categories or thematic landing pages. Or...

Supply chain and price management were among the first areas of enterprise operations that adopted data science and combinatorial optimization methods and have a long history of using these techniques with great success. Although a wide range of traditional optimization methods are available for in...
Initially, digital transformation for brick-and-mortar retailers meant creating a good customer experience over web and mobile channels. While that started to close the retail chasm that Amazon had opened beneath traditional retailers, it wasn’t as if they could abandon their stores and go all-digi...
With more than 20M developers globally, the question of their distribution by technology and seniority levels becomes more and more topical. Thus, in our research, we've decided to use LinkedIn (a platform with a 630M member network) and find out how many Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, an...

Since the dawn of ecommerce in the end of the nineties, online retailers have coined a famous “If they can’t find ‘em, they can’t buy ‘em” motto, which stands today as fresh as ever. Online shoppers have a lot of choices, and their patience is getting ever shorter: they expect instant, precise, rel...

A key part of digital transformation is actually changing the way you develop software. New technologies such as mobile, progressive web, cloud, big data, and machine learning create increased demand for entirely new skills. The fast pace of innovation requires new processes like Agile develo...

If you want your customers to have a seamless shopping experience no matter where they are or what device they’re using, but you’re stuck with a black box legacy system like Oracle ATG, you may think a true omnichannel experience is beyond your reach. We have helped many of the top retailers in...
This time the hero of our interview is Andre Silva, CTO at CuriosityStream. The company provides a video streaming service for the most curious minds that are eager to discover the world of documentaries. CuriosityStream piles together visionaries in every major field collecting thousands of docume...

Deep-learning powered natural language processing is growing by leaps and bounds. During the past year, latest NLP models exceeded the human performance baseline in some specific language understanding tasks. Source: Facebook AI State-of-the-art NLP models allow AI-enabled systems to repr...

The demands on IT service providers are changing because companies are embracing digital transformation. Traditionally most IT services were confined to packaged software implementation, system integration, and managed services. Companies grew to rely on traditional outsourcers for these kinds of I...
Remote work is an increasingly popular workplace trend for workers in every industry, including software developers. Stackoverflow’s 2019 survey of nearly 90,000 developers found that: 25 percent work remotely a few days a month 15 percent work remotely one or more days per we...
Staff augmentation eases the difficult and uncertain task of recruiting for an IT project. According to Gartner, an estimated 1 million computer programming jobs will go unfilled by 2020. IT staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy in which vendors recruit offshore tech talent for busi...

Here are the top travel startups from the Netherlands that will encourage you to travel more in 2020: Polarsteps Triposo Parkos Officebooking Tripaneer Bookabus Camptoo Polarsteps Triposo Parkos Officebooki...
In the late 90s, the business world faced a new fast-growing trend — outsourcing. The American tech industry pioneered in trying out the new approach to doing business with the help of third-party vendors. Since then, nearshore and offshore partnerships have been getting increasingly common for bot...
Computer vision is becoming essential to successful digital transformation efforts with many compelling uses and many accessible solution options for properly building it. In this blog post, you will learn the basics of computer vision technology and how it fits into the world of artificial in...

The capabilities of speech recognition and natural language processing are rapidly increasing and now allow people to regularly engage with AI programs in human-like conversations. This opens the doors for an entirely new generation of smart devices and use cases. One of the most promising is voice...

In our last post in this series, we discussed the top 10 computer vision use cases in digital retail. In this post, we discuss how you would go about sourcing a computer vision (CV) solution, from acquiring the skills you need from the market or a services firm to using a platform or buying a ver...

The quarterly report showed a 40% drop in sales over the last quarter. The executive team panicked. The entire company is collapsing! Or is it? After the investigation concluded, they discovered that the sales were okay. The report was incorrect because an automated system had failed. The infrast...
Computer vision has become essential to remaining competitive in the digital retail space because it offers innovative customer experiences and process automation that delights customers and cut costs. Customers demand the convenience of features such as visual search or automated question ans...
Vive is for professionals and freelancers who are looking to become financially healthy. The company provides one solution for financial planning and investing. Consumers can use the app without prior knowledge or experience in investing. All you need to do is define your financial goals and the al...
Among 628 FinTech startups out there, here are the top 9 (in our perspective) that definitely deserve your attention: Vive BridgeFund CreditClick Tikkie Tellow Peaks Ockto Oneplanetcrowd TAXModel Vive BridgeFund CreditC...

Are only 20% of your product catalog recommendations behavior driven? Product recommendations have become an essential sales tool for e-commerce sites. These recommendation systems typically use collaborative filtering, a common approach for building behavior-based recommendation engines u...
Consumers pay attention to ratings, and you should too. Ratings are indicative of an item’s quality, and people give bad ratings when they have a terrible experience. In this case study, we explore how to raise your app rating and what effect this has on mobile app revenue. For purposes of this...

40% of Dutch businesses see talent shortage as the main obstacle standing in the way of growth and expansion of the software development industry in the country. The situation is further complicated by the competition for developers with large companies such as Coolblue, Shell, bol.com, etc. that d...

You came up with an innovative idea and gathered a bunch of like-minded people around to work on its implementation together, yet, here comes the hardest part – hiring developers for your startup. Huge corporations in large software development hubs such as the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Isra...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver and estate jewelry, including patterns still available from manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use replacements.com’...

“It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one.” Maintaining a high-quality customer service experience while minimizing costs is high on the list of any e-Commerce enterprise. An AI-based question-answering system can do just that. But how would one approach building such a...
How bad can a 3.7-star rating really be? Imagine a Fortune 500 retailer with considerable online revenue, but only a minuscule fraction of online sales derived from their mobile app. In fact, this exact retailer approached us, asking for assistance. To help them get their mobile app revenue back...

Your product is good. Your mobile app has great features, but your app store rating is low. What happened? In a previous blog post we demonstrated that high crash rates can cause low app ratings. In this blog, we explain how we analyzed negative reviews to determine what motivated customers to...
These days, every retailer has to be mobile-friendly to be competitive, but our client was ahead of the curve. They wanted to provide their largely teenage customer base, who prefer to use mobile devices, with a truly awesome mobile experience. They realized that in order to make this leap into t...
“But I already have an Android and iOS app, why would I need Flutter?” After you read this blog post, the answer will become obvious - to save time and money. “I understand the advantages of Flutter, but can't afford to throw away my current apps and restart in Flutter.” You won't need to! In th...
Many retailers face a tough decision: should their mobile retail shopping app support Android or iOS? They feel their limited resources cannot be stretched to build and support both platforms, so they often pick just one. Some retailers may have already committed to one platform, but are unsure...
Many large brick-and-mortar retailers lack a strong mobile app experience, which is a problem on days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when online traffic soars. In the 2018 holiday season, 79% of all purchases involved a mobile device - this includes customers that made a purchase, looked up...
Marketers usually use multiple channels–such as sponsored search, display ads, and emails–to reach their customers, and each channel usually includes multiple activities or has multiple parameters that are associated with various costs. For example, a marketer can run several email campaigns, each...

RightNow Group is an innovative LegalTech company that provides “Justice-as-a-Service.” There are three specialized business units within the Group – Geld-für-Flug, Bahn-Buddy, and Unfallzahlung24 each dealing with a separate area respectively: compensation for missed flights, compensation for dela...

Carerix is one of the top suppliers of recruiting software, developed directly for the needs of the staffing and recruitment industry. In 2018, Carerix was acquired by PIXID – the European leader for temporary and flexible employment management. In our interview, Arco Westbroe...
The e-Commerce Director for one of our client’s was concerned that reorder rates with customers were at an industry low. The root cause analysis pointed to the performance of their search order history function, which was so slow that customers couldn't find past order and quit in frustration. They...
Cool AR apps were possible before, but now they have become increasingly sophisticated, thanks to new features in Google's ARCore and Sceneform. Objects can now be placed on vertical planes such as walls or doors. 3D images render faster and more easily, and augmented reality scenes can be shared...

Modern customer analytics and personalization systems use a wide variety of methods that help to reveal and quantify customer preferences and intent, making marketing messages, ads, offers, and recommendations more relevant and engaging. However, most of these methods are designed to optimize only...

Anna Symonenko, the Senior Recruitment Manager at Grid Dynamics, has experience in both international and local “headhunting”. Throughout her career in IT recruitment, Anna has had the opportunity to work at one of the top 5 biggest staff augmentation companies in Ukraine as well as at a recru...

Implementing end-to-end continuous delivery at the enterprise level has always been a challenge. It is a complex problem that requires simultaneous improvements across an organization’s structure, culture, application architecture, infrastructure and change management processes. This challenge i...

A global retail company faced the challenge of bringing their inventory management system to the cloud. The company required their new cloud-based solution to include online and store inventory in all geographical regions, and deliver a fast and consistent database performance within each region. T...
“Find all customers who have a birthday in the next 10 days” “Which employees have achieved 10 years of service this month?” These types of questions are simple for a human to answer with the aid of a calendar, but it is much more difficult for a computer to answer them on its own. Calendars...

Smart autocomplete is an essential feature for improving online catalog navigation and boosting product discovery for users. This is especially true for mobile search, where the smaller screen and keyboard, limit the use of more traditional faceted search selectors. Smart autocomplete, also known...
In January 2019 Kyivpost, Ukraine’s famous English-language newspaper, published a report with the most recent data on the growth of IT industry in Ukraine. According to the report, IT industry in Ukraine became the 2nd largest export industry in 2018. In 2015 Ukrainian IT expor...
While searching for professional QA engineers, companies are often struggling to meet estimated budget and time limitations. Yet, ignoring software testing can cost you a fortune and lead to massive technical debts as the entire development life cycle opens up numerous vulnerabilities. And the late...

Speed of delivery is one of the key success factors in online retail. Retailers fiercely compete with each other in this space, implementing new order fulfillment options such as Same-Day Shipping, Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPUS) and Ship from Store (SFS). These capabilities help to both improv...
Price setting is one of the most important problems in retail because any price setting error directly results in lost profit. However, traditional price management methods almost never achieve optimal pricing because they are designed for traditional environments, where the frequency of price chan...

In the middle of your home improvement project, you realize that you've lost a very important screw. You have the matching screw that you need in your hands, and simply need to make another trip to the hardware store. However, a trip to the local hardware store is a hassle, as many of the screws lo...

TenderApp is an intelligence platform in which all information from published tenders is collected and made available in a user-friendly way. With TenderApp, any non-governmental organization can receive all necessary guidance and help to win tenders. TenderApp is also used as a tool for keeping up...
Write once, run anywhere. This is what mobile application developers have long been promised. One code for both Android and iOS No performance issues One engineering and QA team for all mobile development One common user interface utilized across all platforms that is visually...

Over the past 3 years, we’ve been communicating with Dutch and DACH region business executives that outsource software development. As a result, we’ve collected the answers of 98 business executives operating in the Netherlands and 204 executives from the DACH region, which allowed us to fulfill th...
The “classic” Scrum tools that agile teams use to organize their work are whiteboards, charts, and note cards. Yet there's so much more you can achieve with Scrum project management software, so Grid Dynamics decided to collect the 15 best free Agile tools in one article. Besides, using this type o...

Pricing is one of the key factors that drives a successful retail business model, and it is also one of the most difficult to manage. Retailers made lots of improvements on their pricing strategies over the last decade, moving from cost plus or value pricing to modern day AI-driven price management...

This is the third post in a series of articles on AI/ML-based decision automation in retail price management, this time focusing on implementation and technology. The automation of pricing decisions is a challenging task that requires a software system to understand business objectives and constrai...

Despite speeding up development with deployment automation, one of our clients was experiencing slow time-to-market due to a lack of collaboration in DevOps. While they had invested in DevOps, every production pipeline was set up individually, forcing teams to remake the wheel for each project....

AI-based decision automation is particularly beneficial when a large number of decisions must be made in near real time and need to take a wide range of signals into account. Additionally, these decision-making components have to be aligned with the pricing strategy and integrated into the price...

My name is Dmytro Rastaturin. I’m an Operations Manager at Pindrop NL (Grid Dynamics Digital Team client). Our end-customers come from Europe, the main operating market is in Benelux (we also work with the customers from France, UK, Italy, Spain, and others). The following article will be...

AI has great potential to transform or even disrupt enterprise operations, and price management is among the most important business functions that directly affect enterprise profitability and efficiency. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the price management process is not...

A modern merchandising system can provide a guided product discovery experience to shoppers, which is essential for retailers with large online catalogs. These systems and tools allow merchandisers to improve product listing relevancy by controlling product matching and ranking when a shopper see...

“Life is better with art” is the motto of Art.com, a leading global online retailer selling high quality art reproductions. Their site lives up to the motto, as they possess the world's largest collection of art, with a meticulously curated catalog of images, featuring state of the art printi...

The convergence of in-store and online retail operations in recent years has put significant new demands on the management of pricing, offers, and promotions as compared to pre-omnichannel times. The outdated, simplistic approaches to determine the price of products and promotional offerings are st...

Retailers wanting to upgrade their monolithic architecture systems to a microservices approach will need to build a management platform to truly capture its benefits. The advantages of microservices over monolithic architectures are evident: greater scalability, more customization, quicker updates,...
Enterprise software development market is rapidly gaining ground. According to Statista, the global IT spending on enterprise software is expected to reach 424 billion USD in 2019. Business owners can now leverage new technologies and coordinate their core processes within a single digital space. S...
Let’s face it — Oracle Endeca is an out-of-date e-commerce search technology solution. Endeca’s lack of personalization and support for omnichannel capabilities have been common problems for many large retailers, and the issues were not getting solved by ATG. We at Grid Dynamics have seen this fi...

Speed and quality have always seemed mutually exclusive for engineering development -- but do they have to be? In order to ensure high quality, builds need to be thoroughly tested. However, testing takes time, and leads to slower production and missed deadlines. If teams release a product without i...

globalHMA is a global marketing agency that helps its clients promote their businesses all around the world via three core services: advertising, research, and the development of interactive resources. Whether you specialize in alternative energy or industrial equipment, the globalHMA team can brin...

Don’t know how to structure your software development team organization? We prepared 5 well-tried techniques that will help you structure your team of software developers, maximize their productivity, and catapult your business success. It is easy to assume that t...

After an hour of online research, Rachel bought the perfect raincoat for her upcoming trip in Southeast Asia – and then discovered that it didn't exist. Unfortunately, when she tried to add it to her cart, she was informed that the raincoat was actually out of stock, and could not be purchased. Thi...

Lamina Technologies is a Swiss manufacturer of carbide cutting tools, specializing in milling and turning inserts made of state-of-the-art submicron grades with PVD and CVD coatings. Despite being represented in 50 countries and literary scattered worldwide, Lamina Technologies manages to always un...
Nearly all major online retailers these days support faceted navigation, as it is a key instrument of product discovery. Facets provide a powerful, intuitive way to summarize search results from multiple perspectives. They also offer a straightforward interface to apply filters and refine navigat...

Oktopost is a social media management platform that helps B2B companies manage, monitor, and measure all their social media activities in one place. The Oktopost culture is characterized by a friendly, collaborative, and ambitious team. Despite being spread across multiple countries and time zones,...

Favro is an innovative planning and collaboration tool that enables the world's most progressive businesses to achieve organizational flow. It helps companies do what they excel at—making products and services that change the game. We have interviewed Patric Palm, the Co-founder an...

Pricing decisions are critically important for any business, as pricing is directly linked to consumer demand and company profits. Even a slightly suboptimal decision-making process inevitably leads to tangible losses, and major mistakes can have grave consequences. Optimal pricing is a challeng...

Xuntos is a close-knit team of enthusiasts who are devoted to the beauty of technology. The company is based in the Netherlands and helps customers bring design to life with the help of tech expertise in front-end development, web applications, mobile development, CMS, and other technologies. Each...

Retail is on the brink of yet another technological breakthrough. AI devices like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and virtual assistants of all kinds are rapidly becoming trusted and dependable aides to many people. Technology companies led by Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are rushing to grab th...

With an online catalog of over 1M SKUs and a multi-billion dollar e-commerce store, things were going well for the online retailer. However, their search engine’s relevancy was not ideal, hurting their shoppers’ ability to discover the right products and lowering conversion rates. The core pro...
Blockchain technology essentially emerged with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009. But it is now known that blockchain offers numerous other innovative technical and business use applications beyond what was imagined by the creators of the world’s first cryptocurrency. While Bitcoin had a fairly d...
DragApp is an online tool that helps users organize their messy mailboxes. Email is one of the most popular ways of daily business communication and it hasn’t changed in decades. DragApp will help you transform your inbox into a logical set of data. Recently, we had an opportunity...

The promotions manager couldn’t believe it. For weeks, he had carefully planned the promotion, running the numbers again every day just to double check that everything made fiscal sense. By all indications, the promotion would increase demand and be a big money maker for the company, so he was ex...

Mr and Mrs. Smith are a regular middle-class couple in the process of remodeling and redecorating their home. After a long and tireless search on Pinterest and other lifestyle websites, they finally found a concept for their new interior decoration plans. The only issue was that actually finding an...

Envato is an innovative business that provides a variety of services for people who are driven by the passion to create something great. Envato offers five core services — Envato Market, Envato Studio, Envato Tuts+, Envato Sites, and Envato Elements. Not long ago, we had an intervi...

Jostle is an innovative cloud-based platform that aims to create extraordinary workplaces and help organizations connect their employees efficiently with the help of intranet. Recently, we had an opportunity to interview Brad Palmer, the CEO and co-founder of Jostle. We asked Br...

As augmented reality technology continues to advance, it opens up possibilities for a dazzling array of practical and innovative applications. One great example is a “Magic Mirror”. An augmented reality Magic Mirror is a reflective TV screen linked to a camera and controlled by augmented reality so...

A customer of ours, one of the largest omni-channel retailers in the US, was having issues with product discovery. Their e-commerce site had a massive catalog with hundreds of thousands of SKUs, a modern e-commerce backend and a powerful search engine, yet the conversion was less than stellar. Fr...
As an open source technology, the .NET framework is used by millions of software developers (there are over 6 million .NET engineers worldwide according to the latest estimates). This has spurred the growth of various third-party development tools. To get a first-hand opinion on the most valuable a...
ShipHero is a complete, cloud-based solution that provides eCommerce businesses with all the tools necessary to manage inventory, ship orders, and oversee warehouse operations. Recently, we had the chance to interview Nicholas Daniel-Richards, the co-founder of ShipHero. We asked;...
If you’re thinking of hiring offshore developers, the very first thing you need to do is take a good look at your current company structure, then establish which skills required for the development of your product are missing. While it’s perfectly fine to go through this stage on your own, an outsi...
We recently built an analytics platform for a startup company whose mobile game acts as a digital advertising platform while providing rewards and instant winning experiences to its users. The app is in the top three in the lifestyle category on Google Play Store and top 10 in the Apple App Store,...

Carerix is a producer of recruitment and staffing software based in the Netherlands. The company has worked together with Grid Dynamics since 2012. A short while ago, we had a chance to chat with Jurgen Delfos, the CTO at Carerix. We asked Jurgen to give us an insight into how Carerix software work...

In a previous blogpost we explored how retail companies are utilizing emerging augmented reality (AR) technologies to close the “imagination gap” between the showroom and digital experience to improve their online sales. In this post, we look at the two leading AR frameworks from Apple and Google...

The Solr suggester component allows you to vastly improve your search capabilities and experience. It provides users with automatic suggestions for query terms, and can be used to implement useful auto-suggest featurest in your search application. … Composable commerce for B...
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In our previous post, we showed you how to use image recognition to solve the issue of misattribution in e-commerce catalogs. Once you start to trust your models and have trained them to detect a valuable amount of attributes, it is easy to expand from attribute verification to auto tagging. Howe...

Open source full-text search engines provide rich functionality out of the box. However, there are some use cases when naive implementation may lead to terrible customer experience. We faced one of such use cases when we worked with a patent management company. Part of a patent officer's...

In our previous post, we discussed the impact of product misattribution in e-commerce and how image recognition with Machine Learning can be an important tool to resolve this issue. In this post, we will get into the details of how to detect and correct misattribution using Machine Learning, Goog...

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As a Team Lead and Senior C++ Developer, Andriy frequently conducts job interviews. We’ve asked him to describe his process for interviewing C++ engineers, and here’s what he shared: When I think back to how I conducted interviews twelve years ago, I can’t help but wince. Those ta...
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E-commerce customers often need to sort products by price, size, and other SKU-level attributes. Our job is to make this process as easy and pleasant for them as we can, because the more products they find, the more they buy. How do we help them find what they need?For general searching and facet...
In recent years, autocomplete has become a staple feature for searches of all types.Whether Google, Amazon, or smaller sites and vendors, predictive typing, as it’s otherwise known, (also sometimes called auto-suggest, search-as-you-type or type-ahead) has become an expected part of an engagin...

In the previous blog post we went through the details of how to set up the Docker infrastructure with Mesos and Marathon, and how to bootstrap the environment to get it ready to host application services. Now it is time to deploy some applications. Our blog’s purpose is not only to show you a fi...

For many years, chatbots have been quietly moving from the screens of sci-fi movies to commercial applications. Companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, and Microsoft, along with an ever-increasing array of AI startups, have been gradually perfecting Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) that a...

In the previous blog post we explained our overall approach to the DevOps stack used for the deployment and management of the In-Stream Processing blueprint. In this post we’ll focus on more details of Mesos and Marathon, and provide you with scripts to provision the complete computational environm...

This post is about the approach to the “DevOps” part of our In-Stream Processing blueprint — namely, deploying the platform on a dynamic cloud infrastructure, making the service available to its intended users and supporting it through the continuous lifecycle of development, testing, and roll-ou...

In online commerce, catalog navigation functionality is one of the key aspects of the overall user experience. Customers spend the majority of their time on the site discovering and selecting products and making purchase decisions. The mission of quality search and browse functionality is to prov...
In the previous post we discussed which models we tried for sentiment classification and which one has demonstrated the best performance. In this post, we’ll show you how to visualize our under-the-hood findings so that others can see the results of our analysis. You can see our twitter senti...

Ways is an Oslo-based tech company that designs and develops Android and iOS applications for businesses from a wide range of different industries. Last week, we had the opportunity to chat with Eivind Lindbråten, the Co-Founder of Ways. In just two short years, Eivind has gon...
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In the previous post we discussed how we created an appropriate data dictionary. In this post we’ll address the process of building the training data sets and preparing the data for analysis. The training process aims to reveal hidden dependencies and patterns in the data that will be analyzed...

In the previous post we discussed the structure of the tweet data. In this post we’ll address the process of selecting or building the right data dictionary for our purpose. What constitutes a good dictionary? A crucial data set for any kind of text mining is a dictionary. As for sentiment...

In the previous post we outlined the basic scientific method used and formalized the problem statement we are solving, which is, “Based on of the tweets of English-speaking population of the United States related to selected new movie releases, can we identify patterns in the public’s sentiments t...
There is a broad and fast-growing interest in data science and machine learning. It is fueled by an explosion in business applications that rely on automated detection of patterns and behaviors hidden in the data, that can be found by software and exploited to dramatically improve the way we mark...

In the previous four blog posts in this series we covered the reference architecture of a general purpose In-Stream Processing Service blueprint. To recap, here is a list of shortcuts to the blogs in that series: … Composable commerce for B2B: Overkill or delivers big?Read More »
As we explained in our introduction to this series of posts, we are exploring a data scientist’s methods of extracting hidden patterns and meanings from big data in order to make better applications, services, and business decisions. We will perform a simple sentiment analysis of a real publ...

In the course of delivering many successful Continuous Performance Testing (CPT) implementations for enterprise customers, Grid Dynamics engineering teams have developed a number of basic design principles to guide their actions. Your requirements may be unique, but just as all custom race cars hav...

In previous posts we've talked about why Continuous Performance Testing (CPT) must be an integral part of managing the user experience. We've also discussed some of the reasons CPT is hard to implement. Now it's time to get into the nitty-gritty of making CPT part of your CI pipelin...
The main reason website and application performance testing is not already continuous in many companies is clear: it’s hard to implement. Why? Let’s look at a few CPT implementation issues: Cost: Continuous Performance Testing takes money. Production-like infrastructure and an engineering team o...

I was recently on an airline flight with onboard entertainment. There was a good selection of movies, but look at the film navigation menu! It lacks the ability to nest different languages into a single movie item and facet selections based on the movie’s language. As a result, it wastes scre...

We’ve talked about searching nested parents and children with Solr Block Join. But we can go far beyond that, to searching siblings, grandchildren, and other descendants. This gives your customers more search options without forcing them to do a new search every time they add a search parameter....

The “law of unintended consequences” applies to using the block join query parser in Solr, just as it does to many other things in life (and software). Leave out certain query strings in Solr, and It seems to make no difference. … Composable commerce for B2B: Overkill or delivers big?Rea...

SolrInputDocument has methods — getChildDocuments()and addChildDocument() — for nesting child documents into a parent document. XML and Javabin formats are now able to transfer them. JSON support is ongoing. Start by indexing a few t-shirts, as a sample product-SKU hierarchy us...
Studytube is an all-in-one online learning platform that gives its users access to an extensive library of ready-to-use courses, enables them to create their own courses, and provides powerful reports on their employees’ learning progress. Last week, we had the opportunity to chat with Ste...

In a previous post, we talked about business motivations behind the support of structured documents in a Solr/Lucene index and the unique requirements for a faceting engine which is created by this approach to modeling data. We have introduced SOLR-5743. Now it is time to take a deep di...
In the world of e-commerce, performance issues can lead to substantial revenue loss, presenting a crucial challenge for enterprises. This scenario is particularly distressing for engineering teams, as nothing upsets them more than the frantic troubleshooting and patching required in the middle of t...

Join support is a highly-requested Solr feature, especially in e-commerce. So I repeated Erick Erickson’s benchmark test with block join support for Solr, and I want to share my observations on how BlockJoinQuery can maximize Solr/Lucene performance. In this post and in the future,...
A straightforward look at how block join faceting works, how it can save your customers from frustrating search experiences, and why Grid Dynamics created SOLR-5743 to bring block join faceting to Solr Here is a simple type of faceted search you see on many e-commerce websites: In this ex...

Solr/Lucene has emerged over the last few years as a leading open source search platform for large-scale e-commerce search engines. Systems based on Solr power major sites including Macy’s, Kohl’s, Walmart, Etsy, and many others. An increasing number of tier-1 digital retailers are building their...
This article introduces the Grid Dynamics blueprint for in-stream processing. It is based on our experience and the lessons we have learned from multiple large-scale client implementations. We have included cloud-ready configuration examples for Apache Kafka, Spark...
Unomy is a unique sales and marketing intelligence platform which allows its users to create comprehensive lists of targeted prospects, use valuable business information to enrich their leads, and keep track of companies they care about. In December 2014, this emerging Israeli SaaS...
This post contains a brief survey of better-known products related to in-stream processing that are available on the market at the time of this writing. In this survey, we focus specifically on critical architectural differentiations, rather than functional differences, that affect why custome...
Now that we have introduced the high-level concepts behind In-Stream Processing and how it fits into the Big Data and Fast Data landscapes, it is time to dive deeper and explain how In-Stream Processing works. As we already know, In-Stream Processing is a service that takes events as input and...
In-stream processing is a powerful technology that can scan huge volumes of data coming from sensors, credit card swipes, clickstreams and other inputs, and find actionable insights nearly instantaneously. For example, in-stream processing can detect a single fraudulent transaction in a stream...
Launched in 2013, Pricena is now a leading price comparison website in MENA which allows online shoppers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait make informed purchasing decisions by offering the most relevant information on the prices, product specs, shipping charges, delivery times, warr...
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Optimize cloud management by leveraging AI to interpret natural language queries, providing immediate and insightful responses to complex metrics. This capability simplifies the analysis and troubleshooting of cloud environments by transforming intricate data into easily understandable insights. As...
Harness the power of advanced planning and reasoning capabilities provided by large language models (LLMs) to produce comprehensive, end-to-end test scenarios. This includes the generation of unit tests, integration tests, and performance tests, all within a highly customizable workflow framework....
Enhance the efficiency of legacy system updates by thoroughly analyzing existing codebases, generating detailed specifications, and developing new code in the target language. This approach addresses common issues related to documentation generation and system redesign, making the modernization pro...

Contract manufacturing involves outsourcing production to third-party manufacturers, which allows companies to focus on core competencies such as design, branding, and distribution. The global contract manufacturing market was valued at USD 246.51 billion in 2022 and is expected to reach USD...
The Composable Commerce Help Desk empowers businesses transitioning from monolithic suites to composable ecosystems with robust and customized customer support capabilities. It seamlessly integrates Freshdesk, a market-trusted customer support solution, with commercetools' e-commerce platform, leve...
Composable Commerce empowers businesses to choose and integrate best-in-class components from third-party vendors to create custom commerce solutions. This approach, driven by MACH architecture (microservices, API-first principles, cloud-native infrastructure, and headless flexibility), enables rap...
Unlock the power of your business data with the GenAI for Business Intelligence Starter Kit from Grid Dynamics. This powerful solution leverages generative AI to help business users overcome the steep learning curve of understanding complex databases, querying data, and interpreting results.

Against the backdrop of escalating healthcare costs, surpassing $6 trillion by 2028, and a looming shortage of 10 million health workers by 2030, the urgency of 100% digital health integration is stark. This alarming trajectory demands a shift towards prevention and proactive care to curtail skyroc...
Discover how the Contentstack, Constructor, and Grid Dynamics partnership can transform your customer acquisition strategy with an expertly integrated search and content approach.
Discover how Policy Pulse leverages AI to transform regulatory change compliance, efficient quote renewals, and enhanced customer service. Policy Pulse empowers insurers to swiftly adapt policy documents to new regulations, streamline the renewal quote process for customers, and enhance customer se...
Explore the top 6 technology trends in e-commerce that blur the line between physical and digital experiences using a MACH-based flexible business model, AI-powered personalization, and unified customer data. Download this e-book to uncover how each trend promises tailored shopping journeys for ever...
Step into the latest quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Stay updated on cutting-edge technology trends, glean insights from industry experts, uncover best practices for implementation, and embark on a journey towards sustainable, scalable technology transformation. G...
For the past few years, cross-site scripting (XSS) has consistently remained on the OWASP Top 10 list of Web Application Security Risks, making it one of the most prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities affecting web applications today. Despite advances in web technologies and growing awareness amo...

Discover how we've reshaped tire recognition technology through advanced AI methodologies, leveraging deep learning visual models and seamless integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In collaboration with a prominent automotive industry leader, we've addressed the critical need for precise tire...

Financial services face significant risks from cybercriminals due to insecure cloud and DevOps practices, leading to data theft, financial losses, and reputational damage. Download our whitepaper to discover effective strategies for securing your ecosystem, from identification and protection to res...

Demand forecasting is a crucial aspect of retail supply chain management that involves predicting future customer demand to make informed decisions about inventory levels, production, and resource allocation. It is a statistical analysis that considers numerous variables to optimize the predict...
Navigate the rapidly changing insurance landscape with our in-depth analysis of 2024 trends. Gain valuable insights and stay ahead of the competition

E-commerce has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, driven by soaring customer expectations. Shoppers now demand seamless omnichannel experiences, lightning-fast site speeds, and rapid innovation to meet evolving market demands. However, traditional monolithic architectures struggle...
The Cloud Microservices Platform accelerates the construction of a microservices platform from months to days. It comes pre-packaged with a set of tools, capabilities, policies, and design practices to modernize and seamlessly integrate, deploy, monitor, and manage applications on Kubernetes, signi...
The GenAI Data Migration aims to minimize the time and complexity involved in code migration, upgrades, or replatforming projects. It utilizes modern LLMs for detailed code parsing, identifying dependencies, and transforming code into instructions or alternative snippets. It is also capable of gene...
The Data Observability simplifies data quality onboarding for modern businesses by offering checks for tabular, structured, and unstructured data. It includes built-in quality assessments for null/missing values, statistical distributions, data freshness, volume, and anomaly detection through unsup...
Greetings and welcome to another exciting quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. As the season brings a festive touch to the air, we extend our heartfelt wishes for a joyful holiday season. Inside this edition, dive into the realm of technology with the latest trends, in...
How AI, connectivity, automation, security, resilience, and personalization are redefining the potential of manufacturing

Explore the technical prowess of conversational AI in e-commerce, from intricate customer service and business intelligence solutions to personalized shopping experiences. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technolog...
The AI Focus Groups enables enterprises to quickly obtain customer insights across multiple areas, including brand messaging, product improvements, customer service, and social media campaign performance. By analyzing user-generated content from social media, comments and reviews, personas are crea...
Grid Dynamics and Dataiku teamed up to create the Inventory Allocation Optimization, which will help you minimize shipping costs, order splits, and stock-outs by optimally allocating inventory across multiple warehouses, distribution centers, or stores. Watch this video demo and learn how to integr...
Explore how the AI-assisted Price Management and Optimization can improve the quality of your pricing decisions and workflow automation. You'll learn how to optimize list prices for individual and multiple SKUs based on volume or profit objectives and accounting for cannibalization, halo, and pull-...
Learn how the Next Best Action for Commercial Pharma, an industry-tailored communication recommendation engine, helps pharma sales teams meet their targets. Empower sales reps from day one with relevant and explainable next best actions related to channel, timing, and content type for specific heal...
Discover how the AI-assisted Promotion Management and Optimization can improve your promotion ROI, prevent hidden profit losses, find profit opportunities, and automate promotion management workflows. You'll learn how to optimize promotions based on volume or profit objectives, manage large product...
Discover how the Demand Sensing and Forecasting helps retailers, brands and manufacturers make accurate and comprehensive procurement, transportation, workforce allocation, inventory, pricing, and promotion decisions. Detect market changes, adjust supply chain and inventory strategies, predict futu...

Embark on a journey into the heart of the electrification revolution with our white paper. As we stand at the precipice of a transformative era, explore the forces propelling electric transportation and smart manufacturing, offering unparalleled opportunities for early adopters. The strategic...

In a dynamic world where advertising success depends on data-driven decisions, the partnership between Yieldmo, a digital advertising platform, and Grid Dynamics has birthed a groundbreaking solution–a scalable, configuration-driven Machine Learning Platform. This innovative platform addresses...
SAP Commerce Cloud (formerly SAP Hybris) has been a widely adopted commerce platform for over a decade. Throughout the 2010s, it was consistently rated as a leading solution in the market, providing retailers with a solid platform for efficient e-commerce operations. However, the digital commerce e...

Organizations take great care to secure cloud platforms, relying on sophisticated access control systems. Multi-factor authentication, identity management, and fine-grained authorization aim to fully lock down valuable data and infrastructure. However, what if these complex safeguards unexpect...

In the ever-growing world of e-commerce, providing customers with an efficient and relevant product ranking experience is crucial for driving sales and maintaining customer satisfaction. Online retailers invest significant resources into optimizing their search and recommendation systems to ensure...

How telemedicine, the IoMT, integrated healthcare data, digital health commercialization, and GenAI-powered drug R&D will shape the year ahead.
In the ever-evolving landscape of transportation, modern Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) have transcended traditional notions of mobility. Beyond mere modes of transportation, these vehicles have emerged as platforms for innovation, where cutting-edge technologies redefi...
Booking online travel is not easy, unless it's on the best apps. But what makes their UX so good? We take a closer look.

Lessons in the perils and pitfalls to avoid—and the opportunities to seize—in the course of your app...
Outsourcing software development is a long-standing trend in the IT industry. While many US companies take the well-trodden path, moving their business operations to India or China, others are thinking about hiring talent a little closer to home and outsourcing to Latin America. This article fea...
The Generative AI Product Design Starter Kit elevates product ideation sessions by empowering users to generate design alternatives using sketches, references, and text prompts as inputs. It offers a wide range of tools and functionalities for tailoring product shapes, textures, and aesthetics, fac...
Generative AI holds immense value in diverse industries, reshaping business operations and customer interactions. In marketing and retail, it enables personalized content creation, virtual try-ons, and conversational product discovery, enhancing customer experiences. Healthcare benefits from AI in...
Explore 10 pioneering AI trends, uncover the power of generative AI, and witness how Grid Dynamics is spearheading innovation. Download now to gain exclusive insights to transform your organization and stay at the forefront of the AI revolution.

Embark on a transformative exploration into the realm of advanced product discovery, where artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision converge to redefine the way users interact with digital commerce platforms. Our latest case study delves into the revolutionary strategie...

In the pharma industry, composable commerce acts as a powerful alchemist, blending potent ingredients into a personalized elixir of success. Like a skilled alchemist mixing precise elements to create transformative potions, composable commerce seamlessly combines diverse digital capabilities, empow...
The past few years have been really challenging for tech hiring. The rapid evolution of technology and digital transformation have intensified the demand for specialized skills, while mismatches between traditional education and employer needs have contributed to persistent software developer short...

Welcome to the future of wealth management, where transformative technologies are redefining the landscape. Our latest white paper details the powerful role of generative AI in reshaping how wealth management firms operate, offering you a comprehensive guide to navigate this groundbreaking shift....

In the dynamic realm of supply chain and inventory management, where decisions shape the balance between profit and loss, inventory distribution stands out as a key driver of revenue growth. This white paper explores the strategic significance of optimizing inventory allocation, emphasizing its tra...

Are you currently navigating the landscape of application hosting and management with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as VMware Tanzu Application Service? Perhaps you're contemplating a pivotal (pun intended) decision: the transition to cloud hyperscaler Kubernetes engines like Amazon Elas...
Silicon Valley has long been the epicenter of the global tech industry. Developers worldwide dream of the chance to work in top companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, while others latch on to cutting-edge startups. Given its thriving culture of creativity and innovation, it’...

Did you know that the journey for a groundbreaking drug from concept to market spans a staggering 12 to 18 years, with a jaw-dropping price tag of $2.6 billion? What’s more, only a tiny 10% of candidates even make it to clinical trials. But here's the good news–Generative AI is stepping in to res...

In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, the pharmaceutical sector faces unique challenges in fully embracing this technological revolution. Often, the industry experiences a multitude of isolated AI pilot projects that struggle to transition into full-scale product...
Co-created by Grid Dynamics Director of Data Engineering, Dmitry Mezhensky, and Yieldmo Head of Analytics and Data Science, Sergei Izrailev Yieldmo, a Grid Dynamics client, is an advertising platform that helps brands improve digital ad experiences through creative tech and artificial intellig...
AI-powered e-commerce is taking center stage as more and more retail brands utilize next-gen solutions to delight customers and gain competitive advantages. Pairing human creativity with modern tech capabilities not only optimizes operational efficiency but also crafts a dynamic, anticipa...
In the rapidly-evolving digital landscape, the performance of an application can dramatically influence a company's success. Users expect fast, efficient, and smooth experiences, and failing to meet these expectations can result in losing customers to competitors. ❔But what does it really...

In today's competitive business environment, automation of business processes, especially document processing workflows, has become critical for companies seeking to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors. Traditional methods often struggle to keep up with the volume and complexity of the ta...

In our fast-paced world of ever-evolving technologies, manufacturing leaders are redefining their strategies to focus on delivering optimum value to customers. In this white paper, we delve into the revolutionary power of generative AI and its profound impact on the manufacturing industry.Gone are...
In today's competitive labor market, finding and retaining top talent is a crucial challenge for companies looking to meet their strategic goals. To build their future workforce, more and more IT firms are thinking beyond traditional hiring approaches and exploring expanded talent sourcing ecosyste...

Supply chain resilience is key to forecasting and mitigating the disruption of critical operations. This white paper suggests a modular framework for: Viewing technology through the lens of achieving strategic goals, approaching it as a ‘house’ built around organizations’ distinct needs and obj...

In the pursuit of innovation, a notable 91% of enterprises have prioritized modernizing their legacy applications, as reported by VMware. This push for modernization has yielded significant results, with a May 2022 Forrester report revealing that 77% of enterprises have witnessed substantial reve...

Building solutions using closed-source large language models (LLMs), including models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, or PaLM2 from Google, is a markedly different process to creating private machine learning (ML) models, so traditional MLOps playbooks and best practices might appear irrelevant when appl...

Customer retention is critical for retailers and CPG companies today because brand loyalty is a fickle thing in the digital age. However, to effectively prevent customer churn, a few fundamental questions need to be answered: Who will churn? You need to identify the specific user segment that y...

About the author, Gatis Vuguls, Principal Architect–Insurance: I have dedicated the majority of my professional career to working on complex insurance core system transformation projects, typically replacing outdated systems with modern solutions like Guidewire InsuranceSuite. Along the way, I have...

Envision yourself as a store owner looking to boost foot traffic. You hatch a plan: stand at the front and actively promote your items to those walking by. With enthusiasm, you wear a striking outfit and hold up a blank board, ready to publicize a special deal. However, when it’s time to pen the...

Generative AI, fueled by advanced unsupervised learning techniques, is revolutionizing businesses across various domains. As generative AI continues to evolve, it is vital to delve deeper into its core techniques and how they can be leveraged to address unique business challenges.In this whit...
In today's highly interconnected world, technical talent has become a global phenomenon. Software engineers across the world are actively driving innovation, building cutting-edge solutions and digital experiences that power our daily lives. Silicon Valley no longer holds a monopoly on bes...
Recent sustainability legislations and regulations make due diligence a business imperative for effective supply chain management. Increasingly, regulations and local government bodies are regulating how enterprises must approach, operate, and report on their supply chain operations, both directl...

Most industry leaders, specifically manufacturers and retailers recognize the immense strategic value of optimized marketing messages and streamlined customer service to thrive in a competitive market. Research shows that 81% of customers are more likely to make repeat purchases after a positive...
From new-born startups to established enterprises, businesses are constantly trying to catch up with the market pace. In order to do so, they need to receive results faster, reduce waste, increase development efficiency, and introduce changes while minimizing risks. This pursuit has led to a new so...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation. Grow with G...
As talent shortages strain resources in traditional tech strongholds like the US and Western Europe, many companies are looking to outsource at least part of their software development activities. Over the years, Eastern Europe has positioned itself as a leading global hub for software engineering...

The pharma and life sciences industry is experiencing a data revolution. As everything becomes more digital, the amount of biomedical data is exploding. This presents an opportunity to tap into valuable insights to advance R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and more. However, companies struggle to...

Can a mere joke trigger a catastrophic product supply shortage? Can mischievous squirrels wreak havoc on large-scale business operations? And what's the connection between beer, road closures, and transportation delays? These may seem like bizarre scenarios (see the postscript at the end of this...

What do we know about startups? They’re super exciting but risky. Statistically, approximately 90% of startups face an uphill battle each year, either struggling to secure their unique value proposition or grappling to find the right investors. The initial excitement quickly gives way to t...

The Grid Dynamics' UX/UI team undertook a comprehensive redesign of a client's web and mobile apps, recognizing the pivotal role of digital customer experience in boosting revenue and conversions for consumer-facing businesses. Following a design thinking approach, the team's tasks included definin...

While composable commerce unlocks a flexible and scalable technology ecosystem to build digital solutions that meet unique business needs, the biggest differentiator among different composable ecosystems is how various packaged business capabilities (PBCs) are seamlessly integrated to ensure harm...
For many years, e-commerce applications have been built from custom development services, leveraging great open-source frameworks and tools. However, making all these components work together as one ecosystem—from technical aspects to managing teams and aligning their milestones—is no easy feat.W...
Artificial intelligence is currently a hot trend. We’re witnessing a wide range of creative implementations of this technology, from using ChatGPT to write a script to applying generative AI to create new product designs. While these applications are fun, they show the groundbreaking potential of t...
Due to the post-pandemic acceleration of digital transformation, distributed work, and reduction of resources, today many companies put great emphasis on cost-efficiency and process optimization. They are embracing new operating models to adapt to the evolving business landscape and harness the ben...

Discover the transformative potential of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the software development industry. At Grid Dynamics, we've conducted an extensive study to quantitatively assess the performance enhancements provided by GenAI tools across various software development tasks and...
Create a remote development team of high-end engineers from scratch or find tech professionals to strengthen your in-house team with Grid Dynamics. In the long run, partnering with Grid Dynamics is much easier, safer, and less expensive than hiring locally.Here is the list of available talent for...

The diversity of modern data technologies leads to new challenges in establishing a consistent and accurate data view for data consumers. In light of this issue, a semantic data layer introduces a means of harmonizing a single point of view for business metrics, no matter how many different data...

Given that resilience denotes the capacity to effectively rebound from disruptions, obtaining insight into all the interconnections and processes of the supply chain becomes paramount. In earlier discussions, we have delved into the fundamental data foundations that lay the groundwork for establi...

In the dynamic world of digital commerce, the landscape has transformed dramatically over the past two decades. From monolithic systems that offered comprehensive solutions but lacked adaptability, to the rise of microservices and headless architectures, businesses have sought more flexible and cus...

Discover the future of private cloud and its potential to revolutionize infrastructure for applications and data processing in this insightful expert discussion. The conversation centers around the challenges posed by public cloud services, including cost complexities and unpredictable expenses, an...
The GenAI Intelligent Document Processing is a next-generation solution for document analysis and processing workflow automation. Explore our demo video showcasing a streamlined RFP workflow where we explain how to upload RFP files and supplementary documents in various formats; preview and pose qu...
The GenAI Catalog Optimization enables enhanced and optimized product onboarding and related go-to-market activations. This enterprise-scale solution generates creative and compelling product titles and descriptions aligned to your unique brand voice, and it can translate the copy into multiple lan...

Composable commerce has emerged as a transformative approach to e-commerce that offers unprecedented flexibility and scalability to businesses. Where traditional monolithic suites burden organizations with unused features and an inflexible software ecosystem, composable commerce unlocks a ‘best-f...
In today's interconnected world, where technology continues to shape every facet of our lives, software developers become a cornerstone of innovation and progress. As businesses, governments, and individuals increasingly rely on software solutions to streamline operations, enhance user experiences,...

Recent years have brought new challenges that require manufacturers to rethink their priorities, with supply chain sustainability unquestionably topping the list. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks not only entice companies with the promise of sustainable value, but also deman...
The demand for online marketing solutions and omnichannel experiences has led to an explosion of digital information. As a result, the necessity for content management tools has significantly surged. At the same time, the online landscape for content management is fiercely competitive, making it...
The extended software development team solution has been gaining widespread popularity in the US and Western Europe, revolutionizing the way businesses approach project development. By seamlessly integrating in-house software developers with tech experts from abroad, this model offers a dynamic and...

Our offerings combine strong domain expertise, world-class engineering capabilities...

In the past decade, the automotive industry has witnessed a revolution, prioritizing an enjoyable and seamless user experience. Whether it's EVs, internal combustion engines, or hybrids, performance and quality have become key value propositions of this automotive evolution. With embedded systems...

Supply chain cyber security risks have become more complex than ever, with attack surfaces increasing due to the involvement of more suppliers and vendors in sensitive data operations. Consequently, supply chain cybersecurity must adapt to and protect against new infiltration mechanisms, resource...
MLOps and DataOps principles, such as infrastructure-as-a-code management, continuous integration and continuous delivery, proper monitoring, and a standard approach to working with data assets, are essential components of a modern data estate. In this case study, we show how we helped a global...
As 2025 rapidly advances towards 2026, the web development landscape has grown in leaps and bounds. To keep up with these modern websites and applications, web development frameworks are crucial in streamlining and simplifying the process of building robust, feature-rich websites and web applicatio...
Achieving supply chain resilience, especially since disruptions have become an inevitable part of business operations, is an overarching priority for any manufacturing organization today. Reaching this goal, however, is not straightforward, and is full of risks. To prevent these risks, manufacturer...

The P&C insurance industry in the US operates within a complex regulatory landscape, where states hold the reins of regulation under the McCarran-Ferguson Act. The act establishes a framework where state governments have the primary authority to regulate the insurance industry, promoting a de...
The terms software developer and software engineer are often used interchangeably, leading to confusion about their roles and responsibilities. However, understanding the distinctions between these two titles is crucial for those looking to hire the right talent. In thi...

It should come as no surprise that Generative AI is the #1 tech trend in 2023, but it certainly isn't the only one. Building a foundational composable commerce ecosystem of best-in-class tools to support and personalize customer buying journeys should remain top-of-mind for retailers and brands who...

2023 continues to be a challenging year for manufacturers, with ongoing supply chain disruptions, economic and geopolitical shifts, as well as talent shortages adding to the anticipated hurdles. This white paper dives into the why and how of strategic cost optimization for the manufacturing Informa...
As we venture further into the digital age, the demand for skilled IT professionals continues to grow, presenting significant challenges for businesses worldwide. This prompts organizations to seek innovative solutions to meet the escalating talent shortages. Over the years IT outsourcing has em...
Every developer strives to improve the speed and quality of coding, as well as formalizing processes and standards. Automation can help streamline these processes significantly, especially when it comes to reviewing pull requests—one of the most tiresome tasks in software development. When crea...

The quality of various strategic and tactical decisions, such as capacity planning, supplier selection, and inventory ordering, directly influences the efficiency and resilience of a supply chain. Limited visibility into various stages of the supply chain, insufficient data availability, and lack...
Staff augmentation is quickly becoming a buzzword in the IT job market, prompting global businesses to hire remotely. This collaboration model yields numerous benefits, including access to a broader talent pool, flexibility in scaling resources, and cost-effective solutions. In this article, we...

Automated visual quality control (VQC) is a critically important capability for many manufacturers because it helps to dramatically reduce quality control costs, waste, return rates, and reputation damage. Modern computer vision technologies make it relatively easy to develop custom VQC solutions...
Dedicated development teams are growing in popularity and are widely adopted as companies look for productive, cost-effective ways to build business-critical digital tools. This model offers companies of all sizes numerous benefits. While it is challenging for most organizations to keep up with eme...

In today's data-driven world, efficiently managing data is critical to business growth and competitive advantage. However, many organizations struggle to extract maximum value from their data due to outdated data architectures that limit their ability to store, process, and analyze large volumes of...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation. Grow with G...
According to the 2022 Disability Statistics: Information, Charts, Graphs and Tables report, around 10% of the world population lives with a disability. People with hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive ability impairments require web applications without any barriers for communication or inte...

Of the three main cloud providers–Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure (Azure)–GCP can definitely be considered a pioneer in terms of solutions evolution. Many of the IT products we consider to be “industry standard” today, were created or based on Googl...
Cross-platform technologies have revolutionized the way developers create mobile and web applications. These frameworks allow developers to use a single codebase to build applications that run across different devices and platforms instead of writing separate code for each platform. Moreover, eac...
2023 is a year of uncertainty and confusion, and the IT industry is no exception. From record-setting layoffs to skills shortages, technology professionals, recruiters, and organizations face conflicting data around the talent market. However, this year also presents businesses with incredible oppo...
Increasing customer expectations, disruption of operations, and intense competition have placed the entire manufacturing industry under pressure. Pharma manufacturing, in particular, faces extremely complex supply chain management processes that require commercial pharma companies to monitor and un...
Offshore development is a well-established practice in the modern IT industry. It enables companies of any size, be it budding startups or established enterprises, to attract top talent from all over the world, gaining equal footing with tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Hi...

The world of AI is constantly evolving, and recent advances in text-to-image models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have been truly groundbreaking. These models are already transforming how artists and designers work, enabling them to experiment with their ideas and create stun...

Traditional product design can be a complex and challenging process, requiring multiple stages of ideation, modification, restyling, 3D modeling, prototyping, and testing. One of the main challenges is finding the balance between creative freedom and practical constraints, such as cost, manufactura...

When our team embarked on the project to redesign the interface of a critical reporting tool for one of the world’s largest athletic apparel companies, we knew we had a big challenge ahead of us. Not only did we need to extend the interface toolkit, but we also had to ensure that the new design wou...
The nearshore software development model is becoming more popular among customers who want to receive high-quality results from software engineers based in countries located within a small-time difference. Google, Tesla, Porsche, Johnson & Johnson, EY, IBM, and many other w...
The global IT talent shortage has almost doubled compared to what it was a decade ago. 54% of companies worldwide report significant challenges in finding the right talent, and the Nordics are no exception. The Scandinavian countries are known for their highly developed and advan...

Industrial IoT (IIoT) has become mainstream in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy, smart cities, and agriculture. IoT solutions enable intelligent decision-making for use cases such as predictive maintenance, visual quality control, and anomaly det...

It's time to strategically amplify your impact in the ever-evolving landscape of generative AI...

With the recent advancements in generative AI, and the ongoing explosion of multimodal biomedical data from large biobanks, electronic health records, medical imaging, and biosensors, it is now possible to capture the complexity of human health and disease more accurately. In this whitepaper, w...
When it comes to outsourcing, India is one of the first places people think about. The country has made a name for itself on the global IT scene as the biggest hub for innovation, technology, and expertise. However, just as outsourcing to India became an industry-wide practice, a few stereotypes an...

Cybersecurity is now a board-level discussion and the topics covered in this video can inform how to fortify your business from attacks. Learn about the shortcomings of MFA and how identity, leveraging biometrics and artificial intelligence, is the new perimeter.
Razer set out to transform their business to enable faster change on the front-end and to build a foundational eCommerce platform that can continue to evolve and grow as their business evolves over the coming years. Razer is a market leader in gaming products with an aspiration to be the global gam...
Denise Fender & Kevin O'Brien from FitFlop talk about their digital transformation journey and the success of their eCommerce replatform with SAP.

The founder and CEO of investment firm Lane Generational, likes our stock ($GDYN)! Check out this ‘Power Lunch’ CNBC interview where he talks about who we are, some of our top tier customers like Raymond James and, ultimately, why he likes Grid Dynamics...
The MACH Alliance was formed in June 2020 to help enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape. It aims to guide and show the business advantage of open tech ecosystems that are Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless. To accomplish its mission, the MA...
Developing and releasing new software into production quickly is key to maintaining a competitive advantage in the evolving digital landscape. This has led many companies to adopt DevOps practices to improve their speed and quality. DevOps, which stands for development and operations, is a...
Traditional monolithic e-commerce platforms lack the flexibility or scalability required to meet the evolving needs of modern consumers. Digital commerce modernization can help with these issues by identifying and prioritizing business functionality for migration to microservices.

Composable commerce is a game-changing concept that elevates online shopping to new heights. It represents a shift away from a platform-centric perspective to a customer-centric approach, emphasizing the importance of delivering a superior experience to the end user. There are a number of e...
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a rapid acceleration of digital transformation across many industries. While this concept is primarily associated with the adoption of new technologies to fuel business growth there is more to it. Digital-first approach necessitates a fundamental shift in an enterpris...

As businesses grow and expand in the increasingly digital on-demand economy, managing inventory has become a far more convoluted process. For example, many retail and manufacturing companies have to deal with complex environments with multiple sourcing locations, including regio...

Discover how we improved a Fortune 500 Pharma company's email click rate by 50% with a custom Next Best Action recommendations engine. Along the way, you'll learn how the final repeatable, scalable NBA solution uses BigData and ML best practices to: Empower sales reps with customer, content, an...

Adoption of machine learning (ML) methods across all industries has drastically increased over the last few years. Starting from a handful of ML models, companies now find themselves supporting hundreds of models in production. Operating these models requires the development of comprehensive capa...

The commercial vehicle manufacturing industry has been held back by the limitations of enormous on-premises systems for far too long. And now, since the outset of the global pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, the sense of urgency to maintain availability, adapt to the changing supply chain landsca...

Automotive manufacturers are embracing AI technology to gain a competitive advantage in the market. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of large enterprises will have adopted some form of robotics in their warehouse operations. Additionally, 25% of manufacturers will have transitioned by then to a...

Generative AI has gained immense interest thanks to the unprecedented success of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that most of the world has come to love, built by OpenAI. In fact, ChatGPT has become the world's fastest-growing consumer application in history, gaining 100 million users in just 2 months afte...

Cloud technologies are increasingly becoming the way to set IT infrastructure across various sectors. Today, many businesses opt for a cloud-first strategy for deploying their software, applications, and databases, rather than relying on traditional on-premises systems. In fact, over the past se...

Inventory optimization encompasses the process of determining the optimal level of inventory to hold that balances the cost of holding the inventory with the cost of inventory stockouts. Holding too much inventory can lead to increased storage costs, spoilage, and poor turnover metrics. On the...

It goes without saying that the driving business goal of any Commercial Pharmaceutical company is to increase drug prescriptions by influencing and educating doctors about the drugs and medication they sell. This marketing process entails Commercial Pharma sales representatives reaching out to doct...

The telecom industry has faced numerous challenges in recent years, including waning revenues and return on invested capital (ROIC), as well as difficulty keeping up with post-pandemic customer demands. It would be expected that, by now, telecom operators would have adopted AI-powered solutions to...
In today's globalized world, product outsourcing has become a game changer for businesses looking to cut costs, access specialized expertise, and streamline their operations. However, with so many options available, deciding which outsourcing strategy is the right fit for your business is overwhelm...
With the current uncertain economic environment, many leaders are searching for ways to cut costs and redistribute their savings to growth areas. It puts them in a challenging position of simultaneously trying to cut back on spending while positioning their businesses for future growth. For ma...
In today’s consumer-driven digital economy, personalized customer experiences in the Telecom sector are no longer a “nice-to-have”. They have become a fundamental component of digital commerce strategies across industries. Why? Because the number of channels consumers use to interact with brands th...

Recent years are marked by dramatic changes in the Telecommunications business environment, driven by the pandemic, economic turbulence, and political instability. As Forrester put it, “Constant consumer change is a defining element of the “new normal.” Consumers changed their shopping habits, thei...
Welcome to another quarterly edition of the Grid Dynamics newsletter. Follow the latest technology trends, learn from tech experts about cutting-edge industry innovations, discover implementation best practices, and achieve sustainable, scalable technology transformation.Grow with Gri...

The financial services industry is one of the fundamental pillars of the global economy. Given the broad spectrum of functions this sector performs, financial institutions have to stay on the edge of modern tech innovations, provide personalized experiences to their customers, and enhance their ope...

The financial services industry plays an essential role in our daily lives, whether it's helping us manage our finances, purchase a home, or plan for retirement. By offering a wide range of financial products and services, such as loans, credit cards, insurance, investment management, and payment p...

In today’s consumer-driven digital economy, personalized customer experiences in the B2B commerce sector are no longer a “nice-to-have”. They have become a fundamental component of digital commerce strategies across industries. Why? Because the number of channels consumers use to interact with bran...

If the chaos and uncertainty of the past few years has taught supply chain leaders in the grocery retail chain sector anything, it’s that leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics in the cloud can help them to maintain a competitive advantage in the global m...
The role of technology in driving business growth and innovation has never been more important. One of the top technology trends for forward-thinking companies in 2023 will be emphasizing investments in engineering talent and culture. Attracting and retaining top engineering talent has always bee...
Over the past few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) made a huge leap from a fancy buzzword out of the science fiction realm to a powerful technology that is virtually reshaping our reality. What was once perceived as a figment of our futuristic imaginations is now a fundamental part of our ever...
Hyper-personalization has emerged as a key driver of customer engagement in the digital age, and in 2023, hyper-personalization technologies and strategies are expected to surge. By leveraging the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning, companies can now create highly c...
In game development, the costs associated with creating art assets are often estimated to be about 30-40% of the total game budget. This makes game asset creation one of the most important applications for generative AI tools and services. In this blog post, we explore the capabilities of Midjourne...

Building e-commerce analytics and product recommendations capabilities should start with data. And while data is abundant in the world of retail, it often comes from dispersed sources owned by either independent teams or external vendors. That was exactly the issue that one of our large retail c...
We built an Augmented-Reality-powered space and product measurement application for a leading specialty retailer in the storage and space organization market. By offering the AR functionality in the client's mobile app, consumers save significant time and effort by being able to measure, coordinate...

Without data observability in their production pipeline, this Fortune 500 manufacturer encountered multiple data issues that drastically impacted time-to-market, added significant development overhead, and complicated the product development roadmap. A data observability solution simplified, accele...

Modern cloud providers offer compelling opportunities to modernize IT infrastructure and gain operational efficiency through DevOps, containers, and cloud-native design practices. However, migration to the cloud can be quite challenging. Those who join the cloud movement soon realize that there...

The effectiveness and efficiency of quality control processes are among the top concerns for most manufacturing companies, and are also important considerations in logistics, agriculture, and other verticals. Over the last decade, visual quality control automation using computer vision has proved t...

With Industry 4.0 on our doorstep, the business landscape presents a completely new set of challenges and possibilities. To achieve the flexibility required to navigate this new environment, companies need to add extra storage, new applications, advanced networking technologies, better hardware, an...

There has been a noticeable surge in interest in augmented reality (AR) in recent years, as demonstrated by the release of new updates from major technology companies such as Apple and Google. With that in mind, the mobile development team at Grid Dynamics conducted some additional research into AR...

Order sourcing decisions can be defined as the logistics decisions related to how customer orders and internal inventory requisitions are fulfilled: what nodes (warehouses, distribution centers, stores, etc.) the inventory should be sourced from, what carriers should be used to ship it, what sh...
As 2023 technology strategy planning and implementation are well underway, industry leaders in the retail, manufacturing, insurance, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries are keeping a close eye on the latest trends in digital transformation and innovation. One of the crucial areas in which...

Over the past decade, the complexity of manufacturing processes and assembly lines have significantly increased. Whereas in the past, businesses relied on linear assembly lines, today’s assembly lines can produce customized products, as seen in the automotive industry. However, introducing customiz...

The global market for the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to reach $413.7 billion by 2031, according to a recent report published by Allied Market Research. The key industries driving this growth include manufacturing, supply chain and logistics, energy, and smart cities. The digital transform...

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network blog Conveyor belts are an essential material handling tool for various industrial processes, and one of the most effective ways to quickly and continuously transport large amounts of materials or products. However, high throughput rates make i...

A virtual world where we live, work, shop, and interact with others may have sounded like science fiction a few short years ago, but it’s fast becoming a tangible reality. This virtual world is called the Metaverse: a digital ecosystem made up of decentralized, user-generated platforms that provide...
Originally published on Forbes Digital transformation, as we know, represents an ecosystem of technologies that provides an enabling foundation to run any business. The confluence of technology and interaction happens in a crucible of an organizational culture powered by solid talent. While ev...
With tens or even hundreds of thousands of options at their fingertips, shoppers are switching brands at unprecedented rates. While traditional values like price (30%), quality (16%), and delivery costs (15%) are still significant decision-making factors, a report by McKinsey shows that availabil...

Originally published on the AWS Partner Network blog Industrial machine, equipment, and vehicle operators are often faced with the challenge of minimizing maintenance costs under strict constraints related to safety, equipment downtime, and other SLAs. Over-sufficient or preventive maintenan...
The Internet of Things (IoT), which was merely a concept a few years ago, has now become one of the major disruptors across industries. Its implications are profound and far-reaching: from optimization of operations and effective management of physical assets to improving the health and general w...

Optimizing internal warehouse delivery processes, especially enhancing the efficiency and speed of the order picking process, has a massively positive impact on business profitability, if done correctly. There are two components of the order picking process that need to be optimized in order to...
Welcome to the first edition of our quarterly newsletter. The Business Driver is curated to help you grow your business and inspire your teams with fresh ideas and valuable insights. Learn about the latest technology trends, cutting-edge industry innovations, implementation best practice...
Leading organizations in the coming year will be ‘Fast and Furious,’ as they focus on speed and scale with technology investments...

These days, there is an ever-more pressing need for app development to be fast, dynamic, and scalable. That’s why Grid Dynamics teamed up with Apollo, the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo’s supergraph adds a revolutionary layer to your organization’s technology st...
Exceptional customer experience is critical for retailers in the post-pandemic digital age, but monolithic e-commerce systems simply don’t have the advanced capabilities, scalability or flexibility needed to meet the rapidly changing demands of today’s digital consumers. With composable commerce an...
India, one of the most populated countries in the world, is also one of the most tech-savvy. Making a name for itself on the global stage, much like the US, the country has tech hubs comparable to Silicon Valley in the cities of Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, and Thiruvananthapuram's Technopark. Wi...
The tech talent shortage has been an issue for years, first accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic when an estimated 4.5 million American workers quit their jobs. The Harvey Nash Group Digital Leadership Report states that 4 out of 10 businesses can't keep their key employees as long as they used to...

In the past decade, an estimated 2.6 billion people’s lives have been upended by catastrophic events such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and pandemics. Such events wreak havoc not only on people’s everyday life, but also on business and trade, sending the global economy into a tailspin. So...

As we see with more significant frequency across many industries, companies that invest in emerging technologies can gain a competitive advantage. Just a few of the many benefits include optimizing productivity and operations, improving employee and customer satisfaction, reducing errors, and mitig...
Keeping up with consumer demand for personalized experiences across multiple channels is paramount to digital commerce brands. Conventional monolithic applications can no longer solve this challenge. Today it takes a modular architecture approach known as MACH to enable fast, easy change management...
While traditional values like price, quality, and delivery costs still matter in the digital commerce world, it’s the search experience that has now become the strongest driver of new purchases. With hundreds of thousands of options at their fingertips, shoppers expect to find what they are looking...
For retailers, it’s no secret that a critical component of a commercial website is a delightful and compelling user experience. If customers can’t find your website though, the value of that user experience goes out the window. Recognizing the combined value of user experience and SEO, this global...

A company’s ability to generate a steady flow of new customers, and retain existing customers at the same time, can decisively determine whether a business is successful or not. Customer retention is particularly important because the cost of user acquisition is much higher than the cost of user re...

The insurance industry is constantly changing due to emerging disruptions, shifting demographics, and new entrants, forcing traditional players to adapt. Each time there's a major leap in technology, customers expect the industry to respond with new products, new methods of distribution and new w...
Shimano, a $5B bicycle components, fishing tackle and rowing equipment company, engaged us to improve the overall performance of their EU B2B platform. We conducted an Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), and SAPShimano, a $5B bicycle components, fishing tackle, and rowing equipment company, sought to e...

Looking to take customer engagement to the next level, the client requested a mobile application that could run on the iOS platform, and be expanded on the Android version later, for a specific group of customers, providing a personalized and unique customer experience. To create the best possib...

A smart manufacturing approach that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and quality control automation results in a faster, more efficient and cost-effective production chain. But how does it work, how valuable is it, and what technology foundations need to be in place for best resu...

Modern manufacturing, transportation, and energy companies routinely operate thousands of machines and perform hundreds of quality checks at different stages of their production and distribution processes. Industrial sensors and IoT devices enable these companies to collect comprehensive real-t...
If you’re not thinking about the business impact of the metaverse yet, it’s high time to wake up and e-smell the digital coffee. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 25% of people will spend at least one hour per day working, shopping, studying, or using social media in the metaverse. Tech giants like Fa...
Companies across industries have embarked on digital transformation initiatives for several years. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t spur this movement, but it certainly accelerated the need for digital transformation across the enterprise.
Outsourcing is an integral part of the modern tech industry. Yet one question remains: How to choose the best location for outsourcing tech talent? We’ve selected 8 emerging outsourcing and IT services destinations that have the potential to compete with the traditional industry leaders, based o...

Manufacturers are embracing AI technology to gain a competitive advantage over the market. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of large enterprises will have adopted some form of robotics in their warehouse operations. Additionally, 25% of manufacturers will have transitioned by then to a micros...
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It comes as no surprise that modern businesses rely on software development as a primary source of agility and digital growth. Europe’s great need for software development services has been driven by a worldwide skills shortage and the business demand for digital transformation. Most business...
Originally published by Total Retail E-commerce has come a long way since companies like Amazon.com and eBay first launched their online businesses. While pre-pandemic online transactions only amounted to 13.8 percent of global retail sales, consumers quickly shifted to online shopping when the...
This case demonstrates how the shopping cart and checkout functionality of an on-premise, legacy, monolithic eCommerce platform was modernized to a cloud-based serverless solution. The customer, an American chain of luxury department stores, required modernized e-commerce capabilities in the...
As cloud adoption is becoming a rule rather than an exception, the question is no longer about whether to migrate to the cloud or not, but rather how to maximize the value of the cloud and cloud applications. Services are available from inception through development into production, engineering up...
Whether it’s pandemic, war, or climate change, there have been and will continue to be crises that impact the smooth running of supply chain and inventory management processes for businesses across industries. To mitigate risk, streamline processes, and prepare for the future, leading Grid Dynamics...
Consumers today increasingly value memorable experiences over products themselves. Leading organizations are turning to cloud-native platforms and advanced analytics to create unified customer 360 solutions, enabling seamless, personalized digital engagement across every channel and touchpoint. By...
Unplanned downtime, product defects and compliance issues are expensive. It costs industrial manufacturers billions annually, and for industries across the board, it is one of the largest causes of lost productivity and revenue. To overcome these challenges, leading manufacturers are using AI-power...
Stiff market competition and tough economic strains are putting pressure on businesses to find data-driven solutions for more informed decision-making. Optimize pricing decisions with mathematical precision, automate price management processes, reduce operational costs, measure the true impact of p...
With increasingly data-driven business ecosystems around the world, leading technology, retail, manufacturing, and finance companies turn to Grid Dynamics to build data and machine learning platforms with MLOps processes to translate data into business value, capture substantial value from improved...
In today’s digital age, visually appealing web applications are not enough to please customers. Providing compelling customer experiences through fast, easy-to-use web applications is a critical component of any competitive business strategy today. Deliver a downright delightful user experience, ra...
The IT outsourcing industry used to be one of the few non-natural resource sectors of the Russian economy that had an active presence in world markets. Russian IT companies developed a reputation for innovation and creative problem solving that helped them build a successful track record on the int...

We share our experience of migrating a monolith app to micro frontends using webpack module federation What does a web application usually look like? Most often it is a monolith with a single code base where the whole team merges the code, and a single pipeline where everything is deployed at...

A meal kit company that specializes in delivering healthy, organic, ready meal kits was about to start its journey to the cloud. The company was recently acquired by a leader in the food and beverage industry who intended to merge the business under one umbrella, with the same brand, customer man...

In today's digital experience economy, product recommendations are becoming one of the core experience personalization components of web applications, working to increase brand engagements and sales conversion rates. In this whitepaper we provide a step-by-step guide on implementing a recommende...
Mexico has recently become the top choice for organizations looking to hire their software development experts from the three most prominent tech hubs in Latin America — Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey. The number of ambitious tech graduates, developers’ impressive levels of expertise and c...

The manufacturing industry has been held back by the limitations of enormous on-premises systems for far too long. And now, since the outset of the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the sense of urgency to maintain availability, adapt to the changing supply chain landscape, and meet customer...

Knowde, a leading digital marketplace for ingredients, polymers and chemistry, was looking to provide more relevant, timely, and personalized search experiences for their customers. Following a MACH approach to composable commerce, we implemented a powerful new search system that supports: mul...
It is no surprise that the outbreak of COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of AR technology. The transformative challenges posed by the pandemic urged businesses to find new approaches to customer engagement, and advances in human-computer interaction and AR have high potential in that regard. Th...

When it comes to insurance, customers don’t want to feel like their claim is just another drop in the ocean. This presents insurance companies with a monumental task: how to offer a tailored, user-friendly experience that fits each customer’s needs? Especially given that insurance companies have...

Machine learning (ML) is changing the way businesses are conducted. These days, most sectors employ machine learning in their solutions, and the commercial pharmaceuticals sector is no exception. Leading commercial pharma companies are experimenting with ML models to commercialize their products wi...

This is the third article in our series introducing NBA to the commercial pharma industry. This article will explain how the customer engagement index (CEI) is calculated to enable NBA to recommend channels to sales reps based on historical health care provider (HCP) data and behavioral preferences...

There is no doubt that customer-centricity and personalization tools are driving digital transformation investments in commercial pharma. The big question, however, is how to operationalize data-driven insights that help pharma sales reps overcome the challenge of limited access to health care prov...
Originally published in Forbes Enterprise companies accumulated massive amounts of data over the years in pursuit of the promised rewards of big data. The question that now often comes from management is, “There must be some value, somewhere—can’t you find it?” The data democratization moveme...
Discover how we migrated an AngularJS application to Angular 4. We share our step-by-step experience of migrating a financial web application. In the life cycle of each long-lasting, enterprise-size web application there comes a time when it becomes too large to integrate innovations, add brand...

Unique shopping experience portal to optimize personal assistant interactions for select customers, designed and implemented as a greenfield AWS-native solution. Our client is an American chain of luxury department stores focusing on high-end curated products and excellent customer servi...
Romania is proving to be one of the top choices for globally-minded companies in search of software development service providers. The country boasts a reasonable price-to-quality ratio along with a growing talent pool of IT experts who possess both soft and technical skills, not to mention broad e...

Automated health monitoring, including anomaly/fault detection, is an absolutely necessary attribute of any modern industrial system. Problems of this sort are usually solved through algorithmic processing of data from a great number of physical sensors installed in various equipment. A broad range...

The past few years have put supply chain logistics to the ultimate test. Whether it’s pandemic, war, or climate change - there have been and will continue to be crises which impact not only manufacturing supply chains but also their consumers around the world. And while no industry can predict when...

Migrating to the cloud is one thing, but maximizing cloud value related to your unique business goals as an insurer is a whole different ballgame. In this whitepaper we provide guidance and best practices on how to build a robust technology foundation that is tailored to your needs and fit for futu...
In our new and increasingly all-digital reality we see immersive technologies like AI, ML, AR and VR trending, all with the goal of engaging modern consumers in commerce anywhere and everywhere with deeply personalized, convenient and relevant experiences. How are luxury retailers achieving thes...

As a business in the digital age, developing, deploying and managing applications in the fastest, most secure and cost-effective way possible is critical to achieving and maintaining a competitive edge. In pursuit of achieving these milestones, we have seen the application development process shift...
In the early hours of February 24, the democratic and sovereign country of Ukraine was shaken awake by missile strikes as Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of the country. Thousands of Ukrainians experienced unspeakable horror as Russian troops advanced through Ukrainian cities. Despite it all...
Let’s face it; the current state of today’s digital technology revolution would not exist without the cloud. With this undeniable truth, the pressure on business leaders to embrace and optimize strategies for the cloud is mounting inexorably. And we see this with the growing rate of cloud adoption...
The stakes have never been higher for the luxury retail industry to meet consumer demand for personalized digital experiences across multiple channels, including taking a deep dive into new fields of augmented reality and virtual reality. We have already seen a major shift to digital as a response...
Ecommerce software has come a long way and achieved remarkable progress, turning from relatively simple applications into complex platforms rich in features and functionality. Back in the days when Amazon and eBay started their first online businesses, monolith architecture was virtually the only o...

This article was originally posted on the Insurance Edge. The insurance industry is undergoing a digital transformation, with technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) providing companies with the ability to automate, personalize, and even accelerate customer gr...
Guide on web pages media (images, GIF, animations) optimization. Image optimization techniques & examples (compression, lazy loading). Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. To be effective, all images o...

Digitization is revolutionizing the way the insurance industry does business, with newfound ability to automate, personalize, and accelerate customer growth through artificial intelligence and machine learning. These changes benefit both insurance companies and customers in the long run: Insurers a...
Since there is a lot of hierarchically structured information in the real world (e.g system folder structure, animal/plant classification, company management, etc.), and the tree chart is a perfect data structure for the storage of hierarchy information, an effective method of tree visualization be...
Consumer demand for personalized digital shopping experiences has skyrocketed over the last few years, and constant change is to be expected. Add to this the fact that every retail environment is unique, with specific product catalogs and exclusive customer experience needs. One of the most crucial...

In modern life it is almost impossible to imagine a day without a mobile phone. We use them all the time, carry them around everywhere we go, and store very personal information on them, to the point where they become more than just a phone and more than just a gadget. With the technological adva...

Modern enterprises operate with tremendous amounts of data, and data management has become an integral part of business decision-making processes, KPI management and reporting. However, getting advanced insights from data and ML models is a sophisticated process that many companies still stru...

Data is the lifeblood of insurance. Having accurate information regarding customers' demographics, medical history, and socioeconomic status allows insurance companies to understand their clients well enough to offer protection tailored to their specific needs. However, times are changing. Insur...
Data quality control is a mission-critical capability for virtually any modern enterprise. Why? Because data quality issues can disrupt business processes and services, invalidate any type of analytics performed in the company, and damage a company's reputation. However, despite the importance of d...

With the recent invention of the transformer architecture, we have seen major breakthroughs in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) domain. It is no surprise that attempts to transfer these techniques to other domains is also currently trending. For example, since 2020, the self-attention (SA) mec...

User experience and customer interactions have become critical differentiators, driving a paradigm shift in the insurance industry. As business success is measured by the quality of customer experiences, insurers now have a chance to gain a competitive edge by delivering unparalleled service in thi...
Recent years are marked with dramatic change in the business environment driven by the pandemic, economic turbulence and political instability. As Forrester put it, “Constant consumer change is a defining element of the “new normal.” Consumers change their shopping habits, their brand loyalty is sh...

All the buzz in 2022 is about digital customer experience. Forget about digital transformation - we’ve been there, done that and got the t-shirt! Now is the time to focus on your customers’ needs, wants and wishes, and transform the ways in which you can deliver on them across all your channels....
Over the last few years, the demand for complex scalable architecture with independently deployable modules and loosely-coupled units has increased. Recently, one of our clients, who has an online chemical platform, requested a solution to develop a complex extendable architecture that allows cross...
In the process of hiring new people in any company, there are several interrelated actions that need to be taken by the recruiter, the candidate and the company's specialists who participate in the stage of assessing future employees’ level of knowledge. In a general sense, hiring can be divided...

Modern cloud providers offer compelling opportunities to modernize IT infrastructure and gain operational efficiency through cloud-native design practices, DevOps, containers and more. However, moving to the cloud isn't easy. Those who join the cloud movement soon learn that there are a lot of m...
A world-leading manufacturer of electronic components needed an application to track component lifecycles, demands, delivery timelines, and to calculate costs and risks through reports and data visualizations. Facing the dual challenge of rapid time-to-market and the need for scalable, cost-efficie...
As the complexity of modern software development and maintenance grows, so too does the cost - in terms of time and money. It comes as no surprise then that the evolution of technologies continues to make progress in hiding complexity under abstractions for ease of operations. This has always been...
Deep learning is perhaps one of the most efficient AI tools for businesses looking to succeed in highly-digitized and fast-paced markets. Computers can use algorithmic models to analyze large amounts of unstructured and structured data better and faster than the average human, leading to greater...

On their quest to future-proof their smart manufacturing operations and create a more connected, predictable environment, Jabil Inc, a leading global manufacturing solutions provider, required a cloud-native data platform to meet these goals. Grid Dynamics, partnering with AWS, took the task hea...

We live in a multicultural society with more than 7 000 languages spoken across the world today. To better serve the needs and preferences of global consumers, retailers need to understand the unique nuances and characteristics of the diverse languages their customers speak. It is no longer enoug...

In the modern world, advanced recognition technologies play an increasingly important role in various areas of human life. Recognizing the characteristics of vehicle tires is one such area where deep learning is making a valuable difference. How? Read on to find out. Solving the problem of r...

In today’s highly digitized world, business models need to change to keep up with consumer demands. With the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are having to reimagine their business models entirely, and they’ve had to do it at a massively accelerated pace. The manufacturing industry is n...
Poland has long been recognized as a reliable country for tech talent outsourcing. It is one of the biggest IT hubs in Eastern Europe. According to Glassdoor, the estimated total pay for a Software Developer is \$114,943 per year in Poland. Junior developers with less than one year of experie...
When it comes to human capital, many organizations face a lingering dilemma concerning workforce management. There are two extremes: overstaffing and understaffing. Overstaffing leads to underuse of existing employees and causes labor costs to increase. Understaffing, on the other hand, cripple...
Customers nowadays are seeking a holistic experience across channels when it comes to retail. Despite the increased popularity of online shopping, many still prefer an in-store experience. For example, one study shows that 70% of UK consumers over the age of 45 still prefer human interaction over s...
Customer loyalty has always been a top priority for retailers. And the digital transformation trend hasn’t changed that fact. Instead, what digital transformation has done is expand the playing field. It has enabled a vastly increased number of customer touchpoints, the creation of a 360 view of ea...

Customer-centricity is all about having a holistic view of your operations and customer interactions in order to better meet the needs of your consumers and maximize the value delivered to them. Historically, for many manufacturers, the shift to a more customer-centric model focused on the transf...

Three post-pandemic technology trends have emerged as particularly critical for smart manufacturers to address in 2022 and beyond: Implementing a refreshed, customer-centric digital go-to-market strategy to more effectively target B2B and D2C customer segments. Improving supply chain agil...
In an era where customer experience and product discovery innovations are a top priority for businesses, we are witnessing a shift from traditional recommendation systems towards session-based recommendation systems in the digital commerce sector. Why? Because they produce personalized recommendati...
There are many architecture approaches used in the Android development field nowadays. You have probably already chosen your preferred methods and strive to use a unified approach when writing your applications. However, in some cases many approaches have to co-exist in the same project, often in...
In the current on-demand marketplace, customers dictate the rules of engagement. And with the rapid rate of cool new features becoming available, businesses need to be ever-present and just as rapid in development and delivery. Our client, one of the largest department store chains in the US, en...

In an era where customer experience and product discovery innovations are a top priority for businesses, we are witnessing a shift from traditional recommendation systems towards session-based recommendation systems in the digital commerce sector. Read this case study to see how we designed and...
We are pleased to announce that Daxх and Grid Dynamics have completed merging our business activities, and starting in February, 2022 Daxх will begin operating as Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. Daxх was founded in Amsterdam in 1999. Over the past 22 years, we helped mo...
In this white paper, we’ll outline the evolution of omnichannel digital commerce and the 2022 trends shaping its future. You too can curate exceptional customer experiences using cutting-edge digital commerce technology - from composable commerce platforms and AI-powered product discovery to AR, VR...

Visual search is changing the product discovery game for retailers in the accelerated digital playing field. Replacements.com, the world’s largest retailer of tableware, drinkware, silver-flatware and estate jewelry entered the game with a bang! With a catalog of over 11 million products, many with...
Remote development centers are opening their doors all across Europe and Asia. Many IT companies consider this model as a way of setting up their business for success. Even tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Apple choose to use the R&D framework for software development and oth...
Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, the online shopping craze is not slowing down. Thanks to ongoing pandemic precautions, a rapidly increasing number of people are turning to digital commerce platforms to shop for everything from daily groceries to clothes, shoes, gadgets, gif...

In today’s data-driven digital economy, businesses collect an abundance of data to inform and optimize their processes and strategies. An emerging trend in data collection is to analyze road traffic data, including vehicle detection and tracking, mobility patterns, traffic volume, road network perf...
The global fintech sector is highly competitive and billions of dollars are being put into startups and major corporations alike. By the end of this year, funding is expected to surpass $120 billion worldwide. From banking apps to cryptocurrency,...

Modern technical systems cannot operate optimally without special tools for health monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance. This is the case even for relatively simple systems, such as a service elevator. As for more complex industrial systems - like a power plant or an assembly lin...

The world of technology-driven businesses is so fast-paced and dynamic that sometimes you just can’t achieve workable and scalable growth with an in-house team. This often means that the only sustainable way to get the job done is to attract resources from the outside. In this article, we’ll discus...
With a talent pool of 250K highly-skilled software engineers, Ukraine is considered one of the leading IT hubs in Eastern Europe. Ukraine’s education system focuses intensely on STEM disciplines, and many engineers enter traineeships near the end of their studies, making them seasoned professionals...
A significant talent shortage and the Covid-19 pandemic have changed the tech world, leading some established recruitment practices to quickly become outdated. According to Finances Online, 65,7% of all organizations are now focused on building talent pools of the future, while 42% are invest...

The manufacturing industry is under immense pressure to adopt cutting-edge technology solutions in order to remain competitive in an increasingly digital and on-demand economy. You have to be faster, smarter and more agile to meet customer and industry demands, and process efficiency is fundamental...
Because of the significant talent shortage in the US and Western Europe, many companies are considering Eastern Europe as their primary destination for IT outsourcing. Many world famous organizations like Google and Apple have already opened software development offices in the region. Acco...
Like many other countries these days, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are faced with a tech talent gap. The global talent gap amounted to 40 million job positions in 2021, and is expected to reach 85.2 million by 2030. Data analytics, IT, mobi...
Covid-19 changed the way businesses function, forcing companies to quickly reshape their work landscape. The only way for them to thrive in the wake of the pandemic was to learn how to build and maintain their talent pipeline in a virtual environment. We decided to explore what the ‘new no...
Let’s just imagine what it’s like for a major e-commerce website in the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday shopping rush: they’ve horizontally scaled their server, prepared a proper marketing campaign, and calculated their revenue projection. It takes a lot of planning to pull everything off...
The global tech market is continuing to grow at an impressive rate. Gartner predicts that IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.5% from 2021. Part of the reason for that is the coronavirus pandemic, which forced a lot of com...
The Judge School of Business at the University of Cambridge estimated software errors cost the global economy almost $300 billion annually (source). That is why more and more businesses hire QA testing teams to save money, improve quality and reduce software errors. Considering tech talent shortage...
Studytube is an enterprise-level education and EdTech services company, headquartered in Amsterdam. It offers a B2B solution for managing, sharing and disseminating knowledge within organizations. The company operates as an e-learning platform, developing customized educational content to...
As the world undergoes the digital transformations, accelerated by the global pandemics, omnichannel shopping experience becomes a new norm. Ship from Store turns out to be an important step on the path of establishing effective and convenient retail practice. But the transformation bri...
In the midst of the pandemic, companies are concerned not only with financial losses but what economists are calling the Great Resignation. The American workforce is leaving in droves, and companies are struggling to adapt. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that a&...
Software team development structure is an important factor in your project’s long term success. What makes a good developer team? Well, it requires more than just finding experienced developers. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to the ideal software development...
As of now, the latest healthcare tech trends are online medicine, telehealth services, virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. According to the 2021 Future of Healthcare Report, nearly 80% of Healthcare systems are planning to increase their investment in these digital healthcar...
64% of companies outsource their software development. Setting up your own offshore development center is a strategic decision that ensures stability and protects security-sensitive software. However, to run your offshore ODC lean and fast, you will spend a fortune, get to grips with the local legi...
World-famous companies hire Java developers for building outstanding apps and websites. Here are some more interesting facts about Java: 90% of all Fortune 500 companies use Java 4,673,459 websites* are currently developed on Java EE 35.6%** of developers in...
The software development industry in Ukraine has reached the mark of over 200,000 tech specialists, with about 85% of them working in software development companies. The IT industry in Poland counts 295,300 software developers, 20% of whom are employed by companies that offer software development s...
Over the past two decades, Eastern Europe has become one of the top supply regions for software development services. Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Belarus account for a combined 5% share of the global IT outsourcing market. The region has achieved worldwide recognition as the home of highly ski...
In a previous article, we reviewed the main attributes of loyalty programs including customer profiles, points systems, and rewards types. We looked at what types of business inputs are required to design a loyalty program and which business rules and strategies need to be clearly defined. In this...

Do you feel well-equipped when it comes to data-driven personalization? A recent McKinsey survey of data leaders found that only 15% believe their company is on the right track with personalization. Read this whitepaper to explore the new generation of Customer Analytics and Personalization sol...

With a new AWS-based solution, Grid Dynamics significantly improved the performance of this top tier agency's advertising efforts which allowed them to enhance their business. Publishers were able to manage the cost of their ads space by defining a more specific audience which would later be sold b...

ITOps is at the heart of today’s enterprise technology innovation teams. Often, they’re tasked with overseeing complex and diverse IT environments and face unprecedented challenges due to the volume and variety of data they encounter. In this white paper, we explore how an effective AIOps...

Semantic query parsing, described in “Semantic query parsing blueprint”, is a powerful technique to improve relevance of the search results. It has proven especially successful when a search solution deals with semi-structured data, such as ecommerce product catalog, customer profiles or real estat...
If there’s anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, it’s that businesses must constantly reinvent themselves in order to survive. Deloitte’s 2021 Global Shared Services and Outsourcing Survey listed standardization and process efficiency (88%), reducing costs (84%) and driving a di...

To improve the gaming experience for players, a leading video game publisher sought to personalize in-game interactions, streamline model development, and increase long-term engagement and lifetime value (LTV) of users. Grid Dynamics addressed these challenges by implementing a reinforcement learni...

To optimize promotions across various channels and countries, a video game publisher encountered challenges in accurately forecasting demand 24 months ahead and effectively managing new game releases. Grid Dynamics addressed these issues by developing robust demand forecasting models and what-if an...
In this article, we provide a list of foreign countries that have already set up their R&D offices in Ukraine, overview some problems related to setting up a remote development center, and explain how to establish remote offshore development centers with the help of a trusted partner. ...

Providing each customer with personalized treatment that helps improve long-term engagement is one of the most fundamental problems in marketing communications. This task is particularly important for businesses that rely heavily on long-term customer relationships, including telecom, video games,...

C++ and the automotive industry have become deeply intertwined over the last four decades. In the early 80s, engineers used C (the predecessor of C++) to make electronically controlled ignition and fuel injection systems, and today electronics comprise 35% of the car’s price. Over the last decad...
Having complete control over data quality can seem daunting and prohibitively expensive. But is that really true? Is it as difficult as it seems? There are many tools out there in the marketplace to help with data quality, but it’s true that many of them are pricey, have a steep learning curve,...

A global industrial technology leader in transportation and mobility faced multimillion-dollar annual losses from fuel distribution challenges, including leaks, theft, and meter inaccuracies. By deploying a cloud-native AWS analytics platform in just seven days, the company implemented AI-powered a...

Modern business intelligence (BI) tools provide users with a wide range of data consolidation, preparation, querying, and reporting capabilities that empower them to make better business decisions. However, the adoption process is non trivial even for the leading BI solutions. In this article...
IT outsourcing to Ukraine is getting more popular: Ukraine is becoming a leading IT outsourcing destination in Europe due to its booming tech ecosystem, which is predicted to reach US $8.4 billion of industry export volume in 2025, a large talent pool of more than 285,000 IT professionals, and stro...

Meet Lucy, a nice young lady and enthusiastic fashion shopper. Spring is in the air and Lucy just passed by somebody wearing this truly amazing dress. She positively needs to get something like this, right now. Easy! Lucy opens her favorite clothing store’s website, taps the search bar and type...
There are thousands of nearshore companies today, and businesses are fishing around for the optimal partner to meet their needs. Nearshore software development companies are a perfect medium between costly local providers and risky offshore ones. No wonder such global giants as Google, Tes...
In a previous article, we reviewed the way that loyalty programs can help businesses improve sales, increase profits, establish long-term relationships with customers, and encourage them to become advocates for your brand. To achieve these goals, modern loyalty programs are increasing in complexity...
Tech talent is a crucial component of any business operating in the modern world. No matter the industry, some kind of technology is involved in various operational processes of every company — and for good reasons. The competition among companies is tough today. If a business plans to get...
The banking industry is in the middle of a significant transformation. Fintech startups and other non-traditional companies are gaining market share at the cost of traditional banks, and customer attrition is at an all time high. Source: CB INSIGHTS According to Boston Consulting Group, cor...
You can hire a software tester with Grid Dynamics, Freelancer, Toptal, and about a hundred other services. But which one will match your needs? To help you make a data-based decision, we made this analysis of the best freelance websites for software testing. Inside this article, we’ll talk ab...

Ever tried to stretch your imagination and picture how your bedroom would look like with that new lovely wallpaper? What about new tiles for a bathroom? Sounds like a tedious task, especially as you go through dozens of design options, combine and compare them. Well, no more! Modern augmented reali...
The modern world is rapidly changing every day, bringing new levels of complexity and new challenges. This means both customers and retailers are continually making adjustments to their behaviors to meet changing desires, expectations, and environments. At the same time, the market has never b...
The modern manufacturing industry is almost miraculous in how it manages so many moving components at a predictable and reliable cadence. However, despite this obsession with perfection, anomalies have a way of creeping in. Technical failures, human error, and other discrepancies can lead to sig...
TV broadcasters have long held an indisputable title as the main players in the home entertainment industry. But, with the advancement of broadband technologies, this industry has been rapidly taken over by the online streaming platforms, which now became the most prominent...
Today, many areas of our life are transitioning to online solutions. But despite this trend, there are still plenty of times when we need to move around in the physical space in order to take particular actions or achieve certain goals. In most cases, having an address, a unique name, or a set of c...
In this manual, we share our experience of using D3.js in React to build custom, scalable, and engaging charts via creating reusable components. We recommend this article for: React developers ready to start with D3.js Web developers engaged in implementing data-driven UI Anyone inte...
Hard to find local startup programmers? It’s not just you. The majority of startups that are looking for developers turn to remote hiring through online job boards, matching services, and tech vendors. We analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of Grid Dynamics, Upwork, Remote.io, Toptal, LinkedI...
Outsourcing software development to Eastern Europe is a workable solution for 40% of leaders who continue to experience talent scarcity in IT. According to Clutch there are over 2500 IT outsourcing companies in Eastern Europe with a tech talent pool of 1.3M developers. And this is no surprise that...

Customer retention is the primary pillar for building virtually any subscription-based business, including software, video game, media, and telecom businesses. Nowadays, it is common to use advanced machine learning techniques to predict customer churn probability as accurately as possible. However...

Personalization and recommendation models are widely adopted by technology and entertainment companies as highly efficient tools for digital experience improvement and conversion optimization. The traditional model development and productization process, however, requires significant engineering...
There are a number of technical, educational, and organizational issues that commonly lead to failure in test automation. This is confirmed by two recent surveys from 2017 and 2018, which found that only 19 percent of teams are able to implement test automation correctly on the first attempt. Th...
Don’t count your developers before they’re hatched. How to be sure that you’ll build a successful remote software development team? First, set your baseline by having a clear understanding of the product you want to produce. Second, hire the right people for your future software development team. R...
In this article, we’ll be discussing Next.js image component usage and the performance and accessibility benefits it offers. So if you’re interested in improving the performance of websites and want to learn a bit more about how this component works under the hood, then you’re definitely in the rig...

It takes on average 10 years and $2 billion to develop a single FDA approved drug. This drug development pipeline is long and rigorous for a good reason, but it is also too slow to react to sudden global threats such as the Covid-19 outbreak. An alternative to discovering a new drug from s...
In order to remain competitive in 2021, the US entrepreneurs have to enhance their product value proposition by doing a meticulous value proposition analysis. Cost-effectiveness is one of the key indicators in the evaluation of the value chain: from the cost of raw materials to the salaries of the...
When hiring an offshore software development team, businesses tend to see it as a handful of engineers in some faraway land whom you send detailed requirements or designs to be constructed. And while Agile frameworks are widely used for in-house development, there are still concerns if Agile is com...

Every business is focused on a rapid time to market and return on investment. It’s no longer enough to implement a data lake, businesses require a data platform that can provide immediately actionable insights. But building a data platform from the ground up can take a significant amount of tim...

The coin recognition system is a great showcase of the power of modern deep learning image processing models. While coins themselves are relatively simple objects, many coins look very similar and it is surprisingly challenging to build a system that can reliably identify a particular coin. That is...
Why outsource in Lviv, Ukraine? Lviv is home to more than 461 tech companies and 26,500 tech workers, 80% of whom are software developers. With more than 4,000 graduates joining Lviv’s tech scene every year, Lviv’s IT outsource services sector makes up 14.4% of GDP, which is approximately $280 to $...
Remote development centers are here to stay. This became especially obvious after the first lockdown, when even the most conservative tech nations had to face the undeniable truth — remote development is safe, productive, and cost-efficient. Offshore development center trends The definiti...
Launched in 2013, Pricena is now a leading price comparison website which allows online shoppers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Kuwait, Nigeria, and South Africa to make informed purchasing decisions. Pricena provides full information on the prices, product specs, shipping charges, deliver...
The emergence of wearable devices brought with it a range of new challenges for companies and their quality assurance engineers. Because it is a relatively new space, companies need to ensure they can deliver new applications on wearables and provide a great experience for the end users or other bu...
Have you ever heard of Spiral Dynamics? It’s a sociological theory about the cultural levels of a society. There is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies based on it. And the concepts behind this model can also be applied to any organization o...
Want to know what IT outsourcing trends will dominate the global market in 2021? Sink your teeth in our data-based research on the global IT outsourcing trends in 2021. We’ve scoured the web and organized the most important IT outsourcing statistics on the global tech talent shortage, the gro...

Working from home was never more fun than these days of pandemic and lockdowns. We all stay connected with video conferencing, and, with obvious benefits of seeing friendly faces of our colleagues, we get all the drawbacks of exposing not-so-glamorous aspects of our work-from-home lives...
You can hire senior remote developers in any part of the world and feel no difference between remote and local cooperation. 44% of companies are now more likely to use IT outsourcing suppliers than they were just five years ago. In this article, we’ve collected online recruitment tips and hard-w...
Allowing any element of a digital product to fail can have significant implications. Functional failures have tangible consequences for conversion rates, which ultimately impact the entire business. Difficulties with browsing web sites affect user impressions of the brand meaning they may very we...

It’s no secret that leading a healthy lifestyle improves your overall quality of life. A healthy lifestyle involves following a good diet, limiting excessive alcohol or smoking, taking the time to exercise, and getting enough sleep. This same philosophy can be applied to the way your business t...
What set of criteria is used to define the best offshore development countries in the world? Are low development rates and availability of tech expertise enough for choosing an outsourcing destination in 2021? While in lockdown, it’s not that easy to travel and explore outsourcing destinat...
Cloud migration has been a hot topic for many years but for many organizations it's far from being complete. According to a recent Forrester's State Of Public Cloud Migration report, about two-thirds of firms plan to move their workloads to public clouds in the next 12 months. When we design a c...

It's an e-commerce web application for a top-tier North American retailer. Quite a large application system - a few hundred developers are working on it. The system was rebuilt from scratch from a heavy monolithic enterprise application platform to a number of separately deployed components inter...

What do Skype, Boeing, Bosch, and eBay have in common? In addition to billions of dollars in revenue and millions of clients worldwide, it is the choice of outsourcing location that unites the aforementioned companies. They were among the first to see the potential of software development companies...
Managing remote teams is not a new thing in the software development world. The pandemic has forced the tech industry to admit what some have known for years: software development can be done remotely by managing remote teams wisely and be as productive as in-house development. Even before the p...

Every company wants to take advantage of their data to turn it into actionable insights. It can be used to build customer 360, reduce customer churn, plan marketing campaigns, and optimize pricing, inventory, and supply chain. Data is also key to increasing productivity and the efficiency of the wo...
Companies around the globe use nearshore outsourcing to cut costs and enhance their capabilities. In this article, we explain how businesses can maximize the value of their nearshore outsourcing partnerships, give tips on choosing nearshore outsourcing companies, and provide you with a handy list o...
Nearshore outsourcing has become one of the most well-known practices of profitable businesses. 79% of Dutch companies confirmed they’ll continue to outsource IT services at the same or at an increased pace. 56% of German companies stated they outsource IT tasks to external service providers....

Tech companies had been among the first to integrate remote work and hire remote developers on a permanent basis far before the pandemic hit. So by now, many of them have learned how to manage remote developers and no longer have any doubts about remote work being as productive, successful, and col...
NLP technologies are rapidly improving, changing our user experience, and increasing the efficiency of working with text data. For instance, web search and language translation innovations changed our world, and now Deep Learning enters more and more areas. While writing these sentences, the editor...
After the initial excitement that data lakes would help companies maximize the utility of their data, many companies became disillusioned by rapidly diminishing returns from their big data efforts. While it was easy to put large volumes of data in the lakes, turning that data into insights and real...
There’s no way around it - preparing an annual CI/CD roadmap is boring. For the last half a decade it has simply ended up with listing the same "automate X", "extend pipeline Y", or "implement dashboard Z" actions. Always referring to similar tools and barely ever featuring any novel ideas. The...
Whether you’re a solopreneur, a medium-sized business, or a multi-million-dollar company, you need software to improve your business processes, magnify efficiencies, increase productivity, and ultimately, your revenues and profits. Custom software development is the process of building dig...
Forecasting is ubiquitous in modern enterprise operations — a wide range of tasks, from inventory management and price optimization to workforce allocation and equipment maintenance, cannot be efficiently performed without data-driven forecasting. In many of these applications, one needs to not...

The software development industry in Israel is going through challenging times. On the one hand, Israel, preceded by China and the US, makes it to the top three fastest-developing tech startup nations. On the other hand, software development companies in Israel report that they’re experiencing an I...

After we made all the necessary decisions regarding the general architecture, it was a time to think about the implementation details. We needed to build all the necessary screens and organize navigation between them. Navigation details have already been described in the first part of the artic...
Over the last ten years, the role of data in modern enterprise has continued to evolve at a rapid pace. Companies launched initiatives to define and execute their data strategy, appointed Chief Data Officers, and created large teams to collect, manage, and generate insights from data. With increase...
While microservices architecture is a great way to design modern systems, most enterprise applications are still built as monoliths. While working with both Fortune-1000 companies and startups we often hear the same three questions: Should I use microservices architecture for the new system...
You might already have an opinion on the subject in question. You’ve examined a bunch of articles, surfed the internet, consulted your friends or colleagues who’ve already tried that dedicated team thing. You’ve probably found that some companies are perfectly happy with their custom software de...

Before moving to the problem of choosing and applying a package manager in our project let’s define the list of features we want from a dependency manager usage perspective: A simple, reliable and efficient integration with CI / CD User friendly interface Minimum effort for imp...
In 2015, the European Parliament adopted a reformed Payment Service Directive, also known as PSD2, which can be considered as the starting point of “open banking”. The new rules aimed to promote the development and use of innovative online and mobile payments through opening consumer banking data u...

What are the top 5 cybersecurity threats directed at tech companies? Which 4 major preventive measures against data breaches should you use? What are the data security risks related to remote work? Data breach protection is a set of activities aimed at securing databa...
After initial migration to the cloud, companies often discover that their infrastructure costs are surprisingly high. No matter how good the initial planning and cost estimation process was, the final costs almost always come in above expectations. On-demand provisioning of cloud resource...

Video streaming applications stand among the top telecom businesses in 2020: the use of streaming services has grown by 43% in the US, 50% in the UK, and 60% in Germany. We researched the video streaming market and talked to Anatolii Zavialov, an iOS developer at CuriosityStream, to provide you wit...
These days, when machine learning-based result ranking becomes a de-facto standard for e-commerce search implementations, it still relies on the high quality of the matching. No matter how sophisticated your ML ranking algorithm is, if relevant products are not retrieved from the search index, it w...

The trend of implementing and migrating to microservices isn’t new. The industry is full of war stories where companies invested a lot of time, money, and effort to migrate microservices architectures but were never able to realize the full benefits. Every company’s journey is unique and mistakes t...
Machine learning is an essential part of the modern search system. ML models are helping in many areas of search workflow, such as intent classifications, query parsing, facet selection, and, most importantly, results re-ranking. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of expanding the...

Mobile applications help enterprises reach higher levels of success by increasing sales and providing improved experiences to their users. The share of sales generated via mobile applications continues to rapidly rise year over year, reflecting the increasing importance of mobile technologies i...

How does a data scientist typically perform their standard job stack such as data processing and training models? In the case of playing around with test data or models, all the work can be done locally. But when that isn’t the case, data specialists often resort to the help of cloud solutions, w...

In the modern digital world, we still rely on manual data entry for many important business processes. Needless to say, this leads to slower data processing, frustrated employees and costly errors which could be avoided with automated reliable data entry and processing. Often, even the data which...

Modern businesses in e-commerce, banking, insurance, manufacturing and many other areas generate huge amounts of data every day. Effectively utilizing that data helps increase business value by making the right decisions at the right time based on insights generated from targeted data analytics....
In this article, we detail the results of our performance comparison of popular cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouses using popular benchmarks. The goal of the investigation was not to do the most comprehensive comparison of them possible, but instead to uncover usable and valuable information to...
The increasing push towards remote work, combined with the ongoing transition from back-end to front-end development has led to a rapidly growing need for full-stack developers. This need has also led to a massive shift in the developer marketplace. Both in terms of the work context (HOW work ge...

According to Hedges & Co. report, US online sales of auto parts and accessories amounted to $12B and, while new car sales projection are looking bleak, the future of the automotive aftermarket is quite positive. Both specialized auto parts retailers and online commerce powerhouses like Amazon...

Dutch IT companies are outsourcing software development in order to optimize costs and combat local tech talent shortage. 79% of software development companies in the Netherlands confirmed that they will continue to outsource ICT services at the same or at an increased pace in 2020. Due to remot...

Supply chain optimization is one the toughest challenges among all enterprise applications of data science and ML. This challenge is rooted in the complexity of supply chain networks that generally require to optimize decisions for multiple layers (echelons) of distribution centers and suppliers, m...

This report is based on a survey of marketing, merchandising, and pricing directors and executives and aims to assess their priorities, challenges, and plans with regard to decision automation in the area of revenue management. The main topics of this study include the following: What are the...
Evolving beyond a mere tech advantage, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone a long way to cement itself as a mainstay of modern-day retail. In other words, AI solutions are a competitive necessity for retail. Designed to assist business and technology executives in understanding and deploying AI e...

In this white paper, we provide practical recommendations to technology and business leaders on how advanced data analytics and engineering capabilities can be leveraged to rapidly and efficiently respond to the COVID-19 disruption. These recommendations are largely based on early examples of respo...
In an era marked by growing velocity, volume, and variety in data, managing this constant influx of competing data points and information is crucial for businesses aiming to stay ahead. Data platforms help achieve this—but building and customizing them is key to success. In our experience workin...
A robust pricing strategy that aligns with market trends is perhaps the most crucial competitive differentiator today. In this white paper, we introduce you to how an advanced price intelligence platform enables businesses to automate their pricing and promotion strategy with unparalleled analytica...
In an era where customer data offers valuable insights into user behavior and action, understanding and leveraging this data is crucial for business success. The field of marketing analytics—from its nascent days of predictive analytics to the modern-day marvels of machine learning—charts the journ...
Most modern application systems consist of multiple middleware components. This includes databases, queues, search engines, storage, caches, and in-memory data grids, identity services, etc. They also include multiple stateful or stateless microservices and mobile application proxies — all connecte...
E-learning development is now a multi-billion industry that empowers education across the globe with EdTech. The variety of tech solutions we use nowadays are way more complex than the once popular Content Management Systems (CMSs). In this article, we analyze the EdTech trends in 2020 that stimula...
Before the global quarantine of 2020, 56% of companies all over the world allowed remote work. From this point forward, this number will only keep increasing — some companies have had to rapidly shift their in-house teams to remote work, while others hire developers remotely to extend their existin...

With the increasing popularity of Progressive Web App (PWA), we thought it would be the ideal time to explore the differences between PWA and other approaches to building mobile user experiences. To conduct this research, we gathered a list of the most important mobile application criteria and fr...

North America has become a continent with a consumerist economy where manufacturers, retailers, and service providers compete fiercely for customers. As we know, one of the most effective ways to attract customers is to lower one’s prices without the impact on the quality of the goods or s...
In the previous article we discussed the Endeca rules model and explained how to re-implement this model using Elasticsearch. We needed to implement inverted search to trigger our rules and we leveraged powerful percolator feature in Elasticsearch which greatly simplified our implementation...

The COVID-19 crisis is clearly the biggest economic disruption the world has seen in the 21st century. This disruption impacts virtually all industries and all areas of enterprise operations through market demand, supply chain, and human capital. The adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and p...
In the current situation, remote work has become a life-saving solution for the majority of companies. Even the most conservative proponents of office work, like banks, have come to realize that remote work is not all that scary, and with a well thought-out approach it can be even more efficient th...

OPINION: Coronavirus is rapidly reshaping our world. It is demanding businesses to redefine how they engage customers, employees, and supply chain by shifting operations online. Learn best practices for designing and launching new digital services at lightning speed by adopting an “agile co-creatio...

In recent years, many organizations have provided public access to their digital ecosystems via APIs. This has transformed APIs from being a tool, into being a product. At the same time, wide adoption of microservices has led to an increased number of internal APIs used by organizations as well....

Personalization and recommendation algorithms have been around for many decades, and basic methods such as look-alike modeling and collaborative filtering are widely understood and adopted across the industry. The advancement of deep learning greatly expands the toolkit available to developers of p...
Search engines have been with us for several decades already, and we are using them daily in our digital lives, so why are we still talking about search? Isn’t search a solved problem already? Search probably would have been a long solved problem if human language were a well-defined, thought-th...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver, estate jewelry and watches, including patterns being produced by manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use the compa...
React has been climbing steadily since it broke 556 million downloads per month in March 2020. Moreover, React.js offers a desirable level of flexibility and performance for building scalable solutions with interactive UIs. No wonder a growing number of companies are beginning to embrace this techn...
Have you ever wondered why some startups achieve effective teamwork to make history, while others remain dysfunctional? The best teams accomplish great feats with the help of effective communication built into the core of team collaboration. Piece of cake, right? Not quite. Project managem...
For almost all industries the digital experience has become a primary importance. And ongoing rapid technology advancements mean that many companies need to reconsider the technology choices around their Content Management System (CMS). CMSs have changed a lot in the last ten years and are now fa...

Online retailers operating large catalogs are always looking to improve the quality of their product discovery functionality. Keyword search and category browse experience powered by their search engine is a first stage of sales funnel where fast and relevant search results can produce delightful a...

Faceted navigation, a.k.a. guided navigation is a de-facto standard user experience for any serious online retailer. Facets seamlessly introduce your customers to the structure and attributes of an online catalog and provide shoppers with powerful tools to slice and dice their results with useful f...
So you’re working with remote employees? Most probably, you’ve already noticed that they take a special approach in terms of management. Remote teams are different from ones located in one central office in a few key ways. Teams that work across separate locations demand a particular appro...

Online retailers are always looking for ways to provide delightful and frictionless shopping experience to their customers. Product discovery, powered by search and category browsing, stays at the top of the sales funnel and has the highest impact in converting visitors to customers. At the...
Tired of unstructured work with freelance developers? Hire dedicated developers to manage directly and add order to your day-to-day work. Use this step-by-step guide to hire one dedicated developer or successfully set up an entire team of dedicated developers. In this article, you’ll learn:...
Merchandising is an essential part of modern online retail. Automated merchandising platforms allow business users to control search and browse results by affecting product ranking decisions, providing curated content and referring customers to relevant categories or thematic landing pages. Or...

Supply chain and price management were among the first areas of enterprise operations that adopted data science and combinatorial optimization methods and have a long history of using these techniques with great success. Although a wide range of traditional optimization methods are available for in...
Initially, digital transformation for brick-and-mortar retailers meant creating a good customer experience over web and mobile channels. While that started to close the retail chasm that Amazon had opened beneath traditional retailers, it wasn’t as if they could abandon their stores and go all-digi...
With more than 20M developers globally, the question of their distribution by technology and seniority levels becomes more and more topical. Thus, in our research, we've decided to use LinkedIn (a platform with a 630M member network) and find out how many Java, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, an...

Since the dawn of ecommerce in the end of the nineties, online retailers have coined a famous “If they can’t find ‘em, they can’t buy ‘em” motto, which stands today as fresh as ever. Online shoppers have a lot of choices, and their patience is getting ever shorter: they expect instant, precise, rel...

A key part of digital transformation is actually changing the way you develop software. New technologies such as mobile, progressive web, cloud, big data, and machine learning create increased demand for entirely new skills. The fast pace of innovation requires new processes like Agile develo...

If you want your customers to have a seamless shopping experience no matter where they are or what device they’re using, but you’re stuck with a black box legacy system like Oracle ATG, you may think a true omnichannel experience is beyond your reach. We have helped many of the top retailers in...
This time the hero of our interview is Andre Silva, CTO at CuriosityStream. The company provides a video streaming service for the most curious minds that are eager to discover the world of documentaries. CuriosityStream piles together visionaries in every major field collecting thousands of docume...

Deep-learning powered natural language processing is growing by leaps and bounds. During the past year, latest NLP models exceeded the human performance baseline in some specific language understanding tasks. Source: Facebook AI State-of-the-art NLP models allow AI-enabled systems to repr...

The demands on IT service providers are changing because companies are embracing digital transformation. Traditionally most IT services were confined to packaged software implementation, system integration, and managed services. Companies grew to rely on traditional outsourcers for these kinds of I...
Remote work is an increasingly popular workplace trend for workers in every industry, including software developers. Stackoverflow’s 2019 survey of nearly 90,000 developers found that: 25 percent work remotely a few days a month 15 percent work remotely one or more days per we...
Staff augmentation eases the difficult and uncertain task of recruiting for an IT project. According to Gartner, an estimated 1 million computer programming jobs will go unfilled by 2020. IT staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy in which vendors recruit offshore tech talent for busi...

Here are the top travel startups from the Netherlands that will encourage you to travel more in 2020: Polarsteps Triposo Parkos Officebooking Tripaneer Bookabus Camptoo Polarsteps Triposo Parkos Officebooki...
In the late 90s, the business world faced a new fast-growing trend — outsourcing. The American tech industry pioneered in trying out the new approach to doing business with the help of third-party vendors. Since then, nearshore and offshore partnerships have been getting increasingly common for bot...
Computer vision is becoming essential to successful digital transformation efforts with many compelling uses and many accessible solution options for properly building it. In this blog post, you will learn the basics of computer vision technology and how it fits into the world of artificial in...

The capabilities of speech recognition and natural language processing are rapidly increasing and now allow people to regularly engage with AI programs in human-like conversations. This opens the doors for an entirely new generation of smart devices and use cases. One of the most promising is voice...

In our last post in this series, we discussed the top 10 computer vision use cases in digital retail. In this post, we discuss how you would go about sourcing a computer vision (CV) solution, from acquiring the skills you need from the market or a services firm to using a platform or buying a ver...

The quarterly report showed a 40% drop in sales over the last quarter. The executive team panicked. The entire company is collapsing! Or is it? After the investigation concluded, they discovered that the sales were okay. The report was incorrect because an automated system had failed. The infrast...
Computer vision has become essential to remaining competitive in the digital retail space because it offers innovative customer experiences and process automation that delights customers and cut costs. Customers demand the convenience of features such as visual search or automated question ans...
Vive is for professionals and freelancers who are looking to become financially healthy. The company provides one solution for financial planning and investing. Consumers can use the app without prior knowledge or experience in investing. All you need to do is define your financial goals and the al...
Among 628 FinTech startups out there, here are the top 9 (in our perspective) that definitely deserve your attention: Vive BridgeFund CreditClick Tikkie Tellow Peaks Ockto Oneplanetcrowd TAXModel Vive BridgeFund CreditC...

Are only 20% of your product catalog recommendations behavior driven? Product recommendations have become an essential sales tool for e-commerce sites. These recommendation systems typically use collaborative filtering, a common approach for building behavior-based recommendation engines u...
Consumers pay attention to ratings, and you should too. Ratings are indicative of an item’s quality, and people give bad ratings when they have a terrible experience. In this case study, we explore how to raise your app rating and what effect this has on mobile app revenue. For purposes of this...

40% of Dutch businesses see talent shortage as the main obstacle standing in the way of growth and expansion of the software development industry in the country. The situation is further complicated by the competition for developers with large companies such as Coolblue, Shell, bol.com, etc. that d...

You came up with an innovative idea and gathered a bunch of like-minded people around to work on its implementation together, yet, here comes the hardest part – hiring developers for your startup. Huge corporations in large software development hubs such as the U.S., the U.K., the Netherlands, Isra...

Replacements, Ltd. is the world's largest retailer of tableware, silver and estate jewelry, including patterns still available from manufacturers as well as those discontinued. Customers looking to expand their collections, along with those who have misplaced or broken pieces, use replacements.com’...

“It takes months to find a customer, but only seconds to lose one.” Maintaining a high-quality customer service experience while minimizing costs is high on the list of any e-Commerce enterprise. An AI-based question-answering system can do just that. But how would one approach building such a...
How bad can a 3.7-star rating really be? Imagine a Fortune 500 retailer with considerable online revenue, but only a minuscule fraction of online sales derived from their mobile app. In fact, this exact retailer approached us, asking for assistance. To help them get their mobile app revenue back...

Your product is good. Your mobile app has great features, but your app store rating is low. What happened? In a previous blog post we demonstrated that high crash rates can cause low app ratings. In this blog, we explain how we analyzed negative reviews to determine what motivated customers to...
These days, every retailer has to be mobile-friendly to be competitive, but our client was ahead of the curve. They wanted to provide their largely teenage customer base, who prefer to use mobile devices, with a truly awesome mobile experience. They realized that in order to make this leap into t...
“But I already have an Android and iOS app, why would I need Flutter?” After you read this blog post, the answer will become obvious - to save time and money. “I understand the advantages of Flutter, but can't afford to throw away my current apps and restart in Flutter.” You won't need to! In th...
Many retailers face a tough decision: should their mobile retail shopping app support Android or iOS? They feel their limited resources cannot be stretched to build and support both platforms, so they often pick just one. Some retailers may have already committed to one platform, but are unsure...
Many large brick-and-mortar retailers lack a strong mobile app experience, which is a problem on days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, when online traffic soars. In the 2018 holiday season, 79% of all purchases involved a mobile device - this includes customers that made a purchase, looked up...
Marketers usually use multiple channels–such as sponsored search, display ads, and emails–to reach their customers, and each channel usually includes multiple activities or has multiple parameters that are associated with various costs. For example, a marketer can run several email campaigns, each...

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Modern customer analytics and personalization systems use a wide variety of methods that help to reveal and quantify customer preferences and intent, making marketing messages, ads, offers, and recommendations more relevant and engaging. However, most of these methods are designed to optimize only...

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Implementing end-to-end continuous delivery at the enterprise level has always been a challenge. It is a complex problem that requires simultaneous improvements across an organization’s structure, culture, application architecture, infrastructure and change management processes. This challenge i...

A global retail company faced the challenge of bringing their inventory management system to the cloud. The company required their new cloud-based solution to include online and store inventory in all geographical regions, and deliver a fast and consistent database performance within each region. T...
“Find all customers who have a birthday in the next 10 days” “Which employees have achieved 10 years of service this month?” These types of questions are simple for a human to answer with the aid of a calendar, but it is much more difficult for a computer to answer them on its own. Calendars...

Smart autocomplete is an essential feature for improving online catalog navigation and boosting product discovery for users. This is especially true for mobile search, where the smaller screen and keyboard, limit the use of more traditional faceted search selectors. Smart autocomplete, also known...
In January 2019 Kyivpost, Ukraine’s famous English-language newspaper, published a report with the most recent data on the growth of IT industry in Ukraine. According to the report, IT industry in Ukraine became the 2nd largest export industry in 2018. In 2015 Ukrainian IT expor...
While searching for professional QA engineers, companies are often struggling to meet estimated budget and time limitations. Yet, ignoring software testing can cost you a fortune and lead to massive technical debts as the entire development life cycle opens up numerous vulnerabilities. And the late...

Speed of delivery is one of the key success factors in online retail. Retailers fiercely compete with each other in this space, implementing new order fulfillment options such as Same-Day Shipping, Buy Online Pick Up in Store (BOPUS) and Ship from Store (SFS). These capabilities help to both improv...
Price setting is one of the most important problems in retail because any price setting error directly results in lost profit. However, traditional price management methods almost never achieve optimal pricing because they are designed for traditional environments, where the frequency of price chan...

In the middle of your home improvement project, you realize that you've lost a very important screw. You have the matching screw that you need in your hands, and simply need to make another trip to the hardware store. However, a trip to the local hardware store is a hassle, as many of the screws lo...

TenderApp is an intelligence platform in which all information from published tenders is collected and made available in a user-friendly way. With TenderApp, any non-governmental organization can receive all necessary guidance and help to win tenders. TenderApp is also used as a tool for keeping up...
Write once, run anywhere. This is what mobile application developers have long been promised. One code for both Android and iOS No performance issues One engineering and QA team for all mobile development One common user interface utilized across all platforms that is visually...

Over the past 3 years, we’ve been communicating with Dutch and DACH region business executives that outsource software development. As a result, we’ve collected the answers of 98 business executives operating in the Netherlands and 204 executives from the DACH region, which allowed us to fulfill th...
The “classic” Scrum tools that agile teams use to organize their work are whiteboards, charts, and note cards. Yet there's so much more you can achieve with Scrum project management software, so Grid Dynamics decided to collect the 15 best free Agile tools in one article. Besides, using this type o...

Pricing is one of the key factors that drives a successful retail business model, and it is also one of the most difficult to manage. Retailers made lots of improvements on their pricing strategies over the last decade, moving from cost plus or value pricing to modern day AI-driven price management...

This is the third post in a series of articles on AI/ML-based decision automation in retail price management, this time focusing on implementation and technology. The automation of pricing decisions is a challenging task that requires a software system to understand business objectives and constrai...

Despite speeding up development with deployment automation, one of our clients was experiencing slow time-to-market due to a lack of collaboration in DevOps. While they had invested in DevOps, every production pipeline was set up individually, forcing teams to remake the wheel for each project....

AI-based decision automation is particularly beneficial when a large number of decisions must be made in near real time and need to take a wide range of signals into account. Additionally, these decision-making components have to be aligned with the pricing strategy and integrated into the price...

My name is Dmytro Rastaturin. I’m an Operations Manager at Pindrop NL (Grid Dynamics Digital Team client). Our end-customers come from Europe, the main operating market is in Benelux (we also work with the customers from France, UK, Italy, Spain, and others). The following article will be...

AI has great potential to transform or even disrupt enterprise operations, and price management is among the most important business functions that directly affect enterprise profitability and efficiency. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on the price management process is not...

A modern merchandising system can provide a guided product discovery experience to shoppers, which is essential for retailers with large online catalogs. These systems and tools allow merchandisers to improve product listing relevancy by controlling product matching and ranking when a shopper see...

“Life is better with art” is the motto of Art.com, a leading global online retailer selling high quality art reproductions. Their site lives up to the motto, as they possess the world's largest collection of art, with a meticulously curated catalog of images, featuring state of the art printi...

The convergence of in-store and online retail operations in recent years has put significant new demands on the management of pricing, offers, and promotions as compared to pre-omnichannel times. The outdated, simplistic approaches to determine the price of products and promotional offerings are st...

Retailers wanting to upgrade their monolithic architecture systems to a microservices approach will need to build a management platform to truly capture its benefits. The advantages of microservices over monolithic architectures are evident: greater scalability, more customization, quicker updates,...
Enterprise software development market is rapidly gaining ground. According to Statista, the global IT spending on enterprise software is expected to reach 424 billion USD in 2019. Business owners can now leverage new technologies and coordinate their core processes within a single digital space. S...
Let’s face it — Oracle Endeca is an out-of-date e-commerce search technology solution. Endeca’s lack of personalization and support for omnichannel capabilities have been common problems for many large retailers, and the issues were not getting solved by ATG. We at Grid Dynamics have seen this fi...

Speed and quality have always seemed mutually exclusive for engineering development -- but do they have to be? In order to ensure high quality, builds need to be thoroughly tested. However, testing takes time, and leads to slower production and missed deadlines. If teams release a product without i...

globalHMA is a global marketing agency that helps its clients promote their businesses all around the world via three core services: advertising, research, and the development of interactive resources. Whether you specialize in alternative energy or industrial equipment, the globalHMA team can brin...

Don’t know how to structure your software development team organization? We prepared 5 well-tried techniques that will help you structure your team of software developers, maximize their productivity, and catapult your business success. It is easy to assume that t...

After an hour of online research, Rachel bought the perfect raincoat for her upcoming trip in Southeast Asia – and then discovered that it didn't exist. Unfortunately, when she tried to add it to her cart, she was informed that the raincoat was actually out of stock, and could not be purchased. Thi...

Lamina Technologies is a Swiss manufacturer of carbide cutting tools, specializing in milling and turning inserts made of state-of-the-art submicron grades with PVD and CVD coatings. Despite being represented in 50 countries and literary scattered worldwide, Lamina Technologies manages to always un...
Nearly all major online retailers these days support faceted navigation, as it is a key instrument of product discovery. Facets provide a powerful, intuitive way to summarize search results from multiple perspectives. They also offer a straightforward interface to apply filters and refine navigat...

Oktopost is a social media management platform that helps B2B companies manage, monitor, and measure all their social media activities in one place. The Oktopost culture is characterized by a friendly, collaborative, and ambitious team. Despite being spread across multiple countries and time zones,...

Favro is an innovative planning and collaboration tool that enables the world's most progressive businesses to achieve organizational flow. It helps companies do what they excel at—making products and services that change the game. We have interviewed Patric Palm, the Co-founder an...

Pricing decisions are critically important for any business, as pricing is directly linked to consumer demand and company profits. Even a slightly suboptimal decision-making process inevitably leads to tangible losses, and major mistakes can have grave consequences. Optimal pricing is a challeng...

Xuntos is a close-knit team of enthusiasts who are devoted to the beauty of technology. The company is based in the Netherlands and helps customers bring design to life with the help of tech expertise in front-end development, web applications, mobile development, CMS, and other technologies. Each...

Retail is on the brink of yet another technological breakthrough. AI devices like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and virtual assistants of all kinds are rapidly becoming trusted and dependable aides to many people. Technology companies led by Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are rushing to grab th...

With an online catalog of over 1M SKUs and a multi-billion dollar e-commerce store, things were going well for the online retailer. However, their search engine’s relevancy was not ideal, hurting their shoppers’ ability to discover the right products and lowering conversion rates. The core pro...
Blockchain technology essentially emerged with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009. But it is now known that blockchain offers numerous other innovative technical and business use applications beyond what was imagined by the creators of the world’s first cryptocurrency. While Bitcoin had a fairly d...
DragApp is an online tool that helps users organize their messy mailboxes. Email is one of the most popular ways of daily business communication and it hasn’t changed in decades. DragApp will help you transform your inbox into a logical set of data. Recently, we had an opportunity...

The promotions manager couldn’t believe it. For weeks, he had carefully planned the promotion, running the numbers again every day just to double check that everything made fiscal sense. By all indications, the promotion would increase demand and be a big money maker for the company, so he was ex...

Mr and Mrs. Smith are a regular middle-class couple in the process of remodeling and redecorating their home. After a long and tireless search on Pinterest and other lifestyle websites, they finally found a concept for their new interior decoration plans. The only issue was that actually finding an...

Envato is an innovative business that provides a variety of services for people who are driven by the passion to create something great. Envato offers five core services — Envato Market, Envato Studio, Envato Tuts+, Envato Sites, and Envato Elements. Not long ago, we had an intervi...

Jostle is an innovative cloud-based platform that aims to create extraordinary workplaces and help organizations connect their employees efficiently with the help of intranet. Recently, we had an opportunity to interview Brad Palmer, the CEO and co-founder of Jostle. We asked Br...

As augmented reality technology continues to advance, it opens up possibilities for a dazzling array of practical and innovative applications. One great example is a “Magic Mirror”. An augmented reality Magic Mirror is a reflective TV screen linked to a camera and controlled by augmented reality so...

A customer of ours, one of the largest omni-channel retailers in the US, was having issues with product discovery. Their e-commerce site had a massive catalog with hundreds of thousands of SKUs, a modern e-commerce backend and a powerful search engine, yet the conversion was less than stellar. Fr...
As an open source technology, the .NET framework is used by millions of software developers (there are over 6 million .NET engineers worldwide according to the latest estimates). This has spurred the growth of various third-party development tools. To get a first-hand opinion on the most valuable a...
ShipHero is a complete, cloud-based solution that provides eCommerce businesses with all the tools necessary to manage inventory, ship orders, and oversee warehouse operations. Recently, we had the chance to interview Nicholas Daniel-Richards, the co-founder of ShipHero. We asked;...
If you’re thinking of hiring offshore developers, the very first thing you need to do is take a good look at your current company structure, then establish which skills required for the development of your product are missing. While it’s perfectly fine to go through this stage on your own, an outsi...
We recently built an analytics platform for a startup company whose mobile game acts as a digital advertising platform while providing rewards and instant winning experiences to its users. The app is in the top three in the lifestyle category on Google Play Store and top 10 in the Apple App Store,...

Carerix is a producer of recruitment and staffing software based in the Netherlands. The company has worked together with Grid Dynamics since 2012. A short while ago, we had a chance to chat with Jurgen Delfos, the CTO at Carerix. We asked Jurgen to give us an insight into how Carerix software work...

In a previous blogpost we explored how retail companies are utilizing emerging augmented reality (AR) technologies to close the “imagination gap” between the showroom and digital experience to improve their online sales. In this post, we look at the two leading AR frameworks from Apple and Google...

The Solr suggester component allows you to vastly improve your search capabilities and experience. It provides users with automatic suggestions for query terms, and can be used to implement useful auto-suggest featurest in your search application. … Composable commerce for B...
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In early 2016 one of our online media customers came to us with a problem. Our customer, a media giant, hosts articles from its newspapers and magazines on its websites. Each of the articles’ web pages has three ad blocks, and the customer buys paid redirects to the article pages. They then analyze...

The retail industry is embracing big data, analytics, and machine learning (ML) to improve customer engagement, optimize operations, and drive sales. Increasingly, we’re seeing business intelligence systems that were once based on historic data, offline modeling, and traditional reporting being r...

Recently, we started working on a mini chat application for a client support team. Though we expected a quick and easy implementation, we hit on some unexpected issues. We built the UI for our real-time application, wrote unit tests, and prepared some routes and controllers on the back end. Every...
Carerix is a Netherlands-based SaaS company that produces fully web-based software for recruiters. Their software features searching, matching, and invoicing functionalities, allowing users to keep all their recruitment and staffing activities on a single platform. Carerix currently serves rough...
Most websites today are responsive, meaning that their web user interface (UI) supports a variety of screen formats and resolutions. Responsive design lets users view and interact with pages on any size screen from large desktop monitors to small mobile phones. A responsive web UI provides a seamle...
In this article we’ll describe the Grid Dynamics technology for CPT, Jagger, which we developed

In this blog post we share our experience delivering deduplicated data during In-Stream Processing for a large-scale RTB (real time bidding) platform. A common problem in such systems is the existence of duplicate data records that can cause false results when processed by the analytic queries. One...
Unit tests are the de facto standard for establishing a consistent product and an efficient continuous delivery process. They force you to write well-structured code that is split into modules with clear interfaces between them. Unit testing is necessary to safely refactor your code. In this p...

If you are an enterprise omni-channel retailer with a significant and growing online presence, it is likely that Oracle ATG has been your platform of choice for many years. You have probably invested thousands of hours and tens of millions of dollars in the customization, integration and tuning of...
A short while ago, we communicated with our software developer recruiters to create a short checklist of developer hiring practices for our clients. And then, a thought struck us: why keep all this knowledge inside when we can share it with the world? This is exactly what we’re doing in this p...
The Netherlands has one of the hottest tech scenes in the world. The country has everything a tech business could possibly need — a highly qualified English-speaking workforce, quality tech schools, first-class business facilities, a favorable tax code, strong international travel infrastructure, a...

In our previous post, we showed you how to use image recognition to solve the issue of misattribution in e-commerce catalogs. Once you start to trust your models and have trained them to detect a valuable amount of attributes, it is easy to expand from attribute verification to auto tagging. Howe...

Open source full-text search engines provide rich functionality out of the box. However, there are some use cases when naive implementation may lead to terrible customer experience. We faced one of such use cases when we worked with a patent management company. Part of a patent officer's...

In our previous post, we discussed the impact of product misattribution in e-commerce and how image recognition with Machine Learning can be an important tool to resolve this issue. In this post, we will get into the details of how to detect and correct misattribution using Machine Learning, Goog...

The Dutch tech scene is one of the most vibrant in Europe. The Dutch speak English almost better than native speakers, score among the best worldwide in math and science, have strong economic foundations in industry and commerce, a favorable tax code, and strong international travel infrastructure....

A richly attributed and well-curated product catalog is the key asset of online retailers. However, products are frequently misattributed, which makes it a pain for customers to find the products they’re looking for. Catalog product attribution issues are a major pain point in e-commerce. They...

As a Team Lead and Senior C++ Developer, Andriy frequently conducts job interviews. We’ve asked him to describe his process for interviewing C++ engineers, and here’s what he shared: When I think back to how I conducted interviews twelve years ago, I can’t help but wince. Those ta...
A relatively new programming language that first surfaced in 2004, Scala has been gradually gaining popularity in recent years. Some of the world’s best known web platforms, Twitter among them, have switched to this language, boosting the demand for skilled programmers who use Scala. So why are bus...
First of All, Agile Isn’t a Project Management Methodology. Instead, We Need to Think of Agile as a Mindset, Rather Than a Methodology. It’s not a specific group of tools and practices, but instead an attitude that shapes the way a work is approached. The ‘magic’ of Agile is that it devel...
Increasingly, regional and national retail chains are facing anemic sales figures in their “brick and mortar” stores. Even when overall performance is in line with industry trends, with online sales growth at approximately 15% annually, retailers still struggle to get people into and spending a...

E-commerce customers often need to sort products by price, size, and other SKU-level attributes. Our job is to make this process as easy and pleasant for them as we can, because the more products they find, the more they buy. How do we help them find what they need?For general searching and facet...
In recent years, autocomplete has become a staple feature for searches of all types.Whether Google, Amazon, or smaller sites and vendors, predictive typing, as it’s otherwise known, (also sometimes called auto-suggest, search-as-you-type or type-ahead) has become an expected part of an engagin...

In the previous blog post we went through the details of how to set up the Docker infrastructure with Mesos and Marathon, and how to bootstrap the environment to get it ready to host application services. Now it is time to deploy some applications. Our blog’s purpose is not only to show you a fi...

For many years, chatbots have been quietly moving from the screens of sci-fi movies to commercial applications. Companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, and Microsoft, along with an ever-increasing array of AI startups, have been gradually perfecting Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) that a...

In the previous blog post we explained our overall approach to the DevOps stack used for the deployment and management of the In-Stream Processing blueprint. In this post we’ll focus on more details of Mesos and Marathon, and provide you with scripts to provision the complete computational environm...

This post is about the approach to the “DevOps” part of our In-Stream Processing blueprint — namely, deploying the platform on a dynamic cloud infrastructure, making the service available to its intended users and supporting it through the continuous lifecycle of development, testing, and roll-ou...

In online commerce, catalog navigation functionality is one of the key aspects of the overall user experience. Customers spend the majority of their time on the site discovering and selecting products and making purchase decisions. The mission of quality search and browse functionality is to prov...
In the previous post we discussed which models we tried for sentiment classification and which one has demonstrated the best performance. In this post, we’ll show you how to visualize our under-the-hood findings so that others can see the results of our analysis. You can see our twitter senti...

Ways is an Oslo-based tech company that designs and develops Android and iOS applications for businesses from a wide range of different industries. Last week, we had the opportunity to chat with Eivind Lindbråten, the Co-Founder of Ways. In just two short years, Eivind has gon...
In previous posts we have discussed the steps needed to understand and prepare the data for Social Movie Reviews. Finally, it is time to run the models and learn how to extract meanings hidden in the data. This blog post deals with the modeling step in the Data Scientist’s Kitchen. At the...
In the previous post we discussed how we created an appropriate data dictionary. In this post we’ll address the process of building the training data sets and preparing the data for analysis. The training process aims to reveal hidden dependencies and patterns in the data that will be analyzed...

In the previous post we discussed the structure of the tweet data. In this post we’ll address the process of selecting or building the right data dictionary for our purpose. What constitutes a good dictionary? A crucial data set for any kind of text mining is a dictionary. As for sentiment...

In the previous post we outlined the basic scientific method used and formalized the problem statement we are solving, which is, “Based on of the tweets of English-speaking population of the United States related to selected new movie releases, can we identify patterns in the public’s sentiments t...
There is a broad and fast-growing interest in data science and machine learning. It is fueled by an explosion in business applications that rely on automated detection of patterns and behaviors hidden in the data, that can be found by software and exploited to dramatically improve the way we mark...

In the previous four blog posts in this series we covered the reference architecture of a general purpose In-Stream Processing Service blueprint. To recap, here is a list of shortcuts to the blogs in that series: … Composable commerce for B2B: Overkill or delivers big?Read More »
As we explained in our introduction to this series of posts, we are exploring a data scientist’s methods of extracting hidden patterns and meanings from big data in order to make better applications, services, and business decisions. We will perform a simple sentiment analysis of a real publ...

In the course of delivering many successful Continuous Performance Testing (CPT) implementations for enterprise customers, Grid Dynamics engineering teams have developed a number of basic design principles to guide their actions. Your requirements may be unique, but just as all custom race cars hav...

In previous posts we've talked about why Continuous Performance Testing (CPT) must be an integral part of managing the user experience. We've also discussed some of the reasons CPT is hard to implement. Now it's time to get into the nitty-gritty of making CPT part of your CI pipelin...
The main reason website and application performance testing is not already continuous in many companies is clear: it’s hard to implement. Why? Let’s look at a few CPT implementation issues: Cost: Continuous Performance Testing takes money. Production-like infrastructure and an engineering team o...

I was recently on an airline flight with onboard entertainment. There was a good selection of movies, but look at the film navigation menu! It lacks the ability to nest different languages into a single movie item and facet selections based on the movie’s language. As a result, it wastes scre...

We’ve talked about searching nested parents and children with Solr Block Join. But we can go far beyond that, to searching siblings, grandchildren, and other descendants. This gives your customers more search options without forcing them to do a new search every time they add a search parameter....

The “law of unintended consequences” applies to using the block join query parser in Solr, just as it does to many other things in life (and software). Leave out certain query strings in Solr, and It seems to make no difference. … Composable commerce for B2B: Overkill or delivers big?Rea...

SolrInputDocument has methods — getChildDocuments()and addChildDocument() — for nesting child documents into a parent document. XML and Javabin formats are now able to transfer them. JSON support is ongoing. Start by indexing a few t-shirts, as a sample product-SKU hierarchy us...
Studytube is an all-in-one online learning platform that gives its users access to an extensive library of ready-to-use courses, enables them to create their own courses, and provides powerful reports on their employees’ learning progress. Last week, we had the opportunity to chat with Ste...

In a previous post, we talked about business motivations behind the support of structured documents in a Solr/Lucene index and the unique requirements for a faceting engine which is created by this approach to modeling data. We have introduced SOLR-5743. Now it is time to take a deep di...
In the world of e-commerce, performance issues can lead to substantial revenue loss, presenting a crucial challenge for enterprises. This scenario is particularly distressing for engineering teams, as nothing upsets them more than the frantic troubleshooting and patching required in the middle of t...

Join support is a highly-requested Solr feature, especially in e-commerce. So I repeated Erick Erickson’s benchmark test with block join support for Solr, and I want to share my observations on how BlockJoinQuery can maximize Solr/Lucene performance. In this post and in the future,...
A straightforward look at how block join faceting works, how it can save your customers from frustrating search experiences, and why Grid Dynamics created SOLR-5743 to bring block join faceting to Solr Here is a simple type of faceted search you see on many e-commerce websites: In this ex...

Solr/Lucene has emerged over the last few years as a leading open source search platform for large-scale e-commerce search engines. Systems based on Solr power major sites including Macy’s, Kohl’s, Walmart, Etsy, and many others. An increasing number of tier-1 digital retailers are building their...
This article introduces the Grid Dynamics blueprint for in-stream processing. It is based on our experience and the lessons we have learned from multiple large-scale client implementations. We have included cloud-ready configuration examples for Apache Kafka, Spark...
Unomy is a unique sales and marketing intelligence platform which allows its users to create comprehensive lists of targeted prospects, use valuable business information to enrich their leads, and keep track of companies they care about. In December 2014, this emerging Israeli SaaS...
This post contains a brief survey of better-known products related to in-stream processing that are available on the market at the time of this writing. In this survey, we focus specifically on critical architectural differentiations, rather than functional differences, that affect why custome...
Now that we have introduced the high-level concepts behind In-Stream Processing and how it fits into the Big Data and Fast Data landscapes, it is time to dive deeper and explain how In-Stream Processing works. As we already know, In-Stream Processing is a service that takes events as input and...
In-stream processing is a powerful technology that can scan huge volumes of data coming from sensors, credit card swipes, clickstreams and other inputs, and find actionable insights nearly instantaneously. For example, in-stream processing can detect a single fraudulent transaction in a stream...
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