In the last couple of weeks, the tech industry has witnessed several announcements about increasing prices of popular tools. Heroku has canceled its free plan after offering it for over a decade. Slack has increased its price and limited its free plan to only 3 months. …

According to the DB-Engines Ranking, MariaDB ranks 12th overall, and 8th among the relational databases, ahead of Microsoft Azure, Amazon DynamoDB, Snowflake, Redshift, and hundreds of others. What is more interesting though, is that MariaDB was ranked 20th just five years ago, and its popularity only seems to grow. MariaDB…

Rumour has it that ExpressJS has been slowly declining in popularity. Although the latest results of Stack Overflow’s 2022 survey don’t seem to prove it, it’s true that Express has gained serious competitors. …

Are you researching different options to ship an admin panel for your Laravel application? One idea would be to build it from scratch with Laravel. After all, this PHP-based framework facilitates building various products, including internal tools. Where is the catch, then? Well… You’ll have to engage not only Laravel…

Internal tools are ubiquitous — they are under the hood in Apple, Google, Microsoft, your online banking system, and your favorite ecommerce sites. They have a significant impact on smooth customer support, safe operations, quick incident management, and much more. …

MongoDB doesn’t come with a comprehensive admin panel out of the box. There is Compass, the GUI built by — and for — MongoDB that is made for querying, optimizing, and analyzing data, but it won’t meet every business logic. …

It is reliable, efficient, and supported by a massive community of developers. We are not surprised that Ruby on Rails is widely used by well-established companies like Shopify, Github, and Airbnb, and also numerous startups that develop their first MVPs. RoR is commonly praised for its efficiency, security, and scalability…

Internal tools are where businesses run their operations. I know — it sounds very broad but that’s because each organization’s needs can be very different, and internal tools are widely used to perform various actions such as keeping track of the inventory, processing customer claims, confirming bookings and refunds, collaborating…

What is great about Node.js is that it allows for building even complex applications that can handle a plethora of real-time data. In the last couple of years, many well-known established companies like Netflix, eBay, or Uber have rewritten their microservices using Node.js. LinkedIn, in turn, has successfully migrated a…