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In a software-defined world, the Simform Blog is your place to navigate through the renaissance in technology. Our publication aims to provide you the full scoop on the groundbreaking research, thought-leadership, and perspective on tech innovation in the world of software development, with a deep context to help tech leaders make intelligent decisions.

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Accelerate Business Growth with an AWS SaaS Competency Partner

Welcome to our blog, where we celebrate our achievement as an AWS SaaS Competency Partner and share insights on how...

11 Jul, 2023 • 4 mins read

Hiren Dhaduk

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Digital Product Engineering

Product engineering is our craft. It's what we do and how we think. Learn more about how we integrate design, business, and technology to build great software together.

Software Development
Application Modernization
Experience Design
Product Engineering

Frontend Architecture and How to Improve its Design

When Airbnb introduced two new features, Experiences and Places, it considered redesigning its frontend architecture. The...

By Hiren Dhaduk

31 Jul, 2023

Angular vs React: Which to Choose for Your Front End in 2023?

Some say comparing Angular and React is like comparing apples to oranges. Angular is a JavaScript...

By Hiren Dhaduk

1 Dec, 2023

How do Online Auctions Work: A Comprehensive Guide For Online Auction Technology

Whether you have attended an online auction, Hollywood movies, and shows have made it popular among...

By Hiren Dhaduk

24 Mar, 2023

Step-by-Step Guide on How to Build an Auction Website

Technology is continually reshaping our world. The same applies to the auction industry, where there has...

By Hiren Dhaduk

23 Mar, 2023

Enterprise Application Integration – Connecting Businesses Digitally

In today’s fast-paced digital era, businesses rely on different applications for operations like supply chain management...

By Hiren Dhaduk

17 Mar, 2023

Node.js Performance: Best Ways to Notch Up the Application Speed

The market popularity of a web application directly or indirectly depends on the performance of its...

By Hiren Dhaduk

1 Mar, 2023

Network Modernization: How to Modernize Your Network Infrastructure?

As the digital landscape continues to evolve rapidly, organizations are grappling with the challenges posed by...

By Tejas Kaneriya

22 May, 2023

End-of-Life Software: Definition, Risks & Solutions

Picture yourself driving a car that's past its prime. It may have served you well in...

By Tejas Kaneriya

22 Mar, 2023

Data Modernization: Realize the Transformative Powers of Data

IDC predicted the amount of digital data generated to grow to 175 ZB by 2025. This...

By Tejas Kaneriya

3 Mar, 2023

AWS Application Modernization: Best Tools And Practices to Modernize Your Apps

Over 1 million businesses worldwide use AWS actively to modernize, develop, deploy, test, and maintain their...

By Tejas Kaneriya

28 Feb, 2023

UI/UX Application Modernization: Delivering Exceptional Experiences

Last year, when Apple launched the iPhone 14 series, the dynamic island's introduction was the talk...

By Tejas Kaneriya

10 Feb, 2023

How to Have “Security Nightmare-Free” Application Modernization?

While on the journey to modernization, businesses can encounter various technical, cultural, and process-oriented challenges. Meanwhile,...

By Tejas Kaneriya

7 Feb, 2023

What Are Design Systems And How They Help Building Frontend Architectures

The companies are usually made up of only a few and small teams in their early...

By Hiren Dhaduk

23 Jul, 2021

How Paypal, Walmart, and Farfetch Leveraged Component Reusability to Scale Frontend

Component reusability is one of the common buzzwords in application development, which decides the extent to...

By Hiren Dhaduk

21 Jul, 2021

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Composing UI to scale – How Dazn, Vonage, and SmallCase do it.

Micro-frontend architecture has gained a lot of popularity lately, and rightly so. This frontend architecture breaks...

By Hiren Dhaduk

19 Jul, 2021

Preview- Align frontend teams with architecture

How to Align Your Front-End Team Structure with Architecture

Scaling up from a startup is a major transition for any organization. It is no secret...

By Hiren Dhaduk

18 Jul, 2021

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Component Based Development: The Definitive Guide to Making a Scalable Frontend

Fast, scalable, and flexible aren't the terms you associate with frontend monoliths as, by nature, they...

By Hiren Dhaduk

18 May, 2021

Top 8 eCommerce UX Strategies to Improve Conversion Rates

Call it easy or difficult, the mantra for success for any eCommerce business is “win over...

By Jignesh Solanki

24 Jun, 2020

Reasons Software Product Engineeing Projects Fail

8 Reasons Why Software Product Engineering Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them

Knight Capital Group, a financial services firm, lost $440 million in 45 minutes due to a...

By Hiren Dhaduk

27 Nov, 2023

CTO’s Guide to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a Digital Product

When it comes to evaluating technological investments, ROI is a standard practice. Yet, to derive an...

By Hiren Dhaduk

20 Nov, 2023

How to Scale Your Engineering Team to Accommodate Growth

On the surface, it may seem that scaling an engineering team is the best way to...

By Hiren Dhaduk

3 Nov, 2023

Scalable Products: Why, When, and How to Scale Your Digital Product?

FIFA World Cup 2022 was a massive spectacle for football fans worldwide. But when England faced...

By Hiren Dhaduk

9 Aug, 2023

The Roadmap to Digital Product Development: 6 Stages You Need to Master

The digital product development process involves market research to validate the product idea and prototyping, building,...

By Hiren Dhaduk

29 May, 2023

Red Flags That Indicate That You Need An Product Engineering Expert

15 Red Flags That Your Product Needs Help From an Engineering Expert

Imagine you're on a road trip, driving at 60 mph. Suddenly, you hear a strange noise...

By Hiren Dhaduk

26 May, 2023

Building Battle-tested Software Architecture: Lessons from Top Tech Companies

A collection of lessons from top tech companies for evolving software architecture at scale.

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Cloud, DevOps, and Data Engineering

There are 3 pillars of digital transformation: Cloud, DevOps, and Data. Master them by learning lesser-known strategies, industry best practices, and lessons from tech giants.

Cloud App Development
DevOps
Data Engineering

How does Microservices Architecture Work? A Complete Guide

In our previous blog, we covered the fundamental aspects of microservices, such as their definition, advantages,...

By Hiren Dhaduk

1 Dec, 2023

Supply Chain Automation With AWS Services: Top 10 Use Cases

The supply chain is the lifeblood of any business. An efficient and resilient supply chain enables...

By Hiren Dhaduk

3 Nov, 2023

Top Tech Trends in Logistics and How AWS Facilitates Them

The logistics industry is undergoing a digital revolution. In 2022, the global digital transformation market in...

By Hiren Dhaduk

20 Oct, 2023

Cost Optimization Multi-tenant SaaS Application

Optimizing the Cost of Multi-tenant SaaS Applications

Shopify, starting as a single-tenant application, soon migrated to multi-tenancy. And that’s how it was able...

By Hiren Dhaduk

26 Sep, 2023

Optimizing Supply Chain: AWS Cloud is the Real Game Changer

Modern supply chains are growing more complex as they expand into global networks of manufacturers, suppliers,...

By Hiren Dhaduk

22 Sep, 2023

AWS HIPAA Compliance: Ensuring Data Security in Healthcare

In 2022, an average of 1.94 healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records were reported...

By Hiren Dhaduk

11 Jul, 2023

Kubernetes Architecture and Components with Diagram

Kubernetes has become the caped crusader for many companies, eliminating the anarchy that microservices implementation can...

By Hiren Dhaduk

29 Aug, 2023

11 Powerful Docker Alternatives to Revolutionize Containerization in 2023

Docker gained popularity for simplifying application packaging and deployment via portable containers. This was beneficial for...

By Hiren Dhaduk

1 Dec, 2023

DevOps, CI/CD and Containerization: 44 Images Explaining a Winning Trio

Finally, the modern software development industry has found the solution to many of its development-related issues...

By Hiren Dhaduk

28 Jun, 2023

Why and How to Make Observability a Part of Your Development Culture

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, building and maintaining reliable distributed systems is more critical than...

By Hiren Dhaduk

2 May, 2023

6 Observability Design Patterns for Microservices Every CTO Should Know

With benefits like scalability, elasticity, reliability, and resiliency, microservices have become the de-facto standard for software...

By Hiren Dhaduk

12 Jan, 2023

How do You Fit Observability within Testing & QA? We have Got Answers!

Testing is a best-case scenario to validate the system's correctness. But, it doesn’t predict the failure...

By Hiren Dhaduk

20 Dec, 2022

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Building a Data Pipeline? Don’t Overlook These 7 Factors

Picture this: You are a mobile game developer monetizing game levels by tracking player progress. You...

By Hiren Dhaduk

31 May, 2023

Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake vs. Data Lakehouse: Which Is Better for Your Business?

CIOs in all fields have a hard time getting control of the growing amount of data...

By Hiren Dhaduk

31 Mar, 2023

30+ Top Data Engineering Tools for Each Stage of a Data Pipeline

The global data engineering services and big data market is projected to reach $87.37 billion by...

By Hiren Dhaduk

14 Mar, 2023

ETL vs ELT: Which is Best for Your Business?

As data continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, it's more important than ever to understand...

By Hiren Dhaduk

24 Feb, 2023

Stream Processing: How it Works, Use Cases & Popular Frameworks

Here’s an interesting (and most familiar) analogy for stream processing: it is human. Most activities we...

By Hiren Dhaduk

15 Feb, 2023

How to Build A Real-Time Social Media Sentiment Analysis Data Pipeline

In just 4 years, a whopping 6 billion users – that’s half of the world's population,...

By Hiren Dhaduk

31 Jan, 2023

CTOs Handbook to Build an Enterprise Kubernetes Strategy

Learn from GitHub, Spotify, and other tech superpowers.

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Technology Practices

Reliable tech is at the foundation of any successful digital product. Find the best technologies for specific use cases and dig into processes that guarantee results.

Software Testing & QA
IoT
Performance Engineering
AI/ML Development

What is Regression Testing? Explained with Test Cases, Tools, and Methods

Ever wondered how your favorite apps and software stay awesome even after countless updates? Picture this:...

By Hardik Shah

28 Nov, 2022

Mobile App Testing: QA’s Guide to Types, Challenges, and Best Practices

What is mobile application testing? Mobile application testing refers to the process of how mobile app testers...

By Hardik Shah

22 Jun, 2022

Types of Software Testing in Detail

There’s good software, and then there’s exceptional software. The key to what sets them apart is...

By Hardik Shah

7 Feb, 2022

What is Integration Testing? Definition, Tools, and Examples

Ensuring that different components of your system work harmoniously together is essential for success in the...

By Hardik Shah

31 Jan, 2022

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State of Test Automation Survey 2022: Statistics That’ll Surprise You!

The most common answer to the need for test automation is to reduce the time for...

By Hiren Dhaduk

10 Jan, 2022

Unit Testing Best Practices: 10 Ways To Make The Most Out Of Your Tests

When Google’s Web Server team introduced a unit testing culture, they determined that no code or...

By Hardik Shah

1 Nov, 2021

How to Make a GPS Tracking System for Vehicle and Fleet Tracking

You are probably looking at GPS tracking systems for vehicles, likely because you want to: Leverage...

By Hardik Shah

10 Feb, 2021

Introduction to BLE security for IoT

With a handful of protocols leading the Internet of things, Bluetooth security for IoT becomes extremely...

By Hardik Shah

5 Jan, 2021

Home Automation Protocols for the Internet of Things

Home automation means, using Internet of Things (IoT) to connect and control household devices and appliances....

By Hardik Shah

28 Apr, 2019

Home Automation Using the Internet of Things (IoT)

What really would compel someone to actually develop a product which is a complete IoT-based home...

By Hardik Shah

20 Mar, 2019

Building Industrial IoT with IOTA: Introduction and How IOTA Works

Blockchain is making a loud, impactful noise on the digital front of our world. And, we...

By Hardik Shah

6 Jan, 2019

IOTA for Industrial IoT – IOTA node setup and implementation

If you are new to IOTA, go through our introduction of building Industrial IoT with IOTA...

By Hardik Shah

21 Feb, 2018

Observability vs. Monitoring: Similarities, Differences, and Use Cases

Observability vs. monitoring? Is that a question you should ask? No. Ever since applications were first...

By Hiren Dhaduk

3 Nov, 2022

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From Traditional APM to Enterprise Observability: An Ultimate Guide

Monitoring systems have been became a part of the IT industry for a while now. It...

By Hiren Dhaduk

3 Oct, 2022

Angular Performance Tuning: 15 Ways to Upgrade your Web Apps

Angular is, by default, a powerful and high performing front-end framework. Yet, unexpected challenges are bound...

By Hiren Dhaduk

22 Apr, 2020

React Performance – 13 Ways to Optimize Performance of your React App

React is one such example of UI framework which is considered best in terms of rendering...

By Hardik Shah

22 Apr, 2019

React Native Performance: Major issues and insights on improving your app’s performance

React native seems to offer a promising solution for those who want a viable framework to...

By Hardik Shah

16 Nov, 2017

How to Improve your Mobile App’s Performance?

Last year, on a flight back to London, I traveled with a mobility industry practitioner. He...

By Hardik Shah

18 Aug, 2017

LLM hallucination: Causes and How to Reduce Them

The Curious Case of LLM Hallucination: Causes and Tips to Reduce its Risks

Large language models (LLMs) are remarkable tools for processing vast data and generating human-like text. They...

By Hiren Dhaduk

26 Oct, 2023

Google Bard vs ChatGPT: A Comparative Analysis

The global AI industry is experiencing unprecedented growth, with a projected CAGR of 38.1%. By 2030,...

By Hiren Dhaduk

13 Oct, 2023

Llama 2: A Comprehensive Guide

In the vast arena of large language models (LLMs), a new contender, Large Language Model Meta...

By Hiren Dhaduk

10 Oct, 2023

AI for IoT Towards a connected and Intelligent future

AI For IoT: Paving the Way to a Connected and Intelligent Future

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming with Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration. As this combination provides...

By Hiren Dhaduk

9 Oct, 2023

Diffusion Models and How Business Can Benefit

The Art and Science Behind Diffusion Models: How Businesses Can Benefit

With the launch of Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, diffusion models have pushed machine learning...

By Hiren Dhaduk

9 Oct, 2023

15 Best Open-Source LLMs of 2023 You Need to Know

LLMs have evolved from humble beginnings in neural networks and deep learning to the sophistication of...

By Hiren Dhaduk

12 Sep, 2023

CTO’s Handbook for Building Scalable Frontend

Lessons from Paypal, Jira, Walmart, and Pipedrive, and more.

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News & Insights

Your software is as good as your team. Learn what goes into building a team that best complements your software and business.

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Tech Insights

Simform Achieves Service Delivery Partnership for AWS Control Tower

Simform has recently achieved an AWS Control Tower Delivery Partnership, highlighting our proven expertise in leveraging...

By Hiren Dhaduk

29 Nov, 2023

Simform Achieves AWS Service Delivery Partnership for Amazon Connect

Simform has achieved Amazon Connect Service Delivery Partnership achievement, adding to its long list of advanced...

By Hiren Dhaduk

21 Nov, 2023

Simform Achieves AWS Migration Competency

Cloud migration to AWS empowers businesses with scalability, cost savings, security, and innovation. Leveraging advanced tools...

By Hiren Dhaduk

31 Oct, 2023

Simform Achieves AWS Service Delivery Partnership for AWS Systems Manager

Simform proudly announces the achievement of the AWS Systems Manager Service Delivery Partnership, solidifying our expertise...

By Hiren Dhaduk

12 Oct, 2023

Optimize Your AWS Resource Inventory with an AWS Config Delivery Partner

Simform proudly announces its official status as an AWS Config Delivery Partner, highlighting our proficiency in...

By Hiren Dhaduk

6 Oct, 2023

Enable Efficient Data Integrations with Expert AWS Glue Delivery Partner

Simform proudly announces the achievement of the AWS Glue delivery partnership, cementing our expertise in delivering...

By Hiren Dhaduk

5 Oct, 2023

Top Programming Languages of 2023: A Compilation of Key Statistics

With constant changes in the software development trends, the popularity of programming languages also undergoes significant...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

30 May, 2022

Virtual Reality: Humanities Stepping Stone or Downfall?

The conception behind a false realm, a virtual world where you can do what feels like...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

7 Apr, 2022

Top 23 Tech Startups to Watch in Houston in 2023

Houston has gradually become a land of unicorns. According to the report, Houston has recently welcomed...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

9 Feb, 2022

Top 30 Tech Companies in Houston Defining the City’s 2023 Tech Scene

While Houston is a major hub for the energy, aerospace, and defense sector, the city’s tech...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

1 Feb, 2022

Top Startups in Miami To Watch Out For Your Business In 2023

The Miami region has been booming recently for startups, especially with several new investments and ideas...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

18 Jan, 2022

Top Tech Companies to Watch in Minneapolis in 2023

When you think of the United States’s tech hubs, you will find cities like San Diego,...

By Rohit Akiwatkar

10 Jan, 2022

How Microservices are Transforming Industries

20+ Ways Microservices are Transforming Industries :Use Cases from Capital One, Facebook, Uber, and more

This eBook talks about the different industries that have adopted microservices and took businesses to the next level through digital transformations.

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Digital Product Engineering

Frontend Architecture and How to Improve its Design

Angular vs React: Which to Choose for Your Front End in 2023?

How do Online Auctions Work: A Comprehensive Guide For Online Auction Technology

Step-by-Step Guide on How to Build an Auction Website

Enterprise Application Integration – Connecting Businesses Digitally

Node.js Performance: Best Ways to Notch Up the Application Speed

Network Modernization: How to Modernize Your Network Infrastructure?

End-of-Life Software: Definition, Risks & Solutions

Data Modernization: Realize the Transformative Powers of Data

AWS Application Modernization: Best Tools And Practices to Modernize Your Apps

UI/UX Application Modernization: Delivering Exceptional Experiences

How to Have “Security Nightmare-Free” Application Modernization?

What Are Design Systems And How They Help Building Frontend Architectures

How Paypal, Walmart, and Farfetch Leveraged Component Reusability to Scale Frontend

Composing UI to scale – How Dazn, Vonage, and SmallCase do it.

How to Align Your Front-End Team Structure with Architecture

Component Based Development: The Definitive Guide to Making a Scalable Frontend

Top 8 eCommerce UX Strategies to Improve Conversion Rates

8 Reasons Why Software Product Engineering Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them

CTO’s Guide to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a Digital Product

How to Scale Your Engineering Team to Accommodate Growth

Scalable Products: Why, When, and How to Scale Your Digital Product?

The Roadmap to Digital Product Development: 6 Stages You Need to Master

15 Red Flags That Your Product Needs Help From an Engineering Expert

Building Battle-tested Software Architecture: Lessons from Top Tech Companies

Cloud, DevOps, and Data Engineering

How does Microservices Architecture Work? A Complete Guide

Supply Chain Automation With AWS Services: Top 10 Use Cases

Top Tech Trends in Logistics and How AWS Facilitates Them

Optimizing the Cost of Multi-tenant SaaS Applications

Optimizing Supply Chain: AWS Cloud is the Real Game Changer

AWS HIPAA Compliance: Ensuring Data Security in Healthcare

Kubernetes Architecture and Components with Diagram

11 Powerful Docker Alternatives to Revolutionize Containerization in 2023

DevOps, CI/CD and Containerization: 44 Images Explaining a Winning Trio

Why and How to Make Observability a Part of Your Development Culture

6 Observability Design Patterns for Microservices Every CTO Should Know

How do You Fit Observability within Testing & QA? We have Got Answers!

Building a Data Pipeline? Don’t Overlook These 7 Factors

Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake vs. Data Lakehouse: Which Is Better for Your Business?

30+ Top Data Engineering Tools for Each Stage of a Data Pipeline

ETL vs ELT: Which is Best for Your Business?

Stream Processing: How it Works, Use Cases & Popular Frameworks

How to Build A Real-Time Social Media Sentiment Analysis Data Pipeline

CTOs Handbook to Build an Enterprise Kubernetes Strategy

Technology Practices

What is Regression Testing? Explained with Test Cases, Tools, and Methods

Mobile App Testing: QA’s Guide to Types, Challenges, and Best Practices

Types of Software Testing in Detail

What is Integration Testing? Definition, Tools, and Examples

State of Test Automation Survey 2022: Statistics That’ll Surprise You!

Unit Testing Best Practices: 10 Ways To Make The Most Out Of Your Tests

How to Make a GPS Tracking System for Vehicle and Fleet Tracking

Introduction to BLE security for IoT

Home Automation Protocols for the Internet of Things

Home Automation Using the Internet of Things (IoT)

Building Industrial IoT with IOTA: Introduction and How IOTA Works

IOTA for Industrial IoT – IOTA node setup and implementation

Observability vs. Monitoring: Similarities, Differences, and Use Cases

From Traditional APM to Enterprise Observability: An Ultimate Guide

Angular Performance Tuning: 15 Ways to Upgrade your Web Apps

React Performance – 13 Ways to Optimize Performance of your React App

React Native Performance: Major issues and insights on improving your app’s performance

How to Improve your Mobile App’s Performance?

The Curious Case of LLM Hallucination: Causes and Tips to Reduce its Risks

Google Bard vs ChatGPT: A Comparative Analysis

Llama 2: A Comprehensive Guide

AI For IoT: Paving the Way to a Connected and Intelligent Future

The Art and Science Behind Diffusion Models: How Businesses Can Benefit

15 Best Open-Source LLMs of 2023 You Need to Know

CTO’s Handbook for Building Scalable Frontend

News & Insights

Simform Achieves Service Delivery Partnership for AWS Control Tower

Simform Achieves AWS Service Delivery Partnership for Amazon Connect