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The rapid pace of fintech innovation has created uncertainty about traditional banking's future. We explore why banks and fintech are headed for symbiosis rather than replacement — and what it takes to get the IT infrastructure right.

Supply chain disruptions have pushed logistics companies to reconsider their operations and adopt emerging technologies. Here is how Logistics 4.0 and the upcoming Logistics 5.0 are reshaping the industry.

Developers constantly seek to avoid repeating themselves. Here are three practical strategies for sharing JavaScript code across multiple projects, with honest trade-offs for each approach.

Analýza nadmernej úmrtnosti na Slovensku a v ďalších krajinách EÚ v roku 2020 na základe dát Eurostatu — bez ohľadu na klasifikáciu príčin smrti.

Instea introduces Conf One — a new family of conference applications built with Progressive Web App technology, enabling offline-capable, cross-platform experiences without app store downloads.

A holiday challenge to start that personal project you've always wanted to build — before the New Year resolutions even kick in.

A head-to-head comparison of Prettier and StandardJS — two popular JavaScript code formatters — to help your team stop arguing about style and focus on functionality.

React Native is a powerful technology for mobile development, but awareness in the developer community is still lacking. Instea shares free presentation slides and encourages developers to spread the word.

A practical guide to the compatibility challenges encountered when porting a React Native app from Android to iOS, with concrete solutions for fonts, platform-specific components, touchables, and more.

Instea releases an open-source React Native color picker component with cross-platform support for Android and iOS, multiple color formats, and easy integration.

Lessons learned from creating Instea's first open source project — a context menu component for React Native.

Initial steps in server monitoring using Kibana and Elasticsearch — collecting Spring Boot metrics and building a visualization dashboard.

An overview of asynchronous programming patterns in JavaScript — callbacks, async library, Promises (ES6), and async/await (ES7).

A review of the Reactive 2015 conference held in Bratislava, covering CSS Modules, CRDT data synchronization, Flux at Scale, React Native, and more.

A summary of an Instea tech talk on npm version 2, covering dependency management, semantic versioning, devDependencies, and best practices for JavaScript projects.

A summary of the first Instea tech talk session covering Git fundamentals: merge vs rebase, stash, git fetch, log visualization, and aliases.

How to configure wro4j (Web Resource Optimizer for Java) with Spring Boot using runtime mode and an HTTP filter, without any third-party Spring Boot starters.

An informal benchmark comparing Netflix Zuul and Nginx as reverse proxies for microservices, showing that Zuul's performance approaches Nginx after JIT warmup.

How to use Mockito's ArgumentCaptor with parameterized generic types like List<Long> using a double cast to work around Java's type erasure.