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Daria Stolyar is a Marketing Manager at Rubyroid Labs. You can follow her at Linkedin.

Estimating a software development project is probably one of the harshest topics in relationships between customer and company. And in the majority of cases the question is not only about charging the right sum, but also providing realistic expectations management and marketing can rely on. At the same time, estimating a project is the least transparent part of project development. So we decided to start a short series of articles (see part 2 here) to uncover the shades a little.

Refactoring your code is no less important than writing the code itself. And writing on Ruby on Rails is no exception here, though you can face some additional challenges here. Today we will cover how to refactor it right, if you use Ruby on Rails for your project.

If you ever coded with Ruby on Rails, you probably are already aware that Garbage Collector is its Achilles’ heel. Though it has been significantly improved through the last couple of years, it still has plenty room for improvement. It is hard to find a Ruby app that would be happy with default Garbage Collector settings. To help you with this, we decided to share with a pretty handy tool called TuneMyGC. Learn about it now!

In our web era A/B tests have become the little, but important helpers of any online product. Unlike offline competitors, we have a unique chance to try different theories and conduct some experiments with minimum effort and funds required. So it would be a crime to deprive yourself of such a chance. But not all A/B tests are efficient. Today we will learn how to develop a good A/B test theory that will actually help your business.

Today data analysis is the corner stone of the modern marketing. It not only provides managers with the precious insights on how their business is going on, but also lays great grounds for adjusting marketing strategy.

Recently, Yandex has introduced ClickHouse – a powerful open-source column-oriented database management system. We try to use it in Rubyroid Labs, so we decided to tell you a bit more about it today.

Recently Gartner has published it annual CIO Agenda Report, in which it tracked all the main trends, problems and tendencies IT leaders in big companies are facing up with. We know how reluctant you are to read huge reports with tons of information (and we don’t blame you). So we have read it for you and gathered the main takeaways form the paper in a simple language. Get insights now.

We decided that it is a good idea to share with you some secret recipes of Rubyroid Labs kitchen and shade some light on what apps we use to make our work more efficient. This time we are ready to introduce to you Redmine Time Tracking App, which we use for managing the majority of our T&M projects. Why we and our clients love it so much? Get inside to learn first.