30 articles by Xavier Redó
How AI helped us bring back one-on-ones at MarsBased
With the help of AI, we finally solved one of our biggest management challenges at MarsBased, keeping one-on-ones consistent, meaningful, and well-documented across the team.
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Candidates priorities are changing
Candidates' priorities are shifting from methodology and how we work to how we economically manage our company and how we are financed.
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Scale IoT backends horizontally with MQTT Shared Subscriptions
In IoT architectures, choosing the right broker and strategy for consuming data is crucial. I recommend using message broker rules for scalability. If that doesn't fit your needs, consider messaging protocol strategies such as MQTT Shared Subscriptions.
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Comparison of MQTT Brokers for IoT
In our recent IoT project for Ecler, we designed their cloud platform and supporting systems for connected amplifiers and sound systems. During the development, we tested three message broker solutions: Mosquitto, NanoMQ, and EMQX. Here are the pros and cons we found for each one of them.
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Image optimization, delivery and CLS
Learn how to optimize web images: compress files, serve the right resolution, use WebP/AVIF, leverage CDNs, and eliminate cumulative layout shift (CLS).
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Query data from PostgreSQL to represent it in a time series graph
In this blog post, our CTO, Xavi, will show us how to query data from PostgreSQL to represent it in a time series graph.
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MySQL deferred constraints and unique checks
MySQL and PostgreSQL are very similar but not exact. Take a look at this scenario that works with PostgreSQL but not with MySQL.
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Remember to vacuum your databases!
There's a way to declutter PostgreSQL databases that will impact the performance of your projects. Learn about vacuum.
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Be more available to the rest of the team
At MarsBased, we've been following the "Less is more" approach in many areas. We prefer to develop fewer features and, then, evolve them. We prefer to have a limited set of tools over too many of them doing small things.
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Not taking decisions is frustrating
As much as you can read about business and about how to manage your own company, you will never be prepared to face this hard reality: slowly and gradually, decisions take more and more of your daily time and mental bandwidth.
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Bespoke development as an alternative to Wordpress
Last year, we started working for an international marketing agency. One of the main reasons they chose us is because they understood that quick-and-dirty development on Wordpress just didn’t cut it anymore for them, and they wanted to invest in bespoke technology.
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How we interview developers
We're wrapping a really good year. 2019 has brought us new clients, new friends and lots of experiences learnt. We'd like to be thankful for everything we've lived this year, and to everyone who's shared the ride with us.
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