Xavier Redó

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.

Candidates' priorities are shifting from methodology and how we work to how we economically manage our company and how we are financed.

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.

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.

Learn how to optimize web images: compress files, serve the right resolution, use WebP/AVIF, leverage CDNs, and eliminate cumulative layout shift (CLS).

In this blog post, our CTO, Xavi, will show us how to query data from PostgreSQL to represent it in a time series graph.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are very similar but not exact. Take a look at this scenario that works with PostgreSQL but not with MySQL.

There's a way to declutter PostgreSQL databases that will impact the performance of your projects. Learn about vacuum.

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.

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.

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.

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.