Blog Posts Category

22Oct2024

Modernizing Legacy Codes through CI/CD Pipelines

In the rapidly evolving digital era, maintaining and modernizing legacy applications is crucial for businesses to stay competitive. The adoption of CI-CD pipelines is growing rapidly, with impressive success rates. According to a study by DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), elite performers in DevOps, Businesses that utilize CI-CD practices, deploy code 208 times more frequently […]

10Oct2024

Automating Unit Tests Using DiffBlue

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing and maintaining unit tests is a critical aspect of ensuring the reliability and stability of your codebase. Unit tests help identify and rectify bugs early in development, saving time and resources in the long run. However, writing unit tests manually can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. […]

28Dec2023

The Evolution of Agile Integration: Transforming the Integration Landscape

Agile integration has emerged as a transformative approach to integration in the modern software development landscape. It is a methodology that combines the principles of agile development with the need for flexible and adaptable integration solutions. In this blog, we will explore the evolution of agile integration, its benefits, and the key pillars that support […]

21Dec2023

Unleash the Potential of Event Streams: A Game-Changer in Software Engineering

In today’s data-driven world, the sheer volume of data being generated every day is growing at an exponential rate. Whether it’s data from sensors, user interactions on a website, or internal system events, our applications are expected to handle this continuous influx of new events. So, can we architect our applications in a way that […]

04Sep2023

7 Tips and Tricks for Business Process Management Development

Are you just Starting your project using a Business Process Management framework? This article will help you Organize, maintain, reuse, and make some significant progress, which is great. How does everything fit together? I learned from experience and from encounters several difficulties and I will give you some advice that will facilitate your development. Some […]

06Aug2023

The Future of Real-Time Data Processing

In the fast-paced era we live in today, data is being generated at an unprecedented rate. From social media interactions and online transactions to IoT sensor readings and machine logs, the sheer volume of data being produced is staggering. As businesses strive to harness the power of data to make informed decisions and gain a […]

31Jul2023

Application Modernization: Enabling DevOps for Agile and Efficient Software Development

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality software quickly and efficiently. This requires a shift away from traditional software development models towards more agile and collaborative approaches that prioritize speed, flexibility, and innovation. One such approach is DevOps, which emphasizes collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement across all teams involved […]

24Jul2023

5 Technologies driving Application Modernization

For organizations to thrive in the ever-evolving world of technology, staying relevant is crucial for businesses. That’s where application modernization comes into play, enabling businesses to revitalize their legacy systems and take advantage of cutting-edge technologies. In this blog, we will dive into the key technologies driving application modernization and explore how they are reshaping […]

21Jun2023

Tactical Domain Driven Design

In the previous article, we talked about strategic design and how it helps us construct bounded contexts, and its relationships. In the next section we will talk about Tactical design. Tactical Design Tactical design is a set of tools that helps construct a Domain model for each Bounded context. It helps clarify Business […]

13Apr2023

Application Modernization Best Practices

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses need to keep up with the latest technological advancements to stay competitive. One of the most crucial aspects of digital transformation is application modernization. This blog post will discuss what application modernization is, why it’s essential, and how businesses can leverage it to drive digital transformation. What […]

11Apr2023

Incredible Application Modernization within the Digital Age

The digital age has brought about rapid changes in the business landscape, with businesses constantly seeking new ways to improve their processes and stay ahead of the competition. One of the most important ways to achieve this is through application modernization. Which is a crucial process that helps businesses keep up with the changing technology […]

14Mar2023

How to Leverage Integration: the Transition from SOA to ESB to APIs

Introduction When it comes to making sure your digital business runs smoothly and efficiently, nothing is more important than integration. But what do we mean when we talk about integration – and more important, how do you make it work? Integration can be a daunting concept – but it doesn’t have to be. […]

09Mar2023

The Future of Agile Integration & Digital Transformation

Introduction Digital transformation has become a buzzword in the business world as companies race to keep up with the rapid pace of technological advancements. Organizations are shifting their focus towards customer-centricity, flexibility, and agility to remain relevant and competitive. In this blog post, we will explore the future of digital transformation and agile integration […]

08Mar2023

Top Four Integration Modernization Best Practices

In today’s fast-paced digital world, digital transformation has become a top priority for businesses of all sizes. To stay competitive and relevant, organizations must keep up with the rapidly changing technological advancements, and one of the most critical components of digital transformation is Agile Integration. It is a modern approach to integration that enables […]

14Dec2022

Database Events & Triggers

Database, Triggers

Every software engineer has a common goal in mind, to create and maintain a high-performance application. In order to achieve such a goal, the infrastructure of the application, the database, needs to be monitored regularly. Database monitoring involves the tracking of the database performance and resources. However, as you may have already guessed, database monitoring […]

15Nov2022

7 Tips to Become a Good Software Engineer

My journey from “Hello World” to “How to be a Good Software Engineer?”. I think many of you have thought of this question multiple times especially if you just started your career. And let me tell you that you’re likely wrong about what makes great software engineers. Some would think that you need […]

31Oct2022

Our Digital Transformation Partnerships & You

For more than 15 years, Sumerge has been working tirelessly to provide the best solutions and services it can, all the while aiding market in its digital transformation journey. To achieve that, Sumerge and IBM have been working closely to develop shared success providing exceptional products, services, and support. Sumerge was awarded the Gold Business […]

21Sep2022

Microservices & The Telecom Industry

Recently microservices have been getting considerable attention from software developers and architects, as the urge to build scalable applications that could be easily deployed and maintained became a necessity for not only tech companies, but also a multitude of industries as technology continues to invade our world. Companies used to follow an overly complex […]

23Aug2022

Design Patterns

What are design patterns? Design patterns are general solutions providing a way to solve problems that commonly arise during software development. These solutions are proven through tests, trial and errors to be effective in improving overall code efficiency and readability. A design pattern is a template or a general concept that a developer can apply […]

08Mar2022

Basics of Cloud Computing

What is cloud computing? The term cloud refers to the internet or an intranet over which data can be stored, accessed, and processed on remote servers rather than local servers. Cloud computing services could be used by companies for data storage, data analytics, networking, software, and a lot more. The National Institute of Standards and […]

08Mar2022

The UX of Using Integration

21Feb2022

Quartz Job Scheduler

Quartz is a job scheduling open-source library that can be used within any Java application of various scales ranging from small projects to large scale systems. Quartz can be used to schedule any number of jobs even thousands of them; jobs that are defined as Java classes to be executed. When to use it? Quartz […]

06Feb2022

Progressive Web Applications

If you’re anything like me, then you probably find yourself falling into the habit of downloading apps only to delete them a couple of days later to save up some storage, even though you’re fully aware of the fact that it’s not practical to keep downloading and deleting or offloading these apps, yet, most of […]

24Jan2022

Sumerge Business Analysis Guide: 7 Tips to become a good business analyst

Elicitation, documentation, validation, adaptation and stakeholder conflict mitigation are all things I never thought I was getting myself into when I decided to shift career and become a business analyst just over a year ago. Despite working with all similar concepts theoretically in Academic research, experiencing them in the industry felt extremely unfamiliar. I […]

01Dec2021

Pair Programming

Pair Programming is a highly debated topic on whether it’s beneficial and is worth the effort undertaken to apply this practice. In this blog, we will discuss this topic including its different practices, benefits you will gain if you apply it, and challenges you will face when introducing it to the team as well as […]

08Nov2021

How Project Managers can Lead Agile Practices

Agile project management is an iterative way of planning and guiding a project. One of the successful and most suitable methods for software development is agile software development methodology as it takes a prominent place among the software development methodologies. This blog shows how Agile project management is the most suitable way for delivering projects […]

25Oct2021

Mutation Testing

Have you ever thought about creating unit tests with good coverage but thought that it was hard or choosing the unit test data stopped you from making the optimum tests? If only there was a method to test my test? What is mutation testing? Mutation testing is a software testing type that is based on […]

13Oct2021

Testing Flutter Apps

Flutter application testing is a complex process: dozens of screen resolutions, several versions of operating systems, all kinds of connection types, etc. But you just can’t hope for a successful mobile app release without it. Flutter automated testing empowers you to accomplish higher acceptance in your application since it helps you to discover bugs […]

22Sep2021

Integration in the Modern World

Whenever Integration is mentioned, our minds automatically recall integration formulas in mathematics but that’s not the case here. In the modern world where everything is connected to the internet and as more and more applications are created every day designed to stay connected, integration plays a crucial role to let them communicate smoothly and share […]

14Sep2021

Work Smart not Hard

05Sep2021

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning

“Machine Learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience.” — Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on using algorithms to find patterns in data and better understand them. It is based on creating models against certain data to make […]

22Aug2021

Quality Engineer in DevOps

Nowadays, for most people, “Quality Engineers” refers to people who perform manual testing – clicking around the user interface of the system, trying to find all kind of bugs in different places. For others, “Quality Engineers” refer to people who are highly skilled in a specialized tool to test applications. Both definitions are not entirely […]

15Aug2021

Writing a Declarative Jenkinsfile for Angular Applications

25Jul2021

Burnout in the Software Industry

Coding is one of the most interesting and fun things you ever get to do, I remember how astonished I was when I developed my first project and how much it was exciting and satisfying. I felt that we, programmers, are very lucky to get to do something that we absolutely love and appreciate the […]

23Jun2021

Automated Ticket Handling using RPA

We can all agree that robots are the future. Why would someone do a repetitive task when they can make a robot do it? Wouldn’t that make life much easier? Well, that is exactly the kind decision we made. Whenever we talk about automation, we think about minimal human intervention, and how fast it is. […]

08Jun2021

Testing Microservices Applications

In the software industry, the architecture of a software product revolves around the components that make up the software, how they are structured and how they communicate with each other to meet user demands and provide them with an added value. One of the architectural approaches that is gaining much popularity nowadays in the […]

07Jun2021

Lightweight User Stories for effective Agile & DevOps Adoption

Constructing lightweight user stories has proven time and time again their effectiveness in delivering high-quality value quickly in agile environments. In this blog, we will discuss different techniques on how to slice or break down larger user stories into smaller more bite-size user stories. Breaking down larger user stories into smaller ones help deliver value […]

17May2021

Building a declarative Jenkinsfile for Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration(CI) methodologies help developers automate code development so that code can be pushed more frequently which leads to better collaboration and faster software delivery, Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies automate the delivery of application on infrastructures such as servers, this reduces the load on developers as they only have to worry about developing the code […]

09May2021

Automated Front-End Unit Testing in Angular Framework (Part 2)

In the previous article, we discussed the different types of front-end testing and we have seen the libraries that Angular projects come bundled with to ease writing tests. Now, let’s see an example of how to test our view, components and how we can mock our component dependencies. Mocking in Angular When writing unit tests, […]

30Mar2021

Automated Front-End Unit Testing in Angular Framework (Part 1)

Automated Developer Tests is the single most powerful way to ensure built-in quality within your application. This is a scientifically proven fact. Not only you will prevent bugs when adopting developer tests but also, you will make sure that your code is written in a decoupled manner which makes your code a lot neater and […]