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Solving a Problem That Didn't Exist

Solving a Problem That Didn't Exist

Why platform engineering took a decade to become obvious Part 1 of our Platform Engineering series By Colin Griffin, Founder and CEO, Krumware If you've spent any time around modern engineering organizations, you've heard "platform engineering" thrown around a lot lately. If you’ve

Design is Your Platform Engineering Superpower

The world of platform engineering is rapidly evolving, often prioritizing technical excellence and speed. However, there's a powerful, yet frequently overlooked, element that can transform your platform from a functional tool to a widely adopted, loved product: Design. Our CEO Colin Griffin and Senior UX Designer Ryan Hallak

Maestro for Everyone

Maestro for Everyone

Complex workflows in mobile application development have made automated testing a necessity. And although End to End testing patterns are a godsend, they can be a pain to work with in a mobile app development environment. That’s where Maestro comes in. It is an open-source, mobile UI automation

Building a Document Conversion Micro service Using LibreOffice, Golang, and gRPC

Turning user input into downloadable documents is easy until you need PDFs, DOCX, XLSX documents, oh and it has to work offline. You also most likely don’t want to pay for a SaaS solution either. Our solution at Krumware? Golang, gRPC, and a headless LibreOffice instance. We started off

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Kubevirt Up and Running (and a Windows VM)

As container technology continues to advance, Virtual Machines are following suit. Hyperconverged infrastructure is becoming incredibly useful, not only for providing a stop gap for migrating legacy workloads, but also for creating familiar and secure environments. Operators of virtual machines and containers alike now have many methods and tools to

Expo iOS Build Failing with OneSignal? Here’s the Fix

Expo iOS Build Failing with OneSignal? Here’s the Fix

When picking a tech stack for developing cross platform mobile applications, it becomes difficult to ignore Expo. Expo provides developers with a framework, built on top of React Native, for building apps for both Android and iOS. EAS (Expo Application Services) gives developers access to cloud-based build and deployment

Managing a UX Team of One (as a non-design leader)

Managing a UX Team of One (as a non-design leader)

At development-focused tech companies, there are often less resources available to invest in design teams than in engineering teams. That’s not to say that designers aren’t critical to the product development process - in fact, having a well run design department is what separates many successful product launches

The true cost of cheap

The true cost of cheap

I was told something early in my career that has always stuck with me: "Everyone wants things Good, Cheap, and Fast, but you can only choose two." I have found this to be true in many aspects of life, but ESPECIALLY when it comes to software development. So

Visual Testing in Next.js with Percy and Cypress

Visual Testing in Next.js with Percy and Cypress

While continuing to develop your frontend user interfaces, it's imperative to know that new changes you are making are not causing unwanted side-effects in other areas of your application. However, doing QA on the entirety of your application every time a PR is merged can become extremely

Doing our Part to End the Opioid Crisis

Doing our Part to End the Opioid Crisis

Hi Krumworld! We could not be more excited to announce the publication of our first academic research paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics! Working with Wake Forest University, our team of Colin Griffin, Hunter Adams, and Stephen Bryant adapted the open-source Gen3 platform to build a Data Commons

Krumware Inc. 5000 Announcement

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Krumware Inc. 5000 Announcement

Krumware is proud to announce its inclusion in this year's Inc5000 list!

Replacing Docker Desktop with Rancher Desktop

Replacing Docker Desktop with Rancher Desktop

Jump into local kubernetes development

Employee Spotlight

Hunter Adams

Applications Engineer // Bachelor's degree in Computer Science -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the office, you're known to blast black metal through your headphones while you work. How would you describe black metal to someone who is unfamiliar with the genre? Black metal is the most diverse genre of music on

Getting Started with Web Accessibility

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Getting Started with Web Accessibility

One common, but unfortunate, victim of an aggressive application development timeline, is Accessibility. We understand that there are tradeoffs or compromises that are made in the race to get to market, such as performance enhancements, "nice-to-haves", and integrations, but Accessibility often also loses out as one

Employee Spotlight

Kelsey Baker

Designer // Associates Degree in Liberal Arts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How did you discover Krumware, and what attracted you to the company? In 2017 I came across Krumware purely by chance. I was in college full-time for graphic design and illustration, and the closest I had ever gotten to working in the UI/

Employee Spotlight

Richie Carter

Business Operations // Bachelor's Degree in Finance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unlike most of your coworkers, you don’t have much of a background working with software. As you entered an unfamiliar industry, what was that transition like? Were there any surprises along the way? It was scary. I started off doing sales

Employee Spotlight

Rudra Gupta

Applications Engineer // Master's Degree in Computer Science -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While there is a little bit of a debate about who was truly first, you were one of the first employees to be hired at Krumware. How did you find out about the job opportunity and how was it in the

Pandemic Pivot: Reinventing the Escape Room Experience

Pandemic Pivot: Reinventing the Escape Room Experience

Krumware sits down for a covid pivot conversation with Kevin Williams, owner of Escapology Columbia

Serverless Websockets on AWS

Serverless Websockets on AWS

Let’s say that you have an application that uses a Websocket to send and receive data, but it relies on a server that must run on a dedicated host, that is it either needs to live in a container, or run directly on the operating system. This could potentially

Battle Stations

Battle Stations

Battle Stations

Since COVID-19 forced most of us to work from home, we thought it would be fun to highlight the Battle Stations (read: WFH set-ups) that our team members have created for themselves. Each week, we'll showcase one of our team members' Battle Stations by highlighting

Planning a Project at Krumware

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Planning a Project at Krumware

The projects Krumware works on can start in many ways. Sometimes, a client might have an idea they need help implementing. Maybe a client just knows they need to innovate in technology, but they're not sure where to start. Sometimes our employees come up with ideas or we

Creating and Commenting on Design Issues in Github

Creating and Commenting on Design Issues in Github

Using Github as a designer can feel foreign, but the benefits are well worth it. In this article I'm going to share some tips and processes that work for our team; hopefully they work for you too! Creating and Labeling Your Issue Github is predominantly a development tool,

Introduction to Creating Slack Applications with NodeJS

Introduction to Creating Slack Applications with NodeJS

Learn how to build Slack applications and create slack commands to increase project management by using Google Chrome Extensions.