Why We Advocate Test-Driven Development
Gerald Weinberg, an American computer scientist, once famously stated that "If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, [then] the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation." While this was far from a…
Paving the Way for Startup Success: Our Two-Week Method
If you like to keep up with tech news, you will have undoubtedly heard of the freshly pressed Juicero debacle. In a viral video, Bloomberg reporters demonstrated how the company's expensive juice packs could easily…
Is Faceted Search Right for You?
Although nowadays, if you google “hp zbook vs elitebook,” you will instantly find relevant results, during the internet’s humble beginnings, we had to click and scroll through countless pages. Of course, at the time, search…
RFID: A Swiss Army Knife for Visionary Companies
Every now and then, our customers require a little more than software code to fully realise their creative objectives. In these cases, while we do not claim to be hardware manufacturers, Software Planet Group are…
Programming Technologies: The True Cost of a Wrong Choice
Just as in the fashion industry, the development world is prone to occasionally give in to fleeting trends. New and exciting programming languages often take companies by storm, spawning in the whirlwind a flurry of…
The Internet of Things: Where Hardware and Software Unite
Who can forget the joyously nostalgic opening scene from The Lego Movie? In addition to getting the hit song "Everything is Awesome" stuck in our heads for days, the film unrelentingly reminded us of all…
The Benefits of Microservices and Are They Needed?
We often encounter customers who believe their problems are entirely unique to their organisations, but this is actually rarely the case. In reality, Software Planet Group are continuously tackling recurring problems in development. This is…
So What’s Big Data Really Worth?
Over the years, the world has generated extraordinary amounts of information that can boggle even the most collected of minds. Twitter alone registered a record 500 million tweets per day in 2015, and now Amazon,…
Why We Back Pair Programming
Pair programming is likely to be the most misunderstood of all Agile development techniques. While the practice is known to have been used for decades, it was only made popular in the early 2000's by…
The Blockchain: How Decentralised Software Changes Everything
Until very recently, all internet data was stored on web servers. There were many reasons for this, but one in particular was hugely important: by keeping information in scattered points across the globe, servers prevented…