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The Future of Personalized Platforms: LLMs, Data, and Shaping the Digital Tomorrow

In this blog posts we dive in the ever-growing demand for personalized experiences. This yearning for bespoke interactions isn't just a consumer trend; it's a tidal wave reshaping entire industries, and learning is no exception.

Guillermo Thompson

January 26, 2024·4 min read

Dinosaurs will die. Our 2023 story

Reflecting on 2023, we navigated the crossroads of resilience and turbulence. It was a year carved with challenges that shaped our reinvention and deepened our internal focus, laying the groundwork for a promising 2024.

Fabián Larrañaga

December 19, 2023·4 min read

Roadmap to Organizational Success: Agile and Beyond

This post explores the software industry's diverse management philosophies. While we do not claim to have all the answers, our objective is to provide you with a broad understanding of these philosophies, helping you make informed decisions on how to steer your products, projects and teams best.

Agustín Talagorría

July 26, 2023·10 min read

AI-Driven Software Development - Our Development Team's Experiment with ChatGPT

In a recent coding-dojo session, our team of developers decided to push the limits of artificial intelligence and test the capabilities of ChatGPT. Our goal was to build a simple game entirely written by AI. In this case we were a group of eleven people, and we had two hours to explain the idea and see what we achieved.

Nicolás Wolman

July 21, 2023·5 min read

Leading Agile adoption in Uruguay with CTC Certification

Agile methodologies have revolutionized software development, emphasizing adaptability and teamwork. Streaver is proud to have the first and only Certified Team Coach (CTC) in Uruguay, COO Gabriel Ledesma, accredited by the Scrum Alliance. With his expertise, clients can trust Streaver's Agile practices for smooth team integration, business understanding, and adapting to change.

Fabián Larrañaga

May 3, 2023·6 min read

Generating Random SVG Avatars with NextJS: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you tired of using generic profile pictures for your website or application? In this post, we'll show you how to use NextJS to generate unique, random SVG avatar images on the fly. With just a few lines of code, you can add a personal touch to your user profiles and stand out from the crowd.

Federico Kauffman

January 13, 2023·6 min read

CRDTs and Distributed Consistency - Building a P2P game

In part two of this series we improved the distributed counter built on the first part of the series to allow increments and decrements and an arbitrary number of clients to join the counter. In this part we will build a peer-to-peer game that uses the counter to keep track of key presses in distributed way.

Federico Kauffman

December 6, 2022·7 min read

Implementing the authentication layer in Next.js

In this post, I'm going to go over the main differences between client-side authentication and server-side authentication. To do so, I'm going to implement a very simple Next.js application using both approaches.

Juan Larrambebere

October 20, 2022·16 min read

CRDTs and Distributed Consistency - The complex distributed counter

In part one of this series we built a simple distributed counter, specifically a G-Counter, which has some hard limitations, one of them being that it can only be incremented and the other one is that we need to know beforehand how many agents are going to be affecting it. In this part we will extend the counter to solve both problems.

Federico Kauffman

August 18, 2022·9 min read

CRDTs and Distributed Consistency - The simple distributed counter

Conflict-free replicated data types are data structures that allow you to write collaborative apps or services without coordination and with strong eventual consistency. We have been using them since 2020 and we want to share some introductory types and ideas.

Federico Kauffman

August 16, 2022·7 min read

Being Arctic Code Vault contributors

Did you know there is a data repository of thousand OSS projects in the Arctic? Our code is in there! ❤️

Fabián Larrañaga

July 19, 2022·4 min read

Streaver's 2021 Clutch Rewind

In light of their tremendous support, we're paying tribute to our clients by sharing with you our Clutch Year In Review for 2021!

Fabián Larrañaga

February 7, 2022·3 min read

Streaver's 2021 Recap

A great year ends, a year where we grew, learned, improved, and challenged ourselves. It is not easy to continually improve yourself, but at Streaver, we do it.

Federico Kauffman

January 6, 2022·3 min read

Saying present at RubyConf 2021 in Denver

RubyConf 2021 is history now. Where is Ruby heading? Our team was there at the Convention Center, and we want to share our learning experiences with you.

Fabián Larrañaga

November 25, 2021·6 min read

Flattening a directory structure on AWS S3

There are many ways to flatten a directory structure on AWS S3. In this post I will share a very simple one using the AWS CLI and some basic shell commands.

Federico Kauffman

October 6, 2021·5 min read

React animations: How a simple component can affect your performance

There are many ways of making animations on the web. In this post, we will explore a naive way of making them and compare it with a better way, all by using React.

Federico Kauffman

May 24, 2021·10 min read

Streaver - Latin America Leaders 2020

Streaver Wins Clutch Award for Top Developer in Uruguay!

Federico Kauffman

September 13, 2020·2 min read

How to test web extensions?

It's time to test our web extensions. Here you'll find how to setup your testing environment with Jest and Puppeteer and how to test it.

Fabián Larrañaga

April 14, 2020·12 min read

Streaver's 2019 in review

Christmas and a New Year are coming, is there a better time to make a pause and review the achievements of the 2019?

Fabián Larrañaga

December 23, 2019·4 min read

React Adaptive Hooks and APIs for Adaptability

React Adaptive Hooks leverage APIs for adaptability provided by browsers, those APIs are tools to keep in mind when building user experiences. Let's explore when you should be using those APIs to build great user experiences.

Federico Kauffman

November 24, 2019·6 min read

Building a web extension with Vue at speed of light

In this 10 min read tutorial you'll learn how to build a production ready web extension made with Vue that works cross-browser.

Fabián Larrañaga

November 6, 2019·10 min read

Translating Vue: Why internationalizing documentation matters?

Imagine you were not born in an English speaking country, or you didn't have the chance to learn it, what would have happened to your tech career? Would you even be in tech right now?

Federico Kauffman

July 2, 2019·4 min read

Pull Request previews for Open Source libraries with Netlify

When authoring OSS libraries testing is essential, unit tests are a good start, but you also want to make sure it works on a real app, let's setup pull request preview apps with Netlify!

Federico Kauffman

May 16, 2019·5 min read

Building awesome CLIs with JavaScript and Oclif

As a software developer you probably use some kind of CLI, and it feels so good when it is intuitive and friendly. Let's discover how we can build our own CLIs!

Federico Kauffman

April 23, 2019·7 min read

Optimizing remote daily scrum meetings

Have you ever felt a meeting you are part of is lacking something? It's time to pause and think about what you can do to make it better. Your team will thank you!

Fabián Larrañaga

April 11, 2019·5 min read