# The Downfalls of In-House App Design & Development

Having dedicated teams implies those people have limited other responsibilities. That means that they can focus on the development they're responsible for.

# 9 Features to Include in Your Next Mobile App

Some essential features (i.e., digital clocks, calendars, etc.), are built right into your operating system to provide the best user experience from day one.

# The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Project Development

The development team requires clear, actionable milestones that they can work towards throughout development, and that you can use to track their progress.

# Understanding Why You Need a Mobile App for Your Business

In addition to the business models that could benefit from a mobile app, DTC e-commerce companies can potentially reap the most rewards from a mobile app.

# 10 Tips for Your Next Mobile App Launch

Your new app launch strategy will have an enormous impact on the potential success that your app can find in its marketplace. Thankfully, these tips can help.

# Lean Ruby IDE: Switching from RubyMine to VSCode

Learn how to get the most out of Visual Studio Code, Solargraph and other key extensions for a lean and mean Ruby IDE.

# AWS Lambda Ruby 2.7 Pg Gem LibLDAP Error

We’ve been upgrading our Lambda functions to use the Ruby 2.7 runtime on AWS Lambda and some of the functions in our projects ran into unexpected issues. In this article we’re going to take a brief step back to give context to the issue we experienced and walk you through our investigation and resolution.

# Kentico Web Development Partnership

We are excited to announce our partnership with Kentico Software, the Web Content and Customer Experience Management provider.

# Programmatically Type Casting a TreeNode in Kentico

Programmatically type casting a TreeNode in Kentico is not something that is readily available on the internet. Here's how!

# Ruby SassC Illegal Instruction

We encountered a rare illegal instruction issue the other day when deploying one of our Ruby on Rails 5 applications.

# Announcing Lighthouse

Our crew has been hard at work crafting something new and exciting. We are proud to finally announce Lighthouse by Northsail.

# AWS Lambda, Ruby behind Application Load Balancers

Place your Ruby AWS Lambda Function behind an Application Load Balancer.

# Leveraging Bitbucket Pipelines for Continuous Integration/Delivery

Periodically, our team takes stock of the services we leverage in order to improve upon the solutions we have in place. We recently did this with our continuous integration and deployment processes/services.

# We Are Now A Zebra ISV

We are excited to announce that we have become an authorized member of the Zebra PartnerConnect program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV).

# Hello from Northsail Software!

This past November, we silently re-launched our business under this new name, which was the culmination of a year-long process to redefine who we are and, more importantly, what we do.