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Using AI to Boost Unity Development
AI is already shaving real hours off day-to-day Unity work. Here are the workflows that give the highest return, drawn from a practitioner's experience.
Extracting Google Calendar Events to Sheets: A Simple Apps Script Solution
A better approach to calendar event processing using the Google Calendar API through Apps Script, pulling filtered events directly into a spreadsheet.
Rapid Prototyping and AI
Leveraging AI can make it much faster and cheaper to innovate, experiment and launch new software services.
Streamlining Credit Card Reports with Claude.ai
Monthly credit card process for accounting - what if I just dumped my calendar events and credit card bill to AI? Would it do the job automatically?
Reimagining Developer Experience - Understanding the Why Behind the What
We suggest that understanding why things are done instead of just focusing on what needs to be done is an important part of the modern developer experience and effective software development.
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule: The Cost of Context Switching in Software Development
The cost of context switching is somewhat hidden, but it will drag your developers' productivity down if you don't take it seriously.
EVCC Tampere 3.9.2024 at Plugit
The EV Charging in the Cloud event was hosted on September 3rd, 2024, at Plugit's office in the heart of Tampere.
Five Ways to Fail in Deployment
We suggest five surefire ways to ensure failure in your deployment process.
ScrumButting to Hide From Your Problems
Modifying Scrum is a common practice in the software industry. It is also a common way to make your project go astray.
Learning Together, Growing Together: Cross-Learning Sessions at Cirit
Cross-Learning sessions are collaborative learning experiences organized in partnership with our clients.
Evaluating AWS Glue for Continuous CSV-to-JSON Conversion
AWS Glue was evaluated as a potential solution to convert large CSV files to JSON format for an election results application.
Getting Our Hands on Apple Vision Pro
We finally got our hands on the Apple Vision Pro. Read our take on the device.
PoCs Let You Accelerate by Removing Risk
A PoC is a small exercise to test a discrete concept or theory that could be expanded into a larger application. Here's a closer look at why PoCs are invaluable in software development.
More Than Just Writing Code
The essence of software consulting extends well beyond just hammering out lines of code.
Pros and Cons of Unreal Blueprints
Some ponderings on the pros and cons of using Unreal Blueprints.
Enhancing Unity Applications: Smoothing Real-World Vehicle Position Data with Low-Pass Filters
Real-world vehicle position data often contains interference and noise, leading to erratic movements in graphical user interfaces.
Vogels on the Rise of AI and Developer Productivity
Werner Vogels, Amazon's long-time CTO, published his traditional Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond and this time one of his focus areas was how AI assistants redefine developer productivity.
Web Accessibility is Important
Web accessibility ensures that digital content is usable by everyone, regardless of abilities.
EVCC Tampere 27.09.2023
EV Charging in the cloud event in Tampere 27.9.2023 - Great keynotes and fun discussions!
CSS Subgrid
What is CSS Subgrid?
Leveraging AWS AI Capabilities
Though it is early, AI has the potential to disrupt industries. Finding the ways you can harness the current state-of-art is vital.
EVCC Tampere 24.05.2023
We had the pleasure to organize another EV Charging in the Cloud event. This time the event was held at Cirit's office at Tampere.
Unlocking the Potential: The Power of Good Software Development
Software is eating the world and the world is delicious. Good software development is the key to unlocking the true potential of technology.
CDK All the Way
Why we use AWS CDK for infrastructure as code and the concrete advantages it provides.
How Would Cirit Be a Dream Partner for Clients?
We discussed how Cirit would be a dream partner for our clients. These are the things our developers saw as important.
AWS Resources for Cost Optimization
Cloud cost optimization is not the main focus of most developers. Here are some useful AWS resources that point you to the right direction.
How to Become a Great Software Consultant
Great software consultants are not just superior at tech - they also possess a combination of good communication skills and business understanding.
SQS vs. Kinesis in Batching IoT Data
Our experience and opinions on choosing between SQS and Kinesis for ingesting IoT data in AWS.
Our Expectations for 2023
We held a company planning session and one of the questions we pondered was what are your personal expectations for 2023.
EV Charging in the Cloud
Cirit organized the EV Charging in the Cloud event in collaboration with AWS. Event was held in Helsinki with a full house.
10 Invisible Things to Help Clients
We thought about how we create value to our customers. The technical aspect is clear - but developing good software requires a bunch of soft skills.
Day One of 2023
It is time to start the year 2023 by introducing our new logo and reflecting on a kind year for Cirit.
AWS re:Invent 2022
AWS organises a yearly re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. A lot of new stuff was released and Werner Vogels held a brilliant keynote.
TampereJS @ Cirit
Cirit hosted the TampereJS meetup with talks on Next.js migration and Qwik framework.
Cirit Advances to a New AWS Partner Level
Cirit quickly reached the Select Tier AWS Partner level and now we are able to offer even more benefits and know-how to our clients.
Is Cirit a Fit for You?
We asked our people to describe the person that would enjoy working at Cirit. Here are some of the uncensored answers.
How Do We Recruit?
Recruiting is important to us. We are looking for people who are both nice and competent. Here's our process.
Vaisala, Kempower and Varjo at Cirit Hosted AWS Meetup Helsinki
In collaboration with the AWS User Group Finland, we organised an AWS meetup in Helsinki with presentations from Vaisala, Kempower and Varjo.