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The Toyota Crisis: Why Your Company Needs A Crisis Plans

In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation recalled over 6 million vehicles in response to international outcry after a design failure contributed to...

Q Culture: Secrets That Take Over Workspaces

the conspiracy for Q’s take over was conceived between two men and their then anonymous web app....

2 Week Notice: Stop Turnover with 1 Initiative

The universal truth is that we all fatigue. Those companies that understand this fact and work around it are able to go the distance....

Top 9 Frontend Frameworks of 2022

We’ve compiled this guide on the most popular frontend frameworks so that you can quickly compare the pros and cons of each to find the best...

Why 1% of Continuous Improvement Makes All The Difference

Have you ever heard of someone sprinting through a marathon? Of course not, because nobody can go the distance at that speed. ...

New Coke + Data Driven Decisions = Disastrous Outcomes

Data and artificial intelligence seem to be the answer to all of our problems, but without the human element, companies that rely only on da...

Planning Sprints with Story Points

A new standard is needed. Story Points estimation method will save you more time, provide better estimates, and raise the team’s morale by e...

Unconventional Success & Rebel Marketing

Decades of experimentation, improvisation, and an unwavering dedication to their fans–the original Jam Band–the Grateful Dead, created a leg...

Hyping up your Marketing Strategy

­In 2021 vinyl record sales yielded over 1.5 billion dollars for the first time in 35 years. Why? Because of the hype created and driven by ...

Maximize your teams output by mastering this tool

The Kanban board was created to organize manufacturing operations including logistics, supplier management, and customer delivery....

Using experiments can produce long term customer growth

Experimental thinking is a technique that promotes action through calculated risks, by conducting short run experiments, to collect data tha...

Analyze your marketing spend on the margin for maximum success

This article will define the classic profitability equation, explain what an updated formula should look like, and discuss why this new take...

Reducing Risk During a Sprint

A consistent workflow guarantees a satisfactory experience for the customer. A calculated workflow guarantees a satisfactory experience for ...

How Novvum Bridges the Visual Editing Gap in their Web Projects

Digital product development experts Novvum use Stackbit to bridge the visual editing gap, providing highly flexible and extensible sites for...

How to recruit and nurture talent for a fully remote workforce software company

Find out how to take advantage of the unbound talent pool and geo-expansion, plus learn how to tackle and prevent structural and cultural ob...

How to build a "tight-knit" team in a fully remote environment software industry

Remote working has not come without its challenges, both structural and cultural....

What is an API and how do they work?

APIs enable computer systems and other devices to communicate and exchange data in a standardized and transient way....

What is GraphQL and How Does it Work

The goal of GraphQL is to save bandwidth and increase the responsiveness of user-facing interfaces by simplifying communication and data tra...

What is JAMstack?

JAMstack is your best bet if you’re looking to implement continuous delivery. Jamstack is focused on the front-end build and delivery, and p...

Going headless improves eCommerce performance

Headless conversions decouples the frontend content from the backend service on ecommerce platforms....

Agile vs Waterfall Software Development Methodologies

Before building any software, companies and organisations often have to decide on a structured path for their development process. This is p...

NOVVUM Named as a Leading Web Development Company Los Angeles by Clutch

Novvum is recognized as one of Los Angeles's top developers!...

Jaxxon: Gatsby + Shopify = Faster Growth

Learn how Novvum helped Jaxxon TRIPLE their revenue, DOUBLE their conversions, and decrease their bounce rate by OVER 30% by converting thei...

Consistency via Gatsby's Themes

Novvum is a software development firm that specializes in React, GraphQL, TypeScript, Node and so much more. We are using Gatsby Themes to s...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Understand Emotions in Tweets

Feelsbot tries to understand how humans are feeling by reading their tweets. You can think of artificial intelligence as a goal. Once identi...

How to successfully work with a software development agency

Building software is difficult and hiring an agency should make that simpler. Many relationships fall short, products fizzle out and mountai...

Python + Marvel + GraphQL = PyMarvelQL

PyMarvelQL allows you to send GraphQL queries to Marvel’s REST API to get information about characters, comic series, stories, creators and ...

Implementing Authentication using JWT, Bcrypt and GraphQL Nexus

You’ve finished coding the skeleton for your application, but it’s missing one thing — authentication. We can set the return type to UserLog...

Introducing GraphQL Birdseye 🦅

We are proud to officially release graphql-birdseye ! Why we built it We were inspired to make a GraphQL schema visualization tool that can ...

TypeGraphQL and GraphQL Nexus — A Look at Code-First APIs 👀

GraphQL Nexus and TypeGraphQL aim to help with code-first Schema-first schema development. Nexus uses classes and relies on an experimental ...

How to Query Enums with GraphQL using Introspection

When you are working on a project that allows users to pick an option, such as a school name, it is best to query for these values from your...

How to get the Newest Version of GraphQL Playground with ApolloServer

From Hell to GraphQL: Issues Migrating to GraphQL and How to Overcome Them

JustGraphQL: Your One Stop Shop for GraphQL Resources, Tools, & Articles

Introducing 36 GraphQL Concepts 🎉

Our team at Novvum is excited to share that we’ve compiled a list of the best articles and videos for learning the 36 most important concept...

How Companies are Using GraphQL and What They Migrated From

This article is the final part of a three-part series of GraphQL Survey Series. We asked 30 companies to share their experiences of using Gr...

Joining the GraphQL Foundation: How Novvum has Grown with the Help of GraphQL

In early 2015, Novvum was created and it's founders, Raj & Rohit, quickly found themselves needing to find better methods to effectively co...

What Experienced Teams Want You to Know about Migrating to GraphQL

Using GraphQL & Backend-Driven UI, to build faster with less code

Backend-Driven UI is an exciting pattern recently recognized by Airbnb (more on this at the end). In this article, I will outline how we uti...

Why Companies are Adopting GraphQL

This article is the first in a three-part series: Follow us on Twitter to get notified when the upcoming articles are published. How easily ...

Introducing the GraphQL Survey Series: Insight from Successful GraphQL Adopters

How to Market Your Tech Company Effectively

GraphQL Summit 2018: A CTO’s Perspective

This was the first GraphQL Summit I have attended, and I’m impressed! It was held at the Regency Theater in the heart of San Francisco. The ...

graphql-playground v1.8.8: Introducing Schema Polling

Lessons on Branding from Creating a Marketing Video

6 ways to dramatically increase your software development team’s productivity

Why it’s important for a CEO to be more technical

The new SDL view in graphql-playground v1.8.5

The GraphQL community has helped us greatly in delivering robust applications to our clients, and we wanted to repay the favor by doing some...

A non-technical guide to working with your technical team

Successfully Working With Open Source Software

At Novvum, a big part of our success has come from working with open source tools. Vet your tools One big lesson I’ve learned is that a tool...

Story of a Startup Part 1: Rebuilding the ship mid-flight

This is the first article of a series of blogs outlining the decisions and implementation of a complete rebuild of the HyreCar infrastructur...

Service-oriented GraphQL API

For our most recent client, we had quite the challenging task of migrating their legacy REST API and MySql database into a GraphQL API. Give...

Serverless and Segment, a Match Made in Data Heaven

In a world where data is king, it has become more and more critical that your company thinks about tracking and analytics the same way it th...

Novvum Solidifies its Place as a Leader in GraphQL with Apollo Prime Partnership

Here at Novvum, we like to consider ourselves a group forward-thinking leaders. That is why we are proud to announce that we have partnered ...

How to Find Top Talent for Less than $500

GraphQL the Bakery: An ELI5 (Explain like I’m 5) for GraphQL 🍪🍩

Recently, I attended the GraphQL Summit 2018 conference hosted by Apollo Apollo. I think it is safe to say GraphQL is here to stay! It is no...

#FullStackRecap: Building a Tech Community in Orange County

Breaking Down My UI Design Process

Design is constantly growing and evolving. Doing this will tell me what works and what doesn’t in their specific industry. Now, you’re able ...

5 Ways to Improve Customer Experience

How we drastically sped up our GraphQL API with Apollo Engine

In this part of the series, we will take a look at how we went about speeding up our newly implemented GraphQL API. We did not put much emph...

Lessons Learned from the GraphQL Summit: A Student’s Perspective

The GraphQL Summit hosted a diverse community of technologists all eager to learn, teach, or share knowledge on the growing query language, ...