In the vast universe of Android development, ensuring app security, especially for sensitive data, has always been a paramount concern.

In recent years, the realm of software development has undergone a significant transformation, embracing the microservices architecture. This approach involves breaking down large, monolithic applications into smaller, more manageable components.

Security is a non-functional feature that means securing users’ personal data and payment info from third-party users or ensuring specific people have related permission to do specific actions. Risky points that can cause personal data exposure are named vulnerabilities.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses are increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud to harness its scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, this transition comes with its own set of challenges, as organizations need to ensure that their cloud architectures are robust, secure, and optimized for performance. This is where the concept of Well-Architected Reviews comes into play.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, organizations increasingly leverage cloud computing to drive innovation, agility, and scalability. However, a single cloud platform may not always meet businesses' diverse needs. Enter multi-cloud, a strategy that combines multiple cloud providers' strengths to create a robust and flexible infrastructure.

In the ever-evolving world of software development, where time is of the essence and quality is paramount, finding efficient and effective testing techniques is crucial. By significantly reducing the number of test cases required, pairwise testing saves time, effort, and resources without compromising the thoroughness of the testing process.

The Future Commencer Internship Program, which lasted from July 25 to September 2, 2022, was full of learning experiences, hands-on experience, and drawing inspiration from other designers. The interns were hosted in the program's Istanbul office, where we met other interns and employees.

Charles Proxy, often just referred to as Charles, is a dynamic web debugging tool that's become a go-to for many developers. In this blog, we will talk about the usage areas and ways of using the Charles tool, shortcuts, and tools to facilitate the data manipulation process.

Charles Proxy, also known as Charles, is a web debugging proxy application used by developers to view all of the HTTP and SSL/HTTPS traffic between their machine and the internet. This includes requests, responses, and the HTTP headers.

GitHub Copilot, an AI-powered code completion tool, built on top of the OpenAI Codex, quickly rose to become a prominent name in today's coding landscape. Copilot has captured substantial interest within the developer sphere for its capacity to boost coding productivity, offer insightful code recommendations, and simplify the overall development workflow.

Reimagining remote work, our initiative 'Commencis Summer Campus' is set to launch once again in Antalya this June. Commencis Summer Campus 2023 will take place at the stunning Nirvana Mediterranean Excellence in Antalya, Kemer.

On April 27th, a gathering of technology leaders and innovators took place at the Future of CIO Summit event, specifically planned to explore and exchange ideas in the field of information technology and cloud.

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered code completion tool that is generating buzz in the programming world. A new AI-powered code tool called GitHub Copilot is generating buzz in the programming world. It is built on top of the OpenAI Codex, an extensive language model developed using code from various programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. Based on natural language descriptions, GitHub Copilot generates code recommendations and completes code snippets.

While you may not know exactly what digital wallets are, we’re sure you’ve heard of things like PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and Square Cash – even if just through spam emails and things like that. Well, these are simply examples of some of the most popular digital wallets around these days.

While you may not know exactly what digital wallets are, we’re sure you’ve heard of things like PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and Square Cash – even if just through spam emails and things like that. Well, these are simply examples of some of the most popular digital wallets around these days.

The role of a tester is not as simple as it may seem, and it varies depending on the industry, the organization, and the project context. The key to successful testing is to clearly define your role, negotiate and clarify your mission with your manager and other clients; prioritize your efforts according to the needs of multiple clients and based on the risks related to the product and the project; work closely with developers; strive to build good relationships with many clients; and report any issues that may negatively impact the value of the product.

This year's CloudCamp 2023, hosted by Commencis in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was a big success. 27 participants were selected for the 6-week online training program from among the applicants.

Agile testing is a software testing approach that follows the principles of agile software development. In agile testing, testing activities are integrated throughout the software development process, rather than being conducted at the end as a separate phase.This means that testing is done continuously and concurrently with other development activities, such as coding and design.

Moving to the cloud – to at least some degree – is essential to running a modern business. Given that fact, you really should have a fully formed strategy for how, when, where, why, and what to do about it. You need to know exactly what type of cloud migration is best for your business, and then spend the time and energy to form a comprehensive strategy to complete that move. Commencis Cloud Solutions excels in helping businesses through exactly this process, and to making sure that your business is optimized and stores its data in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

Banking is one of the world’s oldest businesses, and as such the sector is more than a little stuck in its old ways. But like every business, banks that haven’t embraced digitalisation risk being left behind. Digitalisation and mobile banking are modern requisites to understand what customers want and need, on top of how to optimize the customer journey. Particularly post-pandemic, mobile banking and digitalisation is critical to being able to bring 21st century customers into the fold.

We had a fascinating year in 2022, with new collaborations with key players across multiple industries, training programs, exciting events, awards, and enhanced capabilities. Through the year, we continued to help amazing brands grow and scale in digital. Happy new year to all!

Mind mapping is a visual tool that helps you organize your thoughts and ideas in an easy-to-read, graphic format. It’s a great way to brainstorm, plan projects, and organize.

Cloud computing solutions appear to get both easier and more complicated with each passing day. Where computing used to depend exclusively on an in-house cloud, public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) changed the market, generating over $200 billion a year. More options can mean more flexibility and cheaper options, but it also means that you have to know what’s right for your business. Is a proprietary, secure cloud tailored exclusively to your business the best and most cost-effective option, or is a public, pre-existing public cloud the easiest where you can just plug and play? Or is there a third option?

In recent years, containers have had a significant impact on application modernization for both small and large organizations.

Hong Kong, Manhattan, Knightsbridge, and Monaco do not have the most valuable real estate in the world. You have it in your pocket.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent set of best practices to help businesses to make the right decisions when deploying their systems in the cloud.

Türkiye ve Avrupa’nın önde gelen dijital dönüşüm şirketi Commencis, uzaktan çalışmaya yeni bir boyut getiren Yaz Kampüsü programını bu yıl Antalya, Tekirova’ya taşıyor!

We are pleased to announce today that Commencis Summer Campus 2022 will take place in Antalya at Nirvana Dolce Vita Resort from June 18 to the end of September.

Mobile apps are a great way to ensure a streamlined user experience across digital devices, engage with customers, and build brand loyalty. Yet they can be expensive to build. The cost of mobile app development is one of the most influential keys to the success of any mobile app. To make it more tricky, there’s no single factor that will determine the total cost; instead, it’s a wide range of factors including the choice of OS, the complexity of the project, app features and design, and more.

The insurance sector is one of the essential building blocks of financial services and the economy. However, although the financial sector is disrupted by fintech many incumbent insurers still keep running on legacy application and practices.

CloudCamp 2022, organized by Commencis for the third time in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), was a success, with new graduates.

The insurance sector is one of the essential building blocks of financial services and the economy. However, although the financial sector is disrupted by fintech many incumbent insurers still keep running on legacy application and practices.

Systems, roles, frameworks are always open for improvement. We work together to refine this system based on business needs and enable our client's employees as our collaboration continues.

Systems, roles, frameworks are always open for improvement. We work together to refine this system based on business needs and enable our client's employees as our collaboration continues.

In environments where code review is heavily applied, previous commits are needed to be modified. Interactive rebase gives you the opportunity to alter commits.

Systems, roles, frameworks are always open for improvement. We work together to refine this system based on business needs and enable our client's employees as our collaboration continues.

In 2021, the World Usability Day focuses on Trust, Ethics and Integrity, that points out the importance of inclusive design where we’re thinking about all the different facets and different kinds of people that might be interacting with whatever we’re creating.

This year, 14 interns completed our 6-week Future Commencer Internship Program successfully which took place from July 6th to September 3rd.

The year 2021 stood out as a very innovative year for Commencis in terms of how we work.

Environmental wellbeing focuses on the things that surround us and promotes to lead a life that is respectful to its environment.

35 participants successfully completed spring semester Commencis project course organized in cooperation with ITU Computer Engineering department

Having a UI library or a React framework is awesome, however, a true persistence of a design system relies on how well thought out its sustainability and adaptability

UX is anything that affects the end-user's interaction and perception of
the product, its company and its services.

In order to make digital transformation sustainable, it is necessary to consider the ecological and social aspects of this business as well as the financial aspects.

NFTs in the news tends to be seen as a bubble, as some crazy thing that only rich people understand, or a “fad.” In fact, it’s a new digital asset that is here to stay. And while right now it’s most popular in the art world, its usefulness extends to every industry.

Especially in the light of digital developments in recent years, wellness trends that are more and more involved in our lives every day and help us to make healthy living habits permanent while reducing our stress in the age of speed are updated every year.

2020 marks the second annual Cloud Camp, organized by Commencis in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and held online due to the pandemic. Of the 1,000 applicants, only 22 students were chosen to participate in the 5-week training program, with 25 hours of lessons.

Agile testing practice follows the rules of agile software development and it is a different mindset to traditional testing. Agile testing doesn't mean just testing the way we've always done it, and the whole way the team thinks about testing should change.

The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed us to adapt to a rapid digital transformation era. In 2021, user experience trends are being reshaped in light of digital transformation.

2020 yılının sonunda, yılın teknoloji alanında en çok tercih edilen teknolojileri ve ürünlerini belirlemek üzere düzenlediğimiz Commencis Yılın Teknoloji “En”leri oylaması tamamlandı. Yanıtların büyük bir çoğunluğunu Commencis yazılım geliştirme ve tasarım ekiplerinin oluşturduğu oylama sonuçlarını, ekiplerimizin de değerlendirmesiyle sizin için derledik.

Every year, we here at Commencis review the year that passed to see how we did and how we look to be prepared as we enter into the future.

Particularly in a pandemic, usability must focus on research and user behavior so that design can maximize its utility and mitigate potential issues that arise.

A user-centered design requires a lot of work from many different people to make projects more streamlined and to have a positive effect on ROI.

DevOps has succeeded in integrating business users, developers, and more into a single workflow focused on meeting customer requirements.

You can integrate individual Flutter modules into your app for either iOS or Android to bring your app to the next level and into the future.

The digital age has meant that companies let their customers achieve greater flexibility by utilizing mobile payments from customer portals.

Insurance companies that want to still have a hand in the game need to be able to be flexible and easily accessible.

Ana Ekran Widget’larıApple geçtiğimiz WWDC 2020 etkinliğinde, radikal değişikliklerle yenilediği Widget sistemini tanıttı. Yeni widget’lar artık 3 farklı boyutta geliyor ve yeni iOS 14 işletim sistemi cihazlarımızda bu widget’ları uygulamalarımızın da ...

Özellikle son yıllarda nesnelerin interneti, yapay zeka, artırılmış gerçeklik, büyük veri, bulut hizmetleri gibi teknolojik atılımlar ile birlikte üreticiler dijitalleşme yolunda ürünlerini veya hizmetlerini pek çok yöntemle son kullanıcıya ulaştırmaya çalışıyor.

Her yıl WWDC konferansında Apple, iOS ve ekosistemindeki diğer işletim sistemlerinin bir sonraki sürümünde yer alacak yeni API'leri tanıtıyor ve Eylül ayı içinde duyurduğu yeni iPhone modelleri dışında kalan bazı donanım güncellemelerini paylaşıyor. Geçtiğimiz yıldakilerden farklı olarak Apple bu yıl ilk kez WWDC’yi %100 çevirimiçi olarak gerçekleştirdi.

Values are the highest principles that reflect the business approach, the brand identity and the organizational communication skills of companies.

How to implement and practice Reinforcement Learning by using AWS DeepRacer(Source)Imagine a race car having a 1/18th scale with a “monstrous” design that is capable of being controlled and modeled via Amazon Cloud Solutions by applying the reinforceme...

by Atacan GüçlüolWorking as a business analyst for a mobile banking application with more than 8 million users, I was mostly occupied with more ‘valuable’ features which are the most ‘gamechanger’ , ‘block buster’ or ‘smash hit’.Between all these fancy...

Why did I decide to get PMI-PBA certification?PMI-PBA is a Business Analysis Expertise Certification prepared by Project Management Institute. I got this certification after 3 months of dedicated study. I believe this certification will improve your bu...

Virtual collaboration has never been our primary choice to run UX workshops with our clients, regardless of the activity agenda or target.

Many countries are outlining a multiphase plan to reopen their economies and governments have been undertaking different approaches for contact tracing.

Most of the governments are under financial pressure to reopen the economy and lift the restrictions as soon as possible due to increasing economic impact.

COVID-19 ile mücadele döneminde, alışkın olduğumuz ofis hayatı yerini evden çalışma düzenine bıraktı. Bu çalışma biçimi bir süre daha devam edecek gibi görünüyor.

Evlerimizden çalışmak zorunda olduğumuz şu günlerde, hepimize
faydalı olabileceğini düşündüğümüz bazı dijital kaynakları bir araya
getirerek bir online eğitim ve etkinlik kiti hazırladık.

Pandeminin döneminde giderek yükselen uzaktan çalışma modeline dair deneyimlerimizi sizin için derledik.

When you would like to have a deeper understanding of a phenomenon, one approach can be putting them in groups to make it easier to comprehend.

Have you ever wanted to be informed when your app is installed for the first time by a user that is redirected to App Store via a link?

Every time you travel abroad, you come across the sort of awkward encounters that highlights cross-cultural differences.

All computing runs on servers, so what exactly does serverless computing mean and why are there pros and cons?

Have you known anyone who uses Google Glass in his daily life recently? Maybe a few years later this question will evolve into a new one asking who remembers it.

Here we are again, at the fresh start of a new year. But before let’s round up the things we did last year. 2019 has been good to us with new projects, inspiring work, fresh beginnings, trainings, conferences, workshops, social activities and a lot of travel. Take a moment to turn back for a while and remember some of the biggest highlights of the past year.

Do you want your entire company up in the clouds, or just leave your head up there while your company stays where it is?

Once upon a time, most of us who are over the age of 35 said back in the day that we couldn’t see the usefulness of a mobile app, or maybe that we thought 3-5 apps on your phone was more than enough.

When you bring data and design together, what you accomplish is the perfect way to design a product towards the users and the user experience you want most.

As each of us gets older the tech we use gets progressively more ingenious, but often times we find it progressively more difficult to use. Nowadays your refrigerator talks back to you, your toothbrushes have a mind of their own, your locks are the ones deciding who to let in and who to keep out.

How to use rightsizing, scalability, unused instances, discounts, storage lifecycle, data compression, FaaS, and more to optimize cloud costs and reduce bills.

How to use the cloud and protect it to keep it safe from cyber-attacks, insider leaks, legal liabilities, lack of standardisation, and other issues.

This blog post aims to give you some insights on how to access first element from a collection and pros& cons of lazy collections.

A data lake is a centralized repository or system that allows you to store all your structured, semi-structured or unstructured data at any scale.

Let’s say you have a brilliant idea for a new product or a service that you think a lot of people would be willing to buy. But without a credible plan to turn your idea into a marketable product, it is not possible to create a sustainable business. Although people come up with great business ideas every day, it’s the execution that truly matters.

The shift in focus from the “product/service” to the “customer” has long been a top priority for companies, especially in the banking industry. Needless to say, when it comes to customer experience, customer personalisation plays a role in creating relevant and unique experiences.

The difference between a popular app and an uninstalled/deleted app is often down to the quality of its user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). Both UX and UI work together in tandem, with UI ensuring an appealing look and feel and UX focusing on positive user interactions with each element inside the app. If you want to increase mobile app engagement and reduce uninstall rates, then UX/UI design must become an essential part of your business strategy.

WebSocket is a two-way computer communication protocol over a single TCP. This is a common definition for it. Using WebSockets is a good way to handle high scale data transfers between server-clients. You can find many definitions like that on the simple Google (or Bing :)) search.

Nowadays, data is the most valuable asset. In fact; data quality and how we process data often determine the game.

Over the last 10 years, technology has shifted from traditional software models to the internet. This means that the old local server days are over, so you can forget about the messy rooms filled with servers. Cloud computing appears to be the new era of the future of business.

A start-up or a large enterprise, bringing a new idea to life as a product to the market is always a big risk. Especially if you’re sure that you can successfully implement it. As a founder, you’re the one who will take the risk. This Genome report states that 74% of startups fade away because of scaling in the wrong phase or time.

Thinking of building your own mobile app? The decision to outsource app development or build in-house is a common dilemma for startup founders.

When you think about going in-house, the costs of developing a mobile app start to add up when you consider the salaries of mobile developers, length of the project, platforms used and maintenance costs. On the other hand, working with an experienced mobile app development company is often cheaper, more efficient, and can result in developing exceptional products faster.

Here are five reasons to consider outsourcing the development of your next mobile app.

Being designer in project teams may seem quite easy for some but is actually one of the hardest tasks. Because everyone except you might think that they could be a ‘’designer for 15 minutes!’’. Things done by those who have more technical business are considered as Pandora’s Box as they are usually perceived as unknown areas, so people do not dare to get too close to them. What about design? Is that so?

People usually forget that a designer’s role covers both making the most suitable design for the target group and trying to make most of the people happy at the same time. The design itself might be perceived as a process of putting designer’s personal delight on paper or screen by those who cannot see from the viewpoint of a designer. For that reason, people even out of this business do not have any difficulty in making comments such as “Does not that colour look better?, “So the trend is flat, we can continue like that?”, “Amazon (Apple etc.) did like that maybe we can do similar things.” or some of the brave ones might even say “We can exactly make the same of theirs”. That’s true that everyone has their own delights, but people can easily make these comments as they are not actually aware of the fact that the designers do not create anything pursuing their own pleasures.

PSD (Payment Services Directive) was adopted in 2007 to create rules and guidelines for simplified, efficient modern payment services in the European Union. However, as technology progressed PSD was not adequate enough to promote innovation, create competition, secure payments and protect consumers. As a result, PSD2 (The revised Payment Services Directive) came into play to increase security and create more innovative digital payments for today's digital consumers.

While designing interfaces for digital screens it’s important to think about the states and transactions between scenes and how these will integrate with each other. As we dive deeper into the navigational realms of a digital product, motion helps us understand the relationship between states and leaves us a trail so it’s easier to navigate throughout the final product we’re designing.

In a hot June day, I found myself teaching the basics of font design to my colleagues, here at Commencis. This article is about my experience throughout the design workshop.

Note that I am not an expert on font design, just a font geek.

The question has been popped, the ring is on, it’s time to celebrate love… then what? Exhausting and overwhelming wedding preparations, bridezillas, total meltdowns? No way! Not on our watch!

Like it or not, that time of year has arrived. Thanks to Saint Valentine, all roads lead to love, and it’s a great week to blend love and design!

If you search online for famous logo changes throughout recent times, you’re going to see some love and a whole lot of hate. In fact, people are generally not that receptive to logo redesigns, especially after they’ve already gotten used to the first one.

Most recently, Slack, Kate Spade and Zara launched their new logos shocking their fans. Slack replaced its original hashtag icon. Kate Spade changed its signature tag color from green to pink. And finally, Zara preferred to squash all the letters together in its new logo.

For the last few years, we have been experiencing a period in which trends themselves have become a trend. In this context, new interpretations of the art movements that date back many years before, or the structures that other companies have prepared for themselves become popular -with the excuse of making things easier!-; brands and products have become subject to disidentification; people try to use terms -Blockchain, Chatbot, Artificial Intelligence- at least once in a sentence without understanding their technologies; or some terms are used in graphic design interpretations -Bold Typography, Gradient and Vibrant Colors, Vintage Illustration etc.- as they are only included in the trend writings, although they do not fit their character.

WebAssembly (abbrev. WASM) is a newborn web standard that developed by W3C Community Group. The first release -v1.0- has shipped in major browser engines (Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome). Also, WebAssembly is the first new language to be fully supported in every major browser since Javascript.

If you’ve managed to somehow avoid the internet’s frenzied hype around Bandersnatch, well done on making it this far. However, spoiler alert: We’re going to be talking a lot about Bandersnatch in this post.

Millennials have already proven that they are one of the most powerful and influential demographics – and they are getting even more important for the industries since they are expected to overtake Babyboomers in 2019. Even though millennials are classified as one demographic segment between the ages 18 to 40; it requires an unusual way of approach for organizations to engage with this tech-savvy, (and high maintenance!) demographic. Since their reactions and interactions are quite different from any other segments, you can say goodbye to traditional approaches, services or products. Well, it is not easy to influence the influencers!

In line with Commencis’ ethos is to resist convention, our developers incorporate emerging technologies into apps we design and develop. They also look for ways to make our internal processes even better to improve app quality and time to market. And Commencis Device Farm is another significant improvement in our app development process.

Innovative and creative services/solutions developed by utilising new technologies in every sector proved us, that it is possible to manage a lucrative business while providing efficient and delightful customer journey. Therefore customer expectations are getting higher – always pursuing agile and personalised solutions; and financial services customers are no different. So what does this mean for the future of the financial world, still dominated mostly by the traditional institutions with their bureaucracy, legacy systems and cumbersome cultures, and how does this all affect the customer experience?

Digital technologies and challenging new generation customer demands are transforming today’s business landscape. Especially the Millenials that brands have a love-hate relationship with; put brands under a considerable amount of pressure for innovations. Well, who can blame organisations when millennials are one of the most important groups of buyers – already the largest demographic in the US– today. It requires an unusual way of thinking for organisations to catch this tech-savvy demographic’s attention and design services/products that will enhance or build their brand loyalty, support their habits and user experience.

Big data has been taking the business world by storm for more than a decade. In 2005, Roger Mougalas probably wanted to make things official and coined the term Big Data for the first time; for the extremely large and complex datasets that traditional data processing applications were not able to manage.

Starting from the industrial revolution to a few decades ago, manufacturing in all industries had a certain set of requirements with rare exceptions. Hence, the process of manufacturing was repeatable. It was a best practice to define sequential processes which produce predictable results since it ensured both quality and planning precisely. Influenced by the success of this model, other industries adopted the same approach. Waterfall methodology in Software Industry is an example of this. Organizations made this approach a foundation to their way of working.

Forget about defining personas rotely and applying segmentation strategies from decades ago, which focus on the assumption that all the customers in the same segment follow the same linear path from awareness to purchase. Customer journeys are different depending on many factors and digital customer journey is now reshaping all the industries along the way. Unlike the traditional practices where redesigning the customer journey was on the back burner; now it is a profession, a full-time job. It must be traceable, scalable and actionable. So where do you to start to redesign the entire customer journey?

Have you ever seen or conducted a conventional usability test where users sit in a room and use a product as others observe them in another room? While it is undoubtedly one of the best ways to gain insights about your product, frankly the process is a little bulky and has little to no room for mobility. We, as well as most other companies that provide this service, usually have entire rooms and complex technical infrastructure built especially for this task.

We are in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. We? Oh, that’s us and the robots! While digital technologies disrupt long-established players in every business, they also open up a whole new world of opportunities. Since digitalization has been the main impetus for rethinking their future strategies, organizations need to look across industries and evaluate their services in terms of the broader business landscape.

As of July 2018, mobile app owners and developers have to meet compliance with iOS 11 SDK and iPhone X display in order to submit new apps and updates to the App Store. If they fail to do so, their apps will not be published in iOS app stores or cannot be updated. And they will be out of the game. Therefore, it’s absolutely critical for product owners to know what the new set of requirements are and what they really have to do about it.

The one concept Nietzsche, Thoreau and Hesse most probably tried to elude through their lives: Dependency. Even if one does not agree or embrace their philosophies, a programmer should — or must? — apply their way of thinking while programming.

Let’s define the problem first:

To achieve higher success rates in design and development projects, “performing” (productive) teams has vital importance and are needed. According to TSP Body of Knowledge [1] Self-directed or Self-managed teams are best suited for creative knowledge work, which can be considered as software projects. This literature survey considers whether the self-directed teams are the promising type of productive team formation within companies by responding to the following questions;

While you enjoy the great song by the Fab Four, let me tell you something: The revolution will not be centralized either. Thanks to Blockchain technology which is a hot topic around the world these days, we are about to see many things we’re accustomed to be changing or shape-shifting soon. Shopping, trading, transferring money, listening to music, voting and even getting married.

Hollywood loves to throw in some words from cryptographic terminology to make the protagonist look like a genius or to pull the audience into the illusion of enjoying a well thought script. Although they usually hire highly qualified technical people to back their story, terms that are flying around tend to be quite elementary.