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[Tech Blog] AnyManager PWA

Hi, I'm Abdelilah Machrouhi (Abdel), a back-end developer at Anymind Group. In this article, I will talk about PWA, why we would choose PWA instead of building a mobile app, and PWA service by AnyManager.

What is PWA

PWA, which stands for Progressive Web App, is a web page that provides a similar experience as a mobile application, using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices.

As it is a web page, then users c

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AnyMind Group

Oct 20, 2021

[Tech Blog] Scrapy with Django Integration

This blog is about Integrating Django with scrapy. The goal is to retrieve any public data availble on the world wide web or the internet using Scrapy and then build a service on top of it using Django.

Let's just dive right into it with an overview of web-scraping and scrapy.

What is scraping

Scraping is the process of data mining. Also known as web data extraction, web harvesting, spying. It is software that simulates human interaction with a web page to retrieve any wanted information (eg images, text, videos). This is done by a scraper.

This scra

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AnyMind Group

Oct 19, 2021

[Tech Blog] Suspense of Vue3

It has been roughly a year since VueJs had its major upgrade in 2020 and it has grown more attention since. Not only did Vue3 was a major rewrite from the earlier version Vue2, but it also came with many new and enjoyable features to make development more convenient.

Before we proceed, allow me to introduce myself. I am Adean, a back-end developer from AnyTag team and in this article, I'll be introducing one new and still experimental feature of Vue3 called <suspense>.

A little disclaimer:

At the time of writing, <suspense> is still an e

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AnyMind Group

Oct 19, 2021

[Tech Blog] Writing simple tracing wrappers for golang pgx and http.Client for Sentry

Hello! This is Vasily, a backend engineer in AnyLogi,

In this article, I am going to show you some examples of custom tracing instrumentation for sentry, that we use in our go projects.

Imagine a situation when you want to instrument some code for a well-known library, and you think, oh, it is a typical case, someone must have solved this before and published a solution. But it turns out there is no such thing, all you can find is outdated GitHub issues and vague answers on how it can be implemented. It can be discouraging, and you might stop right the

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AnyMind Group

Oct 18, 2021

[Tech Blog] Introduction to Camunda BPM

Hello! I'm Leo and I'm backend engineer @ AnyTag team

In this article I'll tell about BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) with a small demo.

In complex business process with many if-else clauses, switches and branches, which is need to be updated very hard not just make any change but even understand how does it work. One of the way to make it clear is BPMN. This is the kind of formalised graphical notation, visual representation of business process. It can be used both by engineers and managers.

For example, we have a business process, which c

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Digital Marketing

Oct 15, 2021

[Tech Blog] Design of video player in DOOH

Hi! This is Peter Li, a backend engineer in Anymind DOOH Team. I'm excited to share the design of DOOH video player and how we solve a problem with WebAssembly.

About DOOH

Our DOOH system includes a camera above a digital signboard that leverages on computer vision to understand human traffic to determine advertisement viewability and non-personally identifiable audience data for gender, age and expression attributes.

This information is used to alternate and deliver advertising creatives along with measuring advertising effectiveness, providing mor

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AnyMind Group

Oct 11, 2021