Rui Molefas

How to push Blockchain forward?

According to DappRadar, a mix of venture capital funds and investors have invested over 2.5 billion into blockchain gaming and related infrastructure during the first quarter of 2022 alone.

apps

dApps: What does it mean

Decentralized apps, commonly referred to as 'dApps' is a buzzword that has been popping up more and more in recent years. Although these are getting increasingly adopted as time goes

Blockchain

Why is blockchain literacy important?

Even though I've been deeply involved in the tech industry for decades, I can also step back and understand how biassed and evangelistic this sounds (and it also is). Regardless,

Blockchain

Software House meets Gaming Industry

We are approaching the final quarter of 2022 and, despite the disastrous effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on several enterprises throughout the world, the gaming industry has thrived. The global

30secondsessions

30secondsessions: Web Summit 2021 recap

Another engaging event from the Web Summit team. What were the main takeaways and more, read on!

Use-case

MobieTrain

Through MobieTrain, learning is fun again with advanced gamified micro-learning techniques. We have designed and implemented the complete architecture of the products ecosystem.

What does a Cloudoki do?

We deliver the right solution for your product ecosystem. We design, build, refactor and help with APIs and applications.

About us

A Cloudoki announcement

Our family just got bigger, way bigger. We are stoked to announce that we are officially a member of the Cyrex Group!

30secondsessions

30 Secondsessions – The Big Squeeze 2021

The Big Squeeze was, as the name puts it, a whole lot of concurrent content delivered through multiple formats, "squeezed" into a bit-over-half-day event. If this sounds overwhelming or simply prone to error, let me tell you it really (!) wasn't.

About us

Work hard · Play hard(er)

Here at Cloudoki we are very specific and protective when it comes to our culture. Besides our work, this is definitely what resonates most with the people that join us, and what makes them remember us long after they've left.

About us

Why did we go "blog-first"

Cloudoki doesn't try to be an expert in "mad-men" communication and sales, we try to be experts in technology and let the rest take care of itself. If a website is about presenting your best self, we feel our opinions and journey through tech is our best, unsalted image.

About us

Get in touch

We like to keep it simple. We - the founders - are always ready for a talk: meet with Rui If you are just in need for an e-mail address, check our locations for direct contact. Cloudoki offices We have open doors in multiple

About us

Before anything, we're family

Cloudoki is an international team of junior, mid and senior experts in API-centric application architecture and development. We build top notch next-generation software for web, mobile and native, serving startups, scale-ups, SME's and Enterprise clients.

culture

Unpopular opinion: Full remote work may not always be the best option.

For the past 5 years, working remotely has moved from this "utopic" idea into a very palpable and mainstream reality. I aim to at least raise some awareness about the potential issues of fully or remote-first work environments

culture

(Team) size does matter.

This article's context is about how a software development team's size affects productivity and overall work and delivery quality.

Use-case

BNP Paribas Fortis Open Banking

We've designed and built a PSD2 compliant Developer Portal for BNP Paribas Fortis.The Open Banking Portal includes custom made features such as Sandbox, Test data, Console, API products, and much more.

agile

The "small startup" flag is not a hall pass to be bad

It has never been "hipper" to be part of a startup than it is today. Every day countless entrepreneurs start a new venture riding on the hopes and dreams of office beer pong tournaments, on 30h long workdays and high on caffein...

culture

A day in the life of a Scrum Team

At Cloudoki we develop projects with our own scrum methodology. The agile scrum is an organisational framework that allow us to deliver products on time and user focused. This guide is based on our collective experiences.

culture

A winning culture

Culture is paramount for companies because it is, in its essence, whatever that company is and how it's ultimately defined. That impacts the people that get drawn to it, what they produce, the clients that buy into it and all the jazz in between.

Tech

Why move away from Backbone and into React and Angular2?

Dear Backbone, it's not you...it's us. We still love you. by Cloudoki team The environment Here at Cloudoki we take pride in trying to work with as many technologies

Hackathon

#HackFridays - The gist

Here at cloudoki we strongly believe in the added value that comes from giving everybody the tools and means to release their creativity and curiosity, while learning from it. Hacking

# 3, 2, 1 Hack!

The Cloudoki team had a chance to participate in the Hack for Good 30 hour hackathon, in good'ol Lisbon. This year's edition challenged developers and other eager minds to come

mantra

Why we code like it's our last day on the job

Everyone (ok, every developer) has had that first day on a running project and has gotten excited about diving into that fresh code, eager to leave his mark and contribution

API

Extending backbone's requests with custom headers

We have all but love for backbone around here. But although it's pretty flexible and complete, sometimes you just need that something that doesn't quite work the way you need,

API

Backbone App - End to End: Connecting to an external API

This article is the third article in the Backbone App - End to End series. In the previous article we created a basic design pattern to structure your backbone app.