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Belitsoft’s 2025 AI Software Playbook: Infrastructure, Agents & Business Models
AI entrepreneurs and startup founders must balance four fronts at once with their product roadmaps - system architecture, revenue strategy, market timing, and competitive positioning. This article walks through the key AI infrastructure trends, model capabilities, and market dynamics expected through 2025.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Azure SignalR Implementation Patterns
SignalR technology promises lower time-to-market, scalability, and tight Azure alignment. Real-time UX (dashboards, notifications, IoT telemetry) is now a baseline user expectation and is directly tied to KPIs such as conversion and downtime reduction. Failing to meet those expectations risks customer churn and SLA breaches, compelling the audience to evaluate real-time stacks. Azure SignalR Service off-loads connection management and offers predictable consumption pricing. The business case shows lower TCO versus self-hosting, so the finance-minded leaders (CTO, IT Directors) see immediate ROI potential.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Perspective: UK Nearshore Software Development Trends (2025 Outlook)
In 2025, UK businesses are under cost pressure and cannot find enough local technology talent, so they are augmenting their software teams with developers from nearshore countries. This report examines how UK companies are using nearshore outsourcing to reduce costs, which regions they favour (with a focus on Eastern Europe), the qualities they seek in augmentation vendors (from professionalism to enthusiasm), how selection criteria reflect chief information officer and procurement priorities, and whether preferences vary by industry or company size. Insights from chief information officer surveys and interviews are included.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on Why Regression Testing Matters for Enterprise Software Stability
Companies that maintain complex software systems (fintech platforms, healthcare applications, SaaS products, or ongoing legacy modernization projects), share a common set of challenges. Each new release risks breaking functionality that once worked when seemingly unrelated code paths are touched. Deployments become stressful for engineers and worrisome for stakeholders who depend on stable, predictable releases. Development teams want to make updates faster without sacrificing reliability, defects must be detected early in the lifecycle, before customers are affected. Achieving these goals requires automated regression testing.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's 2025 ASP.NET Core Evaluation Framework for Enterprise Teams
Executives making hiring, team composition, and skill-gap decisions need a practical guide for evaluating ASP.NET Core developers. This ASP.NET Core skillset evaluation framework benefits technical leaders, hiring managers, and talent acquisition professionals by providing a structured, comprehensive approach to assessing developer competency. Hiring managers can avoid costly mis-hires by using the framework’s detailed skill criteria, team leads can proactively close gaps, ensuring project success, and executives can ensure technical teams support enterprise priorities. Each section includes "proficiency indicators" that clearly specify what to look for when evaluating candidates.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
How Top .NET Development Companies Deliver Enterprise Software in 2025
When you're looking to hire a trusted .NET development partner, the "top 10" label usually indicates companies with deep expertise in Microsoft’s .NET stack — C#, ASP.NET, related tools — along with strong track records of delivering successful projects and earning high client satisfaction. These firms build enterprise-level systems, web platforms, custom applications, and mobile apps with MAUI. The right choice for your own project depends on what you need — whether that is e-commerce, modernizing legacy software, migrating to the cloud, or something else — as well as factors such as project complexity, budget, timeline, industry experience, preferred team size, and location. Leading .NET providers offer end-to-end services: they plan architecture, handle full-stack development, conduct thorough testing, manage deployment, and provide ongoing maintenance, so the resulting software is reliable, scalable, and firmly grounded on Microsoft’s platform.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Tech startups coming to Slush 2025: what to expect
It's already August. Only three months to Slush. I can say I am excited for the next three and a half months ahead. It means this is time to keep myself busy getting to know some of the best tech startups in the world, some of which will become the next big thing in the coming years due to their innovation and community building. It’s time for Slush.
By Susan Fourtané 7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Take: Why is Playwright Better than Selenium in 2025?
In just a few years, Playwright has become the fastest-growing test automation tool. Community surveys show Playwright being used by almost half of respondents, exceeding other tools. In TestGuild's survey analysis, Playwright usage has far exceeded Selenium making it the top automation testing tool in 2025. Many teams have started choosing Playwright as their primary UI automation framework.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s 2025 .NET Toolchain for Enterprise: From Code to Cloud
The 2025 .NET stack blends Microsoft-supported open-source and commercial components: high-performance application frameworks, Azure cloud services, developer productivity extensions, and DevOps automation. Together, they allow engineering teams to build and run scalable, cross-platform workloads for web, mobile, cloud, and AI while meeting performance and security requirements.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Shares How to Hire a Dedicated Development Team and Cut Costs by 40%+
Outsourcing software development services saves businesses up to 70% of the budget, especially if you hire a high qualified offshore dedicated development team. Even global leaders like Alibaba, Google, Skype, and WhatsApp rely on this model. Discover when to choose a dedicated team model and how to make such a collaboration well-organized and budget-saving.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Guide to ASP.NET Cloud Development: Enterprise Strategy & Best Practices
Building modern enterprise applications with ASP.NET in the cloud requires consideration of application architecture, cloud services, and deployment models. This article outlines how to develop and deploy ASP.NET applications (including MVC web apps, Blazor interactive UIs, and Web API services) on leading cloud platforms. It highlights key cloud features (like auto-scaling, CI/CD, containerization, and serverless functions) and compares Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud for hosting ASP.NET solutions. This guide is for technical decision-makers to plan a scalable, and compliant enterprise ASP.NET cloud architecture.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's Guide to Outsourcing ASP.NET Development
This guide explains how to outsource ASP.NET projects effectively and what to look for in an outsourcing partner - especially for projects of different scopes, budgets, and durations. It highlights why Eastern Europe has become a prime region for .NET outsourcing, combining technical expertise with cost efficiency.
By Dmitry Baraishuk7 months ago in 01
