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Web Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Web Applications
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Web Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Web Applications

The application works. The tests are green, last quarter's vulnerability scan came back clean, and the release went out on time. A month later, a customer notices that changing the order number in the URL shows them someone else's invoice. No tool flagged it, because the code did exactly what it was written to do. It just never asked whether this user was allowed to see this order.

Web Security
Web Development
Cybersecurity
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

29 min read
Handling the Top 10 Web Application Security Risks (OWASP)
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Handling the Top 10 Web Application Security Risks (OWASP)

In today's digital landscape, security breaches and data compromises have become all too common. As businesses rely more on web applications and software solutions, it is crucial to prioritize application security to safeguard sensitive data and protect against malicious attacks.

Security
Web Development
Best Practices
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

9 min read
Choosing the Right Cloud Storage: Understanding Your Requirements
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Choosing the Right Cloud Storage: Understanding Your Requirements

In today's digital era, cloud storage has become an essential component for most of enterprise applications. As businesses continue to adopt cloud architecture, the question of 'what is the best cloud storage?' often arises.

Cloud Computing
Software Development
Enterprise Solutions
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

5 min read
5 Reasons Why Custom Software Solutions Are Essential for Business Growth
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5 Reasons Why Custom Software Solutions Are Essential for Business Growth

In today's digital world, custom software solutions have become a must-have tool for businesses of all sizes and industries.

Custom Software Development
Business Strategy
Digital Transformation
Alexandra Mazurava

Alexandra Mazurava

Head of Growth, Softellar

4 min read
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Phases, Models, and How to Choose
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Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Phases, Models, and How to Choose

Software development projects rarely fail on the code itself. They fail in the handoffs: a requirement that two people understood differently, a defect found the week before launch, a decision nobody knew they were supposed to make. Development teams need an agreed order of work, and a few points where they stop and decide whether to go on. That agreement is what people call the software development life cycle, or SDLC.

Software Development
Project Management
Best Practices
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

35 min read
Infrastructure as Code: A Practical Guide to Tools and Getting Started
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Infrastructure as Code: A Practical Guide to Tools and Getting Started

Two years ago, someone set up your production environment by hand, clicking through a cloud console over a few late evenings. They've since left the company. The staging environment is "almost the same" as production, which everyone knows means it isn't. When a new customer needs a copy of the system, the estimate is three weeks, most of it spent working out what is actually configured where.

DevOps
Cloud Computing
Software Development
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

33 min read
Enterprise Digital Transformation: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Start
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Enterprise Digital Transformation: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Start

Many large companies still run daily work on legacy systems built ten or fifteen years ago. Every new request turns into another workaround: a spreadsheet here, a manual re-entry there. Meanwhile customer expectations keep moving. At some point, keeping everything as it is costs more than changing it.

Digital Transformation
Business Strategy
Technology
Alexandra Mazurava

Alexandra Mazurava

Head of Growth, Softellar

35 min read
OCR Invoice Processing: How It Works, What It Saves, and How to Implement It
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OCR Invoice Processing: How It Works, What It Saves, and How to Implement It

It's the third working day of the month. Your accounts payable team has a few hundred vendor invoices to get through: PDFs from email, scans from the warehouse, a couple of photos taken on someone's phone. Each one gets opened, read, and typed into the accounting system by hand. Somebody transposes two digits in an invoice number. Somebody else pays the same invoice twice because it arrived by email and by post.

Technology
Business Automation
Financial Technology
AI & Machine Learning
Ernest Karapetau

Ernest Karapetau

CEO & Founder, Softellar

26 min read
The Staff Augmentation Process, Step by Step: Roles, Timeline, and Contract
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The Staff Augmentation Process, Step by Step: Roles, Timeline, and Contract

Your next release is three months away. The roadmap needs a senior backend engineer with payments experience, and nobody on the team has it. Hiring a permanent employee would mean posting a job, running several rounds of interviews, waiting out a notice period, and onboarding. By the time that person writes production code, the release date has passed.

Staff Augmentation
IT Services
Business Strategy
Alexandra Mazurava

Alexandra Mazurava

Head of Growth, Softellar

16 min read
Test Automation Strategy: How to Build One (Template and Example Included)
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Test Automation Strategy: How to Build One (Template and Example Included)

Six months ago, your team decided to automate testing. Someone picked a framework, the QA engineers started converting manual test cases into scripts, and for a while the dashboard looked great. Today, a third of the suite fails on any given run. Nobody is sure which failures are real. Before each release, the team quietly runs the important checks by hand, just to be safe.

Software Testing
Quality Assurance
Test Automation
Kirill Bahdanovich

Kirill Bahdanovich

Head of Technology, Softellar

32 min read
Offshore Dedicated Development Team: The Complete 2026 Guide
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Offshore Dedicated Development Team: The Complete 2026 Guide

Most companies don't set out to hire an offshore dedicated development team. They set out to ship a product, run into a wall of local salaries or a six-month hiring pipeline, and end up here instead. That's a perfectly good reason to be here, honestly.

Dedicated Teams
Software Development
Business Strategy
Alexandra Mazurava

Alexandra Mazurava

Head of Growth, Softellar

17 min read
What Is Application Modernization? Strategies, Benefits and Process
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What Is Application Modernization? Strategies, Benefits and Process

Application modernization is the process of improving an existing application so it is easier to change, cheaper to run and safer to operate. It can mean upgrading outdated frameworks and dependencies, adding automated tests, restructuring the code into clear modules, moving to cloud infrastructure or rebuilding parts of the system.

Software Development
Digital Transformation
Technology
Alexandra Mazurava

Alexandra Mazurava

Head of Growth, Softellar

18 min read

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