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WURFL Microservice for Azure: a Tutorial
Mar 2nd, 2020
This tutorial on WURFL Microservice for Azure hinges on a demo inspired by the Event Streams use case. WURFL VMs available on the Azure Marketplace can be used to deploy a WURFL API in minutes with no need to obtain an explicit license from ScientiaMobile (as it is normally the case with “classical” on-prem WURFL APIs). In this tutorial we use .NET Core, but the use case can easily be supported with other programming languages, other cloud vendors and other data analysis platforms.
Read MoreWURFL Microservice for AWS: a Tutorial
Feb 20th, 2020
This tutorial on WURFL Microservice for AWS hinges on a demo inspired by the Event Streams use case. WURFL AMIs available on the AWS Marketplace can be used to deploy a WURFL API in minutes with no need to obtain an explicit license from ScientiaMobile (as it is normally the case with “classical” on-prem WURFL APIs). In this tutorial we use Java, but the use case can easily be supported with other programming languages, other cloud vendors and other data analysis platforms.
Read MoreLegacy Package Deprecation for WURFL OnSite API for Java
Apr 25th, 2018
Our team has been working hard on the upcoming release of the WURFL OnSite API for Java (v1.9.4.0), which will be the last release to contain support for the legacy package name (net.sourceforge.wurfl) and the legacy release package. There’s a lot of information below about the package name and why we’re doing it, but the most important thing to know is that current customers need to update to the new package name (com.scientiamobile) to avoid any disruptions to their project(s).
Read MoreKeeping Smartphones Smart
Feb 28th, 2018
At ScientiaMobile, we take pride in having the highest quality device detection solution available which is why we are constantly keeping pace with the changing mobile landscape (so you don’t have to). [Check out our Mobile Overview Report for up-to-date mobile analytics]. More than four
Read MoreIntroducing WURFL Microservice for Docker
Jan 30th, 2018
Today, we launched WURFL Microservice for Docker, an extension to the WURFL Microservice product line that we already have for AWS. If you are not familiar with microservices, I recommend that you read this post to make sense of why a WURFL REST API server may be a good idea and why Docker can be a great option for deploying it.
Read MoreMost Popular Apple iPhone Launch Results: November to December 2017
Dec 20th, 2017
At the beginning of the iPhone X launch, there were many challenges to get the phone into the hands of consumers, but one thing is for sure, its select consumer group with a higher willingness-to-pay is smaller than that of the
Read MoreIntroducing WURFL Microservice for AWS
Dec 20th, 2017
Luca Passani, CTO @ScientiaMobile
“The golden rule: can you make a change to a service and deploy it by itself without changing anything else?”
― Sam Newman, Building Microservices
Read MoreHow to Correctly Form User-Agents for Mobile Apps
Nov 15th, 2017
Native apps, Mobile apps, or just apps. We call them different things and we use them all the time. From a business perspective, apps complement mobile and desktop sites. They are natural extension of an online strategy.
Read MoreCorrectly Form User-Agents for Webview Apps
Nov 15th, 2017
Hybrid webview apps are a popular and cost efficient way to distribute online properties through app stores. A hybrid app is a native application with all the bells and whistles, but some part and sometimes even all functionality is developed using HTML, CSS ,and JavaScript and rendered by a webview component.
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