Cracking the code: 8 steps to a winning software development strategy

From concept to delivery, here is a ‘democratic’ guide to building a successful software development strategy.

Working Together, Globally: The 99x Approach

Driving growth through product-led strategies

Building smarter applications: How to leverage AI and Machine Learning

Let's explore the path from traditional development to smart, AI-enhanced applications, and how to do it with speed, quality, and purpose.

Adapting MCP for Business Applications

Protecting Product IP - How ISO 27001:2022 practices safeguard your intellectual property

Your nearshore IT talent playbook: Why Portugal?

Craft Dot All 2025 & 99x

Beyond Code: Voice Your Tests With Playwright MCP

99x Portugal appoints Guilherme Ramos Pereira as Head of Strategic Development to put Data Science & AI at the core of the business

AI-assisted engineering in era of GenAI

Beyond Code: Voice Your Tests with Playwright MCP

Common habits of great IT outsourcing providers (Spoiler: 99x Portugal ensures all of them)

In this article, we’ll walk you through the key habits shared by the best IT outsourcing providers and show you how we bring each one to life.

Shaping tomorrow’s tech as 99x empowers employees through international exposure

99x Continues Its Growth Through the Acquisition of Tech Agency Solvr AS

10 reasons why 99x Portugal should be your next nearshore destination [Infographic]

Thinking of scaling your tech team with nearshore support? We’ve put together 10 reasons why 99x Portugal might just be your perfect match.

Integrating User Experience into the holistic product journey Business

Breaking Down Silos: From Data to AI and Beyond

What is data science and why is it critical for business growth?

What exactly is data science, and why should it be at the heart of your strategy? That’s what we explore in this article.

From Clicks to Context: The Quiet Revolution in Software

AI Assisted Engineering: Beyond the hype

Breaking Down Silos: From Data to AI and Beyond | ProductXperience - Webinar Series

Developer productivity & AI | 99x Monthly Tech Talk

AI Assisted Engineering: Beyond the hype

Top cloud providers compared: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, and Oracle

We break down the strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases for each cloud provider so you can confidently decide the best one for your organization.

Essential engineering metrics every team should track

Agentic AI: Powering Tangible Business Outcomes using Gen AI

Creating tangible business outcomes using AI Agent Workflows

Semantic Search: Technology That Understands What You 're Looking For

Essential engineering metrics every team should track | ProductXperience - Webinar Series

Join us as we delve into the critical engineering metrics that every software development team should monitor. This webinar goes beyond mere numbers; it’s about harnessing these metrics to enhance team performance, accelerate product delivery, and achieve superior quality. Embrace this opportunity to transform data into actionable insights that propel your projects forward.

How Optimaxer AI Web Brings the Power of Generative AI Directly to Your Browser

Eliminating Suboptimal Patterns using Gen AI

Documentation is Marketing - For Humans and AI

Documentation as a marketing tool and how to write useful documentation that promotes technology products to both humans and machines.

Blueprint for Building AI Agents That Perform Real Jobs

Ever wished you had a tireless coworker who could handle the boring stuff, make smart decisions, and free you up for the big ideas? Welcome to the world of AI agents! In this article, we’ll dive into the practical steps for designing AI agents and explore how they can transform workflows by performing real tasks.

A day of coding at 99x

More than 30 children spent their Saturday at 99x in Bjørvika, Oslo, immersing themselves in the world of coding. In collaboration with Lær Kidsa Koding, they explored block programming, developed games in Scratch, and programmed small robots using Bit:Bot.

Breakfast Seminar | 99X Business Technology Solutions

Discover the transformative power of the 99x Data Platform at our upcoming Breakfast Seminar on March 6th, 2025. This event is more than just an introduction to tools; it's a strategic exploration of how unified data can revolutionize the way your teams operate. By breaking down data silos, we enable smoother workflows and enhanced decision-making capabilities across your organization. Embrace the opportunity to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that drive efficiency, quality, and employee satisfaction. Join us to see how you can elevate your business operations and achieve holistic success.

6 inspiring IT staff augmentation success stories: How companies scale fast with nearshore talent

When new projects pile up, deadlines are tight, and finding the right expertise locally is costly and time-consuming, IT staff augmentation becomes a strategic solution.

99x to drive QA innovation across borders at Quality Week 2025

Step-by-step approach to QA and Testing: Building bullet-proof software solutions

At its core, QA and Testing is about preventing defects, ensuring functionality, and enhancing user satisfaction. Join us as we dive into the essential steps.

BagID: Transforming future of travel

5 things you must consider when choosing a development framework

Choosing the right development framework is critical to your product's success—not just today but for the years ahead.

Global experts to inspire at 99x’s Product Xperience Conference

5 Secrets to Leading a High-Performance Distributed Team

Transcript from our Oslo Breakfast Seminar

Trending programming languages and frameworks for 2025: What’s hot?

In this article, discover what we consider to be the hottest programming languages and frameworks driving innovation.

8 reasons to consider nearshore engineering talent in 2025

Check out some reasons why nearshore is the strategy you should consider for 2025, along with how we help you turn them into actionable results.

AI & UX: The perfect alliance for smarter products

Why do Clients Buy Your Product?

Security as a Service Offering:​ Assuring peace of mind for Boligmappa​ ​

AI & UX: The perfect alliance for smarter products | ProductXperience - Webinar Series

Join us for an in-depth exploration of how AI and UX can come together to drive meaningful impact. This webinar isn’t just about technology; it’s about leveraging technology to craft experiences that users genuinely connect with.

99x Group with seven global companies emerges as new tech powerhouse

Building a new Norwegian IT giant

Use AI to check a used car before purchase

99x poised for talent expansion in new growth phase

Crafting Exceptional Products | ProductXperience - Breakfast Seminar - Oslo Edition

A dynamic breakfast seminar where we explored strategies and tools to empower you in delivering outstanding product experiences to your customers.

The winning product guide

Harnessing the potential of GPT at 99x

Addressing the unique challenges of software product companies operating with global teams

Pragmatic Approach to Refining Microservices Architectures

How Adra Trintech scaled their tech team 10x and accelerated product development

Scaling With Confidence - Why 99x Facilitated Teams?

World-Class Technology for a WorldClass CRM

Cultural Compatibility Between Sri Lanka and Norway: Building Successful Business Partnerships

ProductXperience Summit 2025 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Join us at the 99x ProductXperience Summit, where innovators, engineers, and industry leaders converge to explore the future of digital product development.

Business Culture Compatibility - Sri Lanka vs. Norway

99x unveils ‘Product Central’ boosting developer productivity, streamlining software development

Clave Consulting joins the 99x Group

The 99x group, which consists of IT companies in Norway, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Portugal, enters into an agreement to buy the Norwegian consulting company Clave Consulting.

Cultural Fit | How 99x integrates Asia with Scandinavia

Oscar Inspector: Placing the buyer in the driver’s seat

99x introduces OptimaxerAI Web, a revolutionary AI library for web products

AI: The next revolution has begun

10 reasons to choose 99x as your partner for digital product development

Dive into GraphQL for a new developer experience

99x expands global footprint highlighting strategic growth

Optimizing Performance in React Apps

Flowyzer by 99x : Providing transparency and delivery insights for software product engineering teams

Boosting sustainable luxury travel: Up Norway Founder sheds light on building brand, expanding global partnerships

Firebase 101 | Learnings on building an enterprise product

Using Micro Frontends for Scalable Web Development

99x and MAS Foundation for Change Install Ocean Strainer to Address Plastic Pollution

Clean Architecture Principles

Executing Functions with Large Language Models

99x Achieves ISTQB Platinum Partner Status Elevating Software Quality Assurance Excellence

99x announces leadership transition

99x clinches Gold for IT Exports at National Export Awards 2023

99x achieves ISO 27001:2022 certification

Architecting a social feed and its best practices

99x expands global presence with acquisitions in Portugal and Brazil

Architecting AI Co-pilots with Large Language Models

99x Hosts Event in Sri Lanka with Nordic Investors

Nature of Secure by Design

Celebrating many more impactful digital products

Strategies for Early Performance Testing

99x strengthens leadership team with key management additions, transitions

Integrating Design Thinking into Business Strategy

Unlocking New Horizons: Our journey in expanding a tech hub in Malaysia

Leveraging Amazon Comprehend for Sentiment Analysis

99x expands global reach to setup technology centre in Malaysia

99x, Honored as the Four-Time Winner of Sri Lanka’s Best IT/ITES Workplace Award

Version controlling software development

Diverse Minds, Limitless Possibilities

99x clinches Overall Gold and IT & BPO Sector title at Best Management Practices Awards 2023

Privacy by Design

99x celebrates top performers of 2022 and long-standing employees

Embrace equity everyday

Nordic private equity fund Driv Kapital upbeat on 99x after $20m investment

99x’s Dotitude empowers more than 2,000 IT undergraduates during 2022

Tips and Tricks for Azure Exams

Outsourcing digital product development

99x supports Yarl Geek Challenge for the 8th consecutive year

Compello 's 10-year partnership with 99x

What does it take to succeed in digital product development?

99x: Championing Women in Tech

99x bags Asia’s Best Workplace Award for 5th consecutive year

Celebrating impactful digital products

99x ranks among the top 100 LMD’s Most Respected Entities of 2022

A ‘Legend’ workplace for Sri Lankans: Celebrating the People’s Culture at 99x

99x achieves Great Place to Work Legend status

99x takes resilient measures to safeguard employees in unprecedented times

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - EP 2 Azure Applications

BUS Data - Idea to fruition

Powered-on and Resilient: 99x empowering the digital Ambitions of global businesses

Cyber Resilience: Thinking Beyond Cyber Security in the ‘Next Normal’

99x: a holistic approach to crisis management

Building a Big Data QA Strategy for statistical/ML models

Introduction to creative coding

99x gears for market expansion with appointment of Kari Bente Skarbø to leadership

Introduction to Prisma

99x Gets Stellar Reviews for Custom Software Development in Product Engineering Solutions

Analyzing Data Using Python and R in MS SQL Server

99x Wins two golds at NCE Export Awards 2021

University of Colombo walks away with top honours at 99x’s Hacktitude 2022

Growing a software product engineering services business during a pandemic

99x powers Norway’s market leader in vehicle inspections through cutting-edge big data architecture

The right licensing model could make all the difference

Are you making the most of your CRM?

Building strategic resilience to survive beyond new normal

DevGrade by 99x fixes everything wrong with Interviews

Market expansion and European investment drive 99x’s growth in 2021

Aligning your organisation’s culture for results

99x ranked as a Best Workplace in Sri Lanka for ninth consecutive year

Adra Financial Close Management suite by Trintech for Microsoft Dynamics 365, powered by 99x

VMware Workspace One powers 99x with seamless remote workforce solution

Investing in innovation: Why organisations shouldn’t hold back during a crisis

IT’s the light at the end of the tunnel

Launch a branded online community for your product

Why 99x is a Great Workplace for Women

Tech workplaces power Sri Lanka as a preferred knowledge hub

The importance of a design system for your application

Solwr’s extended development team at 99x grows by 20+ members in a year

Mobile enablement of one of Finland’s largest payment platform providers

Building Scalable Applications with AKS

Extended team for Healthcare Product Development

De hjelper norske selskaper med utviklere fra Sri Lanka og Brasil: Nå slår de kreftene sammen

Why organisations shouldn’t hold back during a crisis

Appearing closer to your prospects, even if you’re far away

No ordinary workplace: 99x is a hotspot for millennials

99x draws $20 m investment for next growth wave from Scandinavian private equity firm

Customer satisfaction from 5,000 miles away. Can it be done?

Can an organisation’s culture be preserved during the pandemic?

Birth of a Bot

99x listed as Best Workplace in Asia and Sri Lanka again

Mobile UX Workshop

Monitoring performance in Azure SQL Databases

Design thinking: Going beyond the hype

99x strengthens leadership with appointment of Shalini Ratwatte

Azure infrastructure as code with Bicep

99x launches DevGrade to fast-track tech talent

Innovation in challenges times

Best Small and Medium IT/ITES Workplaces in Sri Lanka 2021

Building Scalable Angular Applications

It behoves me to write this!

Today’s CFO is the protector of tomorrow’s business resilience

Data privacy matters. Are you aware? Are you ready?

99x bags multiple honours at National Ingenuity Awards 2021

Creating robust mobile UX

99x gears for next phase of global expansion through strategic leadership promotions

She works for an IT company!

OAuth 2 Proof-Of-Possession

Improving WFH experience with productivity tools

99x ranked a Best Workplace for Women

Importance of Performance Testing

Five aspects tech product companies must consider in their journey

99x among first in SL to receive ISO 27701:2019 Privacy Information Management System certification

99x launches ‘Hacktitude’ Inter-Uni Hackathon

99x launches ‘Celebrating impactful digital products’ book

Celebrating founders and product owners who have built impactful digital products

Interview with 99x CEO Mano Sekaram in The Sunday Morning

Building equal opportunity workplaces: Is it possible?

Et unikt samarbeid bak suksessen Boligmappa.no

Ny logistikkplattform møter forbrukernes økte forventninger

Opportunities of the Future

Gjør hverdagen enklere for norske bedrifter – med hjelp fra Sri Lanka

Prestisjefylt kontrakt til norske IT-selskaper

Pranieth bags chess title for 99X Technology

Teaching online doesn’t equal a lost audience

99x acquires Seeds Consulting as part of growth strategy in Europe

Introduction to Azure Data Factory

Webinar on Continuous Testing

Sri Lankan startup Tracified receives Japanese investment

99X Technology helps Sri Lankan undergraduates get industry knowledge

Virtual co-creation for Product Engineering

Hatteland and 99X Technology: Partnering to deliver world-class digital products

‘Business As Usual’ For 99X Technology And Its Customers Through COVID-19 Pandemic

99X Technology Ranked As A Best Workplace In Asia For Fourth Year

Sureway AS and 99X Technology build an enterprise software product in a week while under lockdown

Business as usual’ for 99X Technology and its customers through COVID-19 pandemic

Customers have adapted well to the crisis, with each and every one of them continuing to function, ably supported by their development teams at 99X Technology.

Against all odds: Compello and 99X Technology deliver technological excellence through a global lockdown

Foresight to equip and guide employees to work from home through a crisis, allows over 300 Sri Lankans to continue to connect seamlessly with planned activity for their Scandinavian partners.

COVID-19 impact and measures taken at 99X Technology

Multiple steps were taken to increase awareness, limit spread of possible infections and contingency plans were implemented to look after our staff.

Quarkus, The Next Generation Container-First Framework For Java Applications

Launched by Red Hat with the intention of making available a Java framework optimized to run on top of Kubernetes.

Securely manage your open-source components with WhiteSource

99X Technology Invests in Building Product Management Capability for Next Wave of Growth

99X Technology Invests in Building Product Management Capability for Next Wave of Growth

Tarigo Consulting, UK empowering 99X employees to become product consultants to a growing global clientele.

TensorFlow Lite for mobile development

Strong customer sentiment drives 99X Technology’s top-line in 2019

A strong close to a year that saw organisational growth across the board with top-line performance growth of 50% year-on-year for the financial year 2019.

App Center for React Native

Double honours for 99X Technology at NCE Export Awards 2019

99X Technology named a Best Workplace for Women on inaugural Sri Lanka list

One of 10 companies to be awarded by Great Place To Work Institute Sri Lanka

99X Technology bags multiple honors at Sri Lanka’s 25 Best Workplaces 2019

Ranked among the top 10 on the regional index for 2019 as well, as a Best Workplace in Asia for the third year.

99X Technology recognised among LMD’s Top 100 Most Respected Entities

Winner of the technology sector on the 2019 index of Sri Lanka’s most esteemed corporates

99X Technology sets sights on accelerated growth with top-level appointments

Award-winning software company strengthens its ranks with Nelna Group CEO and CodeGen VP.

Blockchain 101 Meetup: A Recap

The Basic Concepts and Introduction to Blockchain meet up was a huge success providing a platform to share knowledge and clarify some of the tech myths of this era.

Designing Better Mobile Applications

Creating reusable components in React Native

99X Technology ranked among 10 Best Workplaces in Asia in Small and Medium Enterprise Category

Creating an open and authentic workplace is top priority for 99X Technology. Our efforts were once again lauded when named a Best Workplace in Asia for a third year.

Starting Test Automation In Your Project

Balancing for Better, every day, at 99X Technology

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day ‘Balance for Better’ calls for the building of a gender balanced world.

Neutralinojs Internals

Neutralinojs has two major components in a design perspective. It listens to requests coming from the client SDK and runs a separate thread for a native window which holds the built-in browser component for rendering the application.

Introduction to Stellar Development

Roadmap to become an awesome open source contributor in 2019

Contributing to Open Source can help you get into the industry or improve your current one. All while helping the community!

Migrating from Native to React Native

Lankan startup Tracified wins scholarship from Founder Institute at Oslo Innovation Week 2018

Representing Sri Lanka at the Oslo Innovation Summit this year, the Tracified team made the trip to Norway to pitch its product to Scandinavian investors and scored a double victory.

99x certified as Amazon Web Services Consulting Partner

Becoming one of AWS newest consulting partners, 99x reached another milestone in its journey of technological excellence.

Fundamentals of Psychology in Design

Roadmap to becoming a React Native developer in 2018 (for beginners)

A beginner’s comprehensive guide/reference on the steps to follow to become a React Native developer.

Continuous Delivery with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild

99X Technology named one of Sri Lanka’s Most Admired Companies on inaugural index

One among just 10 companies to be recognized on the inaugural index, conducted in partnership by the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka (ICCSL) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Sri Lanka.

Become a Quality(+Business) Enabler

An effective approach to developing performant products in an agile environment

A model to find a lasting solution to overcome performance related issues and make product performance assessments and optimizations much effective.

99X Technology ranked among Sri Lanka’s Best Workplaces for sixth consecutive year

Software product engineering company 99X Technology has strived to put as much effort into creating an open work culture as they have into technology development and innovation.<br>

Real-time tracking of user activity and crashes with Crashlytics

Great Place To Work® ranks 99X Technology among Asia’s Best Workplaces for 2018

A ‘people-first’ approach and an inclusive workplace culture, strengthened by employee trust, has seen 99X Technology being named one of Asia’s Best Workplaces for 2018, by the Great Place To Work® Institute.

As a startup, are you doing these five must-do things?

Kjetil Odin Johnsen, Founder and CEO of the risk analysis software Whatif, shares some pretty useful pointers for all startups to keep in mind.

Introduction to Blockchain for Beginners (Non Technical)

Blockchain is a better, safer way to record activity and keep data fresh, while maintaining a record of its history.

Roll out your own Single Sign-On solution on a product platform

Becoming AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Understood the details and best practices in using AWS to design solutions and applied the knowledge immediately to enhance several deployments done for customers with AutoScaling and LoadBalancing.

Building A Jenkins Failure Light Using Particle Photon

With IoT devices being so common these days, we found a handy little WiFi-enabled board (photon) from particle.io as a handy solution to wire into LEDs.

Sketches on Paper

I find it easy to sit in a chair, get a pencil and paper, and start drawing the basic flow of the application rather than using a complex prototyping tool.

Flavours of bugs and how to action it

Let the team together, figure out what quality means and hold everyone accountable for the quality of their work.

Red Herring names 99X Technology as one of Asia’s most promising tech companies

99XT drives digital disruption at Webdagene 2017 Oslo

99X Technology hosts first int 'l seminar in Oslo

99XT sweeps up Gold at NCE Export Awards 2017

Deploying Angular/React Apps in AWS

Amazon S3 provides comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that meet even the most stringent regulatory requirement.

GDPR: What? Why? Any impact to the business?

GDPR regulation will be applicable to all companies selling and storing personal information about EU citizens. It basically provides a greater control over the personal data.

Is manual testing running out of gas?

The testers in these environments do as the developers and QA manager says but won’t venture out any further than the specified documentation or own the application.

How Infrastructure Monitoring and Tooling are connected with Performance Engineering

We need to focus more on continuous performance assessments and monitoring (unit and functional level) rather than doing manual assessments by developers or testers.<br>

99X Technology powers Lanka’s first Serverless Meetup

The meetup last week was to bring to the Sri Lankan IT community the new developments surrounding the Serverless framework, which is also gaining traction fast locally.

Readability of code

Properly commented and readable code should be the hallmark of a professional.

Be Sincere, Be Brief, Be Seated: 15 public speaking tips I learnt over the years

I love to listen to people talk and engage in conversations with them but I wouldn't say I am fully over my stage fright, but at least I wouldn't hide behind people if I was asked to speak.

Azure Functions #1: Introduction

Azure Functions provide a more Simplified Programming Model where you need only to write the code to respond to the event.

Streamlining Releases with Agile Release Train

99X Technology takes gift of sight to Polonnaruwa

99X Technology scores a hat trick at Biz Quiz 2015

99XT 's Shehani felicitated for ‘Leadership Excellence in IT’

99XT ranked among Lanka’s Most Respected Entities 2015

99XT named winner at National Business Excellence Awards

99XT named Great Place To Work in Sri Lanka once again

99XT retains Category Title at Governor’s Challenge Cup

99X Technology emerges ICT sector winner at NBEA 2016

Silver sweep for 99X Technology at NBQSA 2016

99XT ranked among APAC’s top 25 Agile Solutions Providers

99XT powers Sri Lanka’s first-ever Serverless Meetup

99XT first Lankan IT Company to enter GPTW Hall of Fame

99XT Quiz Team crowned Champions at Biz Quiz 2017

99XT enriches Sri Lanka’s future in software development