From automation to autonomy: Why Agentic AI should be your next step in intelligent software

Learn how Agentic AI goes beyond automation, enabling autonomous workflows, smarter decision-making, and scalable value in modern intelligent software.

Runbyte: MCP, But Your Agent Writes Code

What happens when agents stop making tool calls and start writing code

Beyond the obvious: How QA prevents the bugs you don’t see coming

Discover how smart QA prevents hidden bugs, protects quality, and helps you release software with confidence before issues reach production.

The do’s and don’ts of working with distributed tech teams [Infographic]

Discover the key do’s and don’ts of working with distributed tech teams and learn how co-creation, trust and collaboration drive better results.

The road to a data-driven culture: Key challenges and solutions

Build a data-driven culture by overcoming common challenges and learn how to turn data into trusted insights that drive better decisions.

Low-code development in 2026: Where agility meets AI

Discover how low-code development is evolving and how AI is reshaping speed, scalability, and engineering excellence for modern teams.

From overwhelmed to optimized: Why scaling your engineering teams with 99x

In this article, we explore how to build high-performing engineering teams that scale with your goals: seamlessly, sustainably, and without complexity.

Multi-cloud strategies: Tips to maximize flexibility and minimize risk

While the benefits are clear in multi-cloud strategies, the path comes with complexities you can’t ignore. Discover some tips for a successful approach.

Tech talent shortage stats you shouldnʼt ignore - And what to do next [Infographic]

The tech talent shortage isn’t slowing down. In this infographic, we’ve summed up key statistics, plus what companies can do now to stay ahead.

Essential tools for automated Software Testing

As engineering leaders, we’re under pressure to ship faster without compromising reliability. And that’s where a solid Software Testing strategy, supported by the right tools, makes all the difference.

Product-Led Growth: Let Your Product Sell Itself

“What if your product could sell itself? That’s the idea behind Product-Led Growth (PLG), a strategy where the product drives acquisition, retention, and advocacy by delivering value so effectively that users naturally convert and spread the word.”

Fixing What You Can’t See: The SEI Advantage

Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platforms uncover the hidden delays slowing delivery, from bloated PRs to idle reviews. Here’s how the right metrics can unlock serious momentum.

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

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.

Craft Dot All 2025 & 99x

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Empowering Finnish Enterprises with Innovative Digital Solutions

Partner with 99x to accelerate your digital transformation through expert product engineering and a deep understanding of Nordic business culture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cleverti rebrands into 99x Europe: A new era of innovation and global growth

Cleverti embarks on an exciting transition to become 99x Europe. This change marks a significant milestone in our journey.

Diverse Minds, Limitless Possibilities

Harnessing the potential of GPT at 99x

Business Culture Compatibility - Sri Lanka vs. Norway

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

Top 5 front-End frameworks for mid to large-scale projects in 2024

The front-end development arena is more dynamic than ever. For businesses, especially those handling mid to large-scale projects, selecting the right front-end framework is not just about technology but also about embracing a community and an ecosystem.

Empowering growth through strategic Staff Augmentation: A partnership with 99x Europe

99x Europe’s ‘Meet our Projects’ column is back and with the same high-quality reviews, this time regarding strategic Staff Augmentation.

Cleverti joins forces with 99x Holding

In a significant milestone for Cleverti, a new chapter of innovation and global growth begins with the strategic acquisition by Norwegian 99x Holding. This not only reinforces Cleverti’s standing in the industry, but also sets the stage for expanded opportunities and collaborative ventures.

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

Embrace equity everyday

What does it take to succeed in digital product development?

How to work in IT from Brazil for a European company (Q&A)

Insightful interview regarding a trending topic.

How to secure your laptop – 6 steps

Having a brand-new computer is an exciting experience, and in some cases, there is almost obsessive attention toward it because it’s so sleek and elegant. As we usually do with accessories that lose their newness with age, this care begins to fade over time as well.

Angular and React: Differences and similiarities

Angular and React are popular JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces (UIs) for web applications. While they share some similarities, there are also several key differences between them.

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

Strongly vs weakly typed languages

I spent more than half of my career programming in strongly typing languages such as C, Pascal and Java, where for each variable we have to implicitly associate a data type. And the rest of my career programming in weakly typed languages, also known as loosely typed, such as PHP, JavaScript and shell scripts.

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

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

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

Extended team for Healthcare Product Development

Celebrating founders and product owners who have built impactful digital products

How to become an ETH2 Validator (step by step practical tutorial)

Ethereum will start tomorrow (1st December) the first phase of its migration to Ethereum 2.0 mainnet. Check this step by step and see how to become a Validator.

The three priority areas of new business paradigm

In recent months, much has been said about a new business paradigm, yet there has been little reflection on its guiding principles.

4 ways informal communication can help your company

Why does informal communication assume such considerable importance when we’re talking about the company’s marketing strategy?

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.

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.

OCB – Role behaviours and extra-role behaviours

Organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB) are considered desirable behaviours by organizations because they contribute to organizational effectiveness.

Leadership – The dialectic between Leaders and Followers

It’s important that both leaders and followers understand their role as transformative agents, responding promptly to growing challenges.

It’s pretty easy to master Angular material tables. Until the UX issues come

When your shiny new table deploys to Production, you are happy. The pagination, filtering, and all your cute buttons seem to be in perfect shape, and the table loads so quickly that the user will be amazed!

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.

One for all, all for one – the perks of being a team player

Everyone has already experienced/is experiencing working in a team, whether in a social setting, the university or the workplace.

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.

Angular Ivy: the new Angular renderer explained

Ivy has been a name wandering the Angular universe for quite some time now, currently sitting at 93.46% of completion. It is planned to be an opt-in feature in Angular 8.0.0, scheduled for release in April/March 2019.

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.

Nginx + GeoIP2 load balancer example

Undoubtedly, there are plenty of enterprise-grade solutions that can help you perform load balancing/distribution based on users’ locations.

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!

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.

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.

Unleash the power of notifications with Laravel, Vue.js, and Pusher

Notifications let apps reach users with short messages. They’re increasingly interactive and used to drive engagement, hence a must for developers.

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.

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.

EntityFramework: Yes or No?

The way you handle issues can make the difference between a good and a bad EntityFramework review. Like everything else, EF has qualities and flaws…

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.

Metadata Decorators through reflection

TypeScript Metadata Decorators can make life easier for Angular developers. Learn how to take advantage of this ground-breaking ECMAScript proposed feature.

How to make proper form validation with Symfony3

Form validation improves the user experience while protecting your applications. Our latest Symfony3 hands-on guide shows you how.

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.

Building a Spring Boot REST web service in 4 steps

It only takes you 15 minutes to build a REST service with the help of Spring Boot. Follow our simple steps to get you going.

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.

Symfony: dependency injection ≠ container aware

Do you want to know why you shouldn’t inject the Symfony container in your services and learn a bit more about dependency injection? Don’t miss this piece.

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.

Xcode debugging tools: Quick start guide

Knowing your way around debugging tools will make you a better, more productive and happier programmer. Learn some handy tricks to get you started.

How to setup Docker for a Symfony project

Docker is a fast-growing open-source software development project. Follow our simple steps to easily set up a Docker environment in your project.

Blockchain: What’s out there and what’s next?

Digital currencies have been on the market for a while, and what began as a nerd idea has become mainstream. Bitcoin and Blockchain are in.

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.

How to set a Symfony based rest api with Oauth

So, you want to set a Symfony-based REST API… In this article, we give you a few tips on how to proceed.

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.

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.

How to access hidden Chrome devtools

First of all, start by using Chrome Canary to develop because, by itself, it will give you access to more tools than the stable version of Chrome.

How to set up a simple Blockchain with JavaScript

If you have attended Web Summit, you have surely heard a lot about Blockchain. Not only geeks from across the globe are super excited about it, but also investors.

Software testing fundamentals

This article offers a brief and direct approach to a series of key aspects around software testing. Here you can find information regarding the most common methods, levels and types of testing, including useful tips on test automation.