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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.

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.

Harnessing the potential of GPT at 99x

Business Culture Compatibility - Sri Lanka vs. Norway

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

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

Diverse Minds, Limitless Possibilities

Embrace equity everyday

What does it take to succeed in digital product development?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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>

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.

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.

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.