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June 26th, 2025

The Model Context Protocol: AI’s Super Glue

May 26th, 2025

May 2025 Lightning Talks

April 23rd, 2025

Is It Time for a Second Opinion on Your Software?

March 27th, 2025

Towards a Better Understanding of Developer Productivity

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June 26th, 2025

The Model Context Protocol: AI’s Super Glue

AI has become so ubiquitous these days that you can’t watch TV or read the news without seeing it mentioned in some form or another. AI concepts such as chatbots, ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs), and even Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) have already entered the enterprise lexicon and are becoming familiar concepts. However, more recently, […]

May 26th, 2025

May 2025 Lightning Talks

In May 2025, Solution Street hosted the latest installment of its popular Lightning Talks series. Moderated by Prashant Punjabi, this session featured a diverse lineup of quick, engaging presentations covering a mix of technical insights and personal experiences: Below, you’ll find a link to each video along with a summary of the talk. We hope […]

April 23rd, 2025

Is It Time for a Second Opinion on Your Software?

Introduction At Solution Street, we’re often introduced to organizations that are facing a moment of uncertainty or simply seeking reassurance. These companies may be questioning the state of their software systems, including the scalability and security of their architecture, or evaluating the effectiveness of their development team. In many cases, they’ve reached the same conclusion: […]

March 27th, 2025

Towards a Better Understanding of Developer Productivity

Measuring Developer Productivity is difficult, because in order to measure it, we must first be able to define what it is. Developers and Managers often have different views on developer productivity. Developers tend to define productivity in terms of their own activity whereas managers tend to focus on outcomes and performance of the team.  Developer […]

February 25th, 2025

Understanding Modern Chrome Extensions: A Developer’s Guide

Introduction Web extensions have become an essential tool for enhancing browser functionality, offering users customized experiences ranging from ad-blocking and password management to productivity tools and automation scripts. Whether you’re looking to build a simple extension to streamline your workflow or a feature-rich tool for a broader audience, understanding the development process is key. In […]

January 27th, 2025

Five Real-World Situations Where AI Has Moved the Needle for Developer Productivity

Solution Street published several articles last year on the progress of Artificial Intelligence. First in January with Introduction to Modern AI 2024 Edition – Part 1 and Part 2 in February. In May, we summarized several AI topics that were presented in our meetup. Then in June we wrote about The Power Duo: Embeddings and […]

December 19th, 2024

Should Your Business Be Using Power Apps?

At Solution Street we continuously explore and evaluate various tools to provide the best solutions for our clients. Determining the most suitable toolset and platform is our top priority. I have explored several no-code/low-code tools in the past such as Budibase, FlutterFlow, and LoopBack. Joel Nylund has also evaluated low-code platforms against alternate solutions. With […]

November 25th, 2024

What Is WebAssembly (Wasm) and Why Do I Care?

Some History The year was 1995, and the web browser most of us used was called Netscape Navigator; for the most part it rendered and ran basic HTML. At that time, people wanted richer interfaces and Java applets were introduced just in time to give it to them. For a few years, Java applets could […]

October 22nd, 2024

Exploring Mobile Test Automation with Appium

Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of mobile app development, ensuring that your app works seamlessly across various devices and operating systems is crucial. To achieve this, automated testing has become a cornerstone of quality assurance. Among the multitude of testing frameworks available, Appium stands out as a versatile, open-source, and cross-platform solution that enables […]

September 26th, 2024

Meetup Summary: AI-Powered Coding Tools: A Side-by-Side Look

In September of 2024, at the headquarters of Solution Street, the NOVA Software Architecture Roundtable Meetup group held a meetup to discuss several AI-Powered coding tools. There were four presenters, each summarizing a coding tool and discussing aspects of the tool like functionality, security and privacy concerns, cost and IDE integration. Below are brief summaries […]