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7 stages of Software Development Process

At Kutia, we know that each project will be different so we approach with an open mind and manage each piece of bespoke software in a way that suits the individual project. These are the 7 stages we work on Software Development Process: First contact During the first contact, we want to learn your business […]

Speed up Docker for Mac with docker-sync

Running web app on Docker on MacOS can be quite slow, especially when you run multiple containers with file sync from the host machine to containers. To help solve this problem when developing on MacOS, one of the solutions we can use is a tool called docker-sync. This post will guide you step-by-step on how to […]

Kosovo – your next stop!

Kosovo is situated in Southeast Europe in the central part of the Balkan Peninsula. In the southwest, it is bordered by Albania, in the west by Montenegro, in the north and east by Serbia and in the southeast by North Macedonia. It is known as the youngest country in Europe since its declared independence on […]

Trust-building or trust-maintenance? A short guide to maintaining trust in your team

We constantly hear how important it is to build trust in a company. To achieve it, we invest a lot in various activities to establish connections between staff and build trust. All this in order to increase performance at work and receive good project results. Looking at the development and performance of our company over […]

Helping the community together!

Kutia has supported the integration for the drejt.org platform by enabling donors to purchase packages at maxiks.shop. This platform aims to help families affected by acute poverty as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Through this platform, donors will be able to select families in need and use local e-commerce platforms to buy […]

The role of communication in a software company

“Being a Project Manager is like being an artist: Processes full of different colors that when combined, create a work of art.” – were the words I received the day our CEO gave to the team a quote of motivation he chose for each of us to begin 2021 in a very positive way. At […]

Making laravel/passport tenant aware

There are many Laravel packages out there that help us make Laravel applications multi-tenant. Depending on the project, we chose spatie/laravel-multitenancy. The package does almost everything for you, but if you are building API endpoints, you are probably going to use laravel/passport as an authentication package to secure your API endpoints. So, combining these two packages might be […]

Making a difference in our society through a solution-oriented mindset

There are thousands of speeches and articles talking about the importance of being a solution-oriented person. These reasons are very strong and definitely influence a mindset that seeks to lead to the solution challenges that arise. However, today we want to talk about the importance of empowering such a mindset through a company as a […]

Why do we use Figma?

Our design team has worked with several different tools but Figma turned out to be the one that we mostly found ourselves at. This is because it is the best tool to collaborate with. One of the biggest differences between other UI design tools and Figma is that Figma works in browsers, making it extremely […]

Why we empower our team members to manage their own time

Running a company vs being a member of a company are two completely different things with separated responsibilities. However, there is a fine line in between. There are elements that define us as individuals with different characteristics, regardless of the position one holds in the company. We have together build a culture that puts the […]

How to build an MVP in a few weeks

MVP is the initial product that creates tangible value for your customers. It is a process of building a new product with core functionalities and minimum features, to test how the target audience would respond. MVP Development plays an important role in web development and design. Therefore, several businesses have challenges while trying to launch an […]

Why do hospitals need to digitize their processes?

Many hospitals around the world have proposed software solutions to overcome the long waiting time problem in outpatient clinics. For this purpose, we constantly build medical apps that help hospitals manage their patients and provide the best treatment by digitizing their processes. Our apps simplify the interaction among patients and doctors. This allowss the whole […]

Dealing with parking spots in our company

Parking issues in a dynamic city like Prishtina sometimes affect both the management and employee side of a business. Limited parking spots are the most common problems that companies face. For example, at Kutia we only have 7 parking spots and the morning routine gets a little competitive! That’s why we gathered to talk about […]

WordPress as a headless CMS and React.js

Process & Challenges In late 2019, we started working on a project which was a new version of an existing E-Commerce solution of a grocery shop here in Pristina. Its previous version was built using WordPress & WooCommerce in order to make use of their set of tools & features. The challenge here was that […]

Nice to meet you, Kosovo!

Kosovo is one of those places you shouldn’t judge by its cover. Small, simple, warm, and full of love, this place takes your heart once you step on it. That’s because you can do whatever you want without traveling for days. If you are a mountain lover, you can find yourself in a few hours […]

Procaffeinating – the tendency to not start anything until you’ve had a cup of coffee!

For many people, the process of drinking morning coffee is different. In European countries, this process is fast, smooth, and on foot. In the Balkans and especially in Kosovo, morning coffee creates a completely different mentality. This process does not simply mean consuming coffee as such. It is an important part of the day that […]

Use Firebase Cloud Messaging In Laravel

In many modern web applications, you need to implement real-time, live-updating user interfaces. When we update data on the server, a message is typically sent over a connection to be handled by the client. So, you need a real-time channel or WebSocket connection to handle this. Some Laravel Developers use Pusher to handle this problem. […]

Software and Media: Kutia Software Earns First Review on Clutch!

In 2021, where various software development trends are expected to happen, businesses will be leaning on custom software platforms for faster and better transactions. Native app development, human augmentation, AI expansion, and low-code development are just some of the biggest trends to hit the market this year. We strive to help our clients acquire cost-effective […]

Top 6 benefits of Outsourcing to Kosovo

When thinking about the ideal place for IT outsourcing, the first thing that comes to our minds is saving time and finishing tasks on time. Kosovo is making big IT turns and is increasingly becoming a magnet for clients from around the world. Here are 6 top benefits of outsourcing to Kosovo: Culture & Bilingualism […]

Challenges of women in IT

(A short throwback) The story of women in programming takes us back to the ‘50s, when girls like Mary Allen Wilkes, decided to choose programming as a profession, an unfamous profession for women. All that was known was that computers were supposed to be the key to the future. When digital computers finally became a […]

Teambuilding in Theth

After a difficult period of lockdown around the world, we are returning to the noisy life in the workplace with small and safe steps. During the lockdown period, we worked with great dedication remotely, thus succeeding in completing our tasks. Online dating, lots of emails, lots of virtual communications were part of this difficult period […]

Effective intercultural communication in Software Development Outsourcing

The business world is changing rapidly with more advanced technologies evolving. Thus, human factors may still present the greatest challenge to outsourced engagements. We, at Kutia worked with international clients for more than seven years. Different experiences have allowed us to become acquainted with the many complexities of communication that occur while interacting with various […]

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Project Deployment Process

We at Kutia have 3 environments for each project: Local (Developer’s PC) Staging/Testing (Our in-house staging server) Production We also use git to control/keep track of our code. In order for the developers to push their code to the Staging server, we use a deployment process to enable the developers to only run git push […]

Keys to a successful digital transformation

The journey of digital transformation is something that goes beyond “the business making” as we know it. We are all witnessing the drastic change that has taken place around the world, as the experience of pandemic Covid- 19. Until the whole world was shut down, our attention exceeded its limits on the great importance of […]

E-commerce creates new opportunities for businesses

• In communication, e-commerce is the distribution of goods, services, information or payments through a computer network or by any other electronic means. • In the business process, e-commerce is the application of technology towards the automation of business transactions and work processes. • In the service, e-commerce is a tool that responds to the […]

E-commerce – a tool to save the business world!

Beyond the expected and the unexpected, the world is shaking by a frightening challenge called Covid-19. With the closure of thousands of businesses and other activities, people are facing the inevitable question: How to make it work? With the situation changing rapidly around the world, the buying habits of consumers have changed as well. They […]

Leading and managing remote teams to work effectively

Managing remote teams is similar to managing regular teams. However, it requires greater emphasis on building trust, fostering communication, implementing team processes, and utilizing technology. Keeping your finger on the pulse of the team’s progress and individuals’ work is essential. This will let you know whether or not your team is on track. Therefore, you […]

Holding efficient online meetings during quarantine

Since businesses are trying hard to prevent workers from transmitting coronavirus with travel restrictions and remote work arrangements, there is a strong risk that in-person meetings with staff, clients, or suppliers can be postponed for weeks, or even months. Holding online meetings seems to be one of the “life savings” trends at this difficult time […]

Remote teams = innovation

In our previous articles we have highlighted the benefits we derive from outsourcing and how working remotely can be quite qualitative. The IT business is changing rapidly and one of the most important factors in this change is undoubtedly the role of the remote teams. We are all familiar with office work, with the group […]

Akademia suedeze e IT-së zbarkon në Prishtinë!

Kompania Kutia, për 7 vjetorin e themelimit të saj, po sjell në Kosovë akademinë e njohur suedeze, Beetroot Academy. Pas sukseseve të vazhdueshme në ofrimin e shërbimeve të zhvillimit softuerik si dhe bashkëpunimit me kompani të ndryshme jashtë vendit, Kutia ka vendosur që kërkesës së vazhdueshme për zhvillues të rinj në treg, t’i kontribuojë me […]

Why outsource to Kosovo

When we think of the ideal place for IT outsourcing, almost everyone agrees to the point that the first thing that comes to our minds is saving time and finishing tasks on time in order to succeed with our projects. Lower costs, higher quality, easier and faster communication- who wants more? If you haven’t yet […]

Laravel 6.8.0 Released

The Laravel team released a minor version v6.8.0 this week, adding useful test response updates, along with the latest features, changes, and fixes for Laravel 6.x: ArrayAccess on Responses Taylor Otwell Implemented ArrayAccess on JsonResponse and TestResponse classes. Having array access is convenient if you want to get JSON data in a test or JsonResponse […]

Why WordPress?

WordPress is an open-source website tool, available online. This tool for CMS is written in PHP. 35% of web bloggers and news sites online use WordPress. This is platform might be the easiest CMS to use and has gained great popularity among the beginners. You can this for designing small and medium websites with […]

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Prishtina Open Source Festival

In a quiet neighborhood of Pristina, there is a house that has now become home to all those who want to further develop their technological, educational, cultural and scientific purposes. Pristina Hackerspace is one of our city’s special places where many young people find themselves, wanting to further develop their technology skills. In this pleasant […]

Web Summit 2019

Recently, our team members attended the Web Summit in Lisbon. It is considered as “The best technology conference on the planet” by Forbes. Kutia’s team members had the chance to be a part of this great experience with 1,206 speakers and 22 stages. The course lasted for four days, with topics like data protection, sustainability, […]

Starting digital

Digital approach has now become the popular stream where every business is stepping into the new strategy to build a high competitive strength. Starting digital is the leading way to foster the business, increasing the customers as well as making business a supreme. The extraordinary development of digitization has gained the attention of every entrepreneur […]

Why is it important to invest in Team Building?

Kutia is one of those companies that highly value the cooperation and well-being of staff. When people join a company, they bring different values to that community. When different values come together in a common vision and mission – success is guaranteed. In our daily activities we face different loads to succeed in our projects. […]

OUTSOURCING CONFERENCE IN KOSOVO – KOSICT 2019

Moving to Full Stack JavaScript Development

Faton Selishta – CTO & Co-founder of KutiaAstrit Zeqiri – Team Leader of Kutia As a part of the largest technology conference held in Kosovo on October 24-25, 2019, Faton Selishta and Astrit Zeqiri held a presentation on the topic: “Moving to Full Stack JavaScript Development” in the Developer’s Stage. Starting with the introduction of […]

Development of Outsourcing and how Kosovo can learn from other examples

Outsourcing is the business practice of hiring a party outside a company to perform services and create goods that traditionally were performed in-house by the company’s own employees and staff. Outsourcing is a practice usually undertaken by companies as a cost-cutting measure. As such, it can affect a wide range of jobs, ranging from customer support to manufacturing […]

Outsourcing conference in Kosovo – KosICT 2019

On Thursday and Friday (24-25/10/2019), thousands of people gathered in downtown Pristina for the largest technology conference. Everything seemed to be in the right place at the right time. The good autumn weather and the presence of the most diverse people brought a pleasant and positive atmosphere. This conference is one of those that will […]

Agile, eager and ready for the world – KosICT 2019 Outsourcing Conference

KosICT is a creative knowledge conference of inspirational proportions featuring IT trending topics in a vibrant environment. The unique showcases and premiers of future technologies are exciting landmark gathering for our visionary community. With internationally renowned speakers and world-class delegates in attendance, KosICT has the most influential individuals to educate you, inspire you and give you unprecedented access to […]

Why we use React Js?

What is React JS? React JS is a JavaScript library used in web development to build interactive elements on websites. But if you’re not familiar with JavaScript or JavaScript libraries, that’s not a helpful definition. So let’s take a step back and deal with those terms first. WHAT IS A JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY? From the definition […]

Why is Laravel so popular?

Developers can start to build a Laravel application within a few minutes! It’s always a fun process. Laravel gives the right tools and nice ideas to help build website faster, more stable and very easy to maintain. Tasks that usually take hours and hundreds of lines of code to write, can be done with Laravel […]

Entrepreneurship in ICT sector

“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.” – Elon Musk. To be an entrepreneur means to take courage and become part of something its future perhaps is unknown. This nurtures curiosity in people to take such action to recognize their limits. This article summarizes changes in ICT sector since we […]

Laravel v6.1.0 released

Laravel v6.1.0 is released in 2019/10/01. Here are the changes we`ve merged into this release. Added Added Illuminate\Support\LazyCollection::eager() method (#29832) Added forgetChannel() and getChannels() methods to Illuminate\Log\LogManager (#30132, a52a0dd) Added Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestResponse::assertNoContent() method (#30125) Added InteractsWithQueue to SendQueueNotifications (#30140) Added SendQueueNotifications::retryUntil() method (#30141) Added methods for sending cookies with test requests (#30101) Added support of job middleware for queued notifications (#30070) Fixed Fixed migration class duplicate check in make:migration command (#30095) Fixed monolog v2 handler […]

WordPress Meetup: WordPress Performance including ElasticPress

Come and meet other local fans of WordPress, the Internet’s classiest and fastest dynamic content management system. We will discuss about increasing WordPress Performance using ElasticPress. In addition to this, Faton Selishta will have a presentation with an open discussion. *Free drinks and snacks for all WordPress fans 🙂 Organized by: KUTIA and FLOSSK Free […]

Launching event of the website to report dangerous products

PUSH THE BUTTON AND GO LIVE! At the launching event of the website to report dangerous products (http://tkmt.rks-gov.net/sq) Luigi Brusa, Head of Cooperation Section at EUO, pointed out that with the development of this website, the citizens of 🇽🇰 will be better informed on how to protect from dangerous non food products and have access […]

The Next Web Conference

TECH FOR BETTER OR WORSE? KUTIA will attend TNW 2019 during May 9 & 10 · Amsterdam. Our CEO, Arianit Fazliu will be there for new cooperation opportunities with Startups and businesses who are willing to find their tech team. If you will be there let us know so we can schedule a coffee break. […]

We’ve launched our new website

We’ve launched our new website and we’re excited to introduce you to our new look. It provides more information about us, who we are and what we stand for. We’ve introduced a range of new content to the website, including our services, projects, news and opinions, clients and our great team members. Designing and building […]

Outsource to Kosovo

This article presents the road through which “Kutia” has passed from its inception to the present day. Specifically, working with costumers from various European countries. The beginnings of “Kutia” in 2013 in the ICT sector in Kosovo were not easy. Considering the fact that there were already companies operating and already established over the years […]

FLOSSK Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova

Our Back-end Team Leader Astrit Zeqiri will be part of SFK19. Topic: “Replacing jQuery with VueJs in modern Web Applications”Date and time: Fri, April 5, 2019 1:30 PMPlace: The National Library of Kosovo “Pjetër Bogdani”

WEBIT FESTIVAL EUROPE 2019

KUTIA will attend WEBIT FESTIVAL Europe 2019 during 13-15 May 2019, NDK, Sofia. Our team members will be there to learn more about latest technologies, connect and share knowledge. If you will be there let us know so we can schedule a coffee break.

Learning is a lifetime process, from everything and everyone.

Our respectful clients are special and come with requirements that need to be met. Even if the services are the same. At KUTIA, we have transformed and offered our services to all of the partners and clients, for years. These services in principle are alike but differ enormously when it comes to our approach towards […]

Data Management System

Today we are sharing with you the project we’ve done for KLI. With this project we have solved the problem that KLI has been faced over years with data management and optimization of their daily work processes such as: Having a Centralized Information Management System Daily, monthly and annual reports that can be generated easly […]

E-Commerce Berlin Expo 2019

The E-Commerce Berlin Expo is Berlin’s biggest annual event with a great focus on e-commerce. In 2019 the EBE will take place for the fourth time after successful editions in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Within 3 years, the EBE has established itself as one of Germany’s leading e-commerce events. With more than 10000 visitors and […]

WordPress Meetup

We held our second WordPress meetup at KUTIA with local fans of WordPress, friends and colleagues. The topic we discussed about was security. Some advices for WordPress developers: WP-Config Change Security Key Login Page Lockdown the login page for repetitive failed login Activate 2 factor authentication Rename the URL of your login page Use a strong password […]

Merry Christmas!

Gëzuar Krishtlindjet!Merry Christmas!Frohe Weihnachten! From all of us at Kutia.

Facebook Campaigns

You build your business.We’ll help you build it online. * Are you tired from looking to find data for your story? We can make the data find you and make your story. We automate mass of data and turn them into beautiful design. * Don’t waste your time on boring tasks. – Give them to KUTIA […]

B2B delegation in Nuremberg and Erlangen, Germany.

This week, KUTIA was part of B2B delegation that took place in Nuremberg and Erlangen, Germany. We would like to thank Kosovo ICT Association – STIKK and Creating Employment through Export Promotion for their support. The Kosovo ICT Association – STIKK‘s #ExportPromotionService continues with another B2B Delegation. This time, in #Nuremberg and #Erlangen during 26-29 Nov. This B2B event is organized by STIKK, GIZ, Creating Employment through Export Promotion, Innovation […]

Open Procurement Transparency Portal – OPTP

“Open Procurement Transparency Portal – OPTP” is a 12 month project implemented by Lëvizja FOL and funded by USAID. The main objective of this project was to develop the open procurement portal to increase transparency on public expenditures. This included scrapping, aggregating and structuring information on public contracts. Mostly, those contracts published by the procurement […]

Hello Lisbon

Our project manager Blerona is participating in the Web Summit, Lisbon. You can reach her via Linkedin or Web Summit mobile app. Web Summit is an annual technology conference. It is considered as the largest tech event in the world. Found in 2009, by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey, Web Summit was originally […]

Kutia in USA

Our CEO, Arianit Fazliu is visiting New York, Washington and Virginia with the delegation of American Chamber of Commerce in USA. With purpose of increasing the trade and economic relations between Kosovo and USA, the American Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, led a delegation of Kosovar businesses in Washington DC and Virginia. The delegation met […]

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