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We're no longer curating Startup Digest at MarsBased

Thank you, Startup Digest community!

After almost eight years curating Startup Digest in Barcelona, we have passed the baton to one of our best friends. You are now in good hands.

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Angular factory

Forcing New Service Instance Creation. Overriding Dependency Injection in Angular

In Angular, injected services are determined by various factors that we cannot always directly control. In this post, we will see some ways of how to overcome these difficulties.

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MarsBased space station

What we're working on in 2024

Read this blog post if you want to find out what we're working on nowadays (May 2024) and who are our current clients!

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Horizontally scale your IoT backends with MQTT Shared Subscriptions

Scale IoT backends horizontally with MQTT Shared Subscriptions

In IoT architectures, choosing the right broker and strategy for consuming data is crucial. I recommend using message broker rules for scalability. If that doesn't fit your needs, consider messaging protocol strategies such as MQTT Shared Subscriptions.

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Remote worker at sunset

Our take on remote work

Remote work has been discussed quite a lot lately. After the end of the COVID pandemic a couple of years ago, many companies that had adopted remote working have returned to the office and rejected this way of working. Others, like MarsBased, continue to embrace remote working as we were born with this philosophy and have never stopped believing in it.

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Corporate Innovation Summit 2024

Recap of the Corporate Innovation Summit 2024

Here's a recap of what happened in the third edition of the Corporate Innovation Summit, organised by MarsBased on February, 27th 2024.

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MQTT Broker for IOT

Comparison of MQTT Brokers for IoT

In our recent IoT project for Ecler, we designed their cloud platform and supporting systems for connected amplifiers and sound systems. During the development, we tested three message broker solutions: Mosquitto, NanoMQ, and EMQX. Here are the pros and cons we found for each one of them.

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Ecler booth at ISE 2024

MarsBased at ISE 2024

We attended ISE 2024 with Ecler, one of our most well-known clients, to present EclerCLOUD, a solution we have built with React, Remix, and Node.js and the EMQX message broker to sync devices with the AWS cloud.

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Futuristic skyscrapers, neon style

Welcome back, Gespasa!

We have been helping the Catalan firm Gespasa over the years with Ruby on Rails and React development. This year, we have signed a new contract to keep helping them with more development.

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Life on Mars podcast episode about Shopify

Summary of our conversation with Keyven Ferland, around e-commerce and Shopify

Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey of Kevan Ferland, we uncover the transition from a design freelancer to the helm of LaWeb Shop, a Canadian e-commerce development shop that now specializes in Shopify solutions. The episode delivers an honest account of the raw challenges and strategic triumphs faced along the way.

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An astronaut writing a journal

Our weekly internal digest: Martian Chronicles

Here's a blog post explaining how we write an internal intel post for our team with everything they ought to know for the week. A great way to enhance their async experience!

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Space fight against the evil empire

Bootstrapped businesses, async & remote with Amir Salihefendic (CEO @ Doist)

Discover how Amir Salihefendic bootstrapped his way to success with his company Doist, challenging the norm in the tech world! Tune into our latest podcast episode where we explore sustainable business models and effective asynchronous communication.

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