We are a Westshore-based group of talented designers and developers devoid of heavy corporate structures, approval processes and tight boundaries. Noted by our clients as giving that “little extra”, we seek to ship customized solutions, build sustained client relationships and deliver strategic counsel with zealous service.
Looking for a no-politics zone to do your best work? Mercury is the place for you.
If there is one platform we are most rooted in, it’s the web – modern responsive techniques are our stock in trade. If you know these technologies, you can make it anywhere.
HTML5It all starts with clean, semantic, standards-based markup. Local storage, geolocation and native media players are some of our favorites.
CSS3
Separating content from presentation with judicious use of SASS use (mixins, partials and variables) keeps our UIs robust. And BEM’s not so bad, either.
JavaScript
Bundlers and transpilers like WebPack and Babel support our use of the latest JavaScript and versions of React, Angular and Knockout libraries.
Robust data layers go a far way in these parts – without them we just have websites, not web applications.
SQL ServerSQL Server, whether on prem, installed on IaaS VMs or consumed via SQL Azure provides the hearty data storehouse we need for scalability and rapid querying.
MySQLIt’s not all about SQL Server if you want to get relational with it – MySQL definitely show up around the Mercury shop, too.
MongoWe have much love for Structured Query Language but NoSQL is cool, too. And there’s nothing like Mongo for a document database, if you ask us.
Application code, service layers and even middleware are big parts of what we do around here. We like to keep the business logic clean and separated and our services RESTful.
.NET and C#C# and the .NET Framework are old friends of ours – while not as trendy as the JavaScript frameworks it’s hard to do better when you need to roll business logic, marshal data or automated processes.
MVCWebForms and ViewState are history – you won’t find them around here. But if you want to roll with .NET then MVC is your friend – and it’s good for JavaScript development, too.
WebAPIYa, we went the WCF route. Then we simplified with WebAPI and never turned back.
NodeLow overhead and thin requirements – there’s a lot to like about Node. And there’s nothing like being able to share JavaScript between the data, application and interface tiers.
GitflowDistributed version control, with branching strategy, for the win.
Continuous Delivery / DevOpsBuild, integrate and push to testing, staging and production environments on every code commit.
Azure / Amazon Web ServicesDeploy to the cloud.
WordPress isn’t just for blogs anymore. Sometimes a website can be highly effective with a relatively basic, lightweight solution that’s easy to use. Here’s why we recommend WordPress as an enterprise-level content management system.
If you are a developer, WordPress is powerful because it gives you access to an admin environment to manage all sorts of content, but the front-end experience can be lacking and often times bloated. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a solution that allowed for a developer to utilize this already well maintained and developed admin interface but gave the freedom of creating a complex front-end experience that many web applications have today?
Moving into 2021, we’ll see nimble, streamlined responses to evolving user needs as application use and development continues to scale. Here are the top application development trends to watch this year.
Everything is changing—and nothing is changing about that anytime soon. Now more than ever, application modernization and the agility it brings prepares companies for potential disruptions and enables them to quickly take advantage of new opportunities.
We build mission-critical apps for businesses, but not every business needs a custom application. Here’s how to tell if you should build or buy company software.
Application modernization is a big decision. How do you know when it’s time to update, and how do you get started?
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