What we do
At Centric we do many different things. Underneath this you will discover more about our projects, our expertise and the colleagues that make it all possible. Because they know best what we do, how we do it and what makes Centric so promising as an employer.
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Every day tasks automation with AI and no code
For some months we've been optimizing our workflows in the project with n8n, and because that new ‘name’ just popped up in my life, I said why not get to know each other and say "Hi!". So in the next few lines I plan to show how cool development tool can make your day to day life easier, from development to management and even organizing the processes in your house.Author: Alexandru Minzatanu, Software Developer
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How we built a sales dashboard in 2 days with a little AI magic
“What usually takes us 4 days? We nailed it in 2 - shoutout to Claude AI.” Last December, during Centric’s Innovation Days, we looked at each other over our coffee mugs and thought: “Could we really turn a Figma design into production-ready code almost entirely with AI…without drowning in <div>s?”Authors: Alexandru Popescu, Eduard Chirileac - UI/UX Designers
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Testing UI Flow Performance with Playwright, Artillery and Application Insights
In this article, we'll explore how an unexpected performance issue in production made our team improve the test strategy. By integrating tools like Playwright, Artillery, and Application Insights, we could simulate realistic user interactions and catch performance bottlenecks before deployment.Every QA knows the feeling: You thoroughly test a feature, everything looks good, and you confidently deploy it. But then real users jump in, and suddenly things go sideways. This is exactly what happened to us.Author: Vlad Ivascu, QA Lead
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"I built a Figma plugin using AI and saved a week of work"
"I’m a UI/UX designer, and I recently faced a daunting task. Imagine updating nearly 200 design token descriptions in Figma—colors, spacings, borders, you name it. Manually, that kind of work could eat up 3-6 full days (40+ hours!) of meticulous, mind-numbing effort. Not exactly my idea of fun, and definitely not the best use of time. There had to be a better way, right?"Author: Eduard Chirileac, UI/UX Designer
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Get to know Refit - an automatic Rest Api library for .NET
We all have had the situation when we had to make external API calls at some point. We then had to write a certain part of logic to handle all the code involving HttpClient, requests, responses, serialization/deserialization, etc. All this process risks gathering errors, by using the wrong parameter or a header by mistake. If all this were available through an interface, that would make the process much easier, right? That's precisely what Refit is doing; it takes care of all this integration, letting developers focus on the main application logic.In this article, we'll get to know Refit better, what it does, certain particularities of it within a .NET with Blazor application, and a functional application that does monthly planning and requires authentication.Author: Simona Balan, Software Developer
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Handling multiple tabs or dialogs in Puppeteer
With the latest JavaScript libraries and available AI tools, auditing your page for performance and accessibility became easier to do, both by developers and QA engineers. One of these tools, which is built into Google Chrome, is called Lighthouse.Author: Cristina Zavaliche, Software Tester
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Bring your product ideas to life at speed with AI design tools
In these times when technology is developing rapidly, and artificial intelligence is increasingly present in different tools and used by many users, it becomes essential for companies to keep up with everything happening in the market. Trying new tools, looking for and testing alternatives to what is used, and determining how current processes can be improved represent advantages in coping with the coming changes.
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Using XR technology to reshape the event experience
The 2022 edition of the Forbes CEE Forum had a new vibe this year. Not only due to missing pandemic restrictions for events but mainly because the attendees could enhance their live reality with an augmented one.
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Introduction to Zap Security tool
Step into the world of security testing and be aware of concerns and recommendations that you can consider when doing security testing. When working on a project, you will interact with internal or external security teams that scan your applications and present the findings. What if you could identify the security issues earlier and fix them before reaching the security team? How can you do this? A way is by using OWASP ZAP security scan tool.
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Including Postman in CI
"Is your project adopting the CI/CD development culture, and you have some Postman projects that you don't know how to run remotely as an automated quality gate for your CI pipeline? Well, if you follow me in this article, you will discover how to do so."
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3D Computer Graphics with Three.js in a web application
People interact with each other in three-dimension daily. Even though technology evolved, each interaction of the end-user with an application was still done on a two-dimensional representation. With the development of WebGL and using different JavaScript 3D libraries, this limitation vanished. Many companies were encouraged by the progress of 3D technology to integrate a 3D viewer for their products. Finally, the end-user can see various 3D content in his interaction with the application.
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Unboxing tools & utilities to improve your productivity
Some tools support various activities in software development. For example, to assure the minimum quality of a product you need at least a defect tracking and automated testing tools. Development teams need tools to generate many variations to optimize testing, reduce costs and continuously improve efficiency. Using the appropriate set of tools can be critical to the success of a product.
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Automated accessibility testing
Having a product ready for the market is essential in software development, and automated quality gates are the way to go!Our colleague, Alexandru Dumbraveanu, explains the way accessibility tests can be automated, which, in the end, may lead to an integration with a CI/CD pipeline.
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Testing for web accessibility
Nowadays accessibility is becoming more and more important when it comes to software development. Our colleague and software tester, Ionut Apostol, gave in the following article a few pointers on how to approach accessibility, and why it is a valuable attribute of a company. It enhances its profile and when a company tackles accessibility, it saves and gains more money due to a critical increase in customers. Accessibility should not be an add-on and is not a non-recoverable expense to the business, rather it needs to be part of the business plan.
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Are you monitoring the right QA metrics?
When I started looking into metrics a few years ago, I didn't fully understand what they meant and how I needed to use them. But I was so excited that I tried to convince my then colleagues to come up with things they wanted to measure so we, as a team, could track that information and get some answers.
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#GrowWithCentric From intern to Tech Lead, Cosmin's story about growth
We often state that growth is a big part of our culture, so we offer our Centricians the means and methods to improve their skills constantly. Cosmin started his career path in Centric over 6 years ago and went from an internship position to technical leadership. Find out how he grew with Centric in the story below.
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Centric Interviews - "If you want to improve your skills and stay up to date, learning is the answer."
Growth is a big part of our culture, especially through our learning & development department - School of Centric. Our colleagues are continuously challenging themselves to grow both professionally and personally - and share some of their insights about the learning and growth process below.
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Centric Interviews -"My passion for technology and getting things done drive my motivation for learning."
Growth is a big part of our culture, especially through our learning & development department - School of Centric. Our colleagues are continuously challenging themselves to grow both professionally and personally - and share some of their insights about the learning and growth process below.
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Lessons Learned in Creating a Remote Company Culture
A healthy company culture is one of those things that every organization strives to achieve and every employee has come to expect. And for good reason. When it’s right, it’s magic: people feel better at work, they achieve more, and enjoy spending time with their colleagues. This helps the company reach their goals, innovate, recruit and retain more employees, and gain a competitive advantage. It’s a win-win.
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Finding ways to innovate
In general, whenever someone discovers a problem, they can choose to solve it or leave it as it is. Sometimes it’s better to leave it since fixing it would cost too much or cause other problems. Often though, people can choose to solve the problem. How they choose to solve it shows their level of innovation.
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Growing your career at Centric
Alex Popescu shares his career journey at Centric - why he started here, why he chose to leave, and ultimately, what made him decide to come back.
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Working in Teams using best practices
New to Microsoft 365 or just setting up a new "Team"? Well, the first thing to consider should be how you set up a Team, what channels you should create, and how should you work with documents, tabs, etc.So let's take a closer look at all the aspects of a "Team" on Teams.
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Organizing large Teams meetings
Large face-to-face meetings can be difficult to moderate, online ones can be even more so. So what if you need to organize a Teams meeting/presentation for a large group?Currently, the limit for a regular meeting is 250 attendees. If you need to host a meeting/presentation for a larger audience, you can create a Teams Live Event. A Teams Live Event can have 10.000 attendees.Teams has a couple of settings that will make handling a large group of attendees a bit more manageable.
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Adding custom backgrounds to Microsoft Teams meetings
After working from home for so long, your house is probably one big mess, right? So, what do you do when you have a meeting? Find that one kind of clean spot in your house so you can turn on the video? Blur the background? Keep the camera off?Well, now, Teams has got you covered! You can blur your background or choose to replace it with your own image. Move over Zoom and make way for Teams.