Ahhh, 2022, the year the world will finally get back to normal… or is it? If you’re a developer at this point in time, you know how crazy the job market has been recently. After the economic shock COVID-19 brought in March 2020, the developer market has gotten absolutely crazy. Money’s cheap due to low-interest rates, so...

BizStream, a full-service digital agency located outside Grand Rapids, MI, is proud to announce the addition of five new team members. BizStream has brought on new hires to support its project and product growth and expansion of services.

On average, Americans worked 34.4 hours per week in 2019. That translates to over 20% of the week we spend at work. Shouldn’t spending that much time at work be a positive experience? 

We’ve come a long way since our founding. Our previous brand no longer fit our capabilities or our future ambitions. To better align our brand experience with the direction our agency is headed a full rebrand was necessary.

When building an intranet-facing utility, making sure the correct people are the only ones getting access can be crucial. While there are many other ways to implement authentication, Windows Authentication is one of the easiest and has the advantage of using the existing security infrastructure of your Windows domain environment. A word of...

BizStream's Co-Owner and Solution Architect, Brian McKeiver, is now recognized as a Microsoft Azure MVP for his exceptional technical Microsoft Azure community leadership!

We host a lot of sites at BizStream, with a lot of custom code behind them. Every once in a while, one of those sites has a bug that spikes the server CPU at 100% for a while, which has the potential to negatively impact other sites. This post aims to temporarily fix the spiked CPU so it doesn’t negatively affect all the other sites on the...

In software development, we typically employ several environments to offer a separation of features that are currently being developed, tested, approved, and released. Commonly this involves a 4-tier approach having a development, test, stage, and production environment. The development stage is where all new features are introduced which often...

Localization is an effective tool to extend the reach of messages and content on a website to additional audiences outside of the primary language. In a typical application or site, localization is often considered a difficult or complex feature for developers to implement, but with a static site framework like GatsbyJS coupled with a headless...

At BizStream, we’ve come a long way in our effort to reduce bugs and repair them quickly when they happen. We have many processes in place to prevent bugs, such as our software development process, automated testing, QA personnel, and error logging software. In this blog post, I’ll break down the many different ways we care about...