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Rangle had the pleasure of hosting a sold-out crowd of Lean Innovation experts and enthusiasts at our new office yesterday. As part of the Elevate Toronto Festival, the event sought to celebrate Canadian innovation through the lens of what it means to embrace lean methodologies in today’s world.

The Elevate Toronto Festival kicks off today and we’re giving you a sneak peak into our sold-out Lean Innovation track on Sept 13.

Today, even the most established corporations are having to “think like a startup” in order to keep up with contemporary trends and consumer needs. As you could imagine, as technological capabilities improve, the pace of business and expectations multiply. As a result, today’s corporations not only need to pull a few pages from the Lean and Agile methodologies, but they must also write their own.

If you’ve been keeping up with the cryptocurrency game, odds are you’ve heard about Ethereum. Ethereum is, in short, a platform that allows you to write smart contracts to be executed on their blockchain(s).

Virtual reality is exploding. Brands now have increasing options to create virtual reality experiences for customers, one of which is React VR. React VR’s value proposition is very similar to why people use React Native, and it shares many of the same benefits.

As big proponents of React’s various capabilities, we are excited about the recent release of React VR. React VR is the latest web-based framework for WebVR experiences. It operates seamlessly within the browser, giving JavaScript enthusiasts like ourselves and many of our clients the opportunity to integrate VR experiences into existing web applications.

Canadian CIOs have a lot to celebrate. According to the CanadianCIO Census 2017 , hiring is up, budgets are increasing (in some cases by as much as 15%), and there is a plethora of new technology that many companies are ready to soon deploy.

In part 1, we learned about Docker and created a Dockerfile that provides a suitable environment in which our application's services can run. If you recall, our sample application has two services, a Node backend API, and a React front-end. In part 2, we will use Docker Compose to orchestrate our application's services during development so that we can run our distributed application with a single command.