by Nikolay Advolodkin | Dec 31, 2025 | Temporal
If you are new to Temporal, one of the most common mistakes is putting too much logic inside an Activity. It often works at first. Then, retries, failures, and real production behavior expose serious problems. This post explains what is correct, what is dangerous, and...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Oct 1, 2025 | AI, appium, case studies
Overview A major international hotel retailer partnered with UltimateQA to overhaul a failing mobile automation program. Their existing framework, built with Appium, Java, TestNG, and Cucumber, was slow, brittle, and unable to scale. Instead of accelerating...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Sep 28, 2025 | appium, Automation, C#, CI & CD
I’m Nikolay Advolodkin from UltimateQA, and in this article I unpack a two-year journey I led alongside our automation engineer Oles Nikaniuk, on a massive European enterprise migration. If you watched the episode, you already know the highlights; if not, this...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Sep 24, 2025 | AI, C#, CI & CD, Development, GitHub Spark
Hi — I’m Nikolay Advolodkin, Chief Engineer at Ultimate QA. In this guide I’ll walk you step-by-step through how I used GitHub Spark AI and GitHub Copilot agents to build, test, and deploy a Next.js e-commerce web application with CI/CD and automated...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Sep 22, 2025 | AI, Selenium, Vibium
This article recaps and expands on an in‑depth conversation with Jason Huggins (creator of Selenium) hosted by Nikolay Advolodkin. In that discussion Jason lays out a bold vision for Vibium AI: a system that learns how your application is actually used, builds a map...
