by Nikolay Advolodkin | May 16, 2024 | AI
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, content creation has become an art form, with YouTube standing as a colossal platform for creators to showcase their talents, share knowledge, and entertain a global audience. However, standing out is a monumental task amidst...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Sep 20, 2026 | Temporal
One of my favorite new AI techniques is using Claude to transform my Temporal code into an interactive HTML diagram before I start making changes. The goal is simple: build a clear mental model of the workflow before modifying the implementation. The Challenge When...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Apr 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most teams are still reviewing pull requests the same way they did 10 years ago. A human opens a PR.They skim it.They leave a few comments.They miss things. Meanwhile, we now have AI that can write code, refactor code, and reason about systems… and we’re still using...
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...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Aug 14, 2025 | AI, Development, React
If you’ve ever wished you could create professional React components and launch fully functioning websites in mere minutes instead of hours, then Vercel v0 might just be the game-changer you’ve been waiting for. This...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Aug 8, 2025 | AI, Software testing, Test Automation
GPT-5 has just arrived, and it’s making waves as one of the most impressive AI models for coding and software development to date. With an extended context window, enhanced reasoning, and coding capabilities, this model promises to revolutionize how developers build,...
by Nikolay Advolodkin | Aug 5, 2025 | AI, Courses
The job market for tech talent is the most competitive we’ve seen. Simultaneously, AI is automating repetitive tasks, and it’s happening at a breathtaking pace. For many engineers, this feels like a threat. But what if it’s actually the single...
