Taglit-Birthright Israel is a non-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults of Jewish heritage, aged 18-32. Birthright Israel aims to strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish communities, and connection with Israel and its people. 
Taglit already connected over 750,000 young adults of Jewish heritage from 68 countries including all 50 U.S states and the demand is growing.
 
Taglit’s leadership team has decided to start their digital transformation journey to the public cloud. They wanted to empower their audience experience, Increase availability, reduce cost, Improve Security, and provide new services faster compared to the traditional hosting services they used in the past few years.
 
They wanted to accomplish three dimensions: 
    1. Move from legacy software architecture to modernize software architecture (Monolith into Microservices). 
    2. Use Managed Kubernetes to eliminate operational overhead with auto-healing, auto-repair, auto-updates, and secure by default. 
    3. Move from Agile Development to DevOps process and adopt DevOps culture.
 
They looked for a company that specializes and has experience in the public cloud in order to help them with the cloud journey. Compie was chosen to lead this project and to move them from hosting services to Amazon Web Services. Compie implemented AWS EKS to manage and scale microservices and combined AWS Spot instances in the infrastructure to maximize cost-effectiveness.
 
One of Taglit's concerns was security in the cloud, so Compie has invested heavily effort in insecurity by implementing a WAF - Incapsula to protect the front services, configuring an image scanning by using ECR and Istio for monitoring, tracing, auditing, and to secure the traffic with mTLS.
 
“Ultimately, when you migrate components and services to the cloud, you must do it without interfering with the users and keep the services available, reliable, and securable every step in the migration process. Compie’s team have done it successfully” Coby Elmalich, Head of IT

**Let's make something great together**

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Taglit Digital Transformation

Taglit’s leadership team have decided to start their digital transformation journey to the public cloud. They wanted to empower their audience experience, Increase availability, reduce cost, Improve Security, and provide new services faster compared to traditional hosting services they used in the past few years.

Innovations in Flutter 2
Since Google launched in late 2018 the first version of Flutter, the revolutionary platform has been much admired by a growing number of developer communities around the world. We explained the background and reasons for this in our previous article FLUTTER - Who's what? ""
 The announcement of Flutter 2 made by Google on March 3, 2021, marked a leap forward that brought with it significant innovations for the global developer community, which does not miss the Israeli one. And especially for you, Compie's experts have gathered everything you need to know about Flutter 2 - so what are the innovations in version 2.0?

**Web development**

 As of today, Flutter officially supports website development.
Until now, this feature was only experimental but today Flutter 2.0 is a completely stable version. Flutter continues its line of development by reusing code components and components and creating a reality where a website is simply another "device" or "window" for displaying the applications we develop and those that have already been developed.
Flutter 2.0 aims to enable the development of a rich and interactive interface with a strong emphasis on performance and focuses on three types of applications specifically:
**- Progressive Web Applications -** which combine the benefits of connectivity via the Internet and the capabilities available to applications running on the computer desktop or the host device.
**- Single Page Applications -** A web application that provides surfers with a purposeful interface. The SPAs are loaded only once, so the user experience is also faster, and they also offer dynamic loading of additional elements, depending on your need or the actions performed by the surfer.
**- Customized applications -** to allow existing applications built through Flutter in the past to become relatively easily a dedicated network application, or a real website.
In addition, in the months leading up to the launch of Flutter 2, in preparation for the launch of Flutter's web browsers, Google has invested heavily in the platform's architecture - making significant progress in optimizing performance, adding a new CanvasKit-driven processing engine built using WebAssembly

**Tailoring the app to the desktop**

 Beginning with the version 2.0 release, developers can use the same code base to create applications tailored to the major operating systems on the market: Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Although this feature was defined as stable under version 2.0 of Flutter, there is still a small flag of "early access" which means that these are the final beta stages and later this year this feature will become an officially supported feature in the full production version.
In addition, Google has upgraded Flutter's versatility and adaptability to different environments. The Flutter 2 code can even run-on computers embedded in cars, TVs, and other smart home devices thus providing a particularly comprehensive and flexible solution for developers operating on a variety of different platforms and languages.
 
A great example of this is Toyota, which has chosen as its goal to bring the best digital experience to the vehicles it manufactures, and to that end has chosen Flutter to develop all its "Infotainment" systems from now on.
Another example is iRobot which is known among educators as a leading company specializing in educational robots. With the help of Flutter, iRobot has been able to move its existing educational programming environment to the web while expanding its availability. Now, iRobot technology can be used on a variety of platforms and devices where the browser is the best way to use the web. iRobot also wrote a post on their blog detailing their progress so far and the reasons why they chose Flutter.

**High performance at the Google level**

High level of performance on all these platforms and includes protection measures against constraints resulting from unplanned null (Sound Null Safety) values, both during running and throughout development.
This addition is a very significant addition to the Dart language (Flutter's development language, more information can be found in our first article - FLUTTER - Who's what? "")
This add-on allows developers to avoid null errors that mostly lead to app crashes, errors that can happen in any development language and any system, thus releasing more durable apps to users.

**Compatibility for all platforms**

Now that Flutter supports three production platforms (Android, iOS, and Web) and three more in beta (Windows, macOS, and Linux), a natural question arises: how to write an app that adapts well to a variety of screen shapes and sizes and several different input modes (Touch, keyboard, and mouse) To answer this question, Google has created a demo app to demonstrate the capabilities: Foloi

**And in conclusion! Google saves no effort - and reaps the rewards**

Google has gone above and beyond to increase the compatibility and accessibility of Flutter 2 as much as it could. Thus, you can see how in recent updates we have received options for auto-filling of text, control of the URL bar and routing, and more. Google is also proving that computer browsers are still as important as mobile browsers and has added interactive scroll bars and keyboard shortcuts for the benefit of PC or office users. Moreover, Google has also created a dedicated content density for action on a PC (desktop mode) and even added support for screen readers for accessibility in Windows, macOS, and Chrome OS.
When it comes to apps developed in Flutter 2, an interesting demo built by a member of the Flutter community, named Felix Blashka, known as "FLUTTER PLASMA", illustrates how easy it is to design and create sophisticated online graphical experiences using Dart and Flutter 2 - and no less importantly - such Capable of running naturally on both desktop and mobile devices.
Want to learn more about solutions for organizations and businesses that we can make available to you, based on Flutter? Our experts have the knowledge, experience, and capabilities needed to meet your specific need - no matter what the challenge you face - and will be happy to hear about your vision and aspirations, to best fulfill them.



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Innovations in Flutter 2

Since Google launched in late 2018 the first version of Flutter, the revolutionary platform has been much admired by a growing number of developer communities around the world. We explained the background and reasons for this in our previous article Flutter - Who's what?

Nice to meet you - Flutter, from Google, is an open-source software package for developing applications for a variety of platforms such as Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia & Web using a single code base.

**Background**

The mobile world is divided into two main operating systems that dominate the market, with which we are all familiar, Android and iOS.
Have you ever wondered - when we open a product and mobile app, how do we decide which operating system to choose? Do we want an app for Android users or iOS users?
Funny question? No? - You will be surprised to know that this is a question that has been asked in the past and decisions like it has been made for a variety of products and applications. In the past, many companies chose to develop for a specific operating system first and then adapt and develop for the second operating system. By the way, they usually started developing for Android-enabled devices and then developed, if at all, iOS.

**How have we progressed from that dark past to the present?**

Today, there is no question at all - when developing an app developer for all operating systems with a desire to support all types of devices and versions. This change is due to a clear business concept - if you are not there you do not exist. There is no self-respecting company or product that will not be present in all operating systems and app stores.
So, what's the difference? In the past, there were two operating systems, and we chose not to develop them all or do so in stages over months or even years, if at all.
Explaining the difference is simple - double investment - double resources and double costs (and even more).
Why? Because it needs a separate developer team that will develop for Android and a separate developer team that will develop for iOS, each operating system in its programming language.
In addition, the behavior and user experience are also not the same and therefore product managers, designers, marketing managers, app stores, and the rest of the research and development chain invest double time and effort to provide the same application to all systems.

**So we went over the background, past, and present - what about the future?**

The answer is Flutter - a hybrid development technology.
If we stop for a moment and think simply about all the apps in the world - really about all of them. What is the difference between the same app on Android and the same app on iOS?
Are WhatsApp users on Android enjoying more? Do Instagram users on iOS see a different app than Android users? Do our favorite new apps show different content on Android and iOS? - of course not.
So why would the same application be written twice in different languages, in different code, in different architectures, by different developers and that dealing with them would require twice as many resources?
Flutter is an efficient and sophisticated Cross-Platform technology and if in the past choosing a Cross-Platform approach was considered a compromise, today it is clear that choosing Flutter is a step that should be seriously considered in developing any application, including those that require significant resources. Flutter is written in Dart language and has an engine that includes the Skia graphics engine. The engine can run on top of various operating systems as if it were living in its own bubble. It is in one layer above the operating system and activates its native capabilities without being dependent on the system, components, and UI. The result is native performance and clean development that is not at all noticeable not done in the development language of Android or iOS.
Another significant advantage of Flutter is the ability to perform Hot Reload. Did you make a change to the code and want to see how it works now? No need to render and wait for the process to end. After a quick save you can immediately see the effect of the change. This is a capability that significantly shortens development times. "

**How complex is it to develop in Flutter? And what about performance?**

The development in Flutter is based on widgets, so it is easy to reuse the existing ones. There is a large pool of ready-made UI components, they have several modes, and they adapt themselves to the operating system while it is running. For example, buttons, side menus, and tabs. Lists, for example, behave differently on Android and iOS, but Flutter can adjust the behavior automatically and thus eliminates the need to rebuild. It is also easy to develop development in Flutter to native code from a previous version, thanks to the bridging concept.
In terms of performance - there is no harm to performance. The user experience is smooth and feels completely native. The engine manages all the processes and ensures 60FPS performance - which is equivalent to the native. On supported devices, it can even reach 120 FPS sometimes. The result works at the same level and the user will not feel the difference.

**At the tip of the fork - more hybrid technologies compared to Flutter**

 Flutter is not alone in the mobile development market. Apart from native development for Android and iOS, there are also other development platforms, such as the Ionic open-source platform and the React Native platform from Facebook. But while Ionic focuses on the web and its capabilities and performance are mediocre and React Native has not yet left the beta stage and it is not clear how much Facebook plans to invest in it - Flutter is taking root and expanding.
The platform is in production and large applications have already been chosen to be based on it, such as Ali Baba in the world and El-Al and IAI in Israel. The Flutter user community is growing rapidly and provides an extensive knowledge base of professionals. GitHub, which follows trends in the world of technology, introduces Flutter at the forefront of emerging development technologies today. Although she's a few years younger than React Native, Flutter's community size has already surpassed her.

**How challenging is conversion to Flutter? Still, the development team needs to learn new technology**

This is a relatively simple transition. It's very easy to take a native key of Android or iOS and convert it to Flutter. The same is true with web developers since the way Flutter works are somewhat like web development. In code writing and reactive work, for example. From our extensive experience at Compie, converting a development team requires quite a short study time. The training is fast and short and so is the learning curve. An experienced developer will not find the issue as complex. The principles of language development are already familiar to him. We have already gone through many developers who came without experience in Flutter and within a few weeks have already started programming in it.



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Nice to meet you - Flutter, from Google, is an open-source software package for developing applications for a variety of platforms such as Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia & Web using a single code base.

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