Welcome to rmdStudio v8
Welcome to rmdStudio version 8.0! We last redesigned our website seven years ago, and our services have undergone many changes since then. It was time to launch a new website that accurately represents our services. Rastin Mehr Design Studio Inc. started as a web design and development company in a university dorm while its founder […]
Multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA) methods
We have encountered apps and websites that use Two/Multi-Factor Authentication or 2FA/MFA for additional security. They often use email, text messages, or push notifications to send you a code you must enter and provide your username or password. Sometimes, they require you to obtain a code from a mobile app. Most organizations must have MFA […]
We switched hosting companies
GoDaddy acquired our previous hosting company, so we switched hosting companies and built a custom EC2 server on AWS to host our websites. The hosting company has been giving us poor service for quite some time, but getting acquired by GoDaddy was the last straw. During the past few days, we have been busy moving […]
Happy New Year 2022
Happy new year, and just like that, we are in 2022 and nearly two years through the pandemic. One of the best decisions several years ago was operating as a distributed team. While most of us are in Canada, we wanted our team members to work from their preferred locations and times whenever possible. That […]
Why Platform As a Service costs more than a website
Consultants, NGOs, and entrepreneurs who fundraise to launch a Platform as Service (PAAS) assume that once they invest all their funds in building something new and launching their product, they can sit back and enjoy their idea’s realization. Except that now they have adopted a new child, they are surprised to find out about the […]
How we are continuing our services during the COVID-19 pandemic
With the COVID-19 pandemic happening in the world, everyone’s lives have been affected. In rmd Studio, we are making some changes to make sure that we can continue delivering our services to our valued customers. Three years ago, we decided to restructure our team so everyone could work remotely. An idea that we adopted from one of […]
Five tech business lessons from last year
Happy 2020, this time of the year, we usually post a greeting message and a picture of the Vancouver Polar Bear swim, but this year we had work spilling over from 2019 and new work coming from the new year. In our business, we never complain about more projects and new Clients. To keep another […]
Price plans for a newly launched SAAS platform
A few organizations in Vancouver have been consulting with us before launching their platforms, so we thought it was a good time that we wrote a blog about devising price plans for a SAAS platform. Delivering applications such as SAAS or software as a service gained popularity during the 2008 recession as a rebounding business […]
Why do we use different types of databases for an online service
The intended audience of this article is non-technical directors and managers who’ve been wondering why reliable online services and platforms use different types of databases. Applications fetch and store data in databases. Even your website’s content management is very likely using a database to store content and user information. When designin
How prioritizing people’s needs lead to the consumerization of IT
In our team we find the term Consumerization of IT to be uncomfortable mainly because we have seen so many precarious practices in the consumer apps and services that the idea of introducing that to the IT world terrifies us. There is an interesting history behind this term. There was a time that IT departments […]