Marek Wróbel
Telaviv view of the city

The Strong Shekel: Why Israeli Companies Are Looking to Central Europe for Developers

When we began expanding Optiveum’s services into the Israeli market, the conversation with our clients was almost entirely about skills the shortage of specific seniorities, the difficulty of filling AI and DevOps roles, the long wartime reserve-duty absences that have disrupted delivery timelines. That conversation hasn’t gone away. But over the past few months a second argument has quietly moved to the centre of the table, and it has nothing to do with who is or isn’t available on the local market.

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Marek Wróbel
a video engineer with headphones in front of a laptop

The Video Codec Job Market in 2026: What a Global R&D Hiring Push Reveals About the Industry’s Next Chapter

The global video codec market is at a genuine inflection point. Bandwidth consumption continues to grow — driven by 4K and 8K streaming, cloud gaming, virtual reality, and the relentless expansion of mobile video — yet the underlying compression technologies that make this media deliverable are evolving more slowly, and more contentiously, than most observers expected.

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