November 07, 2015

Why use NGINX as a load balancer?

In addition to being free, scalable, and easier to maintain, the key reason many organizations want an open source load balancer is that it provides a more flexible development environment, which helps organizations adopt a more agile development process. Sarah says that when compared with other options, NGINX offers huge performance improvements. "With NGINX, organizations can deliver applications reliably and without fear of instance, VM, or hardware failure," she says. "This is crucial as websites and applications make their way into our everyday lives." In the typical setup in most organizations, web server and ADC (application delivery components, often hardware) are separate components. But when it comes to web application delivery, NGINX is changing that approach.


Cyber-security: The cost of immaturity

All sorts of companies offer cyber-security services, from small, specialist outfits to giant arms companies such as BAE Systems (which TalkTalk has hired to sort out its mess). The biggest firms are finding it hard to keep staff. As in the public-relations and corporate-intelligence industries, if you know your stuff, you can make more money starting up on your own. Venture-capitalists are not showering money on the industry as prodigiously as they did a year ago, but the fast growth rate means that raising capital is still easy. The big companies are still able to trade on their brand name (nobody gets fired for hiring IBM) but the mammals are beating the dinosaurs.


Mobile Collaboration: Where Does It Rank on Your Priority List?

Collaboration is a major driver for increased mobile usage. We’ve used chat and messaging tools to maintain personal connections for years with popular apps like FaceTime, WhatsApp, Voxer, and many others. With their success in fostering simple and straightforward communication, it was only a matter of time before these apps found their way into the business world. This “consumerization of IT” is paving the way for new breeds of business-class technology to redefine the boundaries of the workplace. But it is more than technology fueling this shift. The way teams form and work together has changed as well.


How data screwups may decide the fitness tracker wars

The fitness tracker war won't be won or lost on hardware design, app graphics, the ability to track exercise and sleep or the response to a well-heeled rival like Apple or Samsung. The fitness tech game will be won on how well vendors handle your data. Every relationship has a breaking point -- the one moment when you say enough and move on forever. Apply that axiom to the fitness tracking industry and the breaking point is when your favorite wearable loses your data. In recent months, I've suffered data losses about a dozen times across two vendors. If you use a fitness tracker, there's nothing worse than going for a run, hitting 20,000 steps and watching the app give you credit and then refresh and lose the information. It's like the run never happened.


Mocking Financial Middleware System

Integration is primarily core part of any financial application as either way you have to integrate with banking host or middle ware and this is not an easy job at all. Do keep in mind that Host systems usually refers to Core Banking Systems and Middle ware is actually channel integrator that talks to host systems like ATM, SMS, phone banking, IVR, WAP, etc In the development environment the most critical challenge is to write integration code offsite because middleware or host systems are not available at development centers. This critical limitation forces companies to do all the integration onsite which obviously increase the development and post production support cost because in majority of cases fixes needs to be investigated onsite.


Delivering Software with Water-Scrum-Fall

Agile is a mindset, a set of guidelines, Scrum is a framework that can be deployed, it has strict rules and events to follow, they are not the same thing. Agile thinking exposes our inability to deliver fast, it drives out what the customer actually wants and improves quality by providing multiple opportunities for continuous feedback, which in turn focuses the developers towards how to build the right thing right. There some simple things you should start to be aware of and look to change. Firstly collaboration. This has to start with engaging your customers, they need to understand how you work, especially if you are going to use Scrum or even just looking to change the way you work. Your customers will need to understand what is capable and what role they will need play.


Jane Austen on Python: The intersection of literature and tech

Creative thinking is required to determine where our code might break, to build in checks, and to return useful data. Any programmer can return the error message, but to compose an error message that is helpful—rather than intimidating—requires a programmer who is also a creative thinker and possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills. When you're writing good tests, you're doing world building: Accessibility requires empathy, and empathy requires imagination. You can leverage that awesome feeling you get when you get lost in a book and identify with the main character by putting yourself in the shoes of the people using your code. Imagine their struggles and frustrations. Create a persona for them. Fix the things that hinder or annoy them about your app.


Why Ford is shifting its focus from cars to 'mobility'

Ford has taken several steps to address these larger transportation issues. A big piece is a new focus on e-bikes. In June, they unveiled the MoDe:Flex, a versatile bike that can be used in different needs such as the road, mountain or city riding. Another is "GetAround"—in which customers who finance through Ford credit can allow vehicles to become part of a peer-to-peer carsharing service. The company's innovate mobility series challenged cities around the world to solve different mobility problems, specific to local communities. In Mumbai, for example, the problem was how to get around in monsoon season. The solution: Using data you could get from the car. Windshield wipers, Klampfl said, could indicate heavy rain in different areas.


A Twitter app for rural Kenyan potato farmers

“SokoShambani is a market-based micro-logistics platform that enables small-scale farmers to trade directly with high value market entities,” explains Stephen Kimiri, the CEO and developer. Farmers subscribe to a free SMS service on the 8988 short-code powered by Twitter and @ViaziSouthRift. “Through this, they are able to trade directly while sharing farming intelligence, market reports and updates,” explains Kimiri. The startup has singled out potato farmers in rural Kenya after noting that potato is a staple food second only to maize in Kenya and that farmers are usually given a raw deal for their produce in the markets. “With such a small number of big consumers with stable and obvious demand, an ineffective supply chain and large number of small-scale participants, it makes this value chain particularly ‘ripe’ for intervention,” says Kimiri.


SharePoint Server 2016: IT's Ultimate Swiss Army Knife?

Information technology leadership faces unique strategy con­cerns that simply didn't exist 10 years ago. Managing the relationship between cloud, mobile and on-premises applications requires an eye toward innovation and change -- and a willingness to take a few risks to improve business practices. A recent Gartner Inc. report, "Flipping to Digital Leadership: Insights from the 2015 Gartner CIO Agenda Report," best describes the challenges of IT decision makers. "Seizing this opportunity requires flipping long-held behaviors and beliefs -- from a legacy perspective to a digital one in information and technology leadership, from a focus on the visible to the genuinely valuable in value leadership, and from control to vision in people leadership."



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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." -- Samuel Johnson


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