It's Time To Make Continuous Learning Part Of Your Organization's DNA
Introduction
We live in a world where technological change is frequent and seemingly perpetual. It is a world where gadgets and tools once considered cutting edge are now a routine part of our daily lives and obsolescence of these tools happens on a two to three year cycle. With such a short time to keep pace with a . . .
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It's no secret that social media platforms impact the way we share and consume information with and from one another. Media companies rely on these networks to increase their readership. Brands rely on these networks to get their product out to the world. Non-profit companies depend on these networks to raise awareness and organize . . .
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Message queuing is one of those things that distributed systems have to wrestle with. There are many solutions in the marketplace from commercial offerings to open source ones. A quick search on the web will reveal the many choices. Some time ago, I had a need for such a solution. However, the project did not need the operational overhead . . .
OrientDB and the Age Old Question of Stored Procedures
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What is your hustle?
I have been a technology professional for about 20-years now. I have worked on building desktop applications, web applications, and massively scalable Cloud Native applications. Between starting my own companies and working for other companies, it has been a journey filled with many exciting moments and some very dull ones too. That . . .
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Cloud, cloud, and more cloud. I've spent a good portion of the last few years building scalable solutions that live on Public Cloud Infrastructure. I have to say, it is pretty exciting work and pretty frustrating as well. The challenge with scaling and measuring your cost of hosting in the Public Cloud is unlike what most businesses are . . .
The Tools My Father Did Not Have
Growing up my father was busy with work...a lot. There were many a times when he was away jet setting to another country trying to make ends meet for his family. This left my mother to take care of many responsibilities in his absence and she did so with as much efficiency and strength as she could muster. During that era, my dad did not have . . .