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Full Stack Web Development Using Neo4j
When building a web application there are a lot of choices for the database. In this article, author discusses why Neo4j Graph database is a good choice as a data store for your web application if your data model contains lot of connected data and relationships.
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Mobile-First in Africa: How Mobile Phones are Changing Health Care in Africa
This mobile explosion in Africa is having a far larger impact than merely connecting people, it is creating a very large, low-cost distributed sensor network that has the potential to completely transform global health care. This article will explore the fight against malaria, counterfeit drug detection, grade stock-out prevention, and health education.
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Sourcing Security Superheroes: Part 1: Battling Retention and Recruitment
In this three-part series, Monzy Merza will discuss the challenges within organizations to retain and develop top cybersecurity talent, and outline the organizational steps companies can take to keep talent in-house.
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Shaping Big Data Through Constraints Analysis
In this article, author Carlos Bueno describes a method for analyzing constraints on the shape and flow of data in systems. He talks about the factors useful for system analysis like working set & average transaction sizes, request & update rates, consistency, locality, computation, and latency. He also discusses big data architecture details of two use cases, movie streaming and face recognition.
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Deploying Microservices to AWS at Gilt: Introducing ION-Roller
Over a period of seven years, gilt.com has grown from an e-commerce start-up running a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to $1B luxury goods company operating a cloud-based microservice platform utilising Scala, Docker and AWS. This article introduces Gilt's ION-Roller continuous deployment application, and explains the history and motivations that lead to the creation of this tool.
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Mobile-First in Africa: Education, Birth Registration, Banking
In little over a decade, Africa has gone from being a region where it is hard to find power lines, fixed-line telecom infrastructure, and personal computers, to being the second most mobile connected continent, where about 15% of the billion inhabitants owns a cell phone. This is opening the way to innovative applications of mobile technologies in different fields.
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Continuous Quality and the Cloud: How You Should Be Testing Mobile Apps
What is so hard about developing and testing mobile apps? For a lot of developers the answer to this question is "keeping quality high in a field of device and os fragmentation". This is even more true when apps need to be delivered agile, in short release cycles. Cloud based test labs provide an infrastructure to efficiently execute automated tests for your software on a great number of devices.
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Continuous Delivery: Huge Benefits, but Challenges Too
This article explains why Paddy Power adopted continuous delivery (CD), describes the resulting CD capability, and reports the huge benefits and challenges involved. This information can help practitioners plan their adoption of CD and help researchers form their research agendas.
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Big Data Processing with Apache Spark - Part 2: Spark SQL
Spark SQL, part of Apache Spark big data framework, is used for structured data processing and allows running SQL like queries on Spark data. In this article, Srini Penchikala discusses Spark SQL module and how it simplifies running data analytics using SQL interface. He also talks about the new features in Spark SQL, like DataFrames and JDBC data sources.
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Software Development Tooling: Information, Opinion, Guidelines, and Tools
In this article, authors summarize the information published in "Tools of the Trade" column series in IEEE Software magazine for last ten years. Tools and best practices are organized into categories like design, developing code, tooling, builds, and operations.
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WebRTC - Democratization of Telecom Enabling New App Experiences
With the emergence of the WebRTC API standard, telecom’s control of communications is changing. This standard enables developers without any experience in telecommunications technology and protocols to easily integrate real-time comms into their applications. This ease of access will spawn new innovative use cases that will change the way that we communicate, exchange information and interact.
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Fifteen Years of Service-Oriented Architecture at Credit Suisse
In this article, authors reflect on Credit Suisse's adoption of SOA principles and patterns and the organization's transition from using tightly integrated mainframe programs to open SOA services with emphasis on the importance of interface contracts and service governance.