Tag: Business and emerging tech
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How to build Raspberry Pi UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
Posted on January 4, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Zach Levine published on howchoo.com. He will teach you how to build your own Raspberry Pi UPS using some simple hardware. You can use this method to power a Raspberry Pi 3, Raspberry Pi Zero, or any other Pi.
Tags software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech
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Migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Posted on November 30, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
By Neeraj Khandelwal, Senior Engineering Manager-DevOps at Hike published series of blog posts about their growth journey and migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). They hit scaling challenges once they hit 100 million registered users and sent 40 billion messages every month.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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NGINX Unit supports TLS and JavaScript apps with Node.js
Posted on November 3, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Nick Shadrin of NGINX, Inc. wrote this article about TLS and Nodejs apps support in NGINX Unit. NGINX Unit is a dynamic web and application server, designed to run applications in multiple languages. Unit is lightweight, polyglot, and dynamically configured via API.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous backend-development frontend-and-mobile security-and-privacy
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PHP encryption methods for passwords and other sensitive data
Posted on October 7, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Ashley Rich published this article about various methods of protecting sensitive data in PHP. There is a range of different encryption methods in use today, the most common being hashing, secret key encryption and public key encryption. Also in PHP 7.2+ you have cryptography extension Sodium which should simplify vastly complicated cryptography landscape.
Tags backend-development security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech
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Encrypting vs. signing with OpenPGP. What's the difference?
Posted on October 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brad Wyro thoughts on encryption versus signing with OpenPGP. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. In the article author helps to answer following question: how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private?
Tags security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics
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4 edge computing technologies enabling IoT ready network infrastructure
Posted on September 30, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
A quick intro into IoT networking. Networks around the world are going through a massive transformation in which edge computing devices and edge infrastructure development hold a key role.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning architecture-and-apis
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Beginner's guide to designing smart chatbots
Posted on September 15, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Vaibhav Verma, an User Experience Designer at Haptik, about his experience with designing the smart chatbots over 4 years period. He has designed more than 50 chatbots across various domains and use cases.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design
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Step-by-Step guide to building a quick Q&A chatbot
Posted on August 31, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Tutorial by Purna Virji about starting with chatbots or virtual assistants. Chatbots, infobots, socialbots, salesbots, superbots! Bots are a great way to help serve your customers, build your business, and cut down costs.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning backend-development miscellaneous business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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An overview of privacy in cryptocurrencies
Posted on August 16, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Blog post by Richard Chen about privacy consideration when dealing with cryptocurrencies. It's no secret that privacy is an important topic in cryptocurrencies these days. Neither companies nor individuals want to publish all of their information onto a public blockchain that can be arbitrarily read without any restrictions.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech security-and-privacy
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AI & blockchain, an introduction
Posted on August 15, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Matt Turck produced this post about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain. His goal was to provide a broad introduction to the topic and feed the discussion why the topic matters in the first place, and highlight the work of some interesting companies in the space.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Solr from the field -- Lessons learned while maintaining over 30 billion documents
Posted on August 14, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article published by Alex Puschinsky about WalkMe Insights experience with SOLR and processing of vast amount of data. They provide real-time search and analytics capabilities. To achieve this, they have chosen Apache Solr as the core of our WalkMe Insights search functionality.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech frontend-and-mobile
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What you need to consider before building a fintech product
Posted on August 8, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Blog post by Artur Bachynskyi with some advice on topic of fintech products. Financial technology aka fintech is a popular start-up sector for entrepreneurs, as more and more people are striving for financial literacy. The shift to treating one's finances more intelligently has led the creators to apply the principles of human-centered design (HCD) when developing fintech products.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to miscellaneous software-engineering