Tag: How to
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What's on the horizon for the future of work technology
Posted on April 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
2021 was a pivotal year for the future of work, forcing businesses to not just evolve their digital transformation strategies, but to rethink them altogether. It's not just that more people are working from home. They're doing so in a rapidly changing IT environment in which trends like edge computing, automation and huge data pipelines have ushered in continuous change. By Ram Chakravarti.
Tags cio how-to management miscellaneous
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Introductory guide to functional programming concepts
Posted on April 20, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Functional Programming is a vast ocean of thoughts, ideas & implementations. I have only begun to explore this exquisite programming paradigm. From an imperative world, I transitioned into a more organized process of Object-Oriented Design (OOD), and more recently, having experienced all the goodness and shortcomings of object-oriented thinking, I've stepped into the exotic sphere of "functional programming". By Sreedev Kodichath.
Tags programming functional-programming how-to software-architecture
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How to become a blockchain developer
Posted on March 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
With an average salary of $154k per year and steady job growth, now is the ideal time to learn blockchain development. To create and improve blockchain technologies, blockchain developers exercise various skills, including computer networking, cryptography, algorithms, and data structures. By Prajix.
Tags cio app-development fintech blockchain how-to learning crypto
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Study finds consumers prefer digital banking experiences, but are concerned about security
Posted on March 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A survey from Entrust details preferences of the modern banking customer, with consumers indicating a need for online banking capabilities, secure cards with chips and enhanced payment security. By Fintech News Desk.
Tags learning miscellaneous how-to management cio fintech blockchain
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How to take fewer breaks to be more productive at work
Posted on March 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Programmer's work might look easy, but it turns out to be stressful to many programmers. Most programmers would complain about being unproductive — they should work eight hours per day, but these eight hours turn into 2 or 3 hours of work. By Nuha Khaled.
Tags software learning miscellaneous how-to cio
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New to a codebase? Try drilling!
Posted on March 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For an entry-level developer, working on the large codebase was quite overwhelming at the beginning. Every time I opened up VScode and loaded up one of our repositories, I felt like I was lost at sea. By Louie Berwanger.
Tags programming software-architecture how-to learning
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Implementing in-app subscriptions in iOS & Android with no backend servers
Posted on February 23, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
More recently I have been experimenting with different monetization strategies for the apps so users can unlock features or just leave a tip. For the longest time I kept things simple with a "non-consumable" one-time purchase. Over the holiday break I decided to take things a step further and dip my toes into the world of subscriptions. By James Montemagno.
Tags ios how-to android app-development google
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What identity management teaches CSOs/CDOs about data-centric security
Posted on January 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At the turn of the 21st century, the identity management discipline within IT Security was born of necessity. Advancements in computer technology meant that every area, function, and discipline within organizations was turning to automation to gain a competitive advantage. A computer was placed on every desk, and servers, mini-computers, and mainframes were being deployed to automate every area of the business. By Chris Olive.
Tags big-data data-science infosec software-architecture cio how-to
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How Kubernetes creates and runs containers: An illustrated guide
Posted on January 18, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Understanding how Kubernetes handles containers gives you greater flexibility to create custom configurations for specific needs. Kubernetes enables you to do a lot of productive work without having to understand a lot about the underlying details. By Bob Reselman.
Tags cloud devops software-architecture cio how-to
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Async Rust in practice: Performance, pitfalls, profiling
Posted on January 17, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A few weeks ago, an interesting issue appeared on our GitHub tracker. It was reported that, despite our care in designing the driver to be efficient, it proved to be unpleasantly slower than one of the competing drivers, cassandra-cpp, which is a Rust wrapper of a C++ CQL driver. By Piotr Sarna.
Tags programming performance software-architecture cio how-to
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How we saved 70k cores across 30 mission-critical services
Posted on January 15, 2022, Level advanced Resource Length long
As part of Uber engineering's wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this blog we want to share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism. By Cristian Velazquez.
Tags how-to microservices performance devops app-development agile
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GraphQL as a migration strategy for REST APIs
Posted on January 13, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Traditional API architectures like SOAP and REST have been powering the web for a long time. But over the past five years, a change towards a more flexible and frontend-driven approach to API protocols has started, using GraphQL. But moving from a traditional API architecture like REST towards GraphQL can be challenging. Not only does your team need to adapt to GraphQL, but it also means you could be losing your investment in your current API architecture. By Mark Smallcombe.
Tags apis how-to restful devops web-development open-source