In an earlier article we discussed about the Difference Between Microservices and API Based Cloud Services. A natural question may arise in the mind of those who newly started reading or learning the related things - What is the Relationship Between Microservices, Docker and Kubernetes? Analysis of Docker in DevOps is a bigger matter, which we have done beforehand. An API is an abstraction which … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing
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Cost Comparison of Cloud IoT Platform Vendors
In another article we discussed about different Cloud IoT platform vendors. Mostly in this blog we use IBM Watson IoT. The question will arise, how much we pay for using their IBM Watson IoT and Node-RED. We have credit card linked account and our net payable so far for the two services is zero. Because our usage is so low that comes under free Lite plan. When we started around IoT topics for the … [Read more...]
What Are Situations to Avoid Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing unfortunately still limited by configaration of the data centers. Commonly you can not expect horizontal scaling and vertical scaling togather. Whenever your application needs many TBs of RAM, then your option of provider becomes limited to hardly 3-4. You actually need the platform with physical servers which can afford your multi-TB RAM sucking application. IBM like providers has … [Read more...]
Some Free, Useful SaaS Productivity Apps
Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing rapidly and helping the freelancers, business organizations to spend money in productive apps at little as possible. For this article, we are not following the strict parameters for the webapp or cloud app to be really Software as a Service (SaaS). Everyone loves freebies and it is fact that many of these freemium services close their free tier as they … [Read more...]
How is Cloud Computing Profitable?
Cloud computing does not give larger profit margin to the providers while consumers has profit depending on usage. The cost benefits of cloud computing to the users involves different types of freemium models and extensive competition. Potential of cloud based systems brings huge savings in annual expenditure out of migration from in-house server to cloud based alternatives. Cloud vendors like … [Read more...]
What is Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solution?
Mobile Device Management (MDM) means the software and hardware way for centralized management of the mobile devices usually in BYOD deployment. Previously we discussed about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and pointed the security issues. MDM solutions adress Mobile Application Management (MAM), Mobile Content Management (MCM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) for a wide range of mobile … [Read more...]
What is the Difference Between a Web Application and a SaaS Application?
While "cloud application" and "web applications” are being used interchangeably, there are differences between the web applications and software as a service (SaaS). Software as a service (SaaS) is more a software licensing and delivery model and currently part of cloud computing service model. Most of the "real SaaS" are paid professional and/or enterprise grade software, Adobe Photoshop CC is … [Read more...]
What is Data as a Service?
Data as a Service (DaaS) is a business model in which data files like text, images, sounds, and videos are made available to customers over the Internet. Data as a Service (or DaaS) is a type of Software as a Service (SaaS) and does not fall among the regognized standard cloud computing business models. Like SaaS, DaaS based on the concept that the data can be provided on demand to the user via … [Read more...]
What is Blockchain? Easy Explanation of Blockchain for Dummies
A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a growing list of records protected from falsification or modification by storage nodes. Block of Block storage is related to storage - block storage. Block is a chunk of data. One blockchain consists of several blocks. Each block is a record of transactions of specific data. Data can be of anything which requires security for re-writing and … [Read more...]
InfluxDB vs CouchDB for IoT Backend
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database with restricted features with support for processing data from Graphite. CouchDB purely a free software. InfluxDB is quite different from CouchDB. InfluxDB supports SQL style query. InfluxDB accepts data via HTTP, TCP, and UDP and directly supports Grafana. If you use TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana), within half an hour you'll get … [Read more...]
Which Cloud Databases Can Be Used for Internet-of-Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is delivering new challenges for data management and analysis. There are different NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis. Although both SQL and NoSQL databases are viable for IoT data, different NoSQL databases considered for practical reasons. Various studies have checked database performance of different databases under workloads and it is concluded that … [Read more...]