Picking an appropriate solution to handle performance monitoring for your Rails app is a process that you need to take seriously. There are a number of tools out there that want to grab your attention, and the only way to sift through the marketing jargon and myriad sales pitches is to know what assets are most valuable, both generally speaking and in your specific use case. This is not always … [Read more...]
Computer and Internet
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Things You Should Know About Continuous Delivery
Continuous delivery is an increasingly popular term in the software development industry. But what does it really mean? In this post, I’m going to share with you some of the most important things you should know about Continuous Delivery, and how it can be applied to your software development workflow. I'll start by answering questions like: "Is continuous delivery really that important?" and … [Read more...]
The 5 Best Password Managers for Business in 2022
A password manager is a computer program that is used to store a large number of username/password pairs. The database where this information is stored is encrypted by a single key so that the user only has to memorize one key to access all the others. This makes it easier to manage passwords and encourages users to choose complex keys without fear that they won't be able to remember them … [Read more...]
Why Investing in Blockchain Technologies Can Help Your Business Get Ahead of the Competition
Most people will be familiar with the blockchain as the foundational technology for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Recently, however, organizations of all kinds have been finding innovative ways to extend blockchain technology’s utility beyond crypto. Scores of enterprises around the world, from multinational companies to up-and-coming startups, now employ blockchain to facilitate the … [Read more...]
What is Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)?
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standardized database interface that uses SQL as the database language. It thus provides an application programming interface (API) that allows a programmer to develop his application relatively independently of the database management system (DBMS) used, if an ODBC driver exists for it. ODBC allows you to set up the database access details (credentials), … [Read more...]
What is Computational Social Science?
Computational Social Science is an interdisciplinary field that develops and tests theories of human behaviour using computer-aided methods, primarily in the social sciences, psychology and economics. These methods are applied to large data sets on human behaviour, including from social media or digitized archives, such as those containing administrative data. This is often equated with the use of … [Read more...]
WAP Site vs. HTML Mobile Website
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) refers to a collection of techniques and protocols whose goal is to make Internet content available for the slower transmission rate and longer response times in mobile communications as well as for the small displays of mobile phones. Various WAP implementations were thus in direct competition with the i-mode service. WAP found some prevalence mainly in the … [Read more...]
Basic Objects of Software Configuration Management
Software Configuration Management (SCM) is a specialization of configuration management on all activities and results in the field of software development as well as their use in products. This includes, among other things, the appropriate consideration of docking native product components and their variants (e.g. via compatibility matrices) over the entire product life cycle. SCM systems are … [Read more...]
Brief Details of Software Release Lifecycle
The software release life cycle, in software engineering, is the set of progress states of the computer application creation project, to identify how much progress has been made and how much remains until the end. Each major version of a product usually goes through a stage where new features are added (alpha stage), then a stage where bugs are actively removed (beta stage), and finally a stage … [Read more...]
The Best VPN for 2022: How to Choose Wisely
With more cyber scams rising, comes a whole new set of challenges when it comes to online security. Whether you're a business owner or just someone who wants to keep your data safe, you'll need a good VPN service to stay protected. But with so many options available on the market, how can you be sure that you're making the right choice? In this blog post, we'll walk you through some of the most … [Read more...]
What is Green IT?
Green IT and/or Green Computing refers to efforts to make the use of information and communication technology (ICT) environmentally friendly and resource-conserving over its entire life cycle. This includes the optimization of resource consumption during the production, operation and disposal of the devices. As early as 1988, the Japanese IT company Fujitsu launched its own Green IT program with … [Read more...]