The goal of this article is to reach out to developers and align them to develop a solution to mitigate the impact of natural disasters. Call for Code, which media refer as "The Noble Prize for Developers" was founded by David Clark Cause alongside Founding Partner IBM. Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 What is #CallForCode 3 Why developers should participate 4 Norms and … [Read more...]
Run Serverless for Free : GitHub Pages & OpenWhisk/IBM Cloud
Many users fear to test serverless because of unknown cost. Serverless is just hacked form of hosting HTML pages on Cloud Storage or CDN. This is an introductory guide to give the idea how we can test serverless with GitHub pages, PHP functions with OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud Serverless uses the same OpenWhisk. IBM Cloud provides many services for free of cost for testing. As OpenWhisk is a Free … [Read more...]
Difference Between Data Mining and Big Data Analytics
Data mining and big data analytics are the two most commonly used terms in the world of data sciience. Most of the newbie considers both the terms similar, while they are not. Previously, we described the difference between data science and big data, apart from publishing specific topics on big data and data mining. Data mining is the approach to find unknown relationships in data. Data Science … [Read more...]
Frameworks For Creating Serverless Apps
Unlike 10 years back, developing web applications and mobile applications no longer easy. There are too many things to maintain these days which made hand coding CSS quite difficult. Developing HTML pages with CSS, PHP, Flash, and JavaScript (aka FrontEnd development) changed too much. When JavaScript became a server-side language, most developers fall in love with the idea of using JS for every … [Read more...]
What Are the Applications of Blockchain Technology?
In an earlier guide, we talked about the basics on Blockchain Technology. Blockchain, often mistakenly counted as Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining related. The transactions Blockchain ensures properly conducted and recorded need not be just a monetary unit. Currency, Payment Infrastructure, Digital Assets management of course big sectors which use Blockchain technology. Bitcoin started as a P2P … [Read more...]
What is the Relationship Between Serverless Computing and Microservices?
Serverless Computing and Microservices are not exactly related unlike cloud computing and virtualization are related. It is of importantance not to confuse architecture and technologies but use the correct technology for the correct architecture. Microservices is a style of architecture style where we develop a set of multiple operation specific to a business logic. In that way, the total software … [Read more...]
Why Some Developers Love Serverless So Much?
Serverless is still new and there are a lot of developers who do not understand what is behind the name and ask questions like Serverless Functions vs Microservices. Serverless is a pricing model. Serverless introduces an additional abstraction layer. Cloud made many thing a lot simpler. A single developer can easily spin up a virtual machine withinf a few minutes. PaaS, Serverless are extending … [Read more...]
IBM Stops Selling Watson AI to the Pharma Industry
IBM has decided to stop selling artificial intelligence tool named Watson Drug Discovery to the pharmaceutical industry for the purpose of discovering new drugs. The reason is that sales are disappointing and companies are beginning to doubt the usefulness of Machine Learning for their industry. IBM's Watson artificial intelligence software was introduced in 2014. For several years now, IBM … [Read more...]
What Is a Serverless Microservice?
In our few previous publications, we discussed the commonly asked matters around serverless, FaaS, microservices such as Serverless Functions vs Microservices, Difference Between FaaS and Serverless etc. What Iis a Serverless Microservice? Serverless microservice is combination of both serverless and microservice. Serverless microservices run within vendor's serverless infrastructure only when … [Read more...]
Basics on Role of VPN in the Field of IoT for Maintaining Session Privacy
Ever experienced a breach of your privacy or security while online? A compromise of your credit card details, for instance? Did you ever wonder how it became possible that your boss knew you streamed the first three episodes of the latest season of the Game of Thrones on the torrent account, using the office's broadband connection? Ever thought how IoT prototyping can breach your security? Welcome … [Read more...]
Serverless Functions vs Microservices
Both the Serverless and Microservices reduce the time to market. Microservices is a technical term where as serverless has more a marketing term like the Cloud has when compared to virtualiation. Essentially, both Serverless and Microservices allow handling changing requirements with lesser effort which results lowering of the operation costs in the environments with larger load. Microservices are … [Read more...]