All About Distributed Databases
A database “is a structured collection of data. Card indices, printed catalogues of archaeological artefacts and telephone directories are all …
Read Article →Technical Articles
In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
Network systems security risks
Networking has played a vital part in the transfer of information as well as the accessibility of information that was never available to previous …
Read Article →Communications and The Software Development Process
Software Engineering or the Software Development Process is broken down into the following phases.
- Requirements
- Design
- Implementation
- Verification …
Get the total size of all the files in a directory
It’s amazing how many times I’ve need to find out the total size of all the files in a directory on one of our servers.
I have grown to …
Read Article →Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
Software development has really come a long way over the past few decades.
Programming used to always be about doing things in a very procedural way, …
Read Article →Moving a MySQL Database without downtime
At Statvoo Analytics we found ourselves in the position where we needed to move our master MySQL database without ANY downtime and for anyone …
Read Article →How to use Google Analytics in AngularJS
It seems to be quite a popular question with not as many answers to hold the weight.
Google Analytics has always been more of a pageviews type …
Read Article →Converting from Legacy to Client-Server or Distributed Systems
What is a legacy system?
A legacy system is a computing system that has been around for a very long period of time, tends to be difficult to maintain, …
Read Article →Conceptual Architectural Views, with a focus on the Development View
What is Conceptual Architectural Views?
Architectural views are abstractions, or simplifications, of the entire design, in which important …
Read Article →Assessing Reusable Parts in a Software Architecture
During the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) the development team will come to realise that parts of any application have already been created …
Read Article →An Introduction to 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server Systems
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation.
The former is essentially where all clients contain application and …
Read Article →Remove the Outermost Parentheses using Python
The Question
A valid parentheses string is either empty (""), "(" + A + ")", or A + B, where A and B are valid …