The Pros and Cons of Agile in Software Development
What is Agile in Software Engineering?
Agile approaches help teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and …
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Contemporary and beneficial uses of Big-Data Systems
Big data is a term applied to datasets whose size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases to capture, manage, and process …
Read Article →Distributed Database Systems Observations
Traditional database systems were a centralised powerful database server that housed all operations pertaining to the database.
There are countless …
Read Article →Functions of an Operating System
I am in a bit of an unusual situation where “I use” a combination of three different laptops, which each run different platforms. Namely; …
Read Article →ORDER BY RAND() – Faster Alternative
MySQL’s ORDER BY RAND() function can be so useful for returning random items from a table, in fact, we have used it a million times over the …
Top-down vs Bottom-up Database Design
There are essentially two different approaches one can take when designing databases; these, from a high-level analytic point of view, narrow down to …
Read Article →How to keep your web server or blog up when you get a traffic spike
So you’re about to be featured on some very high ranking website.
You’re worried that when all the visitors come rushing towards you, your …
Read Article →How to get the UTC Timestamp in Python
All dates in your server applications should be stored in the UTC timezone.
This is because you always want to store time without the offset of the …
Read Article →How to setup the AWS CLI for multiple profiles
The AWS CLI provides the ability to use the wide range of Amazon Web Services tools and services straight from the command-line. If you’re …
Read Article →How to get the size of an AWS S3 bucket
If you need to get the size of an AWS S3 folder, or even an entire bucket, you can do so with the following command:
If you don’t use aws cli …
Comparing Java and Javascript
Perhaps the first thing that most people ask when they hear the names of these two programming languages are. “Why do they have the same …
Read Article →An Introduction to Data Structures
When bringing up the topic of “Data Structures”, it is first important to understand what they are. TechTarget states that “a data structure is a …
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