Understanding Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
Bitcoin started the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) movement in 2009. According to Satoshi Nakamoto (anonymous and alleged creator), "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
Evolution from Virtual Machine to Container
Virtual Machines (VMs) changed the way services are deployed to better optimize the use of hardware in a high availability environment. Traditional virtual machines were great for dividing the available hardware in a single bare metal machine into many smaller computer instances running on top of a hypervisor application used to organize the access of multiple VMs to the same physical hardware. There are, however, costs associated with this. The answer to some of these costs is containers.
Women in Stem: A Business Owner’s Perspective
It is well accepted that diversity in the workplace and in industry drives better culture and business results. While women are making great strides in some fields, they are still greatly underrepresented in STEM industries. National averages reflect that women make up half of today's workforce, only 25 percent of positions in the tech sector belong to women and only 5 percent of those are leadership positions.
XaaS: The Go-To For IT Operations
Thanks to the popular movement known as XaaS, or Everything as a Service, every software project, platform, and product cloud is now consumable from mainstream providers. XaaS is a subset of cloud computing, as the "aaS" addition to any group of letters turns that cloud feature into a service. It covers products, tools, and technologies that can be delivered over a network rather than installing locally.
Understanding ALM Systems
ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tools are those that attempt to manage the entire lifecycle in a one-stop solution. For organizations looking to simplify, or those early in their decision-making process who are passionate about making the right selection the first time, we would like to offer our experiences with two major players in the Enterprise ALM space: Atlassian's suite of core products (BitBucket, Jira, and Confluence) and Microsoft's ALM tool (Azure DevOps).
An Overview of Microservices
Microservices is a modern architectural style and approach to software development where applications are built as a suite of modular services that are kept as small, scalable, and customer-focused endpoints with specific business goals. Being independently deployed and scaled, each service provides a firm boundary of what business case they are solving for. They are also designed to be independently scalable for reuse by many other applications.