January 4, 2021
Kafka – Watch out, another broker coming up!
4 months before the incident - cluster away So, one day you decide to switch from Kafka standalone to cluster mode in order to achieve high availability. (more…)
December 4, 2020
7 tips to help you organize your large Scrum team
According to Scrum guidelines, the size of a team should be between 3 and 9 people without counting the Product Owner and Scrum Master (unless they also undertake development tasks). (more…)
December 1, 2020
Amazon Elastic MapReduce web service
Introduction Hadoop as a platform enables us to store and process vast amounts of data. Storage capacity and processing power are directly related to the size of our Hadoop cluster and scaling it up is a simple as adding new nodes to the cluster. (more…)
October 28, 2020
IT Support: Remote vs Onsite
Today, the increasing reliance on software by so many companies has emphasized the value of IT support for business. It allows you to be more focused on performing the primary tasks of your business using advanced and modern technology without requiring any deeper understanding of the underlying processes. (more…)
October 6, 2020
File Download with Error Handling
Designing an API that serves files to be downloaded is not easy. In a way, it is an exception to the standard way of designing APIs. Nowadays most APIs produce XML or JSON, and that is not the case with download, which produces the format of the file being downloaded.…
September 9, 2020
Multi-user remote HDFS access using WebHDFS and Kerberos
As part of our data processing pipeline, we use Hadoop to execute different tasks with HDFS being the primary data storage system. Let's say we have a cluster, and multiple users do their work on the Hadoop cluster, all users will have the same privilege and everyone can access everyone’s…
August 6, 2020
The Future of UI & UX Design
How did we start? To explore the future, we have to take a step back and look at the recent history of UI & UX design. Websites are a good example where we can see the progress of design and development. (more…)
July 23, 2020
Guide to your virtual meeting
Due to the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 virus, many employers are now encouraging work from home. The trouble is how to organize this sudden, unplanned remote work. The solution is simple and it is found in virtual meetings. (more…)
July 7, 2020
Deployment of a NIST data mirror on OpenShift
The need for dependency checks while building software is crucial. Dependency vulnerabilities can be quite dangerous and can lead to vulnerabilities in the final product. In addition to that, every penetration test will definitely check for dependency vulnerabilities. (more…)
June 24, 2020
5G, changing everything we know about mobile networks
It’s been nearly a decade since 5G was first introduced and slowly but surely it is taking on its true form. But even now, when carriers in some countries are just starting to roll it out, there is a lot of confusion about what 5G is and what it brings…
