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5 Things Your Project Team Can Do Right Now to Become More Agile

Agile is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. While continuing to be the “methodology du jour”, especially in the complex world of software development, a lot of misconceptions exist aroun

Zero to DevOps in Two Weeks

I’ve have the good fortune in the recent past to work in an environment with some really strong DevOps slash automated infrastructure folks. As a consumer of such great systems I became a little

A Brief Overview of Apache Spark

In the Apache Foundation’s own words, Spark is called “A fast and general engine for large scale data processing.” Parsing this we get: Fast – Spark relies on an in-memory processing model which

Hybrid Mobile Apps Part 1: Ionic Framework Basics

According to an April 2016 report by comScore, a global media analytics company, mobile users now represent 65 percent of digital utilization with mobile apps dominating usage overall. All indicators

Big Data with Hadoop Cluster

It’s rare that you can go to a medium to large-enterprise IT environment and not have some kind of “Big Data” setup. Information and analytics are becoming central to corporate decision making support

Garbage Collection (.NET) vs. ARC (Swift) - Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we dug deep into many languages differences, both good and bad, between C# and Swift. As you begin to use the language on a regular basis, one major consideration that will

Escape from C# / Into the Swift Trenches - Part 1

In my previous post I introduced the Swift language from the perspective of a C# developer, demonstrating some of the more obvious differences between the two languages. In this series, I will be

Dealing with SQL Performance

It seems all too often that the answer to dealing with SQL is now to use an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool to avoid SQL like the plague when talking to .Net developers. Some of the reasons for

An introduction to Celery

Often times in a web application, there are a subset of tasks that are long-running, resource intensive and don’t have to be completed in real time. These tasks are perfect for offloading to an async