4 Awesome Open Source Tools for Efficient Cloud Management. Considering the phenomenal growth of open source over the last decade, it wouldn’t be surprising to know that open source technologies are now commonly used in traditional on-premise systems.
But traditional on-premise systems are slowly going obsolete today as the cloud dominates. Businesses are now investing in moving their workloads to the cloud which will require the usage of certain specific tools. This is where open source comes in. When shifting to the cloud, it’s best to start with great management tools. There are cloud-compatible open source tools specifically designed for resource management. This blog lists a few effective open source cloud management tools that will make things easier for a business migrating to the cloud.
Mobile App Testing Trends That Are Making Waves this Year. Guide to Using SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Developing a technology solution is quite complicated nowadays.
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PHP didn’t take much time to become one of the biggest assets for open source development. But PHP5 eventually got a rival in the form of HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), a virtual tool developed by Facebook that can execute PHP code far more effectively than other tools. The contest took a turn when the latest version of PHP – PHP7 arrived. It outclassed its predecessor in many ways. And so the showdown began. Developed by tech giant Facebook in 2010, and released in 2011, the main purpose of HHVM was to reduce server resources so as to deliver a better experience for Facebook users.
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How fast can a vehicle go? How fast is your internet? Does that website load fast? Web Design Trends That Could Turn Heads in 2017. Influence of DevOps on Quality Assurance. DevOps gained a lot of traction last year, with many companies deciding to adopt the increasingly popular software development methodology.
So what is it exactly? As mentioned before, it’s simply a software development methodology that combines, like its name suggests, Development and Operations. Container Management with the new Kubernetes 1.5. Containers play a vital role in software development for getting the software to run reliably in various computing environments; from a developer’s computer to a test environment, and staging and production.
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Android Nougat 7.1.1 is on its way, though for now only a few devices will get the update. From what’s known of the update, only Google’s Pixel and Nexus smartphones will be getting it. The update comes packed with improved performance, cool new emojis and a few other surprises. Fortunately, not all features of the update cater to the Nexus and Pixel smartphones. Many new features will be made available for all Android devices eligible for the update. Which devices will be getting the update?
Digital Marketing Trends for 2017. Smart Insights, a Digital Marketing company, published an article last month listing top-rated digital marketing techniques that could give businesses an edge in 2017.
The information provided in the article was consolidated after crowdsourcing the importance of various trends, rated by the popularity of each, to their readers ending up with over 2300 responses from professional marketers. According to the article, the readers were asked to share their opinion on the one marketing activity that would provide the biggest incremental uplift to businesses in leads and sales in 2017. The results showed ‘Content Marketing’ at the top followed by ‘Big Data’. Kentico 10 & What It Brought To the Table. Kentico, an esteemed content management and digital experience platform provider, recently released the latest version of its popular ASP.NET CMS platform, Kentico 10, which is more than meets the eye.
Karol Jarkovsky, Director of Product at Kentico, talked about the issues the new Kentico 10 can deal with, and what the future holds for the product, over a Skype interview with Laura Myers, a tech reporter of CMS-Connected. The company is known for the research it does prior to developing and releasing products. According to the Director of Product, their research saw frustrated marketers, content creators, and developers as they are swept over by the sheer complexity of various CMS tools they have to use, while not getting the advertised benefits of those tools. Pain points. 5 Software Testing & QA Trends You Should Know in 2017. Many organizations still overlook the importance of Software Testing, evident from the fact that they tend to invest much lesser in testing compared to other major IT departments.
Software Development Face-off: Agile vs. Lean. The right kind of project management methodology can do wonders in software development. Shard or be Shredded. 7 Essential Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Web Hosting Provider. So what’s the easiest way to find a hosting provider for your website? People normally look for easy ways to do things. Internet made finding things easy. SEO Trends: What 2017 Will Bring to the Table. 2016’s been great. But now that it’s almost gone, we should start looking to the future. Catching up to Google is not going to be easy this time around. First Penguin, then Hummingbird and now RankBrain – Google’s on an unstoppable rampage. But hopefully, with the right amount of planning, we might just be able to conceive a sure-fire search engine optimization strategy.
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How Docker Optimizes a DevOps Ecosystem. Creating, packaging and deploying a software are three stages that are critical to a release management lifecycle. Although there are a number of reliable containers enterprise developers can rely on for this purpose, one stands out from the rest for its “Build, Ship and Run” vision, ending up as one of the most popular open source technologies today – Docker.
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