Achieving the perfect markup from a given design is not always easy, but it's an important task every Front-end developer must practice on every project because, in the end, the presentation is the one that strikes first.
Read MoreServiceNow is a cloud-based system that provides software as a service (SaaS) for technical management support. The company specializes in IT services management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM) and IT business management (ITBM), allowing users to manage projects, teams and customer interactions via a variety of apps and plugins.
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We are playing in Hard Mode", a colleague tells me when we were talking about the personal and professional moment, very similar to which we are currently going through: Both with children in the same age range and working on more than one project at the same time. "After a while we will be playing in Normal Mode and in a couple of years we will be playing in Easy Mode, and that's when we will be much better." I had never thought of it in those terms, but the analogy also applies to the learning and implementation of new technologies and others not so new.
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As a developer, it’s easy to see yourself surrounded in an environment where every system looks pretty similar, similar databases structures, similar designs, and similar backend procedures doing similar things you’ve done in the past… administrative systems. Yes, administrative systems are the bread and butter of how a big number of companies handle their data, just to mention the most common ones we might find as an example user, reports, payments, logic business and internal processes.
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Nearshoring is a term used to signify that a company is moving part of all its business operations from US to Mexico, this is different to offshoring because it implies to be closer to the place where the business is transfer, while offshoring used to imply a long distance and more costs.
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The learnings regarding the post-covid effects at work, supposes for 2021 to be a year full of reinvention of the individual in a process of labor transformation marked by the “resilience of adaptation to change”. Global companies are facing an attraction of specialized talent where, in addition to finding all the certification and/or capacities required to execute a project, those of the individual are added.
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One of the important points to consider when establishing security policies in the IT infrastructure and due to the diversity of elements in either On-premise, cloud or hybrid environments is monitoring.
Monitoring in the network infrastructure, in the operating system platform, in the applications, in the databases, etc.
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A great nearshoring partner is difficult to find, but sometimes it is worth looking at your neighbor.
We are talking about forging relationships in Mexico rather than India. As much as India may be a great country for new American businesses, full of natural beauty and being located almost at the heart of the Asian continent, there are quite some downsides regarding the development of outsourcing software.
Read MoreWhen we develop applications many times we have to execute searches/queries to obtain specific data from our database(s). In our database(s), maybe, we have a lot of information we want to show or share with one or more of our applications or sometimes with external consumers through APIs. So, an important consideration to do that is how we can show/share those data efficiently. A way to improve how we share data is paging those data, in this way the applications (web app, mobile app, etc.) can consume those data in small parts and not all the information is loaded at the same time.
Read MoreDriven by the most used cloud applications, data center traffic is growing rapidly. The study conducted by various universities in the United States, predicts that the global information traffic of the cloud data centers will reach 19.5 zettabytes (ZB) annually by 2021, compared with the annual 6.0 ZB of 2016 - growing 3.3 times, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27% between 2016 and 2021.
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Somehow I remember that this month I’m gonna have 5 years using CouchDB, an Open Source small yet powerful Database Manager System that we started using because at some point in a Security Project I was working on, our previous Databases Engineer went too far away with normalization rules and queries started taking too long to throw results and our team started evaluating options on how to access our data the fastest way, we ended up with CouchDB v1.5… but why?
Read MoreThere are many situations in which embedded or software-bind encryption is not secure enough if we are paranoid enough. How many times we have read in the past years that databases that were supposed to be a safe vault because of its manager’s own features, and it turns out they are victims of their own, henceforth we decide to add some extra layer of security.
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Spoiler alert: Mexico city is a better outsourcing (nearshoring) partner than the international marketplace would suggest, allowing very good value in a great number of industries, software and manufacturing to name a few. While in absolute terms the software development costs are slightly higher than in India, and manufacturing a bit more than China,
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