“Will you be able to build a web platform that can deliver 60,000 requests per second, with a sub second response time?“ This was the requirement given to us in a customer meeting. This was our opportunity to build a challenging project from scratch and I think I can say this very confidently that, very … Continued
Why is Application Security gaining so much gravity? It is being said that ‘ The Internet has become a Crime Scene of the 21st Century ’. We all rely on internet connectivity for almost every aspect of our lives. This new reality has led to an exponential growth of digitization in the sectors like healthcare, … Continued
How to do Data Extraction from PDFs – for First Timers Data Extraction from PDFs can feel like a locked vault sometimes. You might end up googling multiple times and still end up nowhere. Don’t worry, we have been there and done that. That’s why in this Blog we share our learning to save you … Continued
Top Seven Soft Skills For A Product Developer A lot has been said about skills of a product manager. No doubt it is a highlighted position in any product company. However the majority of work actually happens in the engineering labs, where the product takes shape. The abilities of the product developer can greatly influence … Continued
Introduction Amazon provides a complete (well, almost complete!) web-based solution for retailers and makes it very easy to handle operations. However, a significant number of challenges emerge as one starts selling on multiple marketplaces. It is not just about localization and formats, there are a lot more differences in the way different marketplaces provide information. … Continued
Code bloat and Performance Best Line of code written is … the one which is not written. Background Computers in various forms and shapes are increasingly touching everyday lives. Various applications and software solutions to support these are churned out every day, resulting in a huge amount of code. In such applications, performance is an … Continued
In the last article, we analyzed the concept of key-value stores. Moving ahead, let us now go into the details of document stores or document datbases. What is a document store/ document database? In the introductory article on NoSql databases, we discussed that the relational models are not suitable for domain driven datamodelling or aggregate … Continued
In the last article, we had an introduction to NoSql databases. Now let us go into details of main types of NoSql databases. Some of the most popular types of NoSql datastores are as follows : Key-value stores Column family stores Document databases Graph databases In the next few articles, we will do a detailed … Continued
With the huge amount of free formed, almost unstructured data generated thrgouh blogs, social media platforms and what not, the question is how to make sense out of this data. In order to do that, it is important that this data be stored in efficient data models, which would keep the natural features of the … Continued
Recently I got a chance to explore possibility of creating an innovative car-phone application on iPhone. This app should give access to all (deemed) useful functionality the user wants at one place. As a first step, I set out to search for any such existing applications on App Store. To my surprise, I did not … Continued
