BY: FRANK As the practice of DevOps evolves, so do the supporting tasks; hopefully in such a way that they introduce increased efficiency and automation to accelerate development and deployment pipelines. However, one specific process still remains a speed bump on the road to DevOps acceleration: the process—or, more specifically, the chore—of testing. Naturally, testing is…
Introduction I recently passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam, Professional Data Engineer Certification. It took me about five month to prepare for this, and I would like to share my thoughts of why I decided to take it on and how I prepared for it. At the moment, Google cloud (GCP) is a distant…
Introduces more than 200 new innovations, further advancing Oracle’s converged database engine Automated machine learning easily runs inference directly on the database Free, native blockchain tables provide secure audit trail on transactions and processes Persistent memory support delivers breakthrough operational database performance NEWS PROVIDED BY Oracle Jan 13, 2021, 11:00 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE AUSTIN,…
Many tech stocks have soared as markets recovered from the pandemic-driven sell-off early last year. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is an exception. The century-old tech giant was already disliked by investors before the pandemic as it slogged through a multiyear turnaround; the company’s results have deteriorated since, as customers pull back on spending amid unprecedented uncertainty. IBM’s fourth-quarter report last week sent the…
The core objective of the report on Database Security Software market is to determine the industry’s performance over the forecast duration so as help stakeholders in making sound decisions and action plans that will guarantee success in the long run. The document sheds light on all factors that are promoting the growth of this vertical,…
An incident management process is a set of procedures and actions taken to respond to and resolve critical incidents: how incidents are detected and communicated, who is responsible, what tools are used, and what steps are taken to resolve the incident. Incident management processes are used across many industries, and incidents can include anything from…
Web-applications attacks, including SQL injection attacks, more than doubled towards the end of 2020, according to data from SonicWall Taking into account the trends for more and more businesses going online, the number of applications that will be used is also projected to increase in 2021, as are the web-security threats that go with them. That’s…
In the world of database solution, MongoDB is a relative newcomer. However, it has quickly gained enormous popularity because of the features it offers. MongoDB is a general-purpose, cross-platform, document-based database solution that falls under the NoSQL classification. It doesn’t follow the rules of traditional relational databases (for example, MySQL). Instead, it uses JSON-like documents…
Raymond Kurzweil, a futurist and author of The Singularity is Near, the growth of progress is exponential. I.e. we’ll see 20,000 years of progress in the 21st century rather than 100 years of progress. Kurzweil also suggests that by the year 2020, the growth of integrated circuits will slow, and “another paradigm” will replace that and carry the…
A well-planned methodology is the key to success in performance tuning. Different tuning strategies vary in their effectiveness, and systems with different purposes, such as online transaction processing systems and decision support systems, require different tuning methods. When Is Tuning Most Effective? For best results its recommended you tune during the design phase, rather than…