By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex lives. What will our cities be like? How much will artificial intelligence advance? Will global warming trigger catastrophic changes, or will we be able to engineer our way out of the climate change… Read More »
Containerization is a lightweight alternative to a virtual machine that involves encapsulating an application in a container with its own operating system. A container takes its meaning from the logistics term, packaging container. When we refer to an application container, we mean packaging software.
Kubernetes (commonly stylized as k8s) is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. 001 – How Do You Pronounce Kubernetes? And What Is It? 002 – Kubernetes vs. Docker: It’s Not an Either/Or Question 003… Read More »
Design patterns are solutions to software design problems you find again and again in real-world application development. Patterns are about reusable designs, creation of objects and interactions of objects. Design Patterns can be broadly categorized in following three categories Creational Design Pattern Factory Method Abstract Factory Builder Prototype Singleton Structural Design Patterns Adapter Bridge Composite… Read More »
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store. It can produce both native code and managed… Read More »
SQL (Structured Query Language) was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce after learning about the relational model from Ted Codd in the early 1970s. This version, initially called SEQUEL(Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM’s original quasi-relational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during… Read More »
When a generic type or method is compiled into Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL), it contains metadata that identifies it as having type parameters. How the MSIL for a generic type is used differs based on whether the supplied type parameter is a value type or reference type. When a generic type is first constructed with… Read More »
Generics make it possible to design classes and methods that defer the specification of one or more types until the class or method is declared and instantiated by client code. For example, by using a generic type parameter T you can write a single class that other client code can use without incurring the cost… Read More »
The Book in Three Sentences Unlimited power is the ability to produce the results you desire most and create value for others in the process. Action is what unites every great success. Nothing has any meaning except the meaning we give it. The Five Big Ideas “How you feel is not the result of what… Read More »
The Book in Three Sentences “If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life.” “Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your highest purpose, your values, and your goals.” “To achieve desired outcomes, one must replace complaining with… Read More »