As use of blockchain grows, so too does the adoption of distributed ledger technology in its many forms. Blockchain is the underlying storage mechanism for DLT, and with smart contracts a blockchain ...

The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...

How well do you know the Manifesto for Agile software development? Here are 10 interesting facts about the Agile Manifesto's principles and values. They say things constantly change in the software ...

When DevOps evangelists talk about the final product of a continuous delivery pipeline, they usually describe some process in which an enterprise application is deployed to an embedded server, ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Given the great emphasis Agile teams place on the importance of software testing, it is surprising that organizations don't invest more time and money in static software testing tools. Of course, with ...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to visit the New York City office of XLABS, a group that claims to have achieved 99% compression for videos being streamed over the Internet. If the claim is valid, its ...

Kebab case -- or kebab-case -- is a programming variable naming convention where a developer replaces the spaces between words with a dash. Programming variable names should be descriptive. Two or ...

Army generals lead their soldiers using a command and control approach to leadership. Scrum masters prefer the servant-leader approach. A servant-leader is someone who the puts the well-being of team ...

Business process management (BPM) – while also its own independent practice / school of thought – is an application of technology that is served by many products, not the least of which is jBPM. The ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

Despite their shared name, forward and reverse proxies couldn't be more different in terms of their purpose, their implementation and the role they play in enterprise architectures. The key difference ...