Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. The creation of Elixir was initiated by maintainers of the Ruby language and the Rails framework projects running on top of Erlang Virtual Machine. The Concurrency Revolution appeared as a talk in the C/C++ Users Journal (23rd February, 2005). In this article, Herb […]
Part 1: Let’s start with the domain and the first visual component of our Wordle app By now, you have probably heard of Wordle, an app that gained popularity in late 2021 and continues to attract thousands of users to this day. In order to unravel how it works and learn about Jetpack Compose, the […]
The FIDO Alliance isn’t a fan club for dogs, but a consortium of big tech companies that’s trying to make authentication more secure. The Alliance has a lofty goal: To kill the password and replace it with something better. Enter the passkey. You’ve probably read a blog post or two about it, but you may […]
This post was co-written with Eduardo Silva, Founder and CEO of Calyptia. Applications produce a lot of observability data. And it can be a constant struggle to source, ingest, filter, and output that data to different systems. Managing these observability data pipelines is essential for being able to leverage your data and quickly gain actionable […]
If you’re looking to track your workouts, count your calories, monitor your sleep, or capture your vitals, there’s no shortage of apps on Android that can help you do those things and then some. Android’s robust ecosystem of health, fitness, and wellness apps makes it easy to find the service that best suits your goals, […]
In this blog, you will learn the concept and differences between Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure Provisioning. We will also look at popular tools for each and how they work together. If you are trying to become a DevOps engineer, you might get confused between the use cases of Terraform and configurations management […]
Remote device management is a complex topic because everyone’s exact requirements for a solution are different. This makes choosing a remote device management solution challenging, as there are few resources that reliably explain how those solutions meaningfully differ. Here’s how to shop for remote device management the right way. First, you should know that “MDM” […]
Machine learning is everywhere. The state-of-the art of the field is advancing at an astronomical pace. GPT-3 can answer significantly complex questions, Stable Diffusion can generate incredible images from just words, and the list goes on. It’s nothing short of amazing. But while the state of the art is being pushed daily, the long tail […]
Introduction Developers tend to feel very fearful when they must take responsibility for the maintenance of software that has been built a long time ago. I will not refer to a specific time because that depends on the project and its magnitude. Some consider a project to be old if it is more than 6 […]
Every organization that wants to deploy a large fleet of devices has to make a decision: build your own device infrastructure from scratch, or buy an MDM solution (or similar). Comparing the cost of those options is a logical first step, and MDM pricing makes this relatively simple on paper. The natural way to compare […]