This blog is about one of our guest speakers at MIT 7521 IT II Praveen Alavilli, who is a technical and developer evangelist for PayPal X (x.com). He went over the history of PayPal a little bit and how PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the… Read More »
The topic of this blog is over the video, SQL vs NoSql: Battle of the Backends that I watched among the videos of the 2012 Google I/O developer’s conference at the following link: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions Before I delve into the actual content of the video and its discussion, I like to start going over the concept… Read More »
What is Big Data? All the information that is gathered from variety of sources such as blog, social media, email, sensor, photographs, video that are unstructured and huge count as big data. All the enterprise businesses, vendors, clients need to have servers to store these data, need to have a means to analyze these data… Read More »
This blog is about the summary of Lean Primer by Craig Larman and Bas Bodde who they are authors of Scaling Lean & Agile Development. Lean thinking is Toyota way. The English term ‘lean’ was popularized for the Toyota system—by MIT researchers of Toyota in The Machine That Changed the World to contrast their lean… Read More »
Business Process Management (BPM) is a comprehensive system for managing and transforming organizational operations. The essential process management cycle is: Once a process is in place, it needs to be managed on an ongoing basis. Its performance, in terms of critical metrics that relate to customer needs and company requirements, needs to be compared to… Read More »
BPM and related technologies have been evolving during the past two decades and therefore this blog is about a research on IBM BPM (Businesss Process Management) solutions and products which is the vendor I chose from gartner report list of active vendors in this area. For those who just hear the name of BPM, I… Read More »
This blog is about Software Engineering and different approaches that one may take to develop software. There are many ways to go through system development life cycle. Among all, I can name, the waterfall model, agile methods, the rational unified process or RUP, model-driven architecture, intermezzo (maintenance or evolution), software product lines, process modeling and… Read More »
In the world of software development, there are so many ideas, theories, proofs that can be discussed and examined, however none of them is the answer to all the problems that we encounter in this field. In another world No Silver Bullet! Interestingly enough there is an article, by Fredrick P. Brooks at University of… Read More »
As it appears in the near feature, distributed systems will be webs of services. Web services are important because they simplified the creation and integration of distributedsystems. In the same way that HTML made content accessible, the web services made a web of services accessible. A service is a software application that can be accessed… Read More »
The base for development of any web application is to understand the requirement, business logic and the data that needs to be accessed, maintained, built and processed. In n-Tier Architecture which is a client server architecture, model, view and controller needs to be identified. The storing of the model usually happens in database Tier where… Read More »