At some point one way or another you might have heard of something called the industrial revolution, but do you really know what it meant at that time and what it means now? Industrial revolution marks a significant turning point in history as it changed the way we live; almost…

Passwords are an important part of computer security at any organization. They often serve as the first line of defense in preventing unauthorized access to organizational resources and confidential data. Hence, it is important to choose passwords that are complex and cryptic enough to prevent others from guessing them or…

Last year when I was attending the IEEE CLOUD16 conference in San Francisco there was a buzz about something called “the fog”. I was attending to the keynote speech by Kerrie Holley then CTO, Analytics & Automation Platforms at Cisco Systems where he spoke about the new trends in software…

Debugging is the most annoying part of code development and nobody enjoys the process especially when it is not your code. In order to develop an application smoothly you need to setup the right tools correctly that help make the process a little less painful. This get even worse if…

When you are working on multiple projects with tight deadlines it becomes a pain in the neck to change your host environment to match the project requirements. Not only the hassle but the risk of ruining your almost optimum development environment which worked fine since the beginning of time, now…

So far the most complicated concept to understand with the over-whelming number of terminology docker introduces, is docker volume. Traditionally a volume is a logical drive which is a storage area accessible within a file system and typically resident in a partition of a hard disk. …

It has been a pain for the developers when it comes to setting up a dev environment on a new PC or a formatted PC. Back in those days I just wished if we could just run one command and boom! everything I want is up and running. Well, now…

Docker is an umbrella term to introduce a set of complementary tools that works together to provide you a high level API to automate the shipping and deployment process of your application. Docker simplifies the deployment process and add meaning to devOps practices with containerization, process isolation, and union filesystems…

It’s amazing to see how technology introduces new meaning to words we used to describe something else. Back in the day, “slack” described of being lazy and “tweet” was just a sound of a bird. One such change is “docker” which not only change the meaning of what we used…