The influence of TF-IDF algorithms in eCommerce search

At a basic level, information retrieval systems work by receiving a term and returning a set of documents relevant for that term. The magic that happens inside these systems is defined by algorithms that, relying on probability and…

Incident detection and continuous monitoring in AWS

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is…

The Impact of Automated Testing in QA Environments

The never-ending discussion of manual versus automated testing continues unabated in work environments when we face the challenge of controlling the quality of a product. This is because there is more than one way to perform a QA process with…

A voyage into the back-end

The road to becoming a back-end engineer can be a challenging one, here one…

Let´s talk about Testing

Frequently, and especially in social networks and technology forums, I come across essays on the principles of the…

To Stem or not to Stem, that is the question!

Stemming is a method often used in search engine optimisation where words are trimmed and then collated together under the umbrella of a common root. For example: the words gold, golden and goldeny would belong to the group gold.