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Docker Tips & Tricks

Docker is great. Docker is awesome. I love Docker. It is hard to overstate how much developing applications becomes an…

Exploring Talend’s Real-Time Big Data Platform

Real-Time data processing is gaining more attention these days as it helps to make business decisions quickly. As a data engineer, I think this is the right time to explore the proficiency of ETL tools in processing real-time data. From the…

Cassandra Impressions from a SQL Perspective

My First Impressions of a NoSQL Database

Edinburgh DevOps Days 2018

The 2018 iteration of the Edinburgh DevOps days was held Nov 1 and 2
at Dynamic Earth, which has wonderful views of Arthur’s Seat and the
Scottish Parliament. I had the pleasure of representing NCR Edinburgh, who was a sponsor of the event. Additionally, we had a couple of…

Is ‘Design Thinking’ just UX with a different jacket on?

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about “Design Thinking” as the next “thing”, 
the new “black” but having just completed courses in both disciplines, it seems they’re both the same, similar but different. Here’s a quick overview of…

Discovering Kotlin

Some time ago, I realized that basically all my career is centered around Java, Java-based tools and Java frameworks. Sure, as a software engineer I’ve always believed that the particular programming language is not important; the logic and your problem solving skills matter more. But believing…