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What’s the difference between a program, an application and software?
What’s the difference between a program, an application and software?
Zain Khan
May 7, 2019
Oracle Database Architecture
Oracle Database Architecture
The inner workings of an Oracle Database explained
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is Agile?
What is Agile?
Agile demystified and explained simply
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is Net Neutrality and why should you care?!
What is Net Neutrality and why should you care?!
The internet is under attack and we need to save it
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
API vs Web Service
API vs Web Service
What is an API?
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
SSL vs VPN
SSL vs VPN
What is the difference between SSL and a VPN?
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
Deep Web vs Dark Web
Deep Web vs Dark Web
Did you know only a small percentage of the internet is easily accessible via major search engines i.e. indexed by Google etc. The parts…
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
Converged infrastructure simply explained
Converged infrastructure simply explained
Things move fast in technology. Yesterday’s buzz word was cloud. It seems we have a new buzz word floating about in enterprise technology…
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is DevOps?
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is “The Internet of Things”?
What is “The Internet of Things”?
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is Blockchain technology? (part 1)
A lot has been written in the press recently about Blockchain technology. Technology companies, financial institutions and even…
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
Simple explanation of NodeJS
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is Mainframe?
Up till now we’ve looked solely at distributed server technology to host business applications. The is another type used within larger…
Zain Khan
Mar 10, 2019
What is a server platform?
In previous posts such as Linux vs Unix and Types of computer architecture (part 1) we’ve looked at operating systems and types of…
Zain Khan
Mar 8, 2019
Types of computer architecture (part 1)
Zain Khan
Mar 6, 2019
Distributed Resiliency Patterns 1
You may want to brush up on the post about N-Tier Architecture if you don’t know what that is.
Zain Khan
Mar 6, 2019
What is a Relational Database?
In the Types of Database post we looked at different types of databases. This post looks at the most common type of database, the…
Zain Khan
Mar 6, 2019
Types of Database
We looked at different data stores in the Types of Data Store post. Different data stores are suited to different use cases. This post…
Zain Khan
Mar 6, 2019
Types of Data Store
Data, be it music, pictures or customer information needs to be stored in some sort of …store…a data store if you will!
Zain Khan
Mar 6, 2019
Types of Storage
A really really simple guide to types of storage.
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
Linux vs Unix
The words Linux and Unix are used interchangablly by many in technology but what’s the real difference between the two?
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
Grid computing simply explained
In a previous pose called Clustering simply explained we looked what a cluster was and clustering. Another word/technology that is thrown…
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
Vertical and horizontal scaling simply explained
In this post we look at two terms throw about by systems architects and breakdown what they mean. Scaling verticallay and scalling…
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
Clustering simply explained
What is a cluster?
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
How to virtualize
You’re probably reading this because you want to know what virtualization is or how we virtualization. If you haven’t already you might…
Zain Khan
Mar 5, 2019
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