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Why Companies Are Training Their Developers in React JS and React Native

30/07/2019: Web software development and app software development has been advancing rapidly over the last five years, leading to a significant progression in front end development. While there are many front end development frameworks that have come and gone in that time, React JS and ReactNative have remained popular choices for software development, but why? ReactJS is designed to be highly scalable, fast, and simple to use, making it an attractive choice for developers as well as companies with ambitious web development goals. React is essentially a JavaScript library for building user interfaces...

Spring, Boot and Microservices.

29/07/2019: Spring, Boot and Microservices – the latest Spring is a very popular open source framework that’s used by tens of thousands of developers worldwide. It provides a comprehensive infrastructure and lots of useful out-of-the box modules, which greatly simplify the development of Java applications in the enterprise. This drastically reduces development time and helps explain why Spring is so popular with microservice developers. They particularly like features such as dependency injection, Spring access-orientated programming (AOP), REST API creation and data access via Spring JDBC. Take...

PowerBI Data Visualization training course

Using PowerBI To Create Stunning Data Visualizations

22/07/2019: In the modern world, businesses are producing a huge amount of data and are realizing that by tapping into this data they can create actionable insights that will advance their business. One way companies are doing this is by using data visualization tools like PowerBI. PowerBI is a business analytics service developed by Microsoft that allows users to create visualizations from various data sources such as excel, databases, and web services. More and more businesses are under pressure to adapt to new technologies that bring their data to life in order to remain competitive. Having a...

Why Python Is So Popular for Machine Learning

15/07/2019: Machine learning has become a hot topic over the last few years, not just with programmers, data scientists, and other IT professionals, but also with the wider public. When it comes to machine learning, Python is the preferred programming language due to its consistent syntax, short development time, and overall simplicity. Python is now the fastest growing major programming language, and second only to Rust as the most loved programming language. It’s clear that Python is transforming the fields of machine learning, data science, and the wider AI movement, but why is Python best suited...

Azure Logic Apps vs BizTalk Server

01/07/2019: Azure Logic Apps vs BizTalk Server Most companies these days use a mix of cloud-based applications and on-premises systems to run their business processes. This hybrid approach gives them the many benefits of the cloud – greater flexibility, enhanced performance and lower costs – while letting them continue to use their mission-critical legacy software. But it does mean that companies need a comprehensive integration strategy to seamlessly connect the various components. This was highlighted in a recent Gartner report, which predicts that – by next year – integration work will account...

Angular Ivy vs React

20/05/2019: React – can it keep up with Angular Ivy? React is a popular JavaScript library that’s used for building UIs. It was originally developed by Facebook and can be found in many fast high-performing web applications such as Instagram, WhatsApp, Airbnb, Dropbox and Facebook itself. Angular is also popular with front-end developers, who find it particularly useful for high speed single-page applications (SPAs). Developed by Google, it’s a full-scale JavaScript framework – and not just a library. High-profile users include Google, Wix, Twitter, PayPal and Netflix. A major difference to date...

Advanced Data Analysis Power BI training course

Advanced Data Analysis with Power BI

24/04/2019: Power BI is extending and integrating more and more with advances in Data Analysis. In this article we will show some examples of how you can use Power BI in “what if” projections, Key Factor Analysis and time projections. “What if” parameters allow you to create different scenarios in which you can dynamically change the value of one parameter and see the effect of this change on your measure. A simple example could be how to predict your profit if sales increase. You can set up a parameter in which you predict an increase from 10 to 50 % and see what would be your increased sales amount...

Angular Ivy – what can developers look forward to?

23/04/2019: Angular is a popular JavaScript front-end web framework from Google. It’s a client-side MVC (model-view-controller) framework where the templating is based on bidirectional UI data binding. Angular is particularly useful for developing high speed single-page applications (SPAs) and high-profile users include Wix, Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix and Google itself. The Angular team, though, have been working hard to make the framework even better – and are about to launch Angular Ivy. It’s a new rendering pipeline and view engine that’s set to revolutionise rendering in mainstream frameworks....

Kotlin - a replacement for Java & Android?

31/01/2019: Java is a well-established programming language that has been around since the mid 1990s. It’s used extensively in industry and commerce, and is also an official language for Android apps. So it’s not going to disappear any time soon. That said, it is being challenged on the Android platform by Kotlin, a newcomer to the scene. Kotlin was confirmed by Google as an official language for Android app development in 2017, and has been growing in importance ever since. It has a large developer community and has been steadily building partnerships with, for example, Google Cloud Platform, Spring...

AWS vs Azure vs GCP

11/01/2019: Cloud computing has entered its second decade and is still growing strongly. Gartner, for example, has forecast the global public cloud services market to be USD 221bn this year, up from USD 154bn in 2017. That’s a 44% growth in just two years. The largest segment of the market is cloud application services (SaaS), with the fastest growing segment being cloud system infrastructure services (IaaS). The market is, of course, dominated by three cloud services providers: • AWS (Amazon Web Services) – which is 12 years old and has 62% market share • Microsoft’s Azure – 7 years old with 20%...

Microservices - some practical applications

02/01/2019: Microservices – some practical applications In today’s world you need to be able to quickly build and scale large applications – and microservice architecture is a popular way to do that. It lets you break down an application into manageable chunks (services) that can be independently developed and deployed. This modular approach gives significant advantages: • The individual services can be worked on by separate teams – which speeds up implementation • Each one has its own encapsulated process and can be coded in a variety of languages – with popular ones being Java, Python, C# and Kotlin...

Python or R ?

20/12/2018: Python or R in tomorrow’s world? Python and R are popular programming languages extensively used by data scientists today. But what about tomorrow – which one is going to be more useful for you in the future? The aim of this article is to help you answer that question. We’ll discuss the two languages, look at some of the differences between them, and analyse the trends in usage and popularity. The case for Python According to the 2018 IEEE Spectrum rankings, Python is the top programming language in 2018. It’s based on C, and is closely followed in the rankings by C++ (2nd), Java (3rd)...

NLP and Data Science – are they related?

10/12/2018: Natural Language Processing is right at the cutting-edge of Artificial Intelligence, and the handling of data is critical to its success. Computers, as you know, thrive on standardised instructions and structured data – and natural language, with all its nuances and subtleties, is anything but that. It has been developed by humans over thousands of years and involves a complex range of words, sayings and idioms. Data science plays a key role in transforming that unstructured data so that computers can process it. So yes, NLP and data science are absolutely related. Let’s explore NLP in...

Deep Learning and Machine Learning

03/12/2018: Deep Learning and Machine Learning – some practical applications Machine Learning and its Deep Learning subset are evolving rapidly, and getting more accurate all the time. But what problems do they address and could they help your organisation? In this article we’ll explore some practical uses of the technologies and discuss emerging trends. Let’s look at DL first. Deep Learning Deep Learning is at the cutting edge of Machine Learning, and is delivering new levels of accuracy for many real-world problems such as: Speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), natural language...

Data Analytics - practical usage

16/11/2018: Data Analytics – the process of analysing data sets – enables organisations to make better-informed decisions. It’s a key focus in many businesses today, and covers a range of techniques and technologies including Business Intelligence (BI), Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Big Data Analytics. Let’s explore these in more detail, and look at their practical usage in a business environment. Business Intelligence BI is the process of analysing and presenting data from multiple sources, to help managers and executives understand what’s happening in their business. A number...

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