In today's competitive market, you can’t afford to risk poor product quality and software failures. Unfortunately, many companies still use outdated methods to manage their tests like Excel, Word, Google Sheets, or other spreadsheet tools. Without a proper test management app, your quality suffers and testing remains archaic and at the most basic level, tracking and logging tests.

With an increased amount of embedded software and connectivity features, electric vehicle security is essential. For that reason, it is important that you understand electric vehicle security concerns, how coding standards can help mitigate those risks, and what tools you should use.

Currently, electric vehicles make up less than 1% of cars currently on the road, according to global business-focused news organization, Quartz. However, within the next decade that will rapidly change. By 2040, it is estimated that electric vehicles will make up roughly 33% of all cars on the road, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance study.

DynamoDB is a NoSQL database offered by AWS. It can be a great way to avoid adding load to your primary database when you need tens of thousands of reads/writes per second. In this article, Julie Kent walks us through the basics of using DynamoDB with Rails.

Software-based automation is a relatively young concept that’s rapidly gaining popularity—as reflected by the veritable explosion of software as a service (SaaS) offerings in the last decade. Gartnre® estimates, “software as a service (SaaS) remains the largest market segment and is forecast to grow to $117.7 billion in 2021, application infrastructure services (PaaS) is anticipated to grow by a higher margin at 26.6%”.

Nurturing your customer prospects is a crucial task to increase your conversion rates—so how can you make sure that valuable leads don’t fall through the cracks? That’s exactly where software like Marketo comes in. Marketo is a marketing automation tool to help standardize and automate your marketing funnel, helping push your prospects along the buyer’s journey from awareness to acquisition.

An API essentially paly the role of a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Every time you use an application like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you are using an API. The API is more than middleware however — it’s grown into an innovative business concept that can transform your business and digital strategy. When using APIs though, there are a variety of mistakes that developers can make.

Microservices are a style of architecture used by many organizations for software development. In the past, the IT industry used monolithic or service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions as the standard. However, the lack of dynamic scalability of this type of architectural system is no longer adequate for the increasing complexity of today’s infrastructures. Microservices addresses this by providing a highly agile and scalable alternative.

Modak, a leading provider of modern data engineering solutions, is now a certified solution partner with Cloudera. Customers can seamlessly automate migration to Cloudera’s cloud-based enterprise platform CDP from on-prem deployments and dynamically auto-scale cloud services with Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE)’s integration with Modak Nabu™.

A more agile and efficient infrastructure is key to realizing the cost savings and productivity gains businesses needed to succeed in today’s highly competitive market. Recent surveys by Roger Magoulas & Steve Sawyer, May 19, 2020, show that 88% of enterprises are currently using cloud in some form or another. This adoption is not surprising as clouds have been around now for several decades since Amazon Web Services (AWS) was launched in 2002.