Ever curious about the next day price of your stock investment? Or perhaps you would like to have a proxy for your next-day sales? Did you know that you do not even have to look for factors beyond your historical prices or sales to get this approximate estimate? Computing this…

This short article will focus on the main characteristics of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) as opposed to the traditional Terminal Services. Using Terminal Services Terminal Services are also known as Remote Desktop Services, whereby software and entire desktops are made available to remote client machines that support RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). …

This article will explore what creational design patterns are, why we need them and what different variations exist. The What & The Why Creational design patterns are the mechanisms for object creation in software engineering. They control the way objects are created and hence, increase the flexibility of the system. The main aim of these…

In this short article, we will explore what the C4 model is, what its different levels are and how one can apply it in practice. C4 is an abstraction-based model for a diagrammatic depiction of the software architecture. It consists of four main levels (diagrams): Context, Container, Component, Code. So…

Solution Architect Definition The formal definition of solution architecture, as provided by Gartner (2013), is as follows: A solution architecture (SA) is an architectural description of a specific solution. SAs [Solution Architects] combine guidance from different enterprise architecture viewpoints (business, information and technical), as well as from the enterprise solution architecture (ESA). (Source)

“It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate …” — David Mitchell Stuck on Mars … Imagine you are Mark Watney stuck on Mars for five years with barely any food left to sustain your existence. You decide to start growing crops indoors without soil and sunlight (somehow) to have something to eat. Wouldn’t…

In this article, we will explore what Terraform is, what its workflow looks like and how it can be applied in practice. Terraform is … A tool to manage your infrastructure as code, including: storage, compute instances, networking, etc. The term infrastructure as code means that all the needed resources will be managed…

In this article, we will explore the key characteristics of different cloud service models and their limitations. Treat this article as a useful brief summary for those looking for a brief introduction to what types of cloud services exist and how they differ from one another. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Key characteristics of this…

Unions make us strong — except that not all unions do (at least, in the programming world). In this article, we will explore union types in C language. We will start with a brief introduction to union types and we will move on to such important concepts, as discriminated and…