When was the last time your software development team member told you they had their own idea they wanted to try out in a project? Did you like the initiative? Did you encourage them to go through with it? Have you resisted the urge to micromanage their actions so they…
Flow Modeling: How Work Moves Through the Enterprise Reading time 7 minutes DevOps teams are under rising pressure to deliver higher-quality software in less time and with fewer resources. This is no easy task any way you slice it. In order to succeed in today’s competitive, fast-paced market, your team…
A Guide to Business Intelligence Dashboards Reading time 9 minutes In our modern world, businesses are constantly generating data in a variety of ways. Such data sources include on-premises databases, cloud-based business services, social media, and more. Indeed, successful businesses are data-driven and take advantage of this large amount of…
Creating a competitive E-commerce application is a super-attractive investment for many commercial businesses and startups today. The rapid growth of E-commerce during the Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to go digital and develop custom web stores or mobile apps and it shows no signs of slowing down. In 2021, the eCommerce…
The Internet can be a dangerous place – that’s why most of us have antivirus software and firewalls guarding our computers. As software engineers, shouldn’t we protect our applications with the same cautiousness? If you are a cloud developer using serverless who cares about user security, you’re in the right…
Update on Log4Shell Vulnerability Reading time 3 minutes 14 December 2021 The Plutora Engineering team are continuing to monitor the situation regarding the Log4Shell vulnerability and have been working closely with vendors to ensure all systems are secure. As per my previous statement (below), the core Plutora platform is not…
The terms scalability and high availability (HA) have never been more popular than now when there is a rising demand for stable and performant infrastructures designed to serve critical systems. While rising system load is a common concern, reducing downtime and eliminating single points of failure are equally critical. High…
Sure, you can manage AWS cloud components just with Serverless. But why would you, when Terraform was designed to do it better? By default, they don’t integrate. Follow this guide to learn how to bridge Serverless and Terraform in 3 ways to handle infrastructure work with greater efficiency. Dear cloud…
Practically every programmer in their career struggled with working on a legacy project or one in which at least part of the job involved some kind of legacy code. I will show you some tips and tricks which will make writing unit tests for legacy applications much easier and less…
Plutora – Turning Release Managers into the New Heroes of Software Development Reading time 5 minutes For enterprise software development teams worldwide, release managers often work as an extension of operations, tasked with a wide range of important responsibilities from mitigating risk to coordinating and arbitrating resources for software delivery.…