MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...

When developers perform distributed version control with Git, they should no longer think of the development workspace as simply a collection of files and folders stored on the file system. Git ...

To the surprise of many developers, the 2020 Scrum Guide removed all references to these three questions. Does that mean these three daily Scrum questions are bad? Not really -- it's just that asking ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

The cost impact to a company of a failed project can be severe indeed. The impact on the reputation of the project manager can be disastrous. Software project management is not easy, and it requires ...

There is a perception among many that blockchain and distributed ledger technology are the same thing. This is not quite the case. This article explains the difference between blockchain and ...

To really understand the Scrum methodology, the first thing you have to do is forget everything you think you know about the Scrum methodology. In fact, you should even forget about calling it the ...

When DevOps evangelists talk about the final product of a continuous delivery pipeline, they usually describe some process in which an enterprise application is deployed to an embedded server, ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

It's surprisingly easy to deploy microservices in the AWS cloud. AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) can pull images from Docker Hub and manage container workload with low-cost AWS Fargate clusters.

As use of blockchain grows, so too does the adoption of distributed ledger technology in its many forms. Blockchain is the underlying storage mechanism for DLT, and with smart contracts a blockchain ...

Kebab case -- or kebab-case -- is a programming variable naming convention where a developer replaces the spaces between words with a dash. Programming variable names should be descriptive. Two or ...