Tag: Mobile

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. Most modern applications are built using events – whether it is reacting to changes coming from IoT devices, responding to user clicks on mobile apps, or initiating business processes from customer requests. With the growth of event-based programming, there is an increased focus on serverless platforms, like Azure Functions, a serverless compute engine, and Azure Logic Apps, a serverless workflow orchestration engine. Both services enable you to focus on your application without worrying about any infrastructure, provisioning, or scaling. Today, I am excited to announce that we are making event-based and serverless applications ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Emily Ikuta  | August 15, 2017 |  Posted In: Backups, MySQL, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Join Percona’s, Technical Services Manager, Jervin Real as he presents Lock, Stock and Backup: Data Guaranteed on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Backups are crucial in a world where data is digital and uptime is revenue. Environments are no longer bound to traditional data centers, and span multiple cloud providers and many heterogeneous environments. We need bulletproof backups and impeccable recovery processes. This talk aims to answer the question “How should I ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sajva Halverson. We’ve written in the past about how Azure Security Center helps detect malicious activity on compromised VMs, including a post detailing a Bitcoin mining attack and one on an outbound DDoS attack. In many cases, attackers use a set of malicious tools to carry out these and other actions on a compromised machine. However, our team of security researchers have identified a new trend where attackers are using good application to carry out malicious actions. This blog will discuss the use of known hacker tools and those tools that are not nefarious in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. Back in May this year we announced the public preview of Azure Cloud Shell. If you haven’t tried it out yet, Azure Cloud Shell gives you a new way to manage your resources in the Cloud. It’s a browser-based shell experience, which means it’s accessible from virtually anywhere. It authenticates with your Azure account so you can remotely access your Azure resources and even attaches to your Azure File Storage so you can always have your stored scripts at your fingertips, no matter which machine you use. This allows you to manage on-the-go ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Christie Gifrin. Sam Dengler, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Serverless architectures allow solution builders to focus on solving challenges particular to their business, without assuming the overhead of managing infrastructure in AWS. AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.When using Lambda in a serverless architecture, the goal should be to design tightly focused functions that do one thing and do it well. When these functions are composed to accomplish larger goals in microservice architectures, the complexity shifts from the internal components to the external communication between components ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are pleased to announce the Public preview of the Visio custom visual for Power BI. The Visio custom visual will allow you to visualize data using Microsoft Visio diagrams from within Power BI dashboards and reports. Any Power BI user can add Visio custom visual from the store (get it from the store) to start using this capability right away. With Visio, you can create illustrative diagrams, such as interconnected workflows and real-world layouts, to pursue operational intelligence. Using Visio and Power BI together, you can illustrate and compare ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Last week I wrote about how mobile data allows companies to gain a better understanding of their customer’s preferences and buying habits. Targeted ads can be better refined, and in turn lead to higher conversion rates. However, gaining insights from mobile data leads to much more than effective advertisements. The first iPhone was released a little over 10 years ago, and in that short time the smartphone has become engrained in our society. For some people, it’s hard to remember a time without them. Various studies show that the average smartphone user ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Adi Sarid. Post by Adi Sarid (Sarid Institute for Research Services LTD.)Lately I’ve been working a lot with the shinydashboard library. Like shiny, it allows any R programmer to harness the power of R and create professional looking interactive apps. The thing about shinydashboards is that it makes wonderfully looking dashboards. What I’ve been doing with the dashboards is to create dedicated dashboards for my customers. Since most of my customers speak, read, and write in Hebrew I needed to fit that into my shinydashboard apps (i.e., fully localize the app). See an example for such a localized dashboard ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Webyog; Airvantage is a Value Added Service Provider for mobile telecommunication networks. Airvantage offers various gaming platforms, and subscriber retention initiatives like emergency airtime, mobile money integration, etc.A simple solution for staying compliant Airvantage host each customer’s database on its server (virtual) as they are bound to do so from a legislative perspective. They are presently monitoring several production servers that are spread over various countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Looking at many tools, including ManageEngine and some open source alternatives, Airvantage opted for Monyog for its simplicity, ease of config, and relatively affordable price-tag ... Read More

Feed: Eyal Dror Digital Business Consulting and Marketing. In my previous posts about chatbots (and another one, about Google’s chatbots), I discussed the beginning of a revolution which is now peaking, here’s more on the how you too can use a chatbot app to help your eCommerce business and its sales5 Key Ways A Chatbot App Boosts Online SalesIf you use Slack and you like tacos, you’re in luck: tacobot has them delivered! How can you use a chatbot app for your business? Keep reading to learn more.Did you know 4 out of 5 companies plan to integrate chatbots into their business ... Read More