IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets - A Recap

Contributed by Anoop on Oct 21 2013

Following the success of its first edition, the second edition of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM) was held at Bangalore, India between October 16th and October 18th, 2013. The conference focused on challenges and opportunities in cloud computing in emerging markets. The event brought...

‘Demystifying DevOps’ meet @ Neev Technologies – 5th Oct 2013 – A Recap

Contributed by Venkat on Oct 9 2013

Development and Operations – DevOps is becoming a buzz in the industry. Today, DevOps is bringing Development and ITOps together like never before. We, at Neev, being active practitioners of DevOps are able to glean tremendous benefits from our use of the same. The huge knowledge we have gathered on...

Decoding DevOps

Contributed by Ravi Petlur on Sep 30 2013

It was in the 60s that the operations concept actually started, when software engineers wearing a geeky lab coat worked on vacuum tubes. From there, it was a shift to mounting tapes to IBM JCL's where operations teams started identifying themselves as a non-code writing team. But, it was in...

Neev Partners with Opscode Inc.

Contributed by Ravi Petlur on Sep 18 2013

Neev is proud to partner US-based Opscode Inc as a reseller to license and resell its software products and services to our customers. Additionally, Neev is also licensed to provide training on Opscode’s products. Opscode is a US-based software company founded in the year 2008. Opscode is one...

Magento Extensions We Use – Checkout

Contributed by Govind Dalwani on Sep 13 2013

The Magento extensions we use for the purpose of checkout are:

1.) EcommerceTeam_Ddc

Company:

Ecommerce Team

Project used in:

Giftease.com

Extension URL:

www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/delivery-date-and-comment.html

Description:

The Magento delivery date and customer comment extension provides the customer an option to set an appropriate date of shipping and to leave comments to the store owner.

Why...

DevOps and Splunk

Contributed by Ravi Petlur on Sep 10 2013

I posted the use of AppDynamics in DevOps last time and then, i came across this tool - SPLUNK. When I initially heard about it from a friend that it was more of log management, I wasn't curious as I have so many Open Source tools which do that. So...

Project Scanner - A Checklist based Code Scrutinizer Tool

Contributed by Lokesh M on Sep 5 2013

OVERVIEW:

Project Scanner is a code scrutinizer that helps review the project source code to validate check-lists. We can add any number of checklists and each checklist can contain any number of items based on our needs. Few checklists are listed below:
  1. Find hard-coded strings in a project and later move ...

DevOps and AppDynamics

Contributed by Ravi Petlur on Sep 2 2013

DevOps is the new buzzword, everywhere I see I get at least a couple of mentions of it. It’s nothing different than how the application was managed earlier. It’s just proving the fact that more than the required number of processes can slowdown the whole ecosystem. We have languages like...

Auto-Scaling Amazon ElastiCache

Contributed by Khurshidali Shaikh on Aug 30 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service provided by Amazon. It is protocol compliant with memcached. So one can use ElastiCache as a memcached server without having to run and manage a memcached server. Launching a cluster of ElastiCache nodes is a matter of a...

Starting with Automated Testing in .Net

Contributed by Lokesh M on Aug 23 2013

A few days back, I saw a few computer screens and something caught my eye. Fields in Winforms were automatically getting filled up with data and firing click events. This intrigued me and awoke my curiosity. Several questions rose to my mind:

What could this be? Why is it required?

After days...