How Artificial Intelligence is transforming manufacturing: 7 crucial use cases

Manufacturing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Being able to produce high-quality products fast at minimum cost has been the ultimate manufacturing goal since forever. Thanks to recent innovations in cloud computing, and big data storage and analysis, artificial intelligence and machine ...

AWS Comprehend Medical and NLP in healthcare - detailed overview

I. Natural Language Processing

When it comes to standardized and structured data computers are a man’s best friend. They can read and process it faster, better and more accurate than any average human being. Unstructured data, or human language, on ...

Set an SSL certificate (HTTPS) on an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment without a load balancer

This guide illustrates how to set up an SSL certificate (needed for secure HTTPS connection) on an ElasticBeanstalk environment WITHOUT a load balancer.

That’s not a groundbreaking info and the majority of it is available on the AWS website, but ...

Potential obstacles for implementing Machine Learning in your company

Machine Learning is getting more and more popular and accessible, but implementing it is still not a trivial task.

There are a few vital things in the process of introducing Machine Learning that might turn out to be thorns in your ...

Why your software project is failing

Everybody is building software nowadays. Companies of all sizes and industries are afraid of getting left behind so the innovation hype is stronger than ever.

Speaking to companies, I realize there's one thing they all share - stories of failed/late/expensive projects, ...

Advanced database seeding in Rails applications

By default, Rails ships with a built-in feature for seeding initial data into a database. You can learn more about it here. It’s a great way to set initial data in development, staging or even in some production cases. ...

Antipaterns to avoid for building microservices-based systems

We are proponents of the idea that if you want a scalable software system, there’s no other path, but the microservices one. The idea behind microservices is simple - instead of building a monolithic application, break down your logic into small ...

Common traps with message queues based communication (AWS SQS)

Message queues are a great way to distribute data across microservices and for asynchronous communication. Our team uses queues to handle the following:

1. communication between microservices;
2. for extracting long running jobs and decoupling;
3. to handle request spikes;
4. pub-sub.

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5 tips for becoming a better software developer

Many new programmers believe that being a good software developer is all about deep technical knowledge and having years of experience writing complex algorithms. That might be true to an extent, but having the right mindset and understanding the essence of ...

How to install PDFtk on an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment

If you need help installing PDFtk on an ElasticBeanstalk instance, this post will help you out. Although EB is an awesome service when it comes deploying, provisioning, load-balancing and scaling applications, installing additional packages can be a little tricky from time ...