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Sometimes you just can't cover a topic in a single article. Our tech tutorials are created to delve deeper into some of the larger concept areas in technology and computing.
Why is Python the best programming language to learn now? Python is a programming language that Guido van Rossum developed back in 1989. The story behind the name is that...
Becoming a Data Scientist: What You Need to Know Today data science is at the heart of nearly every business and organization. As the streams of data keep growing, there...
What Is a Software Development Life Cycle? You can look at our terms page to see how the SDLC is generally defined: “The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a...
Introduction Despite being one of the latest technology trends and the focus of so much attention in the business world, big data is not a true novelty. It always existed...
Security is No Longer About the Perimeter Years ago, cybersecurity practices emulated that of the medieval lord who relied on the fortified castle wall to protect his inner kingdom. Castle...
Introduction to Software-Defined Networking While it's fairly easy to get a generic description of what software-defined networking is, different sources are going to provide different descriptions, because this general IT...
Introduction More engineers and other professionals are getting started with machine learning – they're doing the early research and building initial systems, to start exploring how this field of artificial...
What is Serverless Computing? In the rapidly changing world of IT, "serverless computing" is an important and integral term. Some think of serverless computing as a flavor of cloud services,...
Introduction Determining the potential costs of cloud computing can be as complex as the technology itself. Not only are you faced with the different pricing structures of cloud providers, you...
Introduction Computing as we know it today is like many other major inventions in history in that it happened in fits and starts. But in many cases, there was no...
Introduction In a small operation, the network admins or developers double up as database admins (DBAs). In larger businesses, there might be dozens of DBAs specializing in the many different...
Introduction Understanding IP subnetting is a fundamental requirement for almost any techie – whether you’re a coder, a database administrator or the CTO. However, as simple as the concepts are,...
Introduction When I was attempting to show how technology innovation accelerated during the 20th century, I used to mention that my mother was born before the Wright Brothers flew the...
Apple II: The Story Begins In 1978, my wife, Barbara McMullen, and I were in the process of leaving Morgan Stanley to form our own consulting business. We had 24...
Bring your own Technology: An Introduction BYOT, or "bring your own technology" – also simply known as BYO or "bring your own device" (BYOD) – is more than just an...
Introduction The Internet is ubiquitous in every sense of the word. We use it to guide us through unfamiliar cities, send photos to far-off friends, learn new tasks, for entertainment...