Ever since Apple decided to move onto its own chips for their line of Macbooks and Apple Mini, the ARM vs Intel, or rather ARM vs x86 war have intensified. Earlier the two have dominated their respective turfs, ARM playing in the low power smartphone or tablet sector, and x86 in the laptop, desktop and […]
What are microservices?
Applications are traditionally built as a monolith. This usually means that any small change to the client-side user interface or the server-side application has to be rolled out as a new version. And when you’re scaling up, the entire application has to be scaled up, even if there’s higher demand only for some aspects of […]
PaaS: What is it? What are it’s advantages and disadvantages?
What is PaaS? In the case of Software as a Service(software), a provider gets you a whole application hosted in the cloud, including your data. And in the case of Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), you get a couple of servers, along with virtualization, and on top of it you install an operating system, the middleware, […]
What is the difference between Private, Public, and Hybrid clouds?
Cloud-based systems can be deployed mainly in 3 different ways: Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud. And they are exactly what they sound like. In a public cloud, you’ll be sharing all the hardware and networks with other users of the cloud. In a private cloud, the hardware resources will be isolated for your use alone. […]
A to Z about SSL(or TLS) certificates
What is an SSL Certificate Sometimes when you visit a website, you may have noticed that right next to the website URL, there’s a warning “Not secure”. If you look at the website URL itself, it begins with HTTP and not HTTPS. A couple of years ago, web browsers began marking websites without an SSL(Secure […]
