Software Engineering Insights

The incorporation of information technology since the mid-90s increased productivity among different sectors around the world. There’s no two ways about it. Healthcare on the other hand was one industry that took its own course to transition from a largely paper-based process to digitization.

Whether it's shopping, job interviews, education, or payments, more and more people are making the switch to the virtual sphere. And it makes sense - doing things digitally is not only cost-effective but also faster. For instance, these instant payment services; when it comes to paying, why bother with cash when you can just click a few buttons and be done?

Once programmers are done writing a piece of code, they need to expose the code over a network for other applications to utilize its functionalities. This is done through web services. Web services are software functions for exchanging data between different applications. SOAP and REST are two examples of protocols or definitions that let web services communicate with each other.

Cybercriminals are constantly waiting for opportunities to exploit your organization's system security flaws. While the motivations of these hackers vary, be it political, financial, or just to gain notoriety, they all constitute a severe threat to your company's confidential data. There are several points of entry known as security vulnerabilities that are defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) community.

As the programming ecosystem proliferates, a number of frameworks, libraries, and tools are being introduced to ease the software development cycle. Not just do they reduce the lines of code, they are mitigating the time between prototyping to production. 

Python has gained a lot of popularity in recent years and it doesn't seem to be losing momentum anytime soon. According to current trends, Python is currently ranked as the second most popular programming language, with a significant increase in usage over the past year.  And we anticipate another 50 percent increase in its ranking by the end of 2024.

Not too long ago, healthcare was all about personal connections between doctors and patients, using handwritten notes and talking directly. But as healthcare grew and more information about patients came in, it became clear that we needed a better and more organized way of doing things. Hospitals and clinics had to change how they worked, aiming for smoother processes, quicker decision-making, and better communication among healthcare workers.

There are some key DevOps practices that enable organizations to automate and streamline the software development processes. Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Continuous Deployment, Microservices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Containerization, Monitoring & Logging are a few of them. 

Load testing is a subset of performance testing that checks a system for its availability and response time during a concurrent load of users. It ensures that an application can handle the load without compromising performance. 

Python has evolved as one of the most versatile programming languages. Introduced in the year 1991, it has become one of the favourite programming languages for developers, startups, and some of the giant tech brands for several reasons. There are thousands of applications built using this server-side programming language.