Software Engineering Insights

Log analysis is an integral part of any software development lifecycle's ultimate success. Developers and engineers use logs to assess what is happening at every layer of a software system and track down the root cause of issues. As the software development process produces a large amount of distributed log data, it is often difficult to analyze it all sufficiently.

Most recent conversations around making the software development lifecycle more efficient revolve majorly around two concepts, app containerization, and virtualization. Virtualization and containerization are two of the most widely implemented mechanisms for hosting and developing an application.

Let’s imagine a situation. There is an eCommerce app that’s receiving high traffic during sales. It was observed that the load balancer wasn’t working as expected, thereby affecting the application performance and consumers’ buying experience as well. 

The impact of the various applications of AI in automation testing is well known. Moreover, AI is widely accepted as an essential accompaniment for the seamless delivery of any software product these days.

Most UI developers have traditionally relied on popular Javascript frameworks like Angular and React for building single-page applications. However, Blazor, a 2018 launched framework is creating a lot of buzz in the UI development market. It allows writing  client-side processes using C# and is slowly gathering mainstream interest.

Cloud computing has enabled primary stakeholders in software development to deploy a broad set of resources and services for on-demand usage. Based on scalability, cost, performance, efficiency, and security these stakeholders can choose from a variety of deployment models for making these resources available over the cloud.

Sworkit is a digital health and fitness company based in Bethesda, Maryland. Founded in 2012, it provides customizable workout plans and resources that allow people to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Their workout offerings are a combination of strength, cardio, yoga, and stretching with some tough nutrition challenges to help people stay fit. The Sworkit app has 10 million registered users with an average rating of 4.5 on iOS and Google Play stores. As of May 2021, the fitness company has worldwide revenue of $90K. 

According to the ergonomics of human-system interaction, User Experience (UX) is a person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system, or service. 

Almost every industry experienced a downfall during the COVID-19 pandemic. At worse, some businesses were even shut down. However, some thrived during the tough times and kept booming to date.

At the I/O 2021, Google announced the release of Flutter 2.2, the latest release of the open-source toolkit for building cross-platform apps. The new version now makes it easier to monetize the app through in-app purchases, add payments and ads to the application, connect to cloud services & APIs that help in extending app functionality, etc. Apart from this, Flutter is updated with new tooling and language features that help developers increase app performance and reduce the package size.