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ecommerce

E-commerce Best Practice Part 2: Speed up Magento 2 Performance via Disabled Modules

Magento 2 is a great e-commerce platform but its broad functionality means it’s prone to suffering from performance issues. 20% of all e-commerce platforms are currently powered by Magneto, according to Alexa, and yours might be one of them. The good news is that there are ways of improving your website’s performance without completely re-platforming. […]

ecommerce

E-commerce Best Practice Part 1: Optimise Magento 2 Performance with Caching

E-commerce appears to be growing at an unprecedented rate, with retail businesses whose presence was limited to bricks and mortar now rushing to implement retail commerce platforms and open online stores. But even well-established online retailers are now scrambling to keep up with the ever-growing load on their platforms. According to a recent Alexa study, […]

Artificial Intelligence

Drawing Attention to Climate Change With Interactive Generative Art

Finding creatives ways to put climate change in the limelight is essential to motivating the intensity of participation that delivers action. There are different ways to do so – from drawing attention to climate change at major events including Davos 2020, through to visualise the consequences of a warming globe with the help cutting edge […]

Artificial Intelligence

Neural Machine Translation With Attention Mechanism: Step-by-step Guide

Neural networks now Neural networks have made significant leaps in the image and natural language processing (NLP) recently. They’ve not only learned to recognise, localise and segment images; they’re now able to effectively translate natural language and answer complex questions. One of the precursors to such massive progress was the introduction of Seq2Seq and neural […]

Architecture

Azure vs AWS comparison: Which Works Best for Serverless Architecture?

An increasing number of modern companies are striving to optimise the cost of their IT infrastructure, including those who’ve already adopted cloud-based services. So cloud vendors are adapting to the challenge by changing their services to offer flexibility and more options for human involvement. The result of this is serverless architecture, and I’ve taken it […]

automation

The Executive’s Guide to Enterprise Application Integration

In today’s oversaturated marketplace, staying competitive is all about scalability, agility and speed. Businesses need to be quick in growing their client base and delivering new products and services to market. Scaling to meet a growing demand often means acquiring multiple external systems. To do this properly, an organisation often needs to overcome the limitations […]

Data protection

IPFS Tutorial: Building a Private IPFS Network with IPFS-Cluster for Data Replication

Information security tops the list of CIO’s investments for 2019. The State of the CIO research shows that cybersecurity and enterprise risk management are critical to the CIO and CEO agendas. As security initiatives are gaining higher priority, secure private networks become even more relevant for businesses. One of the examples of such network is […]

blockchain

A Pragmatic Look at Digital Tokens

Blockchain and distributed ledger have been around for a decade already. Now, a lot of discussions are happening around fake ideas and real-world implementations of blockchain technology. This time we’ll look at digital tokens. Recent announcement by JP Morgan took many in the finance industry by surprise. Most remember Jamie Dimon calling crypto-currencies a “fraud” and the worst idea […]

Enterprise

The Best Practices for Building Successful Enterprise Mobile Apps

As the user engagement for mobile applications continues to grow, more businesses are recognising mobility as a growing priority and are starting to actively integrate enterprise mobile apps and devices into their internal workflows. According to Deloitte, having a more mobile-friendlier workplace can help employees become more productive and encourage flexible working. 60% of respondents […]

Amazon

Using Node-RED Library to Wire Telemetry Data from IoT Devices to the Cloud

Billions of internet-connected devices are deployed annually around the world. As they are interacting with each other, they produce mountains of real-time data that bring valuable insights to businesses. But how can you get the most out of these data flows? Consider using the Node-RED Library. The massive data streams that are produced by IoT […]