Peripheral messages in digital products, collectively known as notifications, should never harm the user experience. Instead, they must contribute to an experience that helps people accomplish a goal. Addressing notification design early in the product design process will produce better results. Imagine a group of architects designing a three-story house, laboring over the blueprints for […]
API development is a hot topic nowadays. There’s a huge number of ways you can develop and deliver an API, and big companies have developed massive solutions to help you bootstrap an application quickly. Yet, most of those options lack a key feature: development lifecycle management. So, developers spend some cycles creating useful and robust […]
Kubernetes (often stylized “K8s”) won the battle of container orchestration tools years ago. Nevertheless, there are still many ways to implement Kubernetes today and make it work with various infrastructures, and many tools—some better maintained than others. Perhaps the most interesting development on that front, though, is that the top cloud providers have decided to release […]
With the introduction of iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, we are the witness of the next big thing in UI Design. Changes are not so revolutionary like in iOS 7 years before, but they undoubtedly present the trend UI Designers will follow in the future… …and it won’t be Neuomorphism. ? Flat Design is No Longer […]
Cloud computing can offer an organization many benefits—it can lower operating costs, support faster innovation, allow employees to access data and applications from anywhere in the world, and help you scale your business. And that’s just for starters. If you’re reading this post, you—along with the majority of businesses, since RightScale reports that 96% of survey […]
Apple announced some pretty wild updates at WWDC 2020 today. But technology aside, let’s focus on how their UI has changed. It went through the first bitmap representations, through Aqua, more modern styles and now all comes together in a completely new, consistent design language. The changes in both the mobile and desktop operating systems signifies which […]
Aimed at unifying the .NET platform, .NET 5 brings improvements to RyuJIT code quality, garbage collection, and JSON serialization, for starters Microsoft has published a sixth preview of .NET 5. Preview 6 removes WinRT support, adds support for Windows Forms on Windows ARM64 devices, and continues to extend RyuJIT code quality improvements. Microsoft has said that […]
We have hundreds of different databases to choose from for storing our data — and we need more The world used to get by on just a smattering of databases. You know, trusty relational workhorses like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Ingres, and IBM DB2. Soon enough, however, open source crashed the party with MySQL and […]
Many enterprises are learning some hard lessons they did not even know existed four months ago We’re in a recovery now, and at some point, things will be back to near normal…hopefully. We learned that some businesses fared better than others during the upheaval. Nine times out of ten, those businesses leveraged cloud successfully to […]
ake advantage of Python dataclasses to make your Python classes less verbose and more powerful at the same time Everything in Python is an object, or so the saying goes. If you want to create your own custom objects, with their own properties and methods, you use Python’s class object to make that happen. But creating classes […]