Google is a major player in defining human-machine interface standards, with products built upon these standards. However, there are times when their products fall short of meeting user needs. Equality and equity-based design principles - At the core of achieving an intuitive user experience is placing the user at the center of application design. There … Continue reading Applying Equality and Equity-Based Design Principles to Improve UX in Google Apps: A UX Case Study.
OpenAI API – {AI as API} – The Gateway to the Next Generation of AI Technology
ChatGPT and DALL-E are creating a huge impact on how we interact with AI. These are the products from OpenAI. They are targeted for general use cases. OpenAI provides API offerings that businesses and tech enthusiasts can take advantage of. It is easy to utilize the APIs and build applications around them. Setup OpenAI developer … Continue reading OpenAI API – {AI as API} – The Gateway to the Next Generation of AI Technology
Quick look at quantum computing
Quantum computing is in the very early stages of being fully utilized by enterprises for their use cases. But in theory, it is promising. Leaders across enterprises from different domains are trying to understand how quantum computing would help them in the future. Sharing some basic understanding of quantum computing from my learning. How is … Continue reading Quick look at quantum computing
A/B Testing – Create products that customers like
Customers are the key element that matters the most for running any business. Everything else stands next. Enterprises that handle the Enterprise life cycle effectively succeed longer. The enterprise life cycle would be successful if we know the customer and the customer's expectations well. Digital transformation and digital adoption are helping enterprises roll out new … Continue reading A/B Testing – Create products that customers like
Different types of synthetic canaries in AWS
In the 1700s, canaries were used to alert miners when toxic gases reached dangerous levels in coal mines. Taking this analogy forward into the Digital Era, we can see how it corresponds to the definition of 'Canary Deployment' - Coal - The application Coal Miners - Development team (Sometimes DevOps) Birds - Beta requests or … Continue reading Different types of synthetic canaries in AWS
AWS Cloud Quest – A quick look
New ways of learning are emerging across learning platforms. Many prefer to have interactive learning with role plays, personas, and hands-on labs. AWS is a leader in cloud computing and they provide various ways to keep up with the services offered by them. What is it? - Cloud quest is the interactive role-playing gamified learning … Continue reading AWS Cloud Quest – A quick look
eSIM – The new future for consumers, OEMs, and cellular network providers
Apple took the next big step on the connection interface by totally removing the slot for the physical sim card on the new iPhone 14 series. We started seeing iPhones, iPads, and selected android devices that come with eSIM as an additional SIM card option along with the physical SIM card slot back in 2018. … Continue reading eSIM – The new future for consumers, OEMs, and cellular network providers
Building a trusted ledger application with AWS QLDB and extending to tokenomics using AWS Managed Blockchain
Blockchain helps in building applications where multiple stakeholders can execute transactions without a need for a centralized trusted authority. Each blockchain network member needs to provide hardware, software, network elements, and access control. To set up a member node and scale as needed is capital intensive, complex, and not easy to manage.Depending on the use … Continue reading Building a trusted ledger application with AWS QLDB and extending to tokenomics using AWS Managed Blockchain
Purpose-built Ledger Database – AWS QLDB
Cloud vendors not only provide infrastructure to easily develop applications, but they also come with new tools and resources that redefine how rapid applications development is even made faster. Selection of the database plays a major role in the application development. Cloud vendors are coming with purpose-built databases for specific use cases. One of the … Continue reading Purpose-built Ledger Database – AWS QLDB
Key takeaways for developers and businesses from Apple, Microsoft, and Google developer conferences
This time of the year, developers and businesses constantly look to improve their products based on the latest tech offerings from major mobile and cloud platforms. The tech announcements provide a considerable value differentiator in the product offering. Overall, no new major announcements were made exclusively this year, however, more demonstrations were given on how … Continue reading Key takeaways for developers and businesses from Apple, Microsoft, and Google developer conferences
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