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Going from almost no presence at all just forty years ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown to become a powerful and defining force of computing and has become an increasingly strong presence...

A common use case to build an essentialist MVP is to get more support for your idea. Taking the functional demo and pitching it to an investor, so you get more funds to flesh it out further, and recruit more team members to mentor, give resources, ideas, and connections to the project. Here I’m going to discuss some considerations around building an MVP for...

This open-source React Starter has been updated to the latest UI Version from Creative-Tim. Starting with this version, the product can be deployed using Drag & Drop.

According to a poll conducted by PwC, entitled “Global Consumer Insights”, before the pandemic, in-store shopping was the most popular option for consumers. The survey found that 47% of customers...

Modern template for Django coded on top of Pixel Bootstrap 5, an open-source UI Kit from Themesberg - provided as a PyPi Library.

Dapper is NOT an alternative to EF, it is technically faster for individual queries but EF has the same features and a whole lot more to offer the SDLC

EMQ has open-sourced a JMeter-based MQTT test plug-in, and this article will introduce how to use this MQTT plug-in in JMeter.

If you were waiting for Unite 2022 – the global Unity conference/developer interaction experience – then the bad news is that you have missed it; it was 1st and 2nd November. The good news is that...

The MQTT is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol that provides reliable messaging services to IoT devices with minimal code and bandwidth.

Modern template for Django coded on top of Material Kit, an open-source Boostrap 5 design from Creative-Tim - provided as a PyPi Library.

This article introduces how to use MQTT in the Dart project, and implements the connection, subscription and messaging, etc of MQTT.

Here’s a true story. A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with a friend and casually mentioned my love of VR, to which she retorted “I don’t really like gaming that much”. I was simultaneously...

Open-Source sample that Dockerize Django and React together. The design used is Horizon, a popular design styled with Chakra.

Modern template for Django Admin Interface coded on top of Argon Dashboard, an open-source Boostrap 5 design from Creative-Tim - Django.contrib.AUTH links supported.

One black & white screen i.e Unix/Linux giving value to me… Due to, making art colorful on that box. I hope, everyone loving that:) No one Imagine about Art with colour on Unix box.. It i…

Learn how to read an im age or any file directly in native layer (in C++) in Android.

When facebook pulled together a simple app for dating, it was immediately valuable. This is the power of network effects. Not the most popular dating app in the world, but a viable, useful, and…

Over the last thirty years, technology – mostly driven by microelectronics applications and software – has grown at an astonishing rate, and that is in turn generating some astounding statistics....

I now can use a live stream of my webcam, translated to ASCII art, as my webcam in video meetings.

While there is much to be said for learning from books and under the tutelage of professional trainers, nothing really helps a person learn something new than actually doing it. However, while no...

MQTT 5.0 brings many new features, this article will give an introduction to the use of the new feature "flow control" in an easy-to-understand way.

There are a number of ways to build your MVP, and each might have a different pricing structure. But here I try to lay out some rules of thumb on how to get budget ballparks for certain features. Most…

MQTT 5.0 brings many new features, this article will introduce the use of subscription identifier and subscription options, in an easy-to-understand way.

MQTT 5.0 adds the Response Topic, and defines the interaction process for Request Response. This article will introduce this feature in an easy-to-understand way.

The year is 1996. My third grade teacher has five brand new Dell computers and is teaching the advanced math students Logo, an education programming language. I draw lines, turn the cursor, and draw…

When Web 2.0 started to become a reality, the obvious difference between this and the original internet was plain to see; the addition of a good deal of interactivity. Suddenly, the internet wasn’t...

This article introduces and demonstrates the use of the MQTT Retained Messages, which you can use to get data immediately after subscribing.

Sometimes you have processes that you don’t need to run in certain scenarios. The past year I’ve been working with market trading data.

There are a number of ways to talk about essentialist MVPs. Minimum Viable Tests and Minimal Minimum Viable Products are popular. Here I want to explore this concept a bit further and compare a…

When constructing the backend architecture for a system, keep the concerns separated. This is a general principle followed in containerized designs, but holds true down to smaller components. Even if…

Finding the right fit for your engineering staff is important, and there's a few things to keep an eye out for on resumes to share here. Screening out bad fits is much more important than being sure…

Much of my focus is reducing the scope of MVPs and getting really essential. One method I want to explore here is what I'm calling reverse scoping. Instead of starting with all the hopes and wishes…

I've built dozens of MVPs, some were brand launches at Google, some startups that raised $3M in funding, and some productivity tools I conceived that got acquired by bigger companies. Here's some of…

You're a white collar professional with over a decade of experience. You've found some major inefficiencies in your work, and repetitious tasks that you have to do, and not only you, but everyone in…

It's been a long time since maintaining your own servers was the best way to deploy a service. GCP and AWS are clear winners in the space. But like all good things, don't go overboard. There are many…

MVPs are constantly changing to adapt to the market and needs of users. You have to be very judicious in your testing, so that you don't waste valuable cycles on things that will be thrown out soon…

When hiring your first engineers, it's important to show them you have a plan for their success at your company. The best way to do this is to have a promotion pathway laid out for different levels of…

Doing a competitive analysis on your MVP and business idea yields many benefits. It helps identify gaps in the market, shows where the attention and money is focused, and may expose features that are…

With a functional app, you want to test before putting out to early adopters. Early adopters are going to be your biggest fans, so you want to get the experience as close to right as you can before…

When building an MVP, you want to steal as much code as possible. You're not worried about code licensing, you want to validate the market as quickly as possible with open source. So you want to use…

Interviewing engineers is a complex task that requires special skills. A new industry has popped up catering to this need -- Karat runs interviews for medium to large sized companies, with some…

There are a few virtualization choices out there, and for most startups this choice is necessary. Buying a server is all but completely impractical in this day and age. So it comes down to a few top…

No Code solutions have come a long way in the past few years. But there is still a lot to consider before committing to one of these solutions. Pros No Code platforms allow business development,…