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Ansible and Chef are configuration management (CM) tools that help sysadmins and DevOps professionals manage a large number of servers. They excel at repetitive task automation, simultaneous deployment of apps and packages to a group of servers or configuration and provisioning of new servers from scratch. [contact-form-7 id="76417"...

Zero Defects is referred to as a philosophy, a mentality, or a movement. It aims to minimize the number of defects in manufactured products and services as much as possible. Let us understand the concept of Zero Defects. What does the concept of zero defect mean? Zero Defects is a term coined by Mr. Philip Crosby in his book “Absolutes of...

You might have seen the term come up a lot, especially when talking about a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and wondered to yourself what is a work package anyway? Well, a work package is a collection of similar tasks which are bundled together to create a kind of mini-project within a project. What defines a work package is the inter-relatedness...

iOS is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc. It was originally released in 2007 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV. iOS is derived from OS X, with which it shares the Darwin foundation. iOS is Apple's mobile version of the OS X operating system used in Apple computers. iOS architecture The iOS...

If you’ve ever applied for a project management position or looked into getting a project management certification, you’ve likely come across a requirement for “project management experience.” For example, consider that for a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, PMI wants you to demonstrate at least 4,500 hours of...

Data modeling (data modelling) is the process of creating a data model for the data to be stored in a Database. This data model is a conceptual representation of Data objects, the associations between different data objects and the rules. Data modeling helps in the visual representation of data and enforces business rules, regulatory compliances,...

Informatica architecture is a comprehensive framework designed to manage, integrate, and process data across various sources and targets. It consists of critical components such as the PowerCenter Repository, PowerCenter Server, and PowerCenter Client tools. The Repository stores metadata and configuration information while the Server executes...

Hive is a data warehousing infrastructure based on Apache Hadoop. Hadoop provides massive scale out and fault tolerance capabilities for data storage and processing on commodity hardware. Hive is designed to enable easy data summation, ad-hoc querying and analysis of large volumes of data. It provides SQL which enables users to do ad-hoc...

Pentaho: The Ultimate Tool for Business Analytics and Reporting Pentaho is an open-source business intelligence (BI) and data integration platform. It provides a suite of tools for data management and analytics. Key components include Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), Report Designer, Analyzer, Dashboard Designer, Data Mining (Weka), and Metadata...