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January 10, 2020

Software Product Development Life Cycle — Ways to Pick Model for Your Project

Which model should you pick for your Software Product Development?

Similarly to any software development project, the job of implementing a software product is tiered and complex. To make things more difficult, these stages or tiers modify as per the repeatability and priority, thereby creating the models of software product development lifecycle.

Various existing SDLC models address the individual and diverse circumstances of the development vendors and product owners, but such a great pick might be confusing. Of course, a company that offers software development services can pick an SDLC model themselves.

January 2, 2020

Top Free Security Testing Tools

Sometimes, considered as hard to automate, security testing lacks the resources and tools that assist in making it simple to learn. We have found many testers unaware of the free and open source security testing tools that are available to them. This is a shame because we believe that the next wave of DevOps, DevSecOps, is appending security tests to our pipelines.

We thought of creating a rapid resource to reveal some security tools that you all may start trying. Below are a few that we have found and heard more about.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]