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Data Warehouse

A data warehouse (DW) contains corporate data and information gathered from numerous sources and systems. It will be created for supporting business decisions through the consolidation of data, analysis, and reporting at various aggregate levels. Data will be added to…

DevOps

DevOps is an all-encompassing term, touching on everyone from developers through to IT staff and operations across a company. DevOps, as you may guess, combines “development” and “operations”. The rationale behind DevOps is an attempt to make operations and development…

Docker

Docker is part of the Moby Project. It is a software framework used to build, run and manage server and cloud-based containers. The word “docker” could be referring to the tools (the commands and a daemon) or the file format…

Encoding

It’s often necessary to convert data from one format to another format. This process is called encoding. You might encode data to save space, to make it easier to process, or for a variety of other reasons. Think, for example…

GIT

Git is an open-source system built for distributed version control. It’s available at no cost and was created for quick and effective project management, catering for the smallest to the largest. Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed…

GitHub

In essence, GitHub is an online service that hosts software development projects and project code. If your project is open source, you can use GitHub for free – if you have a private, commercial project you can choose from a…

GPL

GPL has a very specific meaning – it is the acronym for General Public License. Sometimes, GPL is also called GNU GPL. GPL is a type of software license, and is the most frequently used software license for free software.…

Hybrid Computing

There is no need for an organization to choose between keeping computer equipment at its own premises or using the cloud. It’s perfectly feasible to mix and match technologies in order to provide the particular infrastructure that they need. Once…

Index

The term “index” has a number of definitions in computing: it may refer to a website’s index directory listing, a search engine’s index, or a database index. And this variation means that “index” can be a complex term for newcomers…

ionCube

Copyright is a crucial issue online — especially in website development. Your code will be available to any user when you build a site: all they need to do is click on the “view source” option to view the code…