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Apache Kafka – What Is It?

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For the uninitiated, the Kafka project created by LinkedIn in 2012 and adopted by Apache is a public subscribe distributed messaging system. This post seeks to provide an overview on Kafka by presenting the ideas related to producers, topic, brokers and consumers. Introduction to Kafka: Kafka written in Scala is a scalable, high throughput, replicated, partitioned log system. It was created at LinkedIn primarily aimed at live feeds coming from all social media channels whether they were coming from Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn itself. Later on, it was open sourced so that other organizations may be able to adopt it as […]

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Procurement in Project Management: What you need to know?

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A great help in preparing for the PMP exam Let us start with a small practical story.. .While implementing the project the project manager goes to the procurement manager and tells him that “I need a seller now!”.  What do you think the procurement manager replies? “Not a problem. We already have a procurement process in place which is designed in such a way that we can find the best seller who offers the best price and gets the work done. The complete process can take 4 to 8 weeks and I hope you have accounted for the same in

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Tor – The Onion Router

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Social media keeps us all firmly wrapped in its arms and life is as usual on the net oblivious to the many “virtual eyes”. Customer data is another new gold and grabbing it is the necessity of the day. “Deep web” or the “Dark net” is the place where there is no Internet surveillance. The “Deep web” was earlier only associated with criminal activities but that may be changing with a new set of extremely privacy conscious individuals who also seek anonymity while surfing. This is possible with browsers like Tor, Freenet, I2P and Tails. In addition, ‘The Deep web’

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Webinar recording on Agile in a nutshell

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This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of agile methodologies. This webinar is meant for the busy and the curious professionals who are interested in finding out more about the terminology and buzzwords associated with agile. It also give you a very good foundation to prepare for the Agile certifications such as PMI-ACP. Have a look at Webinar led by Indu S. Learn more about PMP at Whizlabs  

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Build Relationships and Win as a Team

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Insights to conflict Resolution Techniques Based on PMBOK 5.0   As we all know that project teams are not natural teams … they are a group of cross functional experts that come together as a team with the intention to resolve a common goal. Since people from different regions, cultures, nature, skills and expertise and so on… are working together, CONFLICTS are bound to arise. Although we often think ‘conflict’ is bad, it actually brings forward opportunities for improvement. Considering conflict on a healthier note as sometimes it really helps us access all the options available (specifically in a technical

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Java Design Patterns

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Common design problems faced by seasoned and experienced developers helped in the creation of ‘Design Patterns’. One can reuse patterns across multiple applications.  There are three types of design patterns which are Creational, Structural and Behavioral patterns. There is also fourth design pattern which is the J2EE design pattern and which is the basis of our post. We will discuss the Model-View-Controller, Front Controller and Intercepting Filter which are all part of the Web Component developer exam.   Model-View-Controller: Model-View-Controller is the most popular design pattern. It has been around since the beginning of object oriented times. This design pattern

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Webinar recording on Agile Servant Leadership

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Want to know how to make leap from project manager to servant project leader. This presentation reviews the idea of servant leadership within the context of well-known leadership concepts and methods to solve problems that project leaders face on a day to day basis. It is more than simply removing impediments or driving tasks to completion, but rather managing and embracing the tension of simultaneously being a leader and servant, task master and coach, and mentor and mentee depending on the situation. Key takeaways: 1. Managing vs. Leading: why leading is not managing and the key differences 2. Making the

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MongoDB: The Benefits of Hiring Top Remote DBA Experts

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NoSQL solutions like MongoDB are gaining popularity over traditional table-based relational database management systems (RDBMS) like MySQL. The greatest benefits of NoSQL over RDBMS are: With RDBMS, you need a string in the query language (SQL or Structured Query Language) parsed by the DB system. This is dangerous as it exposes your database to SQL injection attacks. NoSQL, on the other hand, is object-oriented, meaning you pass a document with an explanation of what you are querying. There is no parsing. You will not be responsible for defining the schema when using NoSQL like MongoDB. You only need to drop

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Webinar recording on Top Ten Reasons for a Project Failure

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Want to know why even after putting up so much of effort, projects do not fare well. See the Top Ten Reasons for a Project Failure and learn to take preventive measures at an early stage to make your project successful. See the webinar recording to get all these questions answered. Have a look at Webinar led by Jim Stewart, PMP, JPStewart Associates Learn more about PMP at Whizlabs

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