The topics of authentication and authorization usually appear simple but turn out to hide significant complexity. That’s because, at its core, auth is all about answering two questions: Who are you What are you allowed to do However, the devil is in the details. Seasoned IT professionals, software developers, and even typical end users are […]
DevOps Roles and Responsibilities If structural engineers built bridges the way software engineers wrote software, then the news would be filled with stories about bridges collapsing. Of course, this is not the case because the engineering process for building bridges is well defined (and has been around far longer than software engineering). Bridges and structural […]
What is cloud computing? In its simplest terms, cloud computing means your computing requirements are running on someone else’s hardware. The word cloud computing originated back in the 1960’s when the internet was often depicted as a cloud when an engineer drew a diagram to represent the internet. You have probably have seen something like […]
While moving to the cloud brings many benefits associated with it, we need to also be aware of the pain points associated with such a move. This post will discuss those pain points, provide ways to mitigate them, and give you a checklist which can be used if you plan to migrate your applications to […]
At FP Complete, we have long spoken about the three pillars of a software development language: productivity, robustness, and performance. Often times, these three pillars are in conflict with each other, or at least appear to be. Getting to market quickly (productivity) often involves skimping on quality assurance (robustness), or writing inefficient code (performance). Or […]
DevOps Security and Privacy—FP Complete’s comprehensive, easy to understand guide designed to help you understand why they’re so critical to the safety of your DevOps strategy. The following is a transcription of a live webinar given by FP Complete Founder and Chairman Aaron Contorer, on FP Complete’s YouTube Channel. Introducing Aaron I’m the Founder and […]
Continuous integration and deployment, monitoring and logging, and security and privacy—FP Complete’s comprehensive, easy to understand guide designed to help you learn why those three DevOps strategies collectively create an environment where high-quality software can be developed quicker and more efficiently than ever before. Aaron Contorer, founder and chairman of FP Complete, presented the following […]
The new realities of the coronavirus pandemic and the social distancing orders of state and local governments have forced many businesses to transition their workforces out of the traditional office space and into the remote home office environment. For over eight years, my company has relied exclusively on the remote home office environment for its […]
Task and project management is a must-have skill in the technology industry, especially for tech leaders. Most are handling multiple projects and demands on their time, so it’s important to be able to prioritize and get everything done. As some of the top professionals in the field, the members of Forbes Technology Council have spent […]
Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing the upfront costs and delivering quickly is essentially the mantra of the startup world: Move fast and break things. However, the vast majority […]