Hyperledger Tools – When / Why to use them?

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This article aims to present details on when and why to use which Hyperledger tools. The following are different tools which are referred later in this article: Cello Composer Explorer Quilt This article will be updated on regular basis as newer tools come up. When / Why to use which Hyperledger Tools? The following represents details related with the Hyperledger tools: Hyperledger Tools When and Why to use them? Explorer Hyperledger Explorer is a web application which can be used to view, invoke, deploy or query blocks, transactions and associated data, network information (name, status, list of nodes), chain codes and transaction families, as well as any other relevant information stored in the …

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Kubernetes Interview Questions and Answers – Set 4

Kubernetes Interview Questions and Answers

This page represents practice test consisting of objective questions and answers on Kubernetes. This practice test covers the topic such as Pod Lifecycle. The practice test can prove to be very helpful if you are preparing to take Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification examination in near future. It covers the Core Concepts from CKA certification exam syllabus. Those preparing for interviews in relation with Kubernetes or cloud-native apps would also find these questions to be useful enough. These questions can as well prove to be useful for interns / freshers / beginners. Revision Notes – Kubernetes Concepts (Pod Lifecycle) A Pod status field is a PodStatus object which has got phase field. The phase of the pod is a simple, high-level summary of where the Pod is in its lifecycle Kubelet invokes …

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Beginners – List of Robotics Courses to Get You Started

List of Robotics Courses for Beginners

The following is the list of Robotics Courses on Coursera which will help you get started on learning Robotics concepts. Robotics Specialization:It is a series of six courses on Robotics covering the concepts related to some of the following areas: Robot flight and movement How do robots perceive their environment How do robots adjust their movements to avoid obstacles, navigate difficult terrains and accomplish complex tasks such as construction and disaster recovery. This is provided by University of Pennsylvania. The following is a list of courses covered under the umbrella of Robotics specialization: Aerial Robotics Computational model planning Mobility Perception Estimation and learning Building Arduino robots and devices: It covers concepts related with building robots using …

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Quantum Computing Interview Questions and Answers – Set 1

Quantum Computing Interview Questions

This is the first in series of practice tests / interview questions and answers in relation to Quantum computing. It touches upon the basic concepts in relation to some of the following: Qubit Difference between a bit and Qubit Superposition of Qubit states Quantum entanglement This practice test will prove to be useful for Quantum Computing beginners / interns / freshers.  Revision Notes – Quantum Computing Fundamentals Quantum computing is different than classical computing. Problems which are suited for quantum computing should be considered for Quantum computing. A Qubit is a two-state quantum mechanical system; A Qubit can be in superposition of both the states at the same time. A Qubit is similar to bit …

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Visual Studio Dev Essentials for Free Access to Online Training Portals

Visual Studio Portal Access

Are you looking for free subscription to world class online training portals? Here is a way to get it from Microsoft “Visual Studio Dev Essentials”. Microsoft has been aggressively investing billions of dollars in its cloud computing platform, Azure. At present, Azure is having data centers in 42 regions which is more than any other cloud provider.  To promote Azure and empower the developers, Microsoft partnered with world class online training institutes to provide free access for 3 months. Here are few of the online training portals available through this program: Pluralsight LinkedIn Premium (business, tech and creative) Opsgility (cloud-focused) WintellectNOW (app development) Linux Academy (Linux and cloud technology) The above online training …

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Hyperledger Interview Questions and Answers – Set 1

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This is the first in series of practice tests / interview questions and answers in relation to Hyperledger products suite for building distributed ledgers / Blockchain business networks. This test focuses on checking your knowledge on different products such as following under hyperledger umbrella. Fabric Sawtooth Iroha Indy Burrow Cello Composer Quilt Explorer Revision Notes – Hyperledger Tools & Frameworks Hyperledger Fabric supports pluggable consensus algorithm (ordering service) and membership service provider Hyperledger Indy can be used to build distributed ledger (Blockchain) related with decentralized digital identities Hyperledger Burrow is used for creating a permissioned Ethereum smart-contract blockchain node that executes smart contract code following the Ethereum specification. Hyperledger Explorer can be used to view, invoke, deploy or query blocks, transactions and associated data, network …

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List of Hyperledger Tools & Frameworks for Blockchain Apps

Hyperledger tools and frameworks

This article represents a list of Hyperledger tools and frameworks for building Blockchain applications and when to use each one of them. Hyperledger Frameworks The following is the list of frameworks that can be used to create blockchain applications based on distributed ledger technology. Hyperledger Fabric Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework implementation. It is one of the foundation framework for developing / building Blockchain applications or solutions with a modular architecture. The most striking feature of Hyperledger Fabric is that it allows components, such as consensus and membership services, to be plug-and-play. At the core of Hyperledger Fabric is container technology which is used to host smart contracts called chaincode that comprise the application logic of the system. The following is the list of cool features of …

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15+ Blockchain Jobs Designations for Your Next Blockchain Hire

Blockchain Job Designations

Given that Blockchain has gone mainstream, companies are now hiring blockchain developers at all levels such as following: Blockchain Development Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure Engineer Visual Designer Blockchain Technology Leadership Solution Architect, Application Architect, Lead Architect, Consultant Technology Lead Blockchain Project/Program Management Project Lead Program Manager Practice Head Business Development Business development (VP) Blockchain Job Designations from Indeed.com Below are some of the designations in relation to Blockchain application development whose jobs can be found on Indeed.com. Blockchain Developer: Other designations similar to this one are following: Blockchain Software Engineer Blockchain Engineer Blockchain Platform Developer Full-stack Developer (Blockchain) IT Blockchain Engineer Blockchain Developer …

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Quantum Computing and Syllabus Topics for Learning

Learning Quantum Computing

The following represents key elements of Quantum computing which needs to be emphasized during learning stages: Understanding of Bits and Qubits Fundamentals of Linear Algebra Quantum mechanics principles Quantum computation models Quantum Factoring Complexity theory Search algorithms Quantum computing applications These topics can form part of syllabus if you are planning to design a course on Quantum computing. Understanding Qubits vs Bits Coming from a traditional classical computing background, it would be important to understand some of the following: What are Qubits? How does Qubit relates to Bits? Introduction to Superposition and Entanglement concepts Qubits examples Linear Algebra Fundamentals Given the state space of a quantum system is described in …

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Top 5 Java Rule Engine for 2017-2018

Java rule engine 2017 2018

This is a list of top 5 rules engine which can be used in your Java application. Out of below 5 frameworks, Drools is the most popular one. Popularity Rule Engine Summary 1 Drools A Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution which provides a core business rules engine (BRE), a web authoring and rules management application (Drools Workbench) and an Eclipse IDE plugin for core development 2 OpenRules A general purpose business rules and decision management system 3 EasyRules EasyRules provides the Rule abstraction to create rules with conditions and actions, and the RulesEngine API that runs through a set of rules to evaluate conditions and execute actions. 4 JLisa A Clips-like Rule engine accessible from …

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Container Design Patterns for Kubernetes Pods Design

Kubernetes Namespaces Cheatsheet

Here is a list of container design patterns which can be used to create useful grouping of containers (atomic unit) such as Kubernetes pods: Sidecar pattern Ambassador pattern Adapter pattern These patterns advocates usage of additional containers to complement the primary / main container and have these containers form an atomic unit. The usage of additional containers as recommended by design patterns are based on some of the following design guidelines: Separation of concerns Containers’ reusability (Cohesive containers); Recall Uncle Bob’s (Robert Martin) single responsibility principle (SOLID) when working with object-oriented programming These patterns results in creation of atomic unit of containers with a set of containers acting as core …

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Top 10+ Mobile / Web App UI Mockup Tools

UI Mockup tools for web and mobile apps

If you are looking to create UI mockups for your upcoming mobile / web app, then, here is the the list of top 10+ Mobile / Web app UI mockup tools: JustinMind: A great tool where one can define various mobile gestures / transitions during prototyping and test the look-and-feel using mobile app Axure: Good tool for creating and publishing mockups in collaborative manner Marvel App: Easy to use and cloud-based tool Hotgloo: A UX, wireframe and prototyping tool designed to build wireframes for web, mobile and wearables. Used by companies like Disney, Deloitte, IBM etc. Proto.io: Helps create fully-interactive prototypes that look and work exactly like your app with absolutely no coding required. …

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Top 10 Startups Building Speech-to-text Conversion Solutions

Speech recognition startups

This is a list of 10 startups which are using speech recognition technology (Speech-to-text Conversion) to solve different problems. Startup Name What they are doing Behavioral Signals Building emotion recognition and behavioral analytics technology; They are speech-to-text conversion with AI to create powerful predictions. SpeakSee Makes conversations visual and easy to hear for the deaf and hard-of-hearing; It may require integration with Cloud Speech API integration to get real time transcription. HelixAI Helps scientists, researchers, and lab technicians access information and reference data simply using their voice; Spitch Swiss-based provider of solutions in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Voice Biometrics, Voice User Interfaces (VUI), and natural language voice data analytics. The …

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Kubernetes Interview Questions and Answers – Set 3

kubernetes interview questions and answers

This page represents practice test consisting of objective questions and answers on Kubernetes.  The following topics are covered as part of this practice test / quiz: Container hooks and related lifecycle Pods The practice test can prove to be very helpful if you are preparing to take Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification examination in near future. It covers the Core Concepts from CKA certification exam syllabus. Those preparing for interviews in relation with Kubernetes or cloud-native apps would find these questions to be useful enough. These questions can prove to be useful for interns / freshers / beginners. Revision Notes – Kubernetes Concepts (Container Hooks / Pods) Kubernetes provides containers with following lifecycle hooks: PostStart PreStop Kubernetes supports implementation …

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How to Build Liv.ai like Speech-to-text Conversion Platform

Liv.ai speech-to-text conversion

This article explores the technology landscape which can be used to build similar platform / service offerings like Liv.ai. First and foremost, congratulations to Liv.ai team for leveraging existing cloud-based AI and speech recognition (Speech-to-text conversion) technologies to come up with a set of business offerings which leverages speech-to-text conversion technology to create great value for businesses. The founding team (IIT KGP Alumni – Subodh Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar and Kishore Mundra) nailed it! Doing right thing at right time at right place. Liv.ai enables developers to convert speech-to-text by using Powerful Neural Network Models with exceptional accuracy and minimal latency. At this point, the platform supports 9 languages including Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, …

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CareNGrow powers Preventive Healthcare Platform with AI & Cloud-Computing

Carengrow powers Preventive healthcare platform using AI and cloud computing

CareNGrow is building a preventive healthcare platform based on AI and cloud-computing technologies. One of the goals is creating and monitoring the physical, psychological, and behavioural health profile of children in schools. The following represents key workflow steps which is implemented while examining a kid / child: Data gathering Transfer data over internet to cloud Feed the data into the analytics platform Perform the data analysis (Predictive Analytics) Generate health reports This is a brainchild of a young doctor, Dr. Meghana Kambham. CareNGrow is already making waves in different startup competitions owing to the work they have been doing. In this relation, they have been announced as one of the UberExchange winners. Check …

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