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2021 – Capital Markets and Wholesale Banking: The cutting-edge for trading and risk apps
Overview AI technologies are transforming what is already established as the most innovative area of financial IT. But it is also the most heavily regulated, with a complex mix of global compliance and software risk is increasingly under scrutiny. We’ll be looking at how AI,...
CIOSynergy 2020 – IT trends & predictions
I had a wonderful time at the CIOSynergy 2019 Meet in New York, NY. Here are some highlights and key takeaways from the event. The #Predictionspanel CIOs must manage not only for today, but for tomorrow, and for years into the future. This implies a...
Promoting a culture of Learning, Respect and Innovation
Many organizations including private enterprises to the Military emphasize the importance of working together as a team. In fact, the US Army embeds this philosophy in to every soldier it trains I am an American Soldier. I am a warrior and a member of a...
Supercharge Software Testing with On Demand Jenkins Agents and Selenium Grid with Kubenetes
Maintaining a Stable Continuous Integration environment the traditional way requires a lot of work. It involves building an Army of Jenkins Agents, configuring them in a certain way (SDKs, Build and Runtime configuration etc.). This is further complicated if you need to setup a platform...
Lessons in Leadership from History
When we think of great leaders, luminaries such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill or Dalai Lama come to our minds. But what makes them great? Do their lives offer lessons in to leadership? How well do these lessons translate to the Board room?...
Project Management: Right tool for the right Job
“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy” – Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th-century head of the Prussian army, as quoted in Donnybrook : The Battle of Bull Run, 1861. The same goes for Project Management. Most projects fail as soon as they come...
Beginning development with ReactJS & TypeScript (Part-2)
This post’s focus is on testing the components for Tic-Tac-Toe game created in Part-1 Setup Checkout the tag step-4 Pull the new dependencies for this step by simply running yarn at the root of the project Dependencies needed for Testing Jest, a JS testing framework from...
Beginning development with ReactJS & TypeScript (Part-1)
The official tutorial from React does a pretty good job of introducing React to a Beginner through building Tic-Tac-Toe. But it’s incomplete as it doesn’t put any focus on Unit Testing and provides no introduction of Typing through TypeScript or Flow, which can be very...
Introducing Best Practices such as Unit Tests and TypeScript to a Legacy Project built with a Pre ES6 Framework such as ExtJS
There are instances when Legacy JS projects are actively developed which are based off of Pre-ES6 era frameworks such as ExtJS or even just plain vanilla ES5 or earlier. But that’s no excuse for not writing automated tests. There may not be an appetite for...