[Infographic] Javascript Frameworks - Choosing One, and their Future (2016)

Javascript has become the star of the current generation of digital technologies, and yet, it is never spoken of in the world of SMAC!! (Social - Mobile - Analytics - Cloud). To give it true credit, probably a new acronym needs to be coined - JSMAC! (We'll admit, we haven't checked if there already is one).

Javascript, has always been a versatile, and powerful language, that powered the early, dynamic web. But, it, along with it's close friends, CSS and HTML, have advanced tremendously over the past decade, and is what makes your digital experience on any device today so awesome.

However, if you're on the other - read, developer - side of this, then, it can be more than a tad challenging to choose from a multitude of Javascript Frameworks available out there.

So, while this infographic can help you to consider various aspects to begin with, also checkout some useful links below.

(Source: webdesigndegreecenter.org)

Also see these informative articles:
Overview of the Javascript Ecosystem
Beyond jQuery - Expert Guide to Javascript Frameworks
What to expect from Javascript in 2016

The Periodic Table of DevOps Tools

DevOps - the portmanteau of "Development" and Operations" has become a rage in the tech industry. It's almost like the secret sauce for today's digital businesses.

To know about the origins of DevOps, please read our earlier post on 'The History & State of DevOps'.

While DevOps is being increasing chosen as the method of choice, to bring in the ever wanted agility for business, it's really not a one size fits all. DevOps is a blend of multiple practices, refined over the years, through hardened processes and tools, many born of necessity, since the means of the past 3-5 decades are not adequate to meet the demands of the digital age.


So, in this next post on the topic, we present the awesome* periodic table of DevOps Tools that can - and are - emerging, and enabling the digital economy of today.

(*Source: www.xebialabs.com)

[Infographic] Big Data Landscape 2016

Big Data is here to stay, and there's a whole lot going on. This busy infographic depicts it well!!

[Infographic] The History & State of DevOps

DevOps, a portmanteau of "development" and "operations" is a method, culture or practice, that emphasizes collaboration and communication of both software developers and other IT professionals while automating software delivery.

With the shift towards an increasingly "digital-ized" world, powered by cloud computing and any/mobile devices, industries are faced with challenges to meet the ever growing expectations of an always-on, creative and choice-enabled customers. All this calls for new ways of realizing business agility, enabled by digital technologies. Traditional approaches to delivery and maintenance are no longer able to serve the rapid pace of business today, and that's where DevOps is seeing an emergence.

Before knowing what the state of DevOps is, it also is good to delve a bit into the History of DevOps.

History of DevOps, via pinterest.com

[Video] Big Data Architecture Patterns

So, well, data is the new oxygen. The creation of data has been growing at an unprecedented pace and is only going to continue to grow exponentially. The age of big and bigger data is here to stay, and architects, technologists and scientists have to learn and apply new architecture patterns to sustain this. Big Data is as much, if not more, a problem, than it is a solution in itself.

This tech talk on Big Data Architectures from CernerEng provides interesting insights into this space.