In the current age of fast mobile networks and very high internet speed, people are getting accustomed to frequent updates about their area of interest. They need the data to be pushed to them frequently – may it be social media like Facebook or Snapchat or it could be stock updates. Most common technology to get such updates was “Pull” by the client – primarily through AJAX request. However, there’s a better mechanism that is available but is rarely known – “Server-Sent Events” Continue reading “SSE – Server-Sent Events”
Data Science
Data science is also known as data-driven science. It is nothing but a data collected in various forms, either structured or unstructured. Different methods used are machine learning, data mining, analysis of a data, visualization of a data etc.
It is an umbrella that contains many other fields like Machine learning, Data Mining, Big Data, statistics, Data visualization, data analytics etc. It is a “concept to unify statistics, data analysis and their related methods” in order to “understand and analyze actual phenomena” with data.
Cryptojacking
With the rise in the monetary value of cryptocurrencies, it was only logical for hackers to devise ways to utilize this new currency. Although this digital currency has built-in protection, hackers are finding ways to steal the currency. News about hacking cryptocurrency exchanges is on the rise. Another method that hackers have found to make money in this new gold-rush is “Cryptojacking”.
Spot Instance
Everyone is aware of “cloud” now. The cloud provider sets up huge infrastructure and makes it available to their customers either as bare infrastructure or a managed service. In either case, it is a huge investment for the provider. All the servers, network bandwidth, and other resources are their inventory. As is the case with any business, idle inventory is a problem. And that is where Spot Instance comes into the picture.
WebSocket
WebSocket is a fairly recent communication protocol which provides full-duplex communication over a single TCP connection. This protocol was standardized in 2011. Although this protocol is different from HTTP, there is a certain relation between them.