The Analysis of Database Query Languages in MySQL, Couchbase Server, and MongoDB

This 51-page report explores the query performance of three database languages: MySQL, N1QL, and a MongoDB query. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Using Toshiba’s KumoScale Flash-as-a-Service Storage on Kubernetes

Storage for StatefulSetsStatefulSet workloads in Kubernetes require a persistent storage, which is provided by PersistentVolumes. As pods are rescheduled or restarted, their connections to Persist | Continue reading


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Personal Finance Management System

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Enabling Monitoring and Preventative Maintenance for Railway Stations

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Top Things to Consider Before Blockchain Adoption

Being adopted by multiple industries, blockchain brings decentralization, transparency, and automation in a secure manner. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Comcast Deploys 1k Times per Month with Pivotal Cloud Foundry

The need for a self-service platformComcast is the largest cable provider and home ISP in the US, serving 40 states from its headquarters in Philadelphia. The company was founded in 1963 (as Ameri | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Hyperledger Aries to Enable Blockchain-Agnostic, Self-Sovereign Identity

Focusing on interoperabilityIn two years since the introduction of Hyperledger Indy in 2017, the scope of work within its development community has far extended beyond what was initially set in it | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

AI Basics and Machine Learning with Python

This cheat sheet overviews use cases of applying deep and machine learning to improve operations and automate processes in manufacturing, finance, healthcare, retail, advertising, and other industries. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Essential Optimization Methods to Make Apache Spark Work Faster

This 12-page report explores the performance of Apache Spark and two of its modules—Spark Core and Spark SQL—before and after optimization. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Supply Chain Pros Reveal the Questions Asked Before Blockchain Adoption

More projects = more questionsAccording to the report delivered by Hired in Oct 2018, the demand for blockchain engineers has increased by 400% since 2017. With so many large enterprises and small | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Microservices vs. Monolithic Architectures: Pros, Cons

This 15-page technical guide compares microservices architectures to monolithic apps and demonstrates how a PaaS addresses associated challenges. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

BMW Delivers IoT Services to 1M Car Owners by Using IBM Cloud Foundry

Too much car dataAs automobile manufacturers embrace the Industry 4.0 trend, newly produced vehicles are being equipped with an increasing amount of sensors. These devices then collect all sorts o | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Optical Character Recognition with One-Shot Learning, RNN, and TensorFlow

Generating expense reports with machine learningOptical character recognition (OCR) drives the conversion of typed, handwritten, or printed symbols into machine-encoded text. However, the OCR proc | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Deploying a Blockchain App on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

What's needed for a DApp on CF+K8sUsing blockchain, various industries have been able to improve efficiency through automation of mundane, manual processes in a secure and transparent manner. Comm | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Using K-Means Clustering with TensorFlow

In data science, cluster analysis (or clustering) is an unsupervised-learning method that can help to understand the nature of data by grouping information with similar characteristics. The clusters o | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

Alibaba Aims to Prevent Retail Fraud with Blockchain

Fraud in retailFraud is one of the biggest challenges in the retail industry when it comes to both food and luxury goods. In 2016, PwC reported that food fraud is a $30–40 billion problem global | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 4 years ago

IoT Meets Blockchain: Building a Supply Chain App on Microsoft Azure

Challenges in developing blockchain projectsWhen enterprises start adopting blockchain, typically, there arise problems from understanding blockchain itself to building an application. While block | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Technical NoSQL Comparison Report 2019

This 61-page report evaluates and compares the performance of three popular NoSQL databases across 24 criteria. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Blockchain for Insurance: From Preventing Fraud to Automating Claims

In insurance, the hurdles of the industry include fraud, manual processes, inefficient data sharing, etc.The document covers the following aspects of adopting the technology by insurance companies | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting, Mar 2019: YAML Templating Tool

The Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting for March 2019 featured demonstrations of YAML Templating Tool, as well as weighted routing under the Istio and Cloud Foundry integration. The | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Securing a Blockchain with a Noninteractive Zero-Knowledge Proof

In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) is a method by which one party can prove to another party that they know value x, without conveying any information apart from the fact that they know val | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

A Zero-Knowledge Proof: Improving Privacy on a Blockchain

Cryptography is one of the the most important components of the blockchain technology, which has become widely spread over the last few years. Here, we talk about a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)—a mech | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

GitHub Crafts 10+ Custom Kubernetes Controllers to Refine Provisioning

Controllers extend toolchain functionalityIn DevOps, toolchains are used to help to orchestrate the delivery, development, and management of applications throughout the development life cycle. Too | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Considerations for Running Stateful Apps on Kubernetes

The challenges with stateful appsStateful applications pose certain difficulties when deployed in a cloud. They may be hard to scale in a distributed, virtualized environment. In addition, limitin | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

NetApp Builds Up a Multi-Cloud Kubernetes-As-a-Service Platform

Multi-cloud orchestrationOn September 18, 2018, NetApp revealed that it had acquired StackPointCloud. According to the announcement, this acquisition enabled NetApp to gain "an advanced Kubernetes | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Using Istio to Unify Microservices with a Service Mesh on Kubernetes

The lack of common infrastructureIn a typical Kubernetes environment, services related to tracing, load balancing, telemetry, routing logic, etc. are frequently used but are not shared. This means | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

How NASA Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Exoplanets

Houston, I want to believe!Being just a tiny blue dot in the ever-expanding universe, humans of Earth have been wondering for centuries if they are alone here. The answer to this question is the m | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

A Panel: The Changing Token Economy and Why ICO Regulation Is a Must

Fraudulent offerings raise billionsSince 2017 and well into this year, blockchain-based offerings have been making the headlines for both the best and the worst reasons. While blockchain success s | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Improving Security for Kubernetes Deployments at Scale

Security lags behind speed and scalabilitySince its initial launch in June of 2014, Kubernetes, a container orchestration system, has gradually risen in popularity over the years. One of the reaso | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

GE to Sell Predix? What’s Happening, Why, and Who’ll Get It?

It looks certain that GE is going to divest itself of Predix soon. This presents an opportunity for a few companies and the community. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Kubernetes Cluster Ops: Options for Configuration Management

Managing Kubernetes gets complicated as the number of clusters increases. Learn what the main tools for managing configuration are and what alternatives exist. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Artificial Intelligence in Enterprise: Basics, NLP, and Chatbots

A recent meetup covered the evolution of AI, what is being done now, as well as pitfalls and success stories of using natural language processing for chatbots. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Enabling Persistent Storage for Docker and Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud

Learn how Docker's volumes and swarms, Kubernetes PersistentVolumes, and Oracle's Volume Provisioner help to enable persistent storage. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Kubernetes Networking: Writing Your Own Simple CNI Plug-In with Bash (Tutorial)

Learn how to create a container network interface plug-in, configure and test it, as well as enable external access and communication between containers. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Deploying a Multi-Node Hyperledger Fabric Network in 5 Steps

While there are many blockchain workshops and tutorials, most of these cover only single-host deployment. Let's fix this. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Hyperledger Fabric v1.2: What’s New and the Roadmap for 2018

Hyperledger Fabric is putting more focus on privacy and confidentiality. IBM's Arnaud Le Hors discusses the new update, as well as plans for the rest of the year. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

KLM Handles 2x More Customer Requests with Artificial Intelligence

The oldest airline operating today transforms with AI by automating its customer interactions, language interpretation, and ground operations. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting, July 2018: Intro to SHIELD

There were also community updates from Service Fabrik, Project BlockHead, and other initiatives. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Running Microservices and APIs with Cloud Foundry

In this webcast, CF Foundation CEO Sam Ramji joined Ed Anuff and Martin Nally of Apigee to discuss PaaS and its relations with microservices and APIs. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Configuring UAA to Provide a Single Entry Point for Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry

A part of the UAA service, OpenID Connect can be used to enable authentication and authorization for Kubernetes and minimize password security risks. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Managing Multi-Cluster Workloads with Google Kubernetes Engine

Learn about the ways to achieve low latency across clusters distributed globally, enable high availability for stateful workloads, or treat compute-intensive tasks. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Three Approaches to Testing and Validating TensorFlow Code

Read about some assertion methods that may help to validate data shapes, graph structures, and numerical calculations of the TensorFlow code. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

Deploying Services to Cloud Foundry Using Kubernetes: Less BOSH, More Freedom

Using Kubernetes to host services, developers can deploy services on Cloud Foundry without the need for BOSH releases. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

What It Takes to Build and Train Neural Networks for Autonomous Vehicles

This blog post explores how much data and what computational powers are needed to reach a sufficient accuracy of a machine learning model. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago

A Multitude of Kubernetes Deployment Tools: Kubespray, Kops, and Kubeadm

This article explores what each of the tools offers, how they differ, and which scenarios they fit—providing some recommendations on using Kubespray. | Continue reading


@altoros.com | 5 years ago