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Always Free Cloud Computing Resources - Oracle Cloud

In this article, we're going to create a powerful server without any costs with Oracle Cloud Free Tier to reap the benefits of an Always Free eligible plan that never ends (claims by Oracle).

How to take your software from distribution to sales?

A new trend of product-led growth is now overtaking the software industry. The plan is not to sell huge $500 prices of software products in the market. Instead, sell little $10 monthly prices of purchases in various forms like in-app purchases.

Introduction to Algorithms: Linear vs. Binary Search

Algorithms rule the world. This is not a drill. It is a universal truth. We are surrounded by them in every step and yet we're oblivious to its importance.

Developer Documentation: Here's why and how to write

The staple of this article is to share the observations and raise the awareness on why developer documentation is important to the software project and to its people.

Getting Started with Scrum in an Agile Way

This article revolves around the topics of Scrum, its practices, techniques, terminologies and implementation.

How to Create a Ubuntu Bootable USB in macOS

A detailed tutorial for creating Ubuntu bootable USBs in macOS using Etcher.

Phone Verification API in Django using Sparrow SMS - Part 3

We arrive at the final and longest snippet of our code that will connect all dots and make the previous steps more relevant to us. We partition all code contents from views.py into 3 parts.

Phone Verification API in Django using Sparrow SMS - Part 2

Starting off imports, the most basic module to import is path that returns for urlpatterns. ValidatePhoneSendOTP and ValidateOTP are API view classes that subclass Django's View class. These will arrive later in Writing Final Views part of this tutorial.

Notes on Convolutional Neural Network

Building a CNN, we feed training data through network layers in batches, apply a loss function to assess the accuracy of the model and use backpropagation to determine how best to adjust the weights to reduce the loss.

Load Testing using ab Apache Benchmark command-line tool

ab is a simple load testing command from Apache. It benchmarks your HTTP server by automating a scenario of sending multiple requests with concurrent clients.

Phone Verification API in Django using Sparrow SMS - Part 1

In this post, we're going to code in Python Django to use the Sparrow SMS API integration to verify a Nepali NTC/ Ncell phone number using an API as a service server-generated OTP code.

/etc/hosts file: A Local DNS Lookup

All popular OS like Windows, MacOS and Linux have a text file within their system folders called Hosts. It is a text file that maps IP numbers to hostnames and alias.

What if the solo developer in your team gets hit by a bus?

The bus factor should be high in a collaborative team working on a software project. The higher the number of people being familiar with the code the lesser the risks of the code being unknown to the others in the team.

Beginner's Guide to Image Manipulation Terms

For each pixel in the matrix, the intensity values across these three channels combine to create a full spectrum of colours, and varying the pixel values in each layer, changes the overall visual effect.

Fundamentals of Object Detection

Object Detection is the ability to detect multiple classes of objects and identify them within the best possible concise bounding boxes in an image, video, or live camera feed.

Technical Debt in Software Development

A certain degree of code debt accumulates over the development timeline when the team constantly chooses quick solutions over right solutions.