How To Design A Cross-Platform Mobile Application? Mobile applications have taken a center stage for the past few years, and with the continuous improvements in mobile technology, we will see more and more applications embracing the mobile platform. However, as an Architect and a developer, building a mobile application that will work across multiple platforms, and yet…

How To Approach The Internal Documentation Of Your Software Projects? Many Software Architects, Developers, and Leads face this question for their projects — whether they should document their projects? If yes, how much? No, we are not talking about the required documentation that almost every software project needs, like the customer-facing documentation. By “internal documentation”, I am talking about technical…

How To Use AWS CloudWatch With On-Premise Application Components? AWS CloudWatch offers centralized logging, monitoring, and analysis to make the developer’s job easier. A question that comes up for the Enterprise Applications that follow a hybrid cloud deployment (that is, one or more of the application components reside on-premise) is how can we use CloudWatch logs for the on-premise…

How To Create A Multi-tier Stack Using AWS CloudFormation? AWS CloudFormation (CFN) makes it easy to deploy and manage your application infrastructure as an atomic unit using CloudFormation templates. In this article, we will cover how to use CFN to create a multi-tier stack. We will also see how to handle different deployment variations, such as a full-blown production…

How To Troubleshoot AWS CloudFormation Errors? AWS CloudFormation (CFN) helps in automating deployments by delivering Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC). It offers several useful capabilities, like simple templates, support for a wide range of AWS services, dependency management, parallel deployments, and so on. To use CloudFormation, you create CFN templates either from scratch or from samples…

How To Create Dynamic Condition Expressions In AWS CloudFormation Using Macros? AWS CloudFormation (CFN) conditions are quite useful for purposes like conditionally create resources, conditionally set the resource properties, and so on. However, when you start getting into some advanced scenarios, these may become a bit limited. For example, checking for the existence of a resource so that you create it…

Best Smart Home Solutions Smart Home solutions are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the continuous value they add to our routine. On top of that, many of these are becoming simpler to implement with the time and these do not need a lot of expertise. Always remember the key to have a successful smart…

How To Design Applications For Cloud (SaaS) Software as a Service (SaaS) has been a predominant model for many software vendors. It helps similarly delivering software as a Cloud vendor delivers infrastructure services. SaaS applications are often deployed on a public cloud, like Amazon Cloud (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and so on. However, at times the…

Z-Wave Smart Switch Setup With SmartThings Hub `A Z-Wave Smart Switch is often a useful addition to a smart home. It can replace a typical switch and can be operated remotely once it has been paired with a smart hub. It can also be triggered based on an event or a schedule. In this tutorial, we will…