Azure Cloud: Mining the Ether (a practical guide)

Azure Cloud: Mining the Ether (a practical guide)

A Practical guide to Mining and Transferring Tokens of Your Own Private Cryptocurrency “Which cryptocurrency is better? Mine, of course! Please don’t make me sign up to another service, just let me trade Ether and create Tokens …” Like many...
Milestone versus Waterfall Development

Milestone versus Waterfall Development

Milestone-driven software development is Art+Logic’s proprietary, iterative development process based on proven agile principles. Each iteration contains all phases of a project: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and delivery. Software is built incrementally from the start of the project instead of trying to deliver it all at once. This approach helps teams respond to unpredictability by promoting consistent and frequent opportunities for feedback.

A Brief Introduction to Blockchain

A Brief Introduction to Blockchain

At its simplest, a blockchain is a distributed database of transactions that are cryptographically linked to form an incorruptible chain. Transactions are grouped together at intervals to create a ‘block.’ Every new block depends on its ancestor block...
Digital Disruption and the Menswear Renaissance

Digital Disruption and the Menswear Renaissance

Disruption has been the buzzword in tech for the last half a decade or so, and I thought it might be interesting to detail how disruption has personally changed my life as it simultaneously changed the fashion industry. First, let’s define a few terms: Ready to wear...
Azure Load Balancing: How to Scale Out VMs

Azure Load Balancing: How to Scale Out VMs

Cloud Computing shines in a cost-benefit analysis; virtually unlimited resources are available at a moment’s notice, and resources must only be paid for if and when they are needed. Unlike dedicated servers, Cloud-based resources scale quickly & automatically to respond to peak loads. They can also provide fault tolerance via replication both within and between data centers. Understanding the pros and cons of the different approaches available to scale your app up is critical to long-term project success.