Voice devices are now everywhere, whether you like them or not. Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, and Apple's Siri have proved that voice interactions are not from science fiction films but part of our new reality.Just as touch screens, voice interaction with devices will completely revolutionize how we interact with our computers, smartphones, and watches (and even cars and houses) in the coming years. But you might ask yourself, why is it evolving at such a fast speed? Well, there are many reasons.Artificial intelligence is fast advancing, allowing machines to understand a wider variety of...

Each year, custom software development shows us its new angles — those shaped by the technology trends and changes in customer behavior and preferences. Considering the highly impactful nature of 2020 with the outbreak of COVID-19, 2021 custom software development was formed around the technologies that have contributed to the minimization of the pandemic’s harmful impact. So what are these technologies?In this article, you will find out info about the top trends in software development that are on the rise right now — all provided with explanations of their value given by Em...

Logs crop up all over the place. They are generated by everything from web servers and databases to the firewalls which protect them from breaches.Because logs accumulate in large volumes from all of these different sources, log aggregation is an important process which works to organize and impose order over otherwise disparate log files.That sounds good, but should your online business be eager to jump on the log aggregation bandwagon? Here is a look at the main benefits and considerations to help you decide.Image Source: PixabayThe importance of log aggregationAs mentioned, a laundry list o...

Being indulged in Go for quite a while and having implemented web-related programs, grpc interfaces and Operators, I seem to be an advanced beginner now.However, I am still a raw hand in production-environmental debugging, which is cumbersome if done by querying logs or error messages. Imagine the scenario that a full-text search is called when the specific location of the error log is missing. Then what happens when those error logs are not only in one place? Yes, my error logs can no longer help me locate the errors quickly and accurately.Apparently, the lack of the try {…} catch...

This post tries to list down how we keep engineer mindset while doing development work. We engineers are the ones deliver the actual product by writing each and every line of the code, in order to deliver high quality and less buggy code, we should keep reminding ourselves what needs to be paid attention to during our daily development work. So what is engineer mindset? Engineer mindset is that we should keep in mind that each and every line of code we write should serve the purpose well and we should be responsible for whatever we write.With the engineer mindset, we should keep remind us...

Go is a language with the pointer type, by which we canPass pointer into a function and update value in-place.Add methods to a struct as (* T) A, which is different from (T) A().However, the pointer is type-safe in Go, meaning that there are such restrictions of the pointer.Different types of pointers are unconvertible.Pointer type cannot be used for calculation.Pointer types cannot be compared, either == nor !=.No mutual assignment between different pointer-type variables.For example, *int cannot be converted to *int32in the following code.func main() {...

Tiktok is now very popular among the Z-generation around the world. This is an app created by the Chinese company ByteDance. In China, the Chinese version of Tiktok called Douyin is not the only popular app created by ByteDance, there are a few other apps created by ByteDance are also popular such as Jinri Toutiao, a news app famous for its recommendation algorithm similar to Tiktok, also Huoshan Video, another video app similar to YouTube.This Toutiao app encourages general people to create content like posts, tweets etc. However recently some experience we had with it makes us think whether ...

Recently I encountered a weird behavior where a strange webpage showing up every time when I launched my Firefox.The first thought came into my mind is that my homepage of Firefox had been tampered. It might be changed because some software changed my browser settings to promote something.So the next immediate thing I went to check was to see my Firefox browser settings.To my surprise, the homepage setting was not touched. It would still open the Momentum screen which would display some beautiful pictures of nature randomly. I tried to reset them to default but it still had the same issue.Afte...