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CakePHP is an open-source framework for web applications built in PHP, a server-side scripting language that many use for web development. CakePHP is intended for rapid development and continued preservation of designed applications, but is also much simpler than other data management systems. When

Apache Hive is a data warehouse system designed to operate on a massive scale. Facebook (now Meta) launched Hive in 2010 to juggle large data workloads as social media popularity and operational demand skyrocketed. With a primary focus on fast data analysis and rapid online insights, Hive granted

Monolithic applications are built as a single unit that includes all of the different components of the application, including APIs, services, databases, load balancers and so forth. Monolithic applications are designed to be self-contained: All of the aforementioned components must be present in

Human capital management (HCM) is a set of human resource functions and practices that enable a company to have the right people with the right skills, while effectively managing workforce productivity and engagement. These functions include workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, learning and

Intercultural competence is a measure of one’s efficacy at communicating and interacting with people from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and identities. No matter how small or large an organization is, intercultural competence is essential to creating an environment where talent from all

Talent assessment is the process of deciding which candidate, from a pool of applicants, is the best fit for an open position. This process is also known as recruitment or candidate assessment and is more broadly referred to as being part of the applicant experience. Recruiters or an in-house human

Talent strategy is the holistic and strategic approach an organization takes to source, hire, onboard, engage and retain talent. Your talent strategy should match your organization’s goals, reflect your company’s values and clearly define what type of talent the organization needs to fulfill its

HR operations, sometimes called People Operations, supports the entire employee life cycle and assists employees and managers in their day-to-day tasks. The scope of HR operations is multi-faceted. It plays a crucial role in developing a company’s people strategy to reach its business goals and

MariaDB is an open-source community-supported relational database management system that’s also an enhanced version of MySQL. MariaDB is fast, scalable and supports more storage engines than MySQL. Similar to MySQL, MariaDB supports external plugins, which means you can extend the database and apply

SQLite is a software library that provides a lightweight, embeddable database engine. It is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that emphasizes speed and necessitates minimal support from the host environment. By design, SQLite is not a standalone database but rather an embedded database

Compensation and benefits (C&B) refer to remuneration to employees from employers. While compensation and benefits are often used interchangeably, there are important differences. Compensation refers to direct payment from the employer to the employee in exchange for labor. You’ll also hear

Laravel is a free open-source PHP framework. It provides web developers tools and resources for building modern PHP web applications. Laravel has useful built-in features like the Artisan command-line interface (CLI), native authentication and model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. These features

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a practice in which companies manage IT infrastructure through code and automation instead of manual configuration. In IaC, the IT infrastructure is in the form of software rather than physical hardware components. IaC also goes by the names software-defined

HBase is a non-relational database management system for real-time data processing in big data applications. The HBase data store runs on top of the Hadoop distributed file system. HBase is a non-relational column-oriented database, which means HBase doesn’t store relational data. That means HBase

Firmware is program code that lives in hardware’s non-volatile memory, which refers to a device’s static random access memory (RAM). When you turn off your device, the content is saved into the non-volatile memory. This principle also applies when your hardware loses an external power supply. You

Backbone.js is a small JavaScript library for organizing developers’ JavaScript code. Backbone.js library is a single JavaScript file with less than 1,000 lines of JavaScript code (not including the code comments). This means Backbone.js is lightweight and easy to integrate into JavaScript-heavy

A data pipeline is a series of data processing steps. Data use in business often requires a series of calculations, data transformations and data movements in order to prepare data for use by data scientists, analysts and business intelligence teams. These calculations and transformations are called

React is a declarative, component-based, open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Whew! There’s a lot to unpack there, so let’s go through each piece of that definition. Declarative There are two paradigms in programming we often hear about: declarative and imperative