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Kyle Brill Kyle Brill
Updated on August 07, 2024

TCP vs. UDP: Understanding the Differences Between the Two Protocols

TCP and UDP are both essential to data transmission between servers, and understanding the design principles of each is essential for selecting the right protocol for your application.

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Derek Ashmore Derek Ashmore
Updated on August 05, 2024

3 Times You Should Skip Infrastructure-as-Code in DevOps

To thrive at DevOps, recognizing when not to use IaC is just as critical as knowing when to use it.

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Richard Farnworth Richard Farnworth
Updated on August 01, 2024

The Birthday Paradox Explained

The birthday paradox is the probability theory that the probability of two people sharing the same birthday grows with the number of possible pairings. 

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Kyle Brill Kyle Brill
Updated on July 25, 2024

What Is Cloud Bursting?

Cloud bursting acts as an overflow valve, redirecting excess demand to public cloud resources when needed. Here’s how it works.

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Kyle Brill Kyle Brill
Updated on July 24, 2024

What Is Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)?

With DBaaS, users receive access to a database without the need to manage one themselves. Here’s what you need to know.

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Jignesh Patel Jignesh Patel
Updated on July 16, 2024

Enterprises Should Learn From Academia’s Reproducibility Crisis

A culture that prizes discovery over verification has led to a crisis in the quality of academic research. If businesses aren’t careful, the same problem will make their expensive data science solutions equally suspect.

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Rory Spanton Rory Spanton
Updated on July 16, 2024

Pipe in R: A Guide

Pipe in R (|>) is an operator that takes the output of one function and passes it into another function as an argument, linking together the steps for data analysis. 

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Rory Spanton Rory Spanton
Updated on July 15, 2024

How to Use strsplit() Function in R

The strsplit() function is a powerful tool for splitting strings in R using delimiters or regular expressions. Learn about its many uses with these examples.

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Quazi Nafiul Islam Quazi Nafiul Islam
Updated on July 15, 2024

What Is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?

An IDE is designed to help developers write, compile and debug their code more efficiently.

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Gediminas Rickevičius Gediminas Rickevičius
Updated on July 12, 2024

How Data Analytics Boosts Fan Engagement in Sports

With the summer Olympics starting soon, our expert looks at how web scraping and data analytics can enhance sports fandom.

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