If you are a small business owner or have just started your own business, doing a break-even analysis is important. It will help you determine if your business is sustainable or not, if the costs are too high or if the princess is too low to reach the break-even point at the right time. It will help you forecast your business’s profitability, revenue and growth. What is the Break-Even Point?...

Like any project, a data science project is a long process that requires time, good organization, and scrupulous respect for several steps. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is one of the most important steps in this process. Therefore, in this article, we will briefly look into what exploratory data analysis is and how you can perform it with R! What is Exploratory Data Analysis? Exploratory data analysis examines and studies the characteristics of a data set before it is submitted to an application, whether exclusively business, statistical, or machine learning....

One such instance can be when you’re running low on your device storage and have to delete most of the stuff, including text messages, to free up some space. Instead of deleting them directly, you can save them somewhere first and then delete them. Another instance can be when your friend sends a hilarious text message, and you never wish to lose it, so you decide to save it on your email or notes....

Is this feature useful, or is it taking personal information from you that should otherwise be kept confidential? Let’s get detailed information about the same and know how you can enable and disable this Autofill Password feature. What is an Autofill Password? As Android Oreo 8.0 hit the market, Google developed the autofill framework that eased the process of filling passwords in various apps. Once Google saves information like your password, card information, address, etc....

In Linux, you may use cron to schedule commands to run at certain times. But what if you need commands to be run every time a file is modified, or a new file is added to a directory? That’s also easily achievable, and there are some command-line tools to perform that. Let’s get started! watchexec watchexec is a handy and standalone tool that monitors a given working directory and executes a command if it detects any changes like file updation or new file creation....

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is one of the most popular application servers if you are WebSphere administrator then often you have to deal with performance & capacity issue. In this post, I will explain how you can use WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT) to monitor and find performance related issue in WAS. What is WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit? It’s important to understand what is PTT and how it can help you....

In this tutorial, you will learn to install Blackbox Exporter on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use it with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor website performance and uptime. Prerequisites Prometheus and Grafana must be pre-installed. Follow this article to install Prometheus and Grafana. Blackbox Exporter Installation Let me show you how to install Blackbox exporter first. Step 1: Download Blackbox Exporter Go to the official page to download the latest Linux AMD Blackbox exporter package....

Why should you read this article? And another chance that you don’t know how to run Python scripts as you are not familiar with them. It’s definitely for you. Is this only for you? No, both who are familiar and who are not with Python can get something new in this article. Without further ado let’s jump into the article. Before going into the execution part of the tutorial, we need to have installed Python on our systems....

There are many techniques used by a hacker to attack a site, and one of the popular ones is Brute Force Attacks. As you can see, it stands out as the fifth position in the latest report by WhiteHat Security. Brute Force can happen to any other platform like WordPress, Magento, Drupal, or even the server OS. Technically, any platform/service, API, etc. which is password protected, can be a victim of brute force attacks....

In this tutorial you’ll learn: the syntax of the not equal (!=) operator and use cases,the syntax of the equal operator (==) with examples, and the use of is and is not operators to check for the identity of any two Python objects. Let’s get started. Python Not Equal Operator Syntax For any two Python objects obj1 and obj2 , the general syntax to use the not equal operator is:...

What is IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)? Infrastructure-as-a-Service, aka IaaS, is a cloud computing term. IaaS means to provide clients with basic ‘infrastructure’ with compute, network, and/or storage capabilities on-demand, through the internet, and generally on a pay-as-you-go model. IaaS allows end-users to scale resources as needed, avoiding the need for significant, upfront capital investments or needless “owned” equipment. IaaS is exceptional for applications with “spiky” workloads. Unlike PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) and even newer computing models like containers and serverless, IaaS gives you the most control over your cloud resources....

It will ensure you have the right amount of inventory in the right locations at the right time to foster business continuity and achieve greater returns. However, if your inventory is not managed properly, many issues can arise, such as insufficient stock, overstocking, damages, theft, and so on, which negatively impacts your business. This is where using good inventory management software is helpful. Let’s discuss what inventory management is, its challenges, and how to address them....

Today, workplaces thrive on synergy and collaboration. They also require different teams to be on the same page so that work can be done faster with better success rates. This requires powerful collaboration and workflow capabilities, which everyone looks for in project management software. Introduction Smartsheet is a powerful project management platform with robust capabilities. Since so many tools are available on the internet, it becomes difficult to choose the best one for your team....

gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call): gRPC is an open-source RPC architecture developed by Google to enable high-speed communication between microservices. gRPC allows developers to integrate services written in different languages. gRPC uses the Protobuf messaging format (Protocol Buffers), a highly efficient, highly packed messaging format for serializing structured data. For some use cases, the gRPC API may be more efficient than the REST API. Let’s try to write a server on gRPC....

One great product of years of marketing research is viral marketing. Here you do not just use a marketing team to create brand or product awareness. You involve anyone, not necessarily your target audience, to do marketing for you. Wondering why would the public market your brand for free? Read the content until the end to get the answer and how it can benefit your online marketing plans. What is Viral Marketing?...

A customer relationship management (CRM) platform is a tool that organizations use to manage and improve their relationships with customers and prospects. Similarly, a sales CRM is a type of CRM tool used to manage an organization’s entire sales pipeline. It will help you store your prospects’ and customers’ data, analyze it with clear dashboards, and manage your sales process effectively. Your sales teams can use a sales CRM in everyday activities, such as entering data, notifying customers, emailing for follow-ups, etc....

There are various types and sizes of businesses. For example, small family businesses, freelance professionals forming an agency, large IT consultation firms, consumer goods manufacturing companies, and so on. Whatever the business, the distinction lies in how the company raises money to run regular operations or grow it. Here come public vs. private companies. One has the freedom to raise money from the public market, while the other can only source funds privately....

There is much focus on how to secure front ends like Apache or Nginx, but when it comes to a backend, we often ignore it. If you are working in a critical production environment where every minute counts you may want to explore all the options to secure as much you can. IBM WebSphere Deployment Manager Console is a gateway for all the changes you do for application, and you must consider restricting access from authorized IP’s or hosts....

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of content gap analysis and even in advanced strategy, let’s first go over what content gap analysis is. In this article, I will give you detailed information on content gap analysis, the purpose, and the content gap analysis process. Let’s get right into it. What is Content Gap Analysis? Content gap analysis is the method of analyzing the existing content on the website and finding the gaps in our website compared to competitors....

Keeping track of configuration changes is essential for a production environment. This helps you to audit the changes done by the team and restore if needed quickly. Having this implementation also discourage team to perform unauthorized changes in production. So you see its win-win situation for business and production management. By default, WebSphere DMGR logs (SystemOut.log) doesn’t capture who has logged in changes made in DMGR. Hence it’s risky for a critical production application....