Software Engineering Perspectives Articles

Stephen Gossett

Updated on March 20, 2025

Cloud competition has humbled the onetime watershed. Cloudera’s new distribution aims to restore former glory.

The best systems engineers turn major challenges into opportunities for them to evolve their skills, both technical and nontechnical.

Tatum Hunter

Updated on March 20, 2025

Think about who your users are, what they want to do, and why.

Max Reynolds

Updated on March 19, 2025

SQL functions are prewritten actions that can be called on a cell, record or database to flexibly manipulate and extract information for further analysis. Take a closer look at the main types of SQL functions and how to use each.

Max Reynolds

Updated on March 19, 2025

SQL uses various data types for handling alphanumeric characters, numeric values and date and time values. Here are some of the main SQL data types to know and when to use them.

Peter Grant

Updated on March 19, 2025

In Python, floats are a common data type that lets users work with decimal numbers, covering a wider range of values than integers. Check out this quick tutorial on how to make and use floats in Python.

Akshay Kumar

Updated on March 19, 2025

Binary search is an efficient algorithm for searching a sorted list of data to find an item. Here’s an overview of how it works, how it compares to linear search, how to implement it in Python and its benefits and downsides.

Neha Sampat

Updated on March 19, 2025

No matter how much you like building proprietary software, sometimes buying a solution makes more sense.

Derek Ashmore

Updated on March 19, 2025

If you have legacy apps that need an update, AI can help you streamline the process and restore them to life.