Blockchain Trends should be expected in 2019

Blockchain traveled a rocky road in 2018 but is still hotly tipped as a technology with huge potential for transforming business and day-to-day life.

The past year saw huge drops in value for its flagship use case – cryptocurrency Bitcoin – and reports that many pilot programs are failing to show true value. However, many big players including IBM and Walmart are continuing to push ahead, confident it can provide real value for organizations in need of innovative solutions around record keeping and secure recording of transactions.

5 Blockchain Trends Everyone Should Know About 
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So, here are my five predictions for how we’re likely to see blockchain use growing and continuing to make headlines – although they may be slightly less hyperbolic – in 2019.

2019 - The Year for Managed Service Providers?

Chances are that if you are a business owner that has been in business for a decade you’ve seen how emerging technologies have changed the face of business. Technologies like cloud computing have opened up opportunities for many businesses to get the powerful computing infrastructures they need without massive upfront costs. As this trend continues, the IT services has begun to move past core IT management and support and onto providing real solutions for the modern business. Today, we will look at how the Managed Service Provider (MSP) is at the forefront of a data revolution that has no end in sight.

The Managed IT Services Provider

The concept of the Managed IT Services Provider has only been around for over a decade. Many were once break/fix value added resellers (VARs) that dealt in some pretty specific products and services. The shift from break/fix to Managed Services was facilitated by the development of powerful automation software that provided knowledgeable technicians the opportunity to proactively monitor computing networks from a remote location. This provided the businesses with much more effective IT, and much less downtime.

How to Do less and Get more with Lean software development | TP&P Technology

How can we improve the performance of our software development teams and of our organization? As leaders, this is something we ask ourselves all the time since in this competitive world, we are constantly demanding to get more results with the same amount of resources (or even less). Where can we find the required substantial competitive advantage if this is the scenario?

In the early 1990s, in the automobile manufacturing industry, one company stood above everyone with a huge competitive advantage. That company was Toyota, and everyone was excited to learn what they had done to improve their performance while others were struggling to survive in the market. The answer was simple: They were applying some manufacturing principles and practices that they had been developing since the 1950s, which they later called Lean Production or Lean Manufacturing.

Thanks to its success and how it was working, the concept was taken by the software industry and renamed as Lean Software Development (LSD) in order to apply it within the development process. Some of the current trends such as DevOps or Microservices, as well as methodologies like Kanban, are based on some of the Lean principles, helping to improve productivity.

06 top complementary Cross-Platform tools for app developers

Mobile app developers, especially freelance ones, mostly choose free development tools for their cross platform app development projects. Some of them are totally free, others are partially with paid plans. Today post will go over the tools so that we could see the overview of them and choose the best one for our coming work.