(The following article is property of Avenue Code, LLC, and was originally published with permission at TotalRetail on January 7, 2019.) 

Jeremy Parker is the founder of Swag.com, a custom promotional products e-commerce retailer. He spoke with Avenue Code about the importance of passionate entrepreneurship and focusing on consumers’ core needs.

It's good practice to start new IT projects by considering how to easily and quickly consume and display data, and one of the first steps is creating or choosing the right API for your business. So why not choose an API that's a universal query language and provides a modern approach to accessing your data sources?

SOLID principles are quite well known nowadays, but do you know their cousin, the Principles for Package and Component Design? Okay, maybe it's not the catchiest name, but that's what Robert C. Martin named them in his book entitled Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. 

(The following article is property of Avenue Code, LLC, and was originally published with permission at TotalRetail on August 9, 2019.) 

Retail strategist Carl Boutet discusses the cultural and technological transformations retailers must make to create personalization and consistency across physical and digital platforms.

What is Elasticsearch, how does it work, and why is it so effective? Elasticsearch is simple to configure, has incredible flexibility, and is an excellent tool for complex searches. Let's take a closer look.

Over the years, Swift has become a very powerful language with many features, and one of the greatest of Swift's powers is generics.

Welcome to the second part of our Snippets series on real-time stream processing using Apache Kafka! To recap, in part one we introduced stream processing and discussed some of the challenges involved, like the stateful nature of aggregations and joins. We’ll discuss the impact of such stateful operations in a while, but first, let’s delve deeper into one key aspect of real-time stream processing: performance.