Last week we headed down the coast to LA to hear from top retailers and brands at #LAECOM, hosted by IC Summit. While the panelists were astonishingly diverse, ranging from social media darling Snapchat to insurance providers like Farmers, and e-comm startups peddling everything from athleisure to...

New Relic is a performance monitoring tool well known by the microservices community. It supports a lot of platforms, but it's support for .NET Core is still recent. In this post, I'll walk you through how to configure a .NET Core 2 Web API to send metrics to New Relic from a Docker container...

From controlling smart cars on earth to forecasting solar flares in space, machine learning technologies are being more and more widely implemented. Today, we’ll continue last week’s discussion on machine learning applications in retail settings, including their uses in securing payment...

As retail companies continue to compete to increase market shares, business owners are seeking to implement technologies that they believe will boost their revenues. Because of the many technological systems in use, it’s impossible to analyze all accessible data generated by different resources,...

In my last post, I gave a brief introduction on Blockchains, and how it's all the hype because of its ability to completely eliminate the middle man during transactions - all you need are the two interested parties and a few lines of code to help validate the trade. These seemingly simple lines of...

What if I told you nobody actually buys products. Weird, right? Maybe, but let's delve into the why. Consciously or not, what people buy is value. 

Microservices is all the hype these days, so in this post, I'll try to highlight its most important aspects. I've split these aspects into four groups based on the different benefits they provide.