Articles by Jeff Cogswell
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Managing AWS User Permissions: An Introduction
When people think of user access, they generally think of humans accessing a system. But with complex applications running on a hosted system such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), it’s not just humans wanting acce… -
Key Tips for Upgrading Your Tech Résumé
When I first started out as a software developer, I made a lot of mistakes on my résumé. Today, when I review incoming résumés as part of my job as a senior developer, I see people making many of the same mista… -
Deciding Whether a Certification is Worth It
Are you deciding whether to pursue certifications in a specific technology? As you explore your options, you’ll need to decide whether a particular certification is even worth your time. There are certification… -
How Hive Can Fulfill Your Big Data Needs
Although relational database systems such as MySQL and Postgres offer high performance and replication, they weren’t built from the ground up for Big Data that’s distributed across multiple systems. The Hadoop… -
Earning Your AWS Certifications
Over the past decade, cloud-computing technology has evolved at a rapid clip. While it’s hard to keep on top of the latest developments, it’s also essential that developers attempt to do so: potential employers… -
Understanding How Docker Works
Over the past few years, the tech world has embraced container technology, especially Docker. If you’re new to containers, it might take a little effort to understand their functionality and why they’re so usef… -
Using Python for High-Performance Frameworks
A common programming paradigm these days is asynchronous programming. Whether your software needs to run on the web or not, you’ll want to create software that scales well, whether to multiple cores or even mul… -
Choosing a JavaScript Framework
In software development, choosing the right technology for the right job is (arguably) the most important decision a developer can make. But it’s also something easier said than done: For example, you can use m… -
What Basic Skills Should Developers Know?
In college (if not earlier), developers learn the basics of programming—but not everybody finishes learning the other things that developers are expected to know, such as version control and how to manage proje… -
Key Elements of Advanced JavaScript
If you want to land a job using JavaScript, you need to know it well: It’s a language that seems simple on the surface, but can get very complex very, very quickly. Messing up can result in some epic flaws—if y…