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Last few weeks have kept us very busy with meetings, collaborations and deliveries. But we did manage to sneak out to meet close friends and family for the new year.

Hope you had a good 2022 and wish 2023 turns out to be even better!

From all of us at Skalable, wish you a very Happy Diwali!

“Protect thy servers and they shalt protect you”

From all of us at Skalable - wish you a very Happy New Year ’22! Wish you happiness, prosperity and the pink of your health. 😊

Thank you for sharing and imparting and

Thank you for being a !

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From all of us at Skalable, we wish you a Happy New Year '21!

From all of us at Skalable, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year '2020! 😀

So the real question is: how ‘fast’ are you? is your fast really fast enough?

Find a few suggestions from our experts in optimizing and delivering content on this blog: https://skalable.net/blogs/technology/how_fast_is_fast_enough.html

How fast is fast enough? | skalable In this blog, the author talks about how speed is an ever evolving paradigm in order to match the ever increasing business demand.

Agile Scrum: Why do we need a Product Owner?

Agile Scrum stresses upon 3 specific and vital roles - Feature Team, Scrum Master and a Product Owner.

Simply put, Feature Team comprises of the team members who shall develop and deliver the product. The Scrum Master is a facilitator who ensures all the ‘rituals’ are followed.

But do we really need a Product Owner? Isn't the Business Team good enough?

What we are really trying to ask is: “We have an Implementation Team and a Business Team. Do we need another discipline called Product Team?”

Read the full blog at: https://www.skalable.net/blogs/agile/why_do_we_need_a_product_owner.html

Agile Scrum: Why do we need a Product Owner? | skalable In this blog, the author emphasized on the need of a dedicated Product Owner role for a successful Agile Scrum adoption.

Shoutout to Tax Connect Advisory Services LLP ( Anindita Chatterjee, Sumedha Khera Verma and Team) for helping Skalable become a reality. The experience was both and !

Gratitude to Timir Baran Chatterjee for always being there, lending his helpful advice throughout.

Tax Connect: www.taxconnect.co.in

Home GST is going live from 1st April 2017. It is imperative that all Professionals equip themselves with this most important tax reform. The firm is engaged in providing all types of direct tax services i.e. from application of PAN to appellate proceedings. The inflow and outflow of funds from India are...

Jenkins High Availability setup
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Are your Jenkins instances setup for High Availability? How about federated CI/CD using Slave instances? Did we also hear "backup"?

In case of a standalone Jenkins setup, if the Jenkins instance fails, all the configuration/jobs data on the node may be lost. Restoring the data/os-image through enterprise backup & restore solutions may not be trivial and may prove to be expensive. There are a few paid and expensive alternatives available that offers a clustered Jenkins setup.

Today, we shall attempt to create a near-replica of the paid solution using free/community software. Please write to [email protected] if you have questions.

Read the full blog at: https://www.skalable.net/blogs/technology/jenkins_ha.html

Jenkins High Availability setup | skalable In this blog, the author discusses a simple and scalable setup for high availability with jenkins instances (master and slaves) with data backup using free/community software.

What's your 'Secret for High Performance' in a Software Solution?

Often, people at work and outside have asked me this question (or a variation of it). I wished I could say that this objective is achievable at the turn of a key, just by re-architecting the solution, throwing more hardware or by re-writing parts of the code, But that would still provide a sub-optimal solution.

To extract an optimal solution all 3 aspects of software development need to be carefully looked at:
- Good architecture
- Categorically designed solution
- Robust, systematic and efficient coding

Software Architecture
“When people in the software industry talk about “architecture”, they refer to a hazily defined notion of the most important aspects of the internal design of a software system. A good architecture is important, otherwise it becomes slower and more expensive to add new capabilities in the future.” ~ Martin Fowler

Read the full blog at: https://skalable.net/blogs/technology/secret_for_high_performance.html

'Secret for High Performance' in a Software Solution | skalable In this blog, the author puts forward his views on Architecture, Design and Code; how they are inter-related; and why each of these are equally important.