Yeahhhyyyy the day has come which was being waited for since a long time. It’s orientation day for the MS BAIM Program at Purdue University. Landed in the US a week ago and still battling the Jetlag and getting adjusted to the surroundings of the new place, the orientation day has arrived which was a long awaited one. The orientation day contains a tight schedule packing in a lot of topics to cover throughout the day starting from 8 AM to 4 PM which includes free Breakfast and Lunch: D The first of the 2-day Orientation program starts on a brighter note wherein People are coming in, getting themselves registered, taking a seat at one of the many round tables present and meeting all new faces here and there which adds excitement to the fact that everyone would be surrounded with unknown and new people all around and the day starts with everyone filled with full of energy. Read on →

This blog mentions the basic steps which are required to follow after getting an i20 form from a University. After getting an i20, we need to fill couple of forms which includes DS-160 Form, Sevis Form (I-901) and Visa Appointment Date. DS-160 Form is used for applying for a Non-Immigrant Visa i.e. for people who are not citizens of United States of America and want to visit/travel to the USA. For more information on DS-160 Form you can refer to the official web site - http://www.ustraveldocs.com/in/in-niv-ds160info.asp Sevis Fee is a payment charged by the United States Department of Homeland Security to maintain and fund the Student Exchange Visa Information System (SEVIS). Read on →

This Blog explores Consul as a tool for Configuration Management. The scope of this Blog is limited to the Installation and Usage of Consul for Configuration Management. Consul is a tool developed by HashiCorp which has prior developed world-class tools such as Vagrant. Consul is a multi-featured tool providing various features out of which Configuration Management is one of the features. The evaluation of Consul is limited to Configuration Management itself. Read on →

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Use Case 1: You are deploying a Hadoop cluster of 200 nodes in production. This blog is the second blog in the series of Big Data Testing. Kindly visit the first blog (http://guptayuvraj.github.io/post/Big-Data-Testing/) to know about Big Data Testing along with various scenarios to test in Big Data ecosystem. In this blog we will look at a common use-case used for testing in production environment. It is a fairly easy practical scenario which you can face. Read on →

This blog is for people who want to understand what to test in the Big Data ecosystem or what are the scenarios to cover in Big Data Testing. We will cover the following topics:- Brief understanding on what is Big Data Why require Big Data Testing High level architecture of Big Data Brief explanation of Big Data Components Big Data Testing scenarios Data Ingestion Layer Data Processing Layer Data Storage Layer Other Testing scenarios List of few tools used in Big Data What is Big Data? Read on →

This blog has been written as a White Paper which has been reproduced in form of a blog. Top Reasons Why IT Disaster Recovery Plan Should Be a Top Priority Hardware or Machines Breakdown: As hardware is highly designed in such a way that it is highly resistant to collapse though it can become faulty anytime. We cannot determine accurately when the Hardware will collapse. It can be via any fault in disk, internet connection failure, incorrect working of a part etc. Read on →

AngularJS is a toolset for building the framework most suited to your application development. It is fully extensible and works well with other libraries. HTML is great for declaring static documents, but it falters when we try to use it for declaring dynamic views in web-applications. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop. Other frameworks deal with HTML’s shortcomings by either abstracting away HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript or by providing an imperative way for manipulating the DOM. Read on →

Overview Cloud Gaming Social Network refers to 3 terms i.e. Online Gaming, Social Network and Cloud Computing. It refers to building a platform wherein users can play any type of game online and pay as per usage. It will have a built-in social network wherein users can connect with fellow-players. It innovates the Gaming Social Network which would host all games ranging from flash games to arcade games and reaching upto high end games based on Cloud & Virtualization Technology. Read on →

Site search is beneficial to e-commerce and content websites alike. A great site search software can help you retain customers, increase sales, track under-performing pages and keywords and even more. Site Search Benefits Your Consumers: It satisfies the “I want it now” problem for today’s searchers Consumers expect site search on today’s websites Reduces bounce and exit rates and increases time on site Can help suggest related content the customer is interested in but didn’t know to look for. Read on →