Cognixia Podcast

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. Imagine a bustling office filled with paper trails a mile long, overflowing filing cabinets, and employees scrambling to find critical documents. This organizational nightmare used to be the reality for many businesses. Enter Enterprise Content Management (ECM), a lifesaver that emerged in the late 1940s alongside the rise of lean manufactur...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . The acquisition of HashiCorp is part of an effort to broaden IBM’s hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and AI portfolio. Eventually, IBM plans to build a complete end-to-end platform using HashiCorp’s resources. The press release from IBM had Arvind Krishna sharing that IBM’s and HashiCorp’s combined portfolios would help clients manage growing appl...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a rapidly developing field that combines biology, engineering, and computer science to design and create new biological systems or modify existing ones. It blends the disciplines of biology (how with engineering principles as well as computational tools to manipulate and reprogram living organisms. Synthetic bi...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . In September 1983, Richard Stallman launched a project that would fundamentally alter the software landscape: GNU. This operating system emerged as a free alternative to the dominant Unix systems of the era. Stallman's vision was driven by a core belief: software should be open and accessible to all. He saw a growing trend towards propr...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Around 423 years ago, the titular character of Shakespeare’s legendary play – Hamley said “To be or not to be”. Today, four centuries later, we ponder on another such dilemma, and we say, “To Devin or Not to Devin”. Now if that confuses you, allow us to explain, because that is what today’s episode is all about – Devin.ai. So, fasten your s...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . The increasing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) is accompanied by growing concerns about malfunctioning charging stations. This presents challenges for both EV owners and the companies that manage charging infrastructure. The global shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) has experienced significant momentum in recent years. Governments...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . What is CI? Continuous integration (CI) is a fundamental practice within the DevOps methodology. It emerged in the late 1990s as a response to the challenges of traditional software development, where infrequent and large code merges often led to integration issues and bugs. CI automates integrating code changes from developers into a centr...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . how does ITIL 4 help you be a better leader? first, ITIL 4 enables you to have more holistic thinking. ITIL 4 moves away from siloed thinking and encourages leaders to consider the "Four Dimensions of Service Management." These dimensions - Organizations and People, Information and Technology, Partners and Suppliers, and Value St...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast ! who is a data steward? The data steward role emerged in the early 2000s as organizations grappled with the explosion of digital information. As data became a strategic asset, concerns arose about its quality, security, and compliance with regulations. Enter the data steward: a champion tasked with overseeing the well-being of an organizatio...

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast ! An Azure Administrator would have subject matter expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment, including virtual networks, storage, compute, identity, security, and governance. According to Microsoft, as an Azure Administrator, you often serve as a part of a larger team dedicated to impl...

Hello everybody and welcome to the Cognixia podcast ! what is a password manager? Imagine your passwords as tiny secrets, each needing its own locked box. But juggling hundreds of boxes could be such a nightmare! That's where password managers come in - like a master safe for all your secrets, guarded by one super-strong password (your master password). Think of it as Fort Knox for your logins...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast. Emerging technologies hold immense potential and promise, but without a way to focus the right tech on the most pressing challenges, companies and the world at large cannot gain their full value. This is where deep tech comes in. Deep tech involves leveraging mature and emerging technologies to solve the largest problems facing the world tod...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . The renowned UK security think tank, the Royal United Services Institute has published new research detailing the possible effects of ransomware attacks on businesses and staff, society, the economy as well as national security. Interestingly, it also highlights an impact that not a lot of us usually consider when we talk about the cost and...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . DevOps is giving way to DevSecOps, but the pace at which this is happening isn’t quite heartening to see. Another development in the space is Security-as-Code, which works in tandem with DevSecOps, and that is what we will be talking about in today’s episode. While there is no doubt in any of our minds that security is an integral part of t...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we visit two very popular terms of our times – Platform engineering and DevOps, and we will explore not just what they are but also, more importantly, how they are different from each other because we understand it can get a little confusing at times. In the fast-moving, modern software development and operations world, terms like DevOps, p...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we talk about something we all use but don’t pay much attention to these days. At least not as much as we once used to. Today, we talk about anti-virus software. At one point in time, not so long ago, anti-virus software was very highly sought-after and the market was also flooded with pirated copies of popular software brands like McAfee,...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . According to the official Microsoft documentation, PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactiv...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we will talk about MongoDB and Amazon CodeWhisperer. Earlier in November 2023, MongoDB and Amazon Web Services made a groundbreaking announcement. MongoDB, Inc. and Amazon Web Servinces, Inc. announced that “The two companies are collaborating to optimize Amazon CodeWhisperer to provide enhanced suggestions for application development &...

Welcome to the Cognixia podcast . Earlier in December 2023, the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference convened in Dubai, as part of which some very important meetings of the Conference of the Parties or COP 28 took place. These meetings strived to deliver a successful COP 28 that drives global transformation towards a low-emission and climate-resilient world, fostering ambitious climate change action,...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . Salesforce is an easy-to-use, simple-to-set-up, all-in-one CRM platform that helps you take your business to the next level. It offers a multitude of products under its umbrella for different sizes of businesses and different business needs. It is the world’s most trusted customer relationship management platform that can help an organizati...

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . If you remember the headlines from November last year, you will recall that ChatGPT became so popular that it broke all records held by any platforms and apps in the past and reached a mind-blowing one million users in just five days of its launch. This huge surge in user sign-ups was hailed as an undeniable testimony to the growing intere...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . We talk about the recently released “The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023” Report by JetBrains. This report is a culmination of insights gathered from 26,348 developers from all around the globe. The world of developers is vast and diverse, making it an endlessly fascinating realm for exploration & learning. Through yearly research ini...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . When developing applications, one often needs to integrate third-party or open-source dependencies into the applications to meet the intended business requirement or utility. For instance, a food delivery app could be dependent on Google Maps or MapMyIndia for the Map functionality on which a user can track their food. An e-commerce app or...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we talk about something that has been in the news a lot this year and actually makes it to the news for all the undesirable reasons every year for quite some years now. Today, we talk about the AQI or the Air Quality Index. This year, Delhi became the World’s most polluted city in the world, with Mumbai and Kolkatta not far behind in the ai...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . we continue our conversation about Generative AI, this time with a focus on different job roles and how managers can use Generative AI to design better job roles for the organization as well as employees. Organizations do their best to improve employee engagement and keep employee turnover as minimal as possible. But, there is one key metr...