Cognixia Podcast

If you have been keeping up with the news, you would be aware of the ongoing crisis in Sudan. A deadly power struggle erupted in Sudan in mid-April, between the military factions after the transition to a civilian-led government faltered. Intense clashes are occurring between Sudan’s military and its main paramilitary forces, which have so far killed hundreds of people while thousands are trying t...

One such area where artificial intelligence is making quite a mark is DevSecOps. We are going to take a quick minute here to tell everybody what is DevSecOps. DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security testing at every stage of the software development process. This would include the tools & processes which facilitate collaboration among developers, security specialists, operations team...

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Cognixia podcast . As of 2022, women earn, on average, about 82% of what men earn which is only a 2% increase from 2002, according to Pew Research. Women are highly underrepresented in STEM fields, even more so in managerial roles, making up only 27% of the workforce in those industries, combined, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This trend is...

We will talk about the most recent development in the AI space – GPT-4. A lot of you would have already heard about it, some might even be on the waitlist to get the API, and some might have tried it and tinkered around a bit with it, though we are sure, some are still to discover it. No matter where you stand, we can promise today’s episode should help you get a lot of information about GPT-4. GP...

ChatGPT is known for being a human-like conversationalist. This dialogue format and the training it is backed by empower ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, challenge premises that might be incorrect, and reject requests that it feels are inappropriate. The key factor here is that ChatGPT is trained and not programmed to do what it does which makes it so much more human. So, what do you think,...

ChatGPT can be integrated with automation development and leveraged to provide personalized customer interactions – from responding to common queries to delivering support for more complex problems. This automation would improve accuracy, reduce response times, and be available & accessible 24x7, all of which are very important factors in the current times. This, in turn, leads to enhanced cus...

It is said that if you have ever written a blog, a product review on any platform, commented on anything online, or just about written anything on the online space, chances are your words were used for training ChatGPT. ChatGPT knows what you wrote, irrespective of whether you wanted it to know about it or not. By now, we have told you a few times about the humongous amount of data that went into...

ChatGPT is a transformer-based language model that uses deep neural networks to process & understands the text. Now, due to this architecture, ChatGPT can generate more fluent and natural-sounding text than any other models have been able to accomplish previously. Additionally, the ChatGPT model has been trained on a very wide range of content on the internet we could even say that ChatGPT has...

Two of the most prominent AI-powered intelligent chatbot tools would be ChatGPT by OpenAI and Sparrow by Google. Both these tools have the potential to change the way we interact with the digital world and digital systems. Both ChatGPT and Sparrow provide users with an effortless and natural communication experience which is, undoubtedly, one of their biggest USPs.  ChatGPT is a state-of-the-...

DevOps is a set of practices and guidelines that help improve software development productivity. It has immensely helped shorten the software development lifecycle while delivering high-quality applications with a steady and consistent delivery of code.   One thing that played a major role in enabling the success of DevOps was containerization. If we had to explain in very simple terms what c...

we come to the end of this week’s episode. If you would like to learn more about RESTful APIs, while sharpening and validating your skills, we would recommend signing up for our live online instructor-led DevOps Plus training and certification course We hope this helps you understand what we are trying to say about what you must and must not do when designing RESTful APIs.

A cloud engineer is an IT professional who takes care of any technological responsibilities associated with cloud computing – from design to planning, management to maintenance, and support. Under the bigger bracket of cloud engineers, there are more specific roles, such as:  Cloud architect  Cloud software engineer  Cloud security engineer  Cloud systems engineer  Cloud n...

We talk about Kubernetes deployment strategies. We talk about what is Kubernetes in a lot of our episodes. Kubernetes is a very popular open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Now, there are quite a few different ways in which an appli...

We will talk about what is .Net, what it does, what is the new version all about, what value it brings to the table, and what it means for enterprise applications. So, without further ado, let’s begin.  We hear people talking about .Net time and again, chances are some of you may even have used it at some point or continue to use it in your everyday life today. But to level the ground for eve...

At Cognixia podcast , every week we bring you a bite-size dosage of the latest happenings, discussions, guides, and a lot more from the world of emerging digital technologies. This week we talk about something major that happened earlier in January 2023. A computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration brought flights across the United States to a complete standstill, with hundreds of dela...

We talk about the relationship between two very important areas of the IT space – IT service management, commonly referred to as ITSM, and Software-as-a-Service, commonly referred to as SaaS. We will explore the relationship between ITSM and SaaS, and how they work together.  SaaS management is the process and practice of tracking and managing the full lifecycle of all the cloud applications...

Agile project management is a non-linear approach to organizing and carrying out the delivery of a project through its lifecycle. This approach involves breaking larger goals into smaller tasks that are more manageable, easier to accomplish, and simpler to tweak & adjust as required during the course of the project. This enables teams to accomplish the smaller tasks quickly and easily, compare...

we are going to be talking about something that has been a very happening technology for quite some time now – Low-code. As the name suggests, the technology involves minimal possible coding, helping someone with absolutely no background or practice in coding to be able to create applications easily. The technology is seeing a huge demand as it does not just reduce the dependence on skilled coding...

ChatGPT by OpenAI is making headlines all over the world and it has gone totally viral. So, we at Cognixia podcast thought, why not talk about what ChatGPT is and what the hype is all about, that is exactly what today’s episode is going to do.  ChatGPT is not exactly the catchiest, smoothest name we have ever seen for a bot, instead, it sounds more like some complicated computer component, or...

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you know that the days are getting colder and the mercury is dropping a bit every day. This makes for the perfect weather for that mug of hot chocolate and some warm ginger or cinnamon cookies, doesn’t it?  But it is also a prime season for something else – flu. The cold, dry, winter air makes us susceptible to influenza. Not a lot of us take influenza...

We talk about a challenge a lot of Scrum Masters face these days – managing distributed teams. In the post-covid world. Having distributed teams are commonplace. Geographical boundaries and physical presence are no longer important to get work done. A rigid manifesto would lead to utter failure in such a scenario. But the agile methodology has always been flexible and adaptable to changing times a...

This week are going to do something we love doing – busting myths. Like with just about everything that exists in this world, the technology space is also rife with a lot of myths and misconceptions which prove to be rather silly sometimes or could even lead someone to make very expensive errors in their work or life. This makes busting myths super important, of course. We will debunk not one, not...

Microsoft is introducing granular personal access tokens for its Azure DevOps REST APIs to limit the risks and damages when access credentials are leaked or stolen. Now, some weeks back, the renowned cybersecurity firm – Praetorian came out with details on how their researchers accessed the internal corporate networks of companies using GitHub, an entity owned by Microsoft, for their CI/CD tools....

SAFe and Behavior-driven Development. In today’s competitive environment, these two are very, very important, so we decided let us have an episode discussing these. So, without any further ado, let’s begin!  What is SAFe?  SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, and DevOps. The latest version...

Having a project management team in place is one of the most important and useful things an organization could do. As an organization grows, the project in the organization grows in size and scale too, becoming more and more complex, making it indispensable to have a skilled professional project management team in place.   If you are an aspiring project manager, an existing project manager, a...