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Beyond Cost Reduction: How RPA helps retain your best talent by reducing process debt?

December 8, 2022December 8, 2022Business Insights, Future, software, User Experienceautomation, Business Process, Compliance, Customer experience, Efficiency and Productivity, Employee Retention, Human Capital, Process Debt, ROI, RPA, Software Bots, Technology Debt

Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction Organizations have come a long way using various application systems built on Information technologies and will continue to build more systems by exploiting every new technology. However, obsolescence and lack of systematic adoption to new processes create process debt or overhead to the organization. This is due to multiple dependencies on specific (older) technologies, specific individuals, and statutory compliance. This burden increases over time Continue Reading

Information Security

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021Future, News, Security, Studio-DevOps, Tech Blogs, Web

Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Being in 21st century, seeing technological transformations is not a big deal any more. Today where there are no limits to the enhancements of technological aspects, it has become possible for one to get all his day to day work done using technologies like desktops and mobile phones, while sitting on a chair. It is now easy for one to reach any point or Continue Reading

Futures and Promises: Functional Way of Concurrency

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021Future, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsFutures and Promises, multithreading, scala

Reading Time: 3 minutes So, from the heading, you must be wondering that what is so special about Futures and Promises and why we are calling it the functional way of concurrency. Well, you all must be aware of the problems that are associated with concurrent programming whether it’s debugging a multithreaded program or shared state concurrency and that’s where Futures and Promises help you so that you don’t Continue Reading

Hexagonal Architecture a silver bullet for Fintech Application

October 26, 2021October 26, 2021Architecture, Future, Tech BlogsFintech, Fintech Application, hexagonal architecture

Reading Time: 6 minutes Hello folks, In this article, I will discuss the best possible approach to start building any fintech product. We will see how this approach will tackle common fintech issues at the early development phase. It will also help us make the right decisions and define the appropriate strategy to meet business objectives. After working for more than 4 years in the Fintech domain, I have Continue Reading

Java8 Futures: Introduction & Best Practices

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020Functional Programming, Future, Java, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsFutures, Java 8

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi there! Today, we are going to talk about Futures in Java. We will also look at some of the best practices related to them. What are Java Futures and why do we need them? To understand this better, firstly we must understand what is blocking and why is it bad for our software. BLOCKING – A blocking/long-running call occurs when a thread is tied Continue Reading

Alpakka: Process big CSV files using Akka Streams

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020akka-streams, Big Data and Fast Data, Future, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this big data world, we have lots of data, and generally, that data comes in CSV files. So as the data is huge, so the CSV files will also be huge. It will not be feasible to load that CSV file into memory in one go. So here the challenge comes, that how should we read those big CSVs. I got the same use Continue Reading

A tour to the Scala Futures

April 20, 2020April 28, 2020Functional Programming, Future, Studio-Scala, Tech BlogsFuture Callbacks, Futures and Promises, Futures in Scala, Scala Futures

Reading Time: 6 minutes While executing long computations, performance is something that’s always being the concern. Luckily, Futures come to our rescue. A Future gives you a simple way to run an algorithm concurrently. Futures are the standard mechanism for writing multithreaded code in Scala. Whenever we create a new Future operation, Scala spawns a new thread to run that Future’s code, and after completion, it executes any provided Continue Reading

MachineX: The alphabets of Artificial Neural Network – (Part 2)

May 12, 2019May 12, 2019Artificial intelligence, Future, ML, AI and Data Engineering

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are reading this blog, it is supposed that you have already done with Part 1 No???? Then visit to the previous blog The alphabets of Artificial Neural Network first and comeback here for an awesome knowledge about Neural network working. We got the basic understanding of neural network so let’s get into deep. Let’s understand how neural networks work. Once you got the Continue Reading

Akka Stream: Map And MapAsync

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019Akka, akka-streams, Future, map, mapAsync, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog, we will discuss what are “map” and “mapAsync” when used in the Akka stream and how to use them. The difference is highlighted in their signatures:- Flow.map takes in a function that returns a type T, while Flow.mapAsync takes in a function that returns a type Future[T]. Let’s take one practical example to understand both:- Problem – Suppose we have a user with a userId and Continue Reading

Futures with Timeout in Scala

February 28, 2019February 28, 2019Functional Programming, Future, Reactive Programming, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 2 minutes You all must be wondering timeouts in Futures, how is that possible? Don’t worry this is the right place to explore what do we mean by Futures with a timeout. I had encountered an issue of finding out if we can provide timeouts to futures in Scala without actually blocking them and guess what, this is possible. In this blog, we will be talking about Continue Reading

MachineX: A tour to KSAI – Neural Networks

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018Akka, Artificial intelligence, Future, ML, AI and Data Engineering, Studio-ScalaArtificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog we would look into how we can use KSAI; A machine learning library purely written in Scala using most of its feature and functional aspects of programming, you can read more about the library at KSAI Wiki, alternatively you can even fork the project from here, KSAI has a rich set of algorithms that address some of the vital problems in classification, Continue Reading

Back2Basics: Futures in Scala

September 3, 2018Functional Programming, Future, scalatest, software, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey folks, in this blog we will be discussing and try to gather some knowledge on how multithreading, concurrency can be achieved and asynchronous computations can be done on immutable values by the use of Futures. Why do we need Futures? The concept of Futures was introduced to allow concurrent programming and avoid wastage of resources which will be blocked in case of sequential code. Continue Reading

map(), flatMap() on Futures & Options in scala

June 27, 2018July 2, 2018Future, Studio-ScalaflatMap, Future, map, Option, scala, Scala Futures

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this blog, we would be looking at how map() and flatMap() operations work with Option and Future of scala, literally speaking both Futures and Options are very effective features of scala, A Future lets us have a value from some task on a differnt thread and Option provides us a hand from null of java as using null in scala is seen a very bad approach in Continue Reading