Alice Sommacal

Developers wishing to stay up-to-date need to consider several software trends.

E-commerce presents an attractive opportunity for businesses. In Italy alone there are 30 million people who browse the internet each day from their pc or, more often, their smartphone. 60% of them go on to make online purchases

The optimisation of the company IT structure is a priority for many businesses nowadays. In order to do this successfully, some specific measures should be considered, starting with the virtualisation of hard and software, which allows workloads to be more evenly distributed within the company and energy costs to be reduced.

Anyone involved with the web will surely come across hosting sooner or later. The term refers to a service which hosts files that make up a certain web app. This service makes the app accessible to web users via an IP address and domain name.

The term SCRUM refers to an agile methodology which is both incremental and interactive. Its main objective is the development of projects and applications.

The term agile software development, otherwise known as the agile method, refers to a combination of methodologies used in software development.

Nowadays, virtualisation & Virtual Machines are essential in order to optimise company resources. This becomes clearer if we start from an axiom, by remembering that on average, only 30 to 40 % of total server capacity is used.

The Client Server system, which is fundamental for services such as hosting, is based on two elements. The first is the Server, a machine which makes available static and dynamic content from the web and also software and hardware connected to the network, which can be accessed from a browser, or by FTP.

What is the difference between SSD and HDD? The factors to take into consideration do not involve speed alone. Let us distinguish between the two situations by noting that in the SSD v HDD dichotomy, the term HDD indicates a fixed or hard disk.

The binomial HTTP & HTTPS is very well-known and the difference between the two acronyms is a crucial factor in IT security. The term HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) refers to an application protocol which for many years now has been used as the principal method of information transmission on the web.

The term Edge Computing refers to a technology that according to some experts, could signal the end of cloud computing which a decade ago, began radically transforming the world of company data centres

Regex (Regular Expressions) is the term used to describe a tool which, for anyone involved in development, can prove very useful.