Interviews

Get the latest insight and opinion from the experts. Packt Hub interviews help reveal insider secrets, to help you stay ahead of the curve.

Listen: We discuss what it means to be a hacker with Adrian Pruteanu [Podcast]

What does it mean to be a hacker? Adrian Pruteanu explains in the Packt Podcast
0
With numerous high profile security breaches in recent years, cybersecurity feels like a particularly urgent issue. But while the media - and, indeed, the wider world - loves stories of modern vulnerabilities and mischievous hackers, there's often very little attention paid to what causes...

Why go Serverless for event-driven architectures: Lorenzo Barbieri and Massimo Bonanni [Interview]

serverless computing
0
Serverless computing is a growing trend that lets software developers focus more on code than the back-end processes. While there are a lot of serverless computing platforms, in this article we will focus on Microsoft’s Azure serverless computing platform, which provides its users with ...

Why functional programming in Python matters: Interview with best selling author, Steven Lott

automate
0
Python is currently one of the most popular and desired programming languages. Primarily for its simplicity, agility and ability to be used across a variety of software development projects. Although an Object Oriented language, Python supports an array of programming paradigms, including Functional Programming....

Why become an advanced Salesforce administrator: Enrico Murru, Salesforce MVP, Solution and Technical Architect [Interview]

Salesforce admin
0
As per a recent IDC study, the forecast for new jobs demanding Salesforce skills shows a huge surge from last year. The numbers reveal that the demand is set to create 3.3 million jobs in the Salesforce ecosystem by 2022.  Additionally, among Indeed’s top...

Site reliability engineering: Nat Welch on what it is and why we need it [Interview]

Site reliability engineering explained
0
At a time when software systems are growing in complexity, and when the expectations and demands from users have never been more critical, it's easy to forget that just making things work can be a huge challenge. That's where site reliability engineering (SRE) comes...

Minko Gechev: “Developers should learn all major front end frameworks to go to the next level”

The battle of the front end frameworks in 2018
0
This year's Skill Up survey produced some interesting results when it came to the best front end frameworks. Angular remains the most established tool with 40% of web developers reporting that they used it regularly. React is actually a little further behind, with 25%...

Nate Chamberlain talks about the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security suite and becoming M365 certified

0
Security is an important aspect for organizations and securing the devices that contain confidential data--personal or professional, is absolutely essential. Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security, an intelligent mobility management and security platform, offers a suite of services that helps in securing employee devices; thus,...

Wolf Halton on what’s changed in tech and where we are headed

0
The tech industry is changing at a massive rate especially after the storage options moved to the cloud. However, this has also given rise to questions on security, data management, change in the work structure within an organization, and much more. Wolf Halton, an...

‘If tech is building the future, let’s make that future inclusive and representative of all of society’ – An interview with Charlotte Jee

0
Charlotte Jee is a journalist specialising in technology and politics, currently working as editor for Techworld. Charlotte has founded, hosted and moderated a range of events including The Techies awards and her own ‘Women in Tech Speak Up’ event series. In 2017, Charlotte set...

“Be objective, fight for the user, and test with real users on the go!” – Interview with design purist, Will Grant

UX design
0
Too often, as designers and developers we fail to make interfaces that are usable, fail to make software that is intuitive, and fail to make products that normal people can understand. By coating design rigour with a layer of brand fluff, and putting form...

Must Read in Mobile

Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design

0
When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...

Interviews