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Ansible is one of the most used DevOps tools in the market today. It provides a bunch of windows modules that are used to configure and manage the Windows server. I assume you already have Ansible installed on Windows from where you want to manage the Windows servers. The following are some of the commonly used tasks performed by Windows administrators on a daily basis. You will be amazed to see how easy it is administered Windows using Ansible....

Fulfilling your customer’s expectations and delivering goods at the right time is your responsibility that requires efficient inventory management and tracking. It becomes even cumbersome and difficult if not done with caution. As a result, it could impact your fulfillment capability and warehouse costs. You could even run the risk of heavy investment in a stock that does not sell. But don’t worry; there is a solution to these issues....

It differentiates you from the rest, boosts awareness, and solves problems creatively. It also helps you win the market and audience. Even though a great design on your website opens up a wide window of opportunities, many businesses underestimate its power. Therefore, after getting everything right, they still fail to achieve what they aimed for. What was that secret ingredient lacking in their efforts? Design! This is why big brands, like Apple, emphasize designing....

Twitter is flooding with leads and prospects. All you need is to collect related data and approach the accounts that need your products or services. But how can you do that? There is a simple answer! Use the Advanced search on Twitter. Many digital marketing teams are not using this feature regularly. Hence, it is an opportunity for you to get high-quality leads without paying any third-party agencies. Continue reading this article to become a master of Twitter Advanced search....

You may easily scale from 10GB to 64TB with the help of automated data scaling in DocumentDB. Let’s see how this can be done. What is DocumentDB? What is a NoSQL Database? NoSQL databases do not have tables related to each other (aka “not only SQL”). Most of the time, documents and graphs are the two main types of things people use. They can handle a lot of data and many user loads....

In spy movies, security operatives have a coded way of transmitting information amongst themselves. Since they are mostly transmitting information that can be used against them if it falls in the hands of their enemies, they have to make sure that those who are receiving the information are trusted parties. The same applies to those who are sending the said information. When the sender and receiver are trusted, the credibility and security of the information can be guaranteed....

While a fancy thumbnail can win you a click, keeping the audience hooked to the content is the real challenge. As the attention span of the YouTube audience keeps diminishing, they are likely to lose interest after a few seconds. Engaging content is undoubtedly important to keep the users until the end; a professionally designed intro preceding the actual content is equally necessary. As inferred, the intro video introduces your channel to the visitors and leads them to the actual content that follows....

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then videos must be ten thousand or even more. Here are some stats to glorify videos in everything online: As per Unbounce, Digital marketing campaigns using videos bag a 34% higher conversion rate. According to Brightcove, website videos translate to a 157% increase in organic traffic from search engine result pages. There are several more, but hey, why write and not use a video by Renderforest instead:...

Think of it as a strategy that answers your customer’s questions and attracts them to your products or services. Before we dive into our comprehensive demand generation strategies, let us understand more about demand generation, why we should use it, and how it will get you more leads in the long run. With that said, let’s get started. What is Demand Generation? Demand generation is a marketing process focusing on creating awareness and increasing the demand for your products and services....

What is Docker Swarm? Docker swarm is a mode of handling a cluster of Docker Engines, hence the name Swarm. The cluster of Docker hosts run in swarm mode consisting of managers and workers. The docker-engine instances which participate in the swarm are called nodes. A production level swarm deployment consists of docker nodes spread across multiple servers. Why use it? – Container Orchestration When you are working in a production environment, 100s of docker containers will be running multiple applications in it....

It seeks to create a culture and governance around data that enables self-service, autonomous teams and empowers them to collaborate and innovate using data. Let’s understand what Data Mesh is all about. What is Data Mesh? In simple words, Data Mesh is a decentralized architecture for managing data within an organization, which means that it is designed to give control and ownership of data to the teams that use it rather than centralizing it in a single group or department....

In programming, loops help you repeat a specific set of statements. You’ll use for loops for definite iterations when: you know you’ll be working with a sequence with a finite number of elementsyou see the number of repetitions beforehand This tutorial will teach you all about working with for loops in Python. You’ll start by learning the syntax and simple iterations using a for loop. Then, you’ll learn about processing command line arguments, using loop control statements, and more....

Over the years, creators building content for YouTube, Facebook, etc., have used Canva to spice up their work with downright stunning images that took their social media sites by storm. Let’s be honest; who wouldn’t fall in love with a tool that enables even an amateur to deliver a kick-butt design for absolutely nothing? However, if you’ve become an expert hooked to Canva and want to go deeper, you could have realized that the many free templates, images, and graphics aren’t just enough....

APT is the program that Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions use to install and update their software. In their out-of-the-box configuration, when you use apt to install a program, e.g.: APT will download the software archive from the distribution repository servers and install it. This works great when the software package is small, there are only a few files that need downloading, and your internet connection is fast. However, if you have a lot of software to install and have an office full of machines that all need updating and you have a slow internet connection it can take a long time to get everything downloaded and installed on every machine....

Like any project, a data science project is a long process that requires time, good organization, and scrupulous respect for several steps. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is one of the most important steps in this process. Therefore, in this article, we will briefly look into what exploratory data analysis is and how you can perform it with R! What is Exploratory Data Analysis? Exploratory data analysis examines and studies the characteristics of a data set before it is submitted to an application, whether exclusively business, statistical, or machine learning....

Sometimes you need to identify the songs or music you have listened to earlier. However, you may forget the tune, so there is no way of recollecting the content. How about having an intelligent software or tool on your mobile that can recognize the content in real-time? That’s right! There are sound-to-music finder apps and tools that help you identify a sound from the immediate environment through the use of the microphone, internet, and onboard music library....

NFS lets you share the file system on more than one server, but implementation requires some administration skills. In a traditional infrastructure environment, you may have to involve multiple teams, and it would take time to create NFS. But if you are using AWS, you can get it done in a few minutes with their EFS (Elastic File System) service. AWS EFS lets you create scalable file storage to be used on EC2....

If you look at the previous track record of Microsoft, you can find this surprisingly silly pattern where it screws every alternate Windows release. Remember how Windows Me was a disaster, but Windows XP was a massive hit? Then released Windows Vista, another disaster, but Windows 7 was superhit again. The story continues with Windows 8 being bad and Windows 10 being a heartthrob. So, what are your bets on Windows 11?...

Minecraft is a creator’s paradise or a strange-looking blockified world annoying you to the core each time you step in. Either way, gamers around the globe find it irresistible and play Minecraft in big numbers, making it the best-selling video game of all time. While you can play Minecraft solo, the experience goes bland after you end up spending hours inside mining and crafting. Ergo, you have the multiplayer to keep the fun alive....

We’ll start with an overview of arithmetic operators in Python and learn how the floor division operator // works. Then, we’ll learn how to use other equivalent methods including functions from the math and operator modules to perform floor division. Let’s get started… Arithmetic Operators in Python In Python, you can use arithmetic operators to perform simple arithmetic operations on numbers of the int and float data types. These operators act on operands (the numbers) and return the result of the operation....