A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a way to maintain online anonymity by masking your public IP address so your online activity is untraceable. There are a ton of VPN services and apps available out there, most of which have paid plans, but in this post I am going to…

Cybersecurity is a fast-growing field. In fact, the demand for qualified professionals in this field is expected to rise by up to 20% in the coming years. If you’re interested in becoming a cybersecurity specialist, now is the perfect time to get started on your education and training. And you…

Powershell is an incredibly powerful tool that can be used to automate almost any task. It’s also a notoriously difficult tool to learn. While it may seem like just another command-line tool, its breadth of available features means that it can be used to automate almost every part of your…

Heroku is a cloud container-based Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) used to deploy and manage applications. It supports a wide variety of commonly used programming languages such as Java, PHP, Go, Node.js and more. A few weeks ago, developers received emails that Heroku were to discontinue their free tier. Fortunately, there are lots…

Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high performance API gateway. It provides rich traffic management such features such as load balancing, dynamic upstream, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability and more. What is an API gateway? For those that are new to this term, an API gateway is an API management tool that sits between…

In this post, we shall continue adding features to the app we created in this post. In the mentioned post, we used Firebase ML Kit to recognize text from images taken from our camera. …

The Backend-As-A-Service (BaaS) market is becoming increasingly popular for businesses that don’t have the funds to invest in backend infrastructure or maintain the costs of hiring backend engineers. These companies provide backend solutions to complex tasks that would otherwise take a developer a lot of time to implement by providing…

Firebase ML Kit is a mobile SDK for Android and iOS that enables developers to build apps using machine learning with ease. It has various capabilities including text recognition, image labelling, on-device translation among others. In this post, we are going to create a simple Android app that recognizes text…

Firebase is a Backend-As-A-Service — BaaS — owned by Google for application development that frees developers of the hassle of integrating several backend services among others, leaving developers to worry about creating great user interfaces. …