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Requirement We needed system to generate recommendations at run time for related resource items based on the item being viewed. The recommendation system needed to consider various inputs like user preferences, priority/sponsored items, relevance, ranking etc. The legacy system based…
In this particular application we connected our applications to Microsoft Dynamics AX for GET and POST data through API. We made a reporting module to send reports twice a day at email addresses provided by the admin. We used Laravel…
A cross platform Laravel app that merged Infusionsoft and Slybroadcast to aid the client’s business development process was developed by vteams. The client requested vteams to create a mechanism which could use Infusionsoft’s “POST” method to post details to the Laravel application. This app was configured to sync POST request automatically with the selected....
In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of setting up Ruby on Rails server deployment with Chef – in order to automate remote server configuration. Chef is a tool that allows us to manage configurations, similar to Puppet, but it’s considerably more popular as it’s written in Ruby. This tool can help you manage your infrastructure dependencies, create folder....
Angular applications can use SystemJS to load application and library modules. However, there are alternatives that work just as well, specifically Webpack. SystemJS is often the popular choice, but it is important to understand the pros and cons of both SystemJS and Webpack so that we can make an informed choice. So, Which of the two is better? We....
Managing a preformatted taxonomy (JSON Data) in a tree format with nth level nodes has never been easy, especially with MongoDB. Although there is no rocket science involved, while manipulating a nested array or tree in MongoDB having limited (up to 2) levels of nodes. Moreover, manipulation of multilevel trees requires some additional code implementations....
vteam #367 was hired to work on the client’s application which is a leading Learning Management System (LMS) for corporate training, higher education, and K-12 school districts. This LMS emphasizes a personal learning approach based on collaborative and interactive technology to develop life-long learners. The client wanted to provide his customers with....
vteams helped out a client to fetch the data from Untangle Server through PHP. The client wanted to achieve this by creating a crawler which could gather the data from the server. However, vteams engineer knew that this is not a viable solution and hence an alternative solution was proposed. Solution The first step was to analyze the PSQL database....
Migrations are like version control for your database, as they allow you to easily modify and share your application's database schema. In this article, we will focus on a few techniques used to deal with laravel multi-tenancy migration that has separate databases (master and child databases). Let's say the existing system's migration mechanism is to handle....
Capistrano is a tool used for remote server automation and deployment, written in Ruby. It uses SSH to connect with server for performing various operations and Rake to define tasks required to perform deployment on a specific server. To automate repetitive deployment tasks, it can also be used for any language or framework including Java, PHP....
Software design patterns help to speed up the development process. These have been proven and tested in this field while resolving specific problems in the best possible way. These patterns are abstract solutions that can be mapped in myriad situations and are classified in the following categories: Behavioral patterns Structural patterns Creational patterns....
CircleCI is a tool which provides us with the functionality to merge, test and deploy code automatically on the server. This helps in minimizing testing and deployment time with no errors. CircleCI is integrated with GitHub using webhook and performs all the functionality on its end. When you push ‘commit to GitHub’, CircleCI starts an action to pull down....
