The importance of data as a strategic asset – How to transform your business into a data-driven organization

Data is crucial for various purposes such as informed decision-making, problem-solving, gaining greater understanding, improving processes, and understanding customers. With real-time intelligence available, leaders can make informed decisions on the direction of their organization. Data can help identify problems and provide solutions, and it can also help us understand trends and patterns in our lives […]

6 Game-Changing Strategies for Creating an Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Smart Retail Supply Chain 

Cloud has become a critical technology for organizations seeking to enhance their business agility, streamline operations, and introduce new products and services. And at mindit.io, we know that better than anyone, given the experience and expertise on the matter of our +250 software engineers and business analysts that work for our partners from various industries, […]

Embracing the Benefits of Cloud-Native Technologies for Your Business Success

Intro At mindit.io, our team of specialists brings extensive expertise in cloud-native technologies. Our experience in implementing robust automation and driving high-impact changes with speed and agility makes us the partner of choice in terms of in leveraging cloud-native technologies for building and operating scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments. Cloud-native technologies offer numerous advantages […]

Java-Powered Retail Revolution: How Java is Transforming the Future of Shopping

Welcome to the future of retail! As a team that specializes in software product engineering, at mindit.io we know firsthand the power technology has to completely transform and reshape industries. And in the world of retail, which is one of our main areas of expertise, there is perhaps no technology more powerful than Java. Java […]

Kubernetes 101 – ConfigMap & Secrets

ConfigMap A ConfigMap is used to store non-confidential data in key-value pairs. They allow decoupling of environment-specific configuration from container images, so that the applications are easily portable. Pods can consume ConfigMaps as environment variables, command-line arguments, or as configuration files in a volume. Definition: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: database-config data: user: dev-user […]

Kubernetes 101 – Volumes

Introduction Q:What is a Volume A: A directory with data accessible to all containers in a pod. Kubernetes supports many types of volumes. Persistent Volumes Ephemeral Volumes Projected Volumes etc. A pod can use any number of volume types simultaneously. Persistent Volume (PV) This is a storage element in a cluster, defined manually by an […]

Kubernetes 101 – Jobs & Cronjobs

ob A Job creates one or more Pods and will continue to retry execution of the Pods until a specified number of them successfully terminate. apiVersion: batch/v1 kind: Job metadata: name: job spec: template: containers: – name: nginx image: nginx:latest command: [”/bin/sh”, “-c”, “date;”] backoffLimit: 4 As pods successfully complete, the Job tracks the successful […]

Storyblok – What is it and how can it help your business?

What is Storyblok? According to the official documentation, Storyblok is an enterprise-level Headless Content Management System that empowers content creators and developers to build anything and publish everywhere, giving them the flexibility to create and scale better experiences across all digital channels with any technology stack. Now, Storyblok is very far from the first to […]

Kubernetes 101 – Deployments

Intro While you can’t rely on any single pod to stay running indefinitely, you can rely on the fact that the cluster will always try to have the number of pods you wanted available. A Deployment object contains a collection of pods defined by a template and a replica count (how many copies of the […]

Kubernetes 101 – Namespaces

Intro Before jumping into Kubernetes resources, let’s take a look over a very important concept called Namespace. Namespaces are a way to separate cluster resources. Namespace-based scoping is applicable only for certain types of objects (e.g. Pods Deployments, Services, etc.) and not for cluster-wide objects (e.g. StorageClass, Nodes, PersistentVolumes, etc.). Usage Retrieve all defined namespaces. […]