Category Archives: Blog

We use Jenkins at our current project at 99X Technology as the continuous integration server. We also have a separate Jenkins instance running on a separate server, which executes periodical batch processing jobs against the production data. When a Jenkins job fails, Jenkins would send an automated email to the development email group. In practice, […]

Why I started designing wire-frames on paper When I started my career as a product designer, I always had a problem with finding out when my idea should be pitched to the client. Most of the time as designers, we prefer visual designs to give first glimpses of the application to our users, and and also […]

Have you heard people talk about defects and then you hear people talk about bugs? Some of us think it’s the same thing. It is most probably the most confusing thing but it is not the same. My terminology for a defect and a bug is as follows. But you don’t have to agree, you […]

There are multiple approaches to deploy your Single Page Application in Amazon Web Services (AWS). One of the most common approach is to deploy the front-end of the application written using Angular, React or any other JavaScript framework in Amazon S3. Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data […]

Making Personal Data Great Again! GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation is a new European privacy regulation. The intention of the GDPR is to strengthen and unify data protection for all the individuals within the European Union. GDPR was adopted on 27th April 2016 and it will become enforceable from 25th May 2018. GDPR regulation will be […]

I often hear statements that manual testing is running out of gas and very soon the industry will not need manual testers and that manual testing is primitive. I beg to differ. In my opinion, there are 3 different versions of manual testing Primitive manual testing Someone wrote detailed test cases and someone else did […]

Leading risk management consultancy Whatif has made the most volatile aspect of any organization its business. It takes vulnerabilities from corporates and sorts them through cutting-edge tools that allow the sharing of risks and solutions across the company, bringing about high value addition. Starting off as a gamified paper-based framework, Whatif enlisted 99X Technology’s expertise […]

Over the last five to six years, I’ve had the chance to work with a few applications that are into CRM and the financial closure domains. While working as a QA Lead and Scrum Master, I was able to work as a performance tester as well. Fortunately with these applications, our customers are willing to […]

In the last article of the Azure Functions: Going Serverless on Azure Platform series, we created a Function App on the Azure Portal and walked through the Function App UI and the features provided by the Function Apps. In this article, we will create our first azure function on the Azure Portal. We will create 2 functions […]