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Noble Hurst, BSc, PMP, ITIL and I am a Software Development Manager with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. I've worked for everything from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada. I focus on various internet technologies including AWS, WordPress, & Postgres. I also cover IT concepts like DEVOPS, Agile development, & project management
If we have learned anything from the recent SolarWinds hack, is that many companies sell Security solutions with no measurable way of verifying this claim. In fact, most companies cannot accurately tell you why anything they sell is secure, yet we believe them. Keep in mind that banks, governments, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google have all…
I originally wrote an article on the topic of working in IT as a black man, when the black lives matter campaign seemed to reach its pinnacle. I believe my feelings were too prevalent in that post. Now that news channels have found other things to focus on, I’ve had a chance to review my…
Considering the recent events with Black Lives Matter, an asian friend said I should speak up. I’ve learned to keep my mouth shut about my experiences, for fear of destroying any future opportunities in the industry. As a black man who was educated in the US, worked in the US, and now works in Canada,…
Lots of acronyms but this is a simple high level article. Today, we will be discussing the creation of a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant HA (Hyper Availability) architecture on the AWS (Amazon Web Server) platform. On the surface, this may seem impossible considering that AWS is a cloud service; however, we…
Today Salesforce has an outage affecting mostly its north american and some European customers. We are taking this opportunity to remind customers that just because a company is large and famous, doesn’t mean that they don’t have outages. In this article, we talk about the consequences and pros to betting your entire company on one…
Here at BePro Software, we are constantly reviewing the latest technologies from AMP to AWS. In this article, we want to review a project we recently created using the MVC (Model, View, Controller) PHP framework known as Zend. We also talk a little about a new up and coming javascript library known as angularJS. In…