O Nessu, holkách a Javě

Před prázdninami naši javisté spojili své síly s neziskovou společností Czechitas a musíme říct, že je to jízda. Czechitas zprostředkovává IT vzdělání ženám a postupně boří mýtus o tom, že kariéra v IT je jen pro muže.

Žen v IT sice není mnoho, neznamená to však, že je obor nezajímá a nechtějí se v něm uplatnit. Důkazem jsou mimo jiné kurzy plné žen, nadšených programováním.

Inspirativní příběhy řady z nich ukazují, že mezi nimi najdeme nadějné softwarové designérky, analytičky, testerky nebo programátorky. To hledání nás baví! A je pro nás velkou motivací se na jejich vzdělávání podílet.

Z TÉMĚŘ 8,2 MILIONU ICT SPECIALISTŮ V EU PŘEDSTAVUJÍ ŽENY POUZE 16,7 %. (EUROSTAT, 2016)

V ČESKÉM NESSU TVOŘÍ ŽENY 30 %. TŘETINA Z NICH PŮSOBÍ NA SENIORNÍCH A MANAŽERSKÝCH POZICÍCH.

Co pro nás začalo v květnu jednodenním workshopem o základech programování v Javě, pokračuje nyní Digitální akademií – sérií intenzivních kurzů Javy pro začátečnice. V průběhu Digitální akademie holky rozvinou své logické uvažování – zjistí, že vždy existuje několik způsobů řešení, naučí se porozumět návodům a řešit různé programátorské výzvy. Hlavním cílem je, aby si účastnice během tří měsíců v rámci povinných a volitelných předmětů osvojily základy Javy a práci s různými nástroji.

Po prvním workshopu jsem byl mile překvapen, kolik holek bylo se znalostmi na začátku kurzu dál, než jsem čekal. Samozřejmě řada z nich s Javou zápasila, to je přirozené, proto kurzy pořádáme. Ale hodně z nich rozumělo tomu, co dělají. Motivuje mě to ve školeních dál pokračovat.

Vladimír Kočur, Senior Consultant

Studium bude časově relativně náročné a je mu potřeba věnovat ve spolupráci s lektory tři dny v týdnu. Kromě toho holky mezi školicími dny hodně zaměstná samostudium i domácí úkoly. Ale po celou dobu mají k dispozici zkušené mentory, kteří vždy rádi pomůžou. Akademii uzavírá celodenní hackathon, během kterého si javistky vyzkouší aplikovat nové znalosti. V malých týmech jako závěrečný projekt zpracují reálné zadání.

Při vývoji převážně webových aplikací je Java náš denní chleba. Týmy v Ostravě, Brně, Českých Budějovicích i v Praze Javu vnímají jako progresivní a široce využitelný jazyk s rychlou učicí se křivkou.

V Nessu také pravidelně pořádáme Javacomy – setkání, při kterých diskutujeme o trendech a sdílíme zkušenosti z odborných konferencí a z našich úspěšných projektů. Každý nováček u nás získá mentora, který ho bude provázet jeho odborností. K tomu máme pro každého připravený interní adaptační proces, který nováčkům co nejvíce usnadňuje pochopení nové technologie. Zkrátka: v Nessu se Javy není proč bát.

Nessian on Job Series- Prachi Walawalkar

“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” Abraham Lincoln

Rightly said, for a fulfilling future career, it is necessary to find a promising workplace that matters, build skills, and enables you to live a happier life. Prachi Walawalkar, Senior QA Engineer, finds Ness to be one of the best companies to work for — with a professional and consistent work culture and constructive career strategy that allows employees to build a meaningful profession and makes them feel invigorated and delighted. At Ness, it is more than just serving in a role that you love. I work for one of our clients that specifically caters to the transportation domain. While working on this project, I received good exposure to a wide range of software testing methodologies and also gained deep knowledge on some of the latest trends in the software testing domain.

Roles and Responsibilities

It’s no secret that testing plays a prominent role in the development of new software. As a senior software tester, I am responsible for working closely with the software developers in order to identify any bugs in the product and improve the quality of the final release. I also need to ensure that testing is going hand in hand with the software development in all phases. As a part of my job, I need to identify and capture test cases and report defects to the concerned product managers for fixing the bug, so that nothing slips into the live environment. I have also gained a lot of relevant domain expertise from my team and seniors. These learnings have further helped me take appropriate actions for delivering quality products to the market.

Learning Experience

At Ness, I have mastered all of the capabilities required for testing various aspects of the product/system including function, component, system, performance, regression, and services. It has provided me with a great platform, where I gained complete knowledge about software test design and test execution methodologies. I would also proudly acclaim that it’s a workplace where I had a chance to interact with the clients and with the development team more efficiently in order to fully test the product or system, while meeting the required business needs.

Why Ness?

Having a job that I love and working for a great company like Ness instigated me to figure out what makes Ness a great place to work. For me it’s a place where you experience a truly strong culture, professional growth, and a challenging work environment. It’s also a place that inspires and motivates the employees inside it to implement their own ideas into their work and encourages them to come up with the best business results. You can also work with cutting-edge technologies and keep yourself updated with all the latest trends that emerge in the market. At Ness, you can trust the people whom you work for, enjoy the people you work with and have pride in what you do.

What I Like About Working at Ness

Ness gives you a flexible work schedule and allows employees to focus on things that require attention to detail and creative thinking. Team bonding activities like group lunches and outings are the most fun-filled activities that a team can experience.

When it comes to engaging the new joiners, Ness takes an incredible move by assigning a buddy to every new employee. This enables them to be more easily introduced to their workplace and learn more about their roles and responsibilities.

Hobbies

Apart from work, I love listening to music and watching movies. I also like to keep myself updated with the latest market trends.

I am looking forward to work with Ness for many more years so that I can contribute to the growth and betterment of the company with my knowledge and expertise.

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IoT Is Everywhere — How IoT Is Changing Our Daily Lives

It isn’t news that the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing our lives – IoT is Everywhere. IoT is now portable, wearable, and implantable, creating a ubiquitous and connected universe, and transforming physical objects that surround us into an ecosystem of information that is rapidly changing the way we live. IoT technology has already changed when and where work is done, in almost every industry. Businesses are transitioning to the Internet of Everything (IoE), an unprecedented network connection that encompasses machines, individuals, processes and data that can have a huge impact in our daily lives.

Let’s explore a few significant areas that have been transformed through IoT at the intersection of people, data and intelligent machines.

Automotive

Driverless cars had previously been a figment of our imagination. However, with IoT shaking up the automotive industry like never before, digital transformation has made its way into the automotive space. By facilitating human-to-human, machine-to-machine, and human-to-machine interactions, IoT seeks to expedite processes and enrich people’s lives.

Connected vehicles are now equipped with the ability to pick up information from the surroundings, providing the driver with diagnostic information that can quickly be acted upon.

  • IoT has enabled smart cars with built-in sensors that aid in efficient parking, provide data that facilitates better car maintenance, and can help drivers predict and avoid collisions.
  • Connected cars send data to manufacturers in real-time, sharing insights to develop more accurate predictive maintenance models – the speed of data allows them to respond quickly to any issues found. Take the case of assisted and autonomous driving, which is changing the driver’s role from ‘driving’ to ‘supervising’ and is also better suited to increase car and road safety. The automated system, which is provided by Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is specifically designed with best-in-class technology that alerts drivers on potential problems and takes control over the vehicle to help significantly reduce collisions and road accidents.
  • Far beyond relying on human memory and extensive tracking, connected cars come with the advantage of enabling quick communication between manufacturers and drivers on issues and reminders for service and maintenance.
  • Telematics also has immense applications in the automotive industry. Family notification of vehicle collision, automated emergency calling and vehicle diagnostics and maintenance notifications are all classic examples.
  • Connected cars are equipped with technology that can trace and record driver habits and behavior and transfer useful data to insurance companies for analysis. This makes for safer and more economical driving.
  • In terms of entertainment and user experience, connected cars are an extension for providing Infotainment (information and entertainment) seamlessly, without extensive changes in the communication channels that consumers generally use. This adds a sense of personalization to the entire driving experience.

Manufacturing

As one of the earliest adopters of IoT, the manufacturing industry has been a beneficiary of IoT by embedding sensor-based technology into machines. Currently, new data processing technologies and analytical forecasting models are available to enhance the entire manufacturing value chain, from concept to completion.

  • Manufacturers across the world are poised to use analytics tracked by connected devices to analyze processes and identify possibilities for optimization. The cognitive predictive maintenance system that IoT offers will employ battery-operated acoustic sensors to process the audio signals of machines and hardware in real-time. That information is then processed and transmitted to a remote evaluation unit which can identify problems regarding the condition and performance of the equipment.
  • The primary purpose of a condition-based maintenance system is to predict equipment failure and enable maintenance alerts. There are many critical machine tools that are optimized to function at a certain temperature range and within stipulated vibration parameters. IoT sensors are dynamic in that they monitor machines and can send an alert when the equipment deviates from its prescribed parameters.

Cities

We live in a world governed by our smartphones, and our dependency on these devices now taken for granted. By harnessing the power of IoT, cities are evolving to become what are now called “smart cities”, through the aggregation and use of data meant to improve the lives of residents. The growing data revolution has paved the way for low-cost sensors within a securely protected system that aims to balance public safety and individual privacy.

  • IoT has the potential to transform the way cities consume water. Smart meters are equipped to improve leak detection and data integrity; prevent lost revenue due to inefficiency, and boost productivity by reducing the amount of time spent entering and analyzing data. Also, these meters can be designed to feature customer-facing portals, providing residents with real-time access to information about their consumption and water supply.
  • Energy-saving and sustainable practices are well within reach through IoT technology that makes it easier for buildings struggling with a legacy infrastructure. Smart building energy management systems, for instance, use IoT devices to connect disparate, nonstandard heating, cooling, lighting, and fire-safety systems to a central management application. For instance, Chicago installed a network of interactive sensors to collect real-time data on the city’s environment, infrastructure and activity for research and public use. This initiative sought to basically act as a “fitness tracker” for the city, measuring factors that affect Chicago’s livability, such as climate, air quality and noise.
  • By leveraging the power of IoT technology, smart transit systems may well be in place for providing integrated transport hubs seamlessly connected through multiple modes of transportation such as bus systems, metro systems, and so on. Even the monitoring of vehicles and pedestrian levels can optimize driving and walking routes.

IoT continues to evolve and make its way across many industries, enabling a seamlessly connected world. Ness is proud to work with our clients on a diverse range of forward-looking IoT projects, across domains, to help them utilize the latest technologies and drive profitable growth.

Does WebAssembly Solve Performance Problems on the Web?

In every browser, no matter whether it is Chrome or Firefox, code is interpreted and executed by a JavaScript engine, which in turn specifically runs only with JavaScript. Unfortunately, traditional JavaScript is not perfect for every task we want to perform in modern days. While there are times when web applications demand high performance, and expect browsers to keep up, the legacy JavaScript engine fails to find every feasible way to optimize performance in the browser. That’s where WebAssembly—a new type of code steps in to solve the performance shortcomings.

At this juncture, Daniel Masarik, development lead at Ness Digital Engineering has authored a column for CMSWire, titled “Is a Faster Web on the Horizon with WebAssembly?” This insightful article discusses the advantages of using the new, portable binary format WebAssembly. As Daniel writes, given the support it has from global players and its interoperability with the existing web ecosystem, WebAssembly is a technology that deserves to be taken seriously.

View full article: https://ness.com/faster-web-horizon-webassembly/

The Rising Importance of Predictive Analytics

As big data continues to grow in demand, it is tough for organizations to make predictions about their future business outcomes and trends based on their historical data. With interactive and easy-to-use software becoming more prevalent, predictive analytics is no longer an option for business analysts and line-of-business experts, but a necessity. Organizations today are harnessing the power of predictive analytics to examine large data sets for discovering patterns, uncovering new information, predicting future outcomes and increasing their business bottom line.

While predictive analytics has the power to help all types of organizations, before moving forward with a major investment, it’s important for businesses to understand how to build a strategy, how organizations can ensure data quality and how predictive analytics models can be improved. In an article for AiThority, Moshe Kranc, Chief Technology Officer, Ness Digital Engineering, shares some insights on establishing predictive analytics as a true business discipline with a unique strategy in place, alongside considering various other components in the data quality process, which further helps to improve the predictive analytics model complexity and usability.

Read the full article: https://ness.com/the-power-of-predictive-analytics/

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