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Atul Rawat highlights one important aspect of the software industry: The rising cost of Software Maintenance in today’s episode of KnolBytes. Atul is Vice President, Operations at Knoldus with more than 20 years of experience in IT/ITeS as a Techno-functional & Business Management Professional. IT budgets these days are not just measured by their numerical values but also how much value one is able to yield out of it. Project cost is something that keeps IT heads & executives on their toes. But often they overlook the Total Cost of Operations or TCO and focus on the development cost itself when 90% of the software cost goes into maintenance. What are the reasons for this phenomenon and what are the key issues that the organization needs to deal with?

In our latest conversation, we held a dialogue with Bhavya Aggarwal, CTO at Knoldus. He has 16+ years of experience in leading complex technical projects and is an expert in Java & Scala. Success rates of IT projects are relatively low in the industry and Bhavya talks about how success can be ensured based on his vast experience.  He highlights the challenges in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). He begins by talking about the emergence of Agile, how software development methodologies have evolved over time, the engineering practices to develop products successfully, the prerequisites that the development teams must take up before they begin their SDLC journey, and much more. Stay tuned to know more about the nuances of SDLC.

This week, we sat down with Mayank Bairagi and Sahil Sawhney. Sahil is a Lead DevOps Consultant at Knoldus and is experienced in delivering Architectural solutions for customers and mentoring the new talent that comes in. He keeps a keen eye on the cutting edge DevOps trends in the industry. Mayank has 11+ years of experience in the industry and has developed scalable, resilient & fault-tolerant solutions to customers as a DevOps Consultant. Our DevOps professionals talk about how DevOps is more about processes than tools and how it can be leveraged to deliver value to our customers. They further talk about how the maturity of the DevOps tools depends on the maturity of the ecosystem. Tune in to get answers to more such questions on DevOps in our latest episode.

We sat down for a conversation with our Data Scientists a.k.a our MachineX wizards, Shubham Goyal and Pranjut Gogoi who has extensive experience in building AI algorithms for their customers. Our Data Scientists talked about the current state of Data Science & AI in the industry and whether it lives up to the hype after all. The podcast will answer a few questions like - What should organizations know when they begin implementing Data Science in their applications & projects? Why is it important to have a strong domain as a prerequisite for AI applications? How do you determine whether a particular business problem is a valid candidate for the implementation of AI? What are the key ingredients for success when it comes to AI projects and what are the measures Knoldus has taken to ensure the success of projects? Data Science & Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts must not miss this episode!

To serialize an object means to convert its state to a byte stream so that the byte stream can be reverted back into a copy of the object.  Have you ever wondered how, when and where spark uses serialization while distributed computing? Let's gather in this podcast to understand the core of how spark use serialization.

DAG is a graph denoting the sequence of operations that are being performed on the target RDD”. Spark uses DAG to carry out the in-memory computations. So, what happens internally when we perform any transformation and action on RDD? How does Spark handle it through DAG? We are going to answer these questions through this podcast. Listen now