Editorial Team, Author at Spark Equation

No matter how you spell hyper-automation (you’ll see it with and without the hyphen too), it may sound like a sci-fi concept—like the hyperdrive the Millennium Falcon was continually struggling with. You may already understand how automation removes headaches and makes several business processes more manageable and more efficient. But hyper-automation? Why all the hype?…

Small businesses employ almost half of the workers in the United States. In Europe, more than a third of workers were employed by small businesses. Various estimates put overall global employment by small businesses at around 7 of every 10 people. Most of those numbers came before the pandemic hit, however. Unfortunately, these small businesses…

Cloud computing has exploded over the past few years as more and more organizations move major sectors of their operations there. The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated that migration now that the physical location of work matters less and less. Of course, cloud computing brings incredible benefits and growth opportunities. But it also brings security…

Software. It’s the ocean that we all swim in, day in and day out. From the apps we rely on from dawn to dusk in our personal lives to the major applications and systems we use to accomplish myriad strategic business objectives, software truly makes our world go around. So, when there’s a software glitch…

Is an application stateful or stateless? And what does that mean? This is a question that many decision-makers are trying to wrap their heads around as they consider bringing microservices into their organizations to deliver new services to their clients. Let’s use an imperfect but useful analogy: Remember Dory and Marlin in the classic “Finding…

There’s a reason that microservices are a hot topic amongst developers and businesses right now. By using microservices architecture, developers can create a robust application by using separate, smaller, micro components that each do their jobs exceptionally well. Each service is built individually and deployed separately. They run their own processes smoothly and communicate using…

Has your business ever implemented a big, new software solution that was supposed to solve all kinds of operational problems and provide you with big competitive advantages? And for those of you who answered yes, how many of you experienced a bumpy ride getting that solution up and running properly without any major crashes, training…