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Checking if a file or script is in the correct spot is crucial for any CLI program. Your program could become useless if a specific file isn’t in place at the moment of execution. In today’s tutorial, you’ll learn some quick ways to check if a file or folder exists in Python. Before starting Before executing any command below, make sure you have Python 3 installed in your system. Open your terminal and type the following command: If you got a 2....

Imagine you plug in your headphones, and your favorite playlist starts playing in seconds, or your brightness dims at night and increases in the morning itself. What if I say it is possible? Read further in this article to find out some apps to automate your Android Smartphone and make it all happen. The popularity of task automation apps is increasing among the youth. Now with automation apps, intelligent phones aren’t limited to only calls and entertainment....

The timeline is represented graphically to better understand the goals from start to finish. U.S. Navy 1950 created PERT Chart to facilitate their Polaris nuclear submarine project. Today, project managers use it to estimate the time it may take to complete a project through the pictorial representation of the tasks, where the dependencies between each are assessed and analyzed. Why is a PERT chart necessary? At the beginning of the project, project managers should create this chart to ensure smooth sailing from the start....

First, getting to know about company formation should be the priority among all other things. But, what is company formation? What are the advantages associated with it? And, what are the factors to consider when building a business? Here, let us explore it all and some important information on how to start a business in the UK. What is Company Formation? Registering your business as a limited company is referred to as “company formation” in the UK....

Serverless Database was specifically designed to handle unpredictable workloads that can change quickly. As a result, many organizations have embraced Serverless Architecture to build modern event-driven architectures. This has seen an increase in popularity within the ecosystem of serverless technologies. Introduction to Serverless Database Serverless Computing requires a Serverless Database. These databases are specifically designed to handle unpredictable workloads that can change quickly. What’s more? This database can be created by choosing the instance size....

Digital advertising is about growing online presence, brand awareness, and constantly improving ways to reach potential customers. Ad tracking tools help businesses gain useful insight, optimize campaigns, and achieve higher ROI. What are Ad Tracking Tools? Ad Tracking tools offer an all-in-one platform to gain insight into demographics and impressions and help boost sales of a business. These tools provide valuable insights to identify new marketing opportunities, build targeted marketing campaigns, manage customer relationships and win over leads....

What is Ansible? Ansible is an open source DevOps tool which can help the business in configuration management, deployment, provisioning, etc. It is straightforward to deploy; it leverages SSH to communicate between servers. It uses the playbook to describe automation jobs, and playbook uses a very simple language YAML. Ansible provides reliability, consistency, and scalability to your IT infrastructure. You can automate configurations of databases, storage, networks, firewalls using Ansible. It makes sure that all the necessary packages and all other software are consistent on the server to run the application....

AWS provides a pay-as-you-go model which means that you pay for the resources you use. This mandates that you use the resources carefully to prevent unnecessary charges in the billing. To ensure the right resources are being used and the setup is perfect as per cloud deployment best practices, the organizations continuously look for experts in their domain. Finding and ascertaining an expert in the wide pool of human resources could get tricky....

It is used by so many small and medium businesses on the internet, and as well as by freelancers. You might already be using it, but if you’re not, then I am afraid you’re missing out on a great service to collect and send payments. While there’s no denying that PayPal is amazing, but if you’re new to it, their fee structure can be slightly overwhelming and complicated for you....

Nowadays, most organizations require managing and increasing their applications’ scalability, availability, and fault tolerance. AWS provides an excellent solution for this, i.e., the Elastic Load Balancing service. This service consists of a load balancer that can distribute workloads across many compute resources like virtual servers. The Load Balancing services allow us to configure health checks to monitor the compute resources’ health. It also allows us to offload encryption and decryption work to your load balancer so that the compute resources can focus on their main work....

In the modern world, hundreds of mobile and web applications are being deployed. The QA team has to always ensure that the web apps are functional outside the development zone. Earlier, these tasks were executed manually. Enter Selenium. It changed the way testing was performed. Now, automation has become widely famous in every industry since it saves time and cost and provides plenty of advantages to businesses. Selenium is one of the best-automated testing tools useful for various organizations in the world of web application development....

Machine learning and data science are the two new technologies in which all new generation computer scientists want to excel. There are many online learning courses, free lectures, and online how-to guides on ML and data science. But, practicing on projects becomes a constraint since you need high-end PCs for such workloads. The answer to this issue is Google Colaboratory or Colab, in short. Continue reading to get the ultimate review of Google Colab....

Trying to handle things alone can only lead to frustration and eventually losing motivation to keep going. Not to forget the most important thing, that is time. As a business owner, if you’re struggling for time to spend with your loved ones because you’re too busy handling all the tasks alone, it defeats the whole purpose of running a business. Thankfully, you can choose to tackle this problem by hiring a virtual assistant to handle numerous tasks for you....

Adopting Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) brings a scalable, adaptive, flexible, and secure network model to overcome challenges associated with traditional networks. The reason is, many organizations are allowing their employees to work remotely who may use different types of devices and unsecured networks. As a result, they face networking and security issues. It has increased the need for network resiliency and reliability. In addition, there is a massive volume of network traffic, so modern solutions are required to ensure working from home is seamless and secure....

You’d want to go for something that has excellent support, security, performance, and an interface that doesn’t put you in a tough spot. Luckily, there are quite a good amount of such hosting providers out there, and one of them is Kinsta. They’re powerful yet very user-friendly. And because I think they’re worth talking about, I’ll be testing out a small portion of their performance today, particularly page load time and TTFB....

If you are working on a large Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and need to add prefixes or suffixes and don’t want to do a manual task, then this section will help you to quickly and easily add the prefix and suffix to all cells in seconds. When working with a large spreadsheet, adding a suffix or prefix to every cell might take a long time and leave you exhausted. You can add a suffix or prefix in a few quick and simple ways, as stated in the section below, reducing the manual effort needed....

You can learn about your business’s health by just looking at how money is moving through it. Is there any surplus money? Are you just in the break-even position? Or, are you losing money out of your pocket to run the business? To get a clear answer to such movements of money, you need to learn how to calculate profit margin. If you rely on others to compute profits, you might be in a problem....

Did you ever wonder how to check for how long, particular process is running in Windows? Lately, I was working on the Windows server and had to find out for how long the process is running. After some research, I found you could easily find out process start time in Windows by using the Process Explorer tool. This article will guide you on how to install & check process start time on Windows operating system....

But if you do it wrong, your users can face difficulty accessing your site, and you may end up losing them. Your website can slow down while loading, downtimes may occur, and unnecessary investments can wreck your business. It’s a big no for any business. Hence, it’s essential to choose a good web host. But there are so many of them around, you may ask. And it’s challenging to decide what will be the best for your business....

What is a Landing Page? As the name suggests, the landing page redirects a user to a particular web page for special action. It could be lead capture, sale, product announcement, etc. You can redirect users to your landing page from various sources such as Facebook ads, Email, and Social media posts, to name a few. Landing pages are an excellent prospect for generating leads to grow your mailing list or drive more sales....