Retail is experiencing a lot of pressure from all sides. Low margins, rising cost to manage supply chains, increasing demands from suppliers to pass over raw-material cost inflation, steadily increasing labor costs, and huge investments to match the latest competition are some of the constraints faced by the sector. 

A good development workflow will bring out the best in a good developer and the exceptional among the great. On the other hand a bad workflow will rob them of their productivity. Hence it is extremely critical for every team to put together a good development workflow. The two best practices that have received a lot of attention over the last few years are continuous integration and continuous deployment.

On a larger context, configuration management (CM) deals with the process of ensuring that a system performs in a desired, consistent state as changes are made over time. Although the idea did not originate in the IT industry, the term generally refers to server configuration management.

Database are at the core of almost all internet and enterprise applications. The need for scale and faster application development has brought in a new generation of databases loosely termed as NoSQL databases. These are in non-tabular format and save data in a different format compared to relational database whereas relational database saves data in rows and columns organized into tables or sheets.

Cloud computing is radically altering the way business manage data. Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet, with pay per use pricing. This saves millions of dollars for companies in investment in buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers.