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Speckle – 3D open source platform

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Speckle – 3D open source platform 

What is Speckle?

Speckle is an open source data platform for the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) industry to share the ideas and designs of a project into 3D data with others.

What is the AEC industry?

A – Architecture designs the infrastructure

E- Engineering includes civil engineers who oversee construction and maintenance

C – Construction plays a role of coordinating skilled workers and contractors

What is the story behind Speckle?

Speckle is an early-stage start-up based in London. There are two founders, both are Architects and Engineers. It enables them to understand and identify the issue regarding exchange of 3D files from vendors in the AEC industry. They wanted to make it easier by developing an open source platform where they can exchange and collaborate these files.

As engineers, Dimitri Stefanescu and Matteo Cominetti had the skill to start finding the problems and solutions in the AEC industry. They decided to sort out long-standing problems in the AEC industry around sharing proprietary files involving designs and building projects. Speckle provides a process through which it is easier for companies to share information in 3D formats. 

How does Speckle work?

Supposedly, user 1 created a design on Speckle platform. Each user’s various streams are stored by the Speckle online platform, which also refreshes the streams automatically in real time when users make modifications. Therefore, user 2, 3, 4, 5…., etc., can see the design created by user 1, and if the changes are made, it will be uploaded to the server and other users will know what was updated. Using Speckle, Architects, Engineers or Constructors do not have to create the same and same designs repeatedly. If someone has created the designs before, it would have been stored in the server.

Speckle is one of the best online sharing open source platforms. It helps save time for Architects to design the same pattern again. Speckle is also a developer platform on which you can harvest 3D data and use it for productive things like building applications that makes it easier to work with. 

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Deep Dive into Java and Python

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What is Java? A multi-platform and object oriented programming language. It is the most used programming language. Sun Microsoft released it in 1995, which was later acquired by the Oracle Corporation.

What is Python? A high-level object oriented programming language. It is preferred for rapid application development. It is one of the fastest programming languages, as it requires only two lines of code.

What are the benefits of using Java?

What are the benefits of using Python?

  • Brief documentation is available
  • Highly skilled and major number of developers available
  • Allow users to create standard programs and reusable code
  • It allows users to perform multiple tasks at the same time in a program
  • Easy to navigate
  • Clean syntax as compared to Java, C++, HTML, etc.
  • Very useful in data analysis
  • It is easy to maintain, as its code is easy to write
  • Comes with a prebuilt library, which makes user development easy
  • Offers database interface to all commercial DBMS systems

 

What are the disadvantages of Java?

What are the disadvantages of Python?

  • The JIT compiler makes the program slow
  •  It has high memory and processing requirements, which increases hardware cost
  •  It does not provide support for low-level programs
  • No control over garbage collection
  • Used in less platforms compared to Java
  • Python is weak in mobile computing and therefore, no use in app development
  • It is dynamic, more errors show up at run time
  • Absence of commercial support

 

But now the question is which is better – Java or Python?

It really depends on the user’s purpose, what type of app development they are looking for. Those who want to develop an application in less time and not involve mobile computing can use Python. Whereas, those who want to develop applications where multiple users could perform tasks should prefer Java. 

Python is for the beginners due to its simplicity, easy syntax, and inbuilt library for code. On the other hand, Java is much more complicated due to its specific goal of allowing developers to write once and run anywhere.

At last, everything comes down to the cost and nature of development. The decision depends on the budget, purpose and scale & scope of development. 

We @Cloudploys provide you accurate information that helps you in determining your final choice. However, it is difficult to learn programming overnight but it is crucial to know where to start and what results to get. Stay tuned with us to learn about tech and grow your business digitally!

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VPN vs TOR

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What is VPN?

“Virtual Private Network”, also known as VPN, is a Private Network used to build anonymity and secure networks through the public connection. VPN hides your original IP Address and creates a fake IP address so it is practically difficult to trace back to the user.

What is TOR?

TOR, short for “The Onion Router”, is a free and online application that creates an endless number of Nodes (redistribution point) by the volunteers and build secured and encrypted network, which makes it difficult for spoof to trace back.

How does TOR work?

TOR is an online router. It has thousands of volunteers. When a person uses TOR, their data passes through hundreds of servers and when someone tries to trace the original user, it tracks back to the exit node (last node). Therefore, it is difficult to trace back through hundreds of servers to find the original user.

Important things to keep in mind while using VPN:

VPN is a Private Network that is used to hide the actions of the user. User may be sitting in a garden but the IP address shows it as if the user is at the office. VPN supports sending and receiving data securely through the public network.

Ø  Firewall should be up all the time:

Firewall is a network security system, which keeps track of incoming and outgoing traffic of the network. In addition, it is the most secure way of not being hacked.

A multi-layered firewall security needs to be surpassed before taking over control of any device.

Ø  You must stay hidden:

One of the basic problems in today’s era is that most users forgets their browser and can give away a lot of sensitive information. There is a built-in security system in some browsers that keeps the network private even after not using VPN. For example: DuckDuckGo, Brave, Opera, etc.

Ø  Disable all the geo-location services:

Geo-location services could give away the location of the user. For a person who wants to stay incognito needs to disable the geo-location services from all the devices.

Ø  Be aware of Cookies:

Cookies are one of the reasons for giving away sensitive information about the user. No one in today’s busy world gives attention to cookies. Cookies contain personal information such as ID, Password, Bank Details, Etc. While using the browser, a notification pops up, asking about whether to accept all cookies or Decline. Simply, click on “Decline”.

 

VPN vs TOR:

When a user is using TOR, they are protected from the spoof but the information and the actions of them can be hacked by the exit node. Even though he/she cannot trace it back to the original user. Exit nodes can hack into the packet of information and use it for their own needs.

In comparison to TOR, VPN is vulnerable. VPN creates a “Private Network” no doubt, but it can be easily hacked. I mean for god’s sake who knows if the VPN servers are hacked. Therefore, it is deficient to use VPN instead of TOR.

Conclusion:

TOR provides hundreds of nodes, which is difficult to trace back to the original user. Meanwhile, VPN provides a single proxy server and is easy to decrypt data and trace backwards. Although we @CloudPloys know, TOR is more reliable than VPN but every case is subjective and here is where the advice of our experts in the field is needed, because your security is our top notch priority.