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The Modern Data Lakehouse: An Architectural Innovation

Imagine having self-service access to all business data, anywhere it may be, and being able to explore it all at once. Imagine quickly answering burning business questions nearly instantly, without waiting for data to be found, shared, and ingested. Imagine independently discovering rich new business insights from both structured and unstructured data working together, without having to beg for data sets to be made available.

Blending Data in the Data Warehouse

This is a guest post with exclusive content by Bill Inmon. Bill Inmon “is an American computer scientist, recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Inmon wrote the first book, first magazine column, held the first conference, and was the first to offer classes in data warehousing.” -Wikipedia. Our key points: One of the characteristics of most computing and analytical environments is that the environment consists of only one type of data.

Is Deno better than Node.js?

The Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript is created on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine, equivalent to Node.js. Developed by Ryan Dahl, Node.js' original creator, it is designed to correct errors he made when he first envisioned and unleashed Node.js in 2009. To recapitulate, he was dissatisfied with the lack of security, the lack of module resolution through node_modules, and the differing behaviour of the browser, among other things, which provoked him to implement Deno.

Why you should use caching for your Codemagic Unity projects

TL;DR: Caching the Library folder can significantly speed up your Unity builds in CI/CD environments. Codemagic CI/CD also allows you to cache the Unity version of your project so that you don’t need to re-download it each time. When you work on complex Unity projects and start adding more and more resources, you’ll quickly notice that the build times in your Codemagic workflow grow as well.

Developer inspiration: live features showcase with Ably examples

To ensure a great user experience, whether that’s attending a live virtual event, chatting with friends or collaborating on a document, you need to ensure that the core realtime works in any situation and that you provide a feature-rich application. Disruption, downtime or lags result in poor realtime user experiences.