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Investment in Knoema Puts Global Public Data Sets At Snowflake Users' Fingertips

The world is rich with publicly available data sets that can provide immense value to businesses, in areas as diverse as economics, health, agriculture and transportation. But the data is highly fragmented, stored in different formats and databases around the world, making it very hard for businesses to consume and monetize.

Unlocking Value by Going All-in On The Data Cloud

Snowflake met with Mark Stange-Tregear, Vice President of Analytics for Rakuten Rewards, and Andrew Parry, Vice President of IT Application Development for Office Depot, at Data Cloud Summit 2020. The Data Cloud is unlocking new ways of delivering products and services to customers, managing supply chains, and collaborating globally. Rakuten Rewards and Office Depot are going “all- in” on the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform their businesses. Q. How does data affect your business?

Three Takeaways from Amazon CTO's Keynote at AWS Reinvent 2020

One of the highly anticipated events every year is the keynote from Dr. Werner Vogels at the annual AWS Reinvent conference. As CTO of Amazon, Dr. Vogels has considerable influence on product and engineering innovation that directly impacts hundreds of millions of users and developers. Here are three takeaways from Dr. Vogels’ keynote this year.

2020: A Continuous Focus on Data and Analytics Innovation

Despite the challenges COVID-19 brought to the world this year, Qlik continued to innovate – integrating new capabilities directly to our core offerings in the areas of alerting, augmented analytics and conversational analytics. We also continued to enhance our solutions in the direction of making data less passive and more active, and made key acquisitions like Knarr Analytics and Blendr.io, continuing our journey of delivering a true end-to-end solution that enables Active Intelligence.

2020: A Continuous Focus on Data and Analytics Innovation

Despite the challenges COVID-19 brought to the world this year, Qlik continued to innovate – integrating new capabilities directly to our core offerings in the areas of alerting, augmented analytics and conversational analytics. We also continued to enhance our solutions in the direction of making data less passive and more active, and made key acquisitions like Knarr Analytics and Blendr.io, continuing our journey of delivering a true end-to-end solution that enables Active Intelligence.

A Beginner's Guide To Test Automation With Javascript (Nightwatch.js). Part 1.

Welcome to the “A beginners guide to test automation with Javascript(Nightwatch.js)”! This is a three-part blog series to kick start writing web UI automation using Nightwatch.js. In the following parts you will learn: Sounds exciting? Let’s get started! Writing a script in JavaScript (JS) and Nightwatch.js, aka Nightwatch (NW), is simple once you get started and this guide will help anyone regardless of their skill level.

Considerations for Deploying a Multi-Cloud Architecture with Kong Gateway, Kuma Service Mesh and Aviatrix

Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an even more distributed and hybrid scenario, multiple services running across other public clouds and on-premise environments.

End-to-End Testing on a JS App

There’s no doubt which programming language is winning the battle for global supremacy right now. JavaScript has powered past the 12 million developers mark, and 5 million of its loyal fans (some 40%) have come aboard within the last three years. Initially thought of as merely a Java spin-out, it is now used to power everything from machine learning libraries to space exploration robots. But to truly maximize the potential of JavaScript, developers have to implement an effective testing regime.