Since 2013 the UK Government’s flagship ‘Cloud First’ policy has been at the forefront of enabling departments to shed their legacy IT architecture in order to meaningfully embrace digital transformation. The policy outlines that the cloud (and specifically, public cloud) be the default position for any new services; unless it can be demonstrated that other alternatives offer better value for money.
Software vendors often ask me when is the ideal time to swap out a legacy analytics solution that they’ve embedded into their application. There's five key signs that can tell you your embedded solution isn’t right anymore and it’s time to switch.
In August 2020, Snowflake announced several new features, all in preview, that make its cloud data platform easier to use, more powerful for sharing data, and more usable via Snowflake-supported languages. These innovations mean you can bring more workloads, more users, and more data to Snowflake, helping your organization solve your most demanding analytics challenges. Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, and Pattern-Matching Support in Snowpipe
QA professionals, testers, and developers are constantly learning new tools, tech stacks, and development practices. When they’re told they have to learn accessibility, it can often feel like an unwelcome and overwhelming disruption, slowing them down and forcing them to test and rewrite what they thought was perfectly good code. The good news is accessibility tools are more tester-friendly than ever.
Today we’re launching new names for some of our most popular API products. This is part of refreshing our outlook on the API space and our subsequent API lifecycle tools. We loved our old names, and know many felt the same. And yet, here we are to explain why we decided the progression was necessary.
Use our latest dbt package to unlock your Shopify data and power customer analytics.
ATLANTA, GA – September 28, 2020 – Katalon LLC released a report on the current landscape of test automation based on the answers of 5,000+ respondents worldwide. Its purpose is to gather valuable insights and highlight recent best practices to aid the testing community in formulating data-driven strategies and solutions.
Have you ever heard of Node.js async hooks module? If the answer is no, then you should get familiar with it. Even though it’s new stuff (released along with Node.js 9) and the module is still in experimental mode, which means it’s not recommended for production, you should still get to know it a bit better. In short, Node.js async hooks, more specifically the async_hooks module, provides a clear and easy-to-use API to track async resources in Node.js.
Infrastructure as code has been an important practice of DevOps for years. Anyone running an Apache Kafka data infrastructure and running on Kubernetes, the chances are you’ve probably nailed defining your infrastructure this way. If you’re running on Kubernetes, you’re likely using operators as part of your CI/CD toolchain to automate your deployments.
In our previous blog post we introduced Cloudera Data Visualization in Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) available in tech preview, in CDP Public Cloud. This blog will help you get started with Cloudera Data Visualization, so you can start building interesting and powerful applications on all types of data.
