Ever been frustrated by someone having all the answers then realising they don't know why those answers are right?

Catch-phrases like “data is the new oil” are popping up everywhere, and rightfully so. Data is an extremely valuable asset, and organizations everywhere and across all industries are trying to capitalize on their own asset of data. One-way companies are trying to gain value from their data is through democratization.

Apigee experts published over 50 editorials in 2018 — including dozens here in APIs and Digital Transformation — to help developers, IT architects, and business leaders understand how to maximize the value of APIs and keep pace with constant technological change.

2018 was an AMAZING year for Google Cloud’s Apigee team. It was, in fact, another “best year ever.” We’re deeply grateful to the companies who use Apigee to accelerate their businesses with APIs.

Kong is very easy to get up and running: start an instance, configure a service, configure a route pointing to the service, and off it goes routing requests, applying any plugins you enable along the way. But Kong can do a lot more than connecting clients to services via routes.

Kubernetes is fundamentally changing container orchestration; is your stack ready to support it at scale? Watch the talk recording to learn how Kong’s Kubernetes Ingress Controller can power-drive your APIs and microservices on top of the Kubernetes platform. Hear Kong engineers walk through the process of setting up the Ingress controller and review its various features.

Last June, we released the first phase of multi-cloud deployment options for Qlik Sense Enterprise – our first in a series of steps in delivering unparalleled flexibility and choice in how you deploy analytics across public and private clouds, and on-premise.

In a hundred years’ time, when the world’s tech writers look back on our primitive technology and chart the rise of the smartphone, they’ll pinpoint three years as being crucial to the technology. The first will be 1994, which saw the release of the IBM Simon, a prototype for the smartphones we recognize today. The second will 2007, when the first iPhone went on sale. The third will be 2019.

In my last blog I described how to achieve continuous integration, delivery and deployment of Talend Jobs into Docker containers with Maven and Jenkins. This is a good start for reliably building your containerized jobs, but the journey doesn't end there. The next step to go further with containerized jobs is scheduling, orchestrating and monitoring them.

From personalizing your initial prompt to asking the right questions, here are some proven ways for improving the response rate from your live chat efforts.