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Brad x Ahmed: Elements for Building Cloud Native Applications

From time to time, Kong’s Brad Drysdale and Ahmed Koshok exchange emails about the latest trends in tech. In this exchange, Brad and Ahmed discuss the continued quest for more innovation faster, the role of automation in API strategy, and more. from: Brad to: Ahmed date: Oct. 29, 2022, 6:58 PM subject: Elements for Building Cloud Native Applications Greetings from Australia, Ahmed!

Health Check Command in Docker

Development is more reliable and streamlined with Docker. With Docker, developers can design fast, easy, and portable applications - both on desktops and in the cloud - by terminating redundant, mundane configuration tasks. Furthermore, to UIs, CLIs, APIs, and security, Docker's integrated end-to-end platform is built to incorporate across the entire application delivery pipeline. In Docker Containers, the HEALTH CHECK instruction determines their health status.

What is Data Security? - The Role of Analytics in Data Protection

Data security (or data protection) is a term often used in the context of analytics and business intelligence (BI). It encompasses a number of different policies, processes and technologies that protect an company's cyber assets against data breaches and threats. But what does all of that really mean, in relation to BI specifically?

What's Happening To Middleware In The Cloud-Native Era?

Spending two decades in the middleware field has given me deep insight into the evolution of this technology domain. I began my career as a software engineer in a platform group, building reusable components using technologies like object linking and embedding (OLE), the distributed component object model (DCOM) and common object request broker architecture (CORBA).

Are These the 6 Best Reverse ETL Vendors?

The amount of big data that enterprises churn out is simply staggering. All this information is worthless unless organizations unlock its true value for analytics. This is where ETL proves useful. Traditional ETL (extract, transform, and load) remains the most popular method for moving data from point A to point Z. It takes disparate data sets from multiple sources, transforming that data to the correct format and loading it into a final destination like a data warehouse.