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Qlik Data Transfer - Quick Demo

Qlik Data Transfer – automate data transfer of your on-premise data sources to Qlik Sense SaaS deployments. Connect to files, bundled ODBC and REST data sources, select tables and fields and push on demand or on a schedule – while optionally triggering your SaaS Qlik Sense app to refresh. Even use Qlik Sense Apps as combined and transformed data, and watch a on-prem folders for new or changed file-based data. This free utility definitely is a welcomed edition to the Qlik’s SaaS analytics platform.

How to generate a constant request rate in k6 with the new scenarios API?

Before the release of k6 v0.27, there was insufficient support for generating constant request rates. Therefore, we introduced a JavaScript workaround by calculating the time it takes for requests to exhaust each iteration of the script. This v0.27 release includes a new execution engine and lots of new executors that cater to your specific needs. It also includes the new scenarios API with lots of different options to configure and model the load on the system under test.

Report: Digital transformation in finance and banking

In the past few months, we’ve been researching the finance and banking market's approach to mobile and put together our key findings in a report. The aim is to help us — and you — better understand how and why fintech apps have dominated the app stores, and to explore how traditional banks can compete.

Summer Release: Slow SQL Query Log, Callgraph Profiler, Memory Tracepoints

This Summer Release of Tideways builds on the previous Beta Announcements in May's Spring Release and marks the general availability of This new functionality is fully available by updating the Tideways PHP Extension to version 5.2.4 and the Daemon to version 1.6.18. In addition to rolling out new features, we also renamed the concept of "Application" in Tideways to "Project" and we provide a detailed explanation why at the end of this post.

Better BigQuery pricing flexibility with 100 slots

BigQuery is used by organizations of all sizes, and to meet the diverse needs of our users, BigQuery offers highly flexible pricing options. For enterprise customers, BigQuery’s flat-rate billing model is predictable and gives businesses direct control over cost and performance. We’re now making the flat-rate billing model even more accessible by lowering the minimum size to 100 slots, so you can get started faster and quicker.

7 Tips to Write Great API Documentation

Developers build REST APIs so people can use their applications, and they write great API documentation so people can use their APIs. But for some reason, writing API documentation that is both pleasurable to read and easy to work with is a skill that many developers lack, so let’s get this clear: Your API is only as great as your API documentation. Below, we explore seven tips for writing great API documentation.

Cloudera Data Warehouse on Azure Provides Fast, Cost-Effective and Highly Scalable Analytics

The Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) service is a managed data warehouse that runs Cloudera’s powerful engines on a containerized architecture. It is part of the new Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP, which went live on Microsoft Azure earlier this year. The CDW service lets you meet SLAs, onboard new use cases with zero friction, and minimize cost. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of CDW on Microsoft Azure.

5 Obstacles to Successful Data Governance

Organizational leaders worldwide agree that data governance is important. However, data governance programs in most companies are still being planned or in progress. In a 2020 Dataversity report¹, only 12 percent of companies had fully implemented programs, while 38 percent of programs were a work in progress, and 31 percent were just getting started. That’s because companies often run into roadblocks while executing data governance. Below are five common obstacles organizations face.