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Data Ingestion vs. ETL: Understanding the Difference

Working with large volumes of data requires effective data management practices and tools, and two of the frequently used processes are data ingestion and ETL. Given the similarities between these two processes, non-technical people seek to understand what makes them different, often using search queries like “data ingestion vs ETL”.

Hyperautomation for Insurance: Your Roadmap to Modernization

What is hyperautomation for insurance? It might sound like just another buzzword, but let’s peel back the layers to see how hyperautomation works. Imagine this: you go on a deep dive to evaluate your insurance company’s processes and operational models. You discover inefficiencies, lag times, and that your team manages transactions with disparate, often manual processes. It’s clear you need a new solution. And the solution you need doesn’t currently exist.

Getting Started with Insurance Modernization

If you have a legacy system with customized capabilities and valuable features but nearing end of life, refactoring the system is a potential choice for modernization. Insurance platform modernization usually involves one-to-one code migration, which can often be more costly and time consuming than expected and typically tends to miss some of the integration and data architecture modernization that is foundational for getting the full value of digitization.

Working with DynamoDB in Laravel

When building your Laravel applications, you may sometimes need to use a NoSQL database to store and retrieve data. One popular choice is Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed, serverless, and highly scalable NoSQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we'll take a brief look at DynamoDB. We'll then delve into how to use DynamoDB as a cache store in Laravel, and how to store Laravel models in DynamoDB using the baopham/laravel-dynamodb package.

Accessibility Testing: Where do we start?

My first attempt to understand accessibility and how to test it started back in 2016. I was working for a company where accessibility was already an important part of the process. I was asked to perform accessibility testing on the product to determine whether we could claim to be accessible. Since it was a new subject for me, I was quite confused. Where should I start? Should I be certified to provide a proper assessment? Do I need to request assessments from third-party companies?