Legacy databases often come with numerous challenges, such as limited scalability, outdated security measures, and compatibility issues with modern applications. These constraints can hinder business agility and increase maintenance costs. Modernizing your database infrastructure is crucial for leveraging advanced features, enhancing security, and ensuring seamless integration with contemporary software.

API versioning is key to updating your API without breaking clients’ integrations. It ensures smooth transitions and maintains compatibility. This guide explains the best strategies and practices for effective API versioning. API versioning is not just about the technicalities of managing different versions; it also involves a strategic approach to communication, documentation, and support.

Today, Snowflake is excited to announce that the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now available in Snowflake Cortex AI, providing enterprises with secure, serverless access to Meta’s most advanced open source model. Snowflake offers the largest context window of any vendor, at 128k, for the Llama 3.1 collection of models.

Per the trends suggested by Red Hat, modernization is among the topmost funding priorities (45%) for global businesses - all thanks to the promises of better digital experience, cloud-native, and quicker time to market. Generative AI can fulfill these promises by automating legacy system updates, enhancing user interfaces, facilitating cloud migration, and expediting software delivery.

A robust, modern data platform is the starting point for your organization’s data and analytics vision. At first, you may use your modern data platform as a single source of truth to realize operational gains — but you can realize far greater benefits by adding additional use cases. In this blog, we offer guidance for leveraging Snowflake’s capabilities around data and AI to build apps and unlock innovation.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), established in 1996, keeps individual health information private. It introduced HIPAA EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Standards to secure electronic health data sharing among healthcare providers, insurers, and related entities. Healthcare EDI sets rules for how data should be formatted when electronically exchanged to ensure secure and efficient communication and reduce manual tasks.

Legacy systems have been important in the growth and success of several organizations. However, as these systems and applications age, they slow down and become increasingly costly to operate and manage. As per the U.S. Government Accountability Office, operating and maintaining legacy systems consumes over 80% of IT expenses. Organizations must scale and update these systems to accommodate their evolving business needs. This is where legacy application modernization can help.