When you’re building a website that needs to be updated in real-time, your first thought is probably to add WebSockets to your application. However Websockets is a low-level protocol and to use it, you’ll need to add another layer on top to manage the information you want to get. This is where MQTT is handy, as it’s a higher-level protocol that simplifies working with data streams.

Legacy system modernization is a hot topic in business strategy right now. As the need increases for new technologies and intelligent business solutions, so too does the need for legacy system modernization. That means upgrading legacy systems, improving existing software, and otherwise bolstering operational efficiency. This article will provide a quick recap of the basics and explain how they fit into a number of legacy system modernization strategies.

Clive Humby stated, as far back as 2006, “data is the new oil.” The quote really took off following this 2017 report from The Economist. As a former chemical process engineer, oil immediately makes me think of refining it. Today’s analytics platform for the complete data lifecycle does the same for data as the refinery distillation columns does for crude oil: distilling value.

Snowflake customer, Merkle Inc., has created a new set of COVID-19 interactive dashboards for businesses to use for free to determine which counties in the U.S. will most likely experience an economic recovery first. As economies reopen, states hit hardest by COVID-19, or states that relax social distancing measures sooner rather than later, will not reveal local market opportunities as they emerge.

In Part 1, we covered the high-level objectives and methods for attacking service accounts. In Part 2 we discuss defense-in-depth mitigations to those methods. By the end of this blog, you will be able to apply secure-by-default mitigations to threats impacting Snowflake service accounts. The following table from Part 1 highlights the objectives and methods we want to mitigate: These secure-by-default mitigations help prevent and constrain credential misuse from theft and guessing attacks.

Behaviour-driven development, also called BDD, is a methodology that involves developing software through examples and provides collaboration between different stakeholders on the team. Stakeholders on a SDLC team are a mixture of technical and non-technical people. BDD encourages all team members to work closely using a common, non-technical language to set the expectations and behavior of a feature. Because of BDD, they share a common understanding of the work that they have to deliver.

A team of developers comprises several roles, with each contributing their own unique addition to the mix. Sometimes, it feels quite similar to every TV show ever about a slightly dysfunctional group of friends, (cough Friends, IT crowd, silicon valley cough), with each developer adding their own particular touch to not only the product, but the company vibe itself.