Data Engineers are forever flying the flag for open-source technology. But now that we’re safely locked away in our homes - potentially for the rest of the year - a new danger looms: That we get distracted by our new data tools and lose touch with delivering value to the business. Today most Data Engineers around the world are working from home, and at first glance it may seem like this works. After all, a solid internet connection is all we need to carry on doing what we were doing...

The problems with legacy systems can be extremely detrimental to the success of any business, especially one that primarily handles customer data. Business needs and demands are constantly changing and the type of software and systems we use or don’t use can be the difference between growth and stagnation. As a result of this, legacy modernization for many organizations is nonnegotiable.

Every experienced website owner knows the backing up of the website is vital. You shouldn’t think that if something wrong has not happened to your website in the past, nothing bad will happen in the future. Incidents occur unannounced, and when they happen, you realize that they are costly, stressful, and time-consuming. Data loss can happen due to the failure of servers or the crashing of your website.

Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform.

JMeter has many plug-ins and downloadable JAR Files you can use to support your testing, it is also possible to write your own custom Jar files and use these as well. Why would you want to do that, you may say, well whilst it is unlikely that you would need to create anything too complicated. You may feel the need to create utilities to support your own in-house performance testing or just something to make your testing process easier.

Kong’s fast, lightweight and scalable API management solution helps improve developer productivity by automating the delivery of API management. One way Kong automates API management is through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) process by leveraging Kong’s decK (declarative configuration for Kong) and GitHub Actions. Kong’s decK provides a command line interface (CLI) to manage Kong in a declarative way.

When you're evaluating a language for your next project, few things are more important than available third-party libraries and the package manager that ties them together. While early versions of Go lacked a package manager, they've made up for lost time. In this article, Ayooluwa Isaiah introduces us to go's module ecosystem to help us decide if go is "a go" for our next project.

Remote working can be a blessing for every parent. In that way, you don’t have to face tough dilemmas like “staying at the office to finish fixing that bug” versus “returning home early to do some karaoke with your children”. Being a working parent used to be all about making tough calls in terms of career or childcare.

On one of our webinars in April 2020 we talked about the developer portal and how our developer community are pushing the Keboola Connection platform into places that often surprise our own core team. Our partners often are the creative ones, adding their knowledge and expertise to expand our platform in service of our shared customers and their varying needs. This is a guest post, written by Johnathan Brook, Solutions Architect at 4 Mile Analytics.