In the world of data management, clearinghouses often serve as intermediaries, enabling secure data transactions across different platforms and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. However, as data management needs evolve, businesses are increasingly looking for alternatives to clearinghouses that offer more flexibility, control, and advanced features.

Imagine your app faces a sudden surge in users. Thousands log in at once. Can your system handle the pressure, or will it crash?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often described as the address book of the Internet. A and AAAA records map a human-friendly hostname like honeybadger.io to some machine-friendly IP address like 104.198.14.52. Other types of DNS records also exist; in particular, CNAME records are records that map a hostname to some other hostname, thereby delegating IP resolution to the latter.

To enhance security and ease operational burden, many organizations with data lakes or lakehouses want flexibility to securely integrate their tools of choice on a single copy of data. An open standard for storage format and catalog API has helped, but there’s still a need for open standards for the catalog, including a consistent way to apply security access controls to data.

Perforce has been contributing and working in open source for decades now. We understand that open source is the linchpin for technology that supports businesses today. Our approach to open source is not unique to the industry at large or a company of our size (we have around 1,700 employees and 800 are on my team), but questions of our approach to open source became much more visible when we acquired Puppet – which has a really dedicated open-source community and a long history with open source.

Testing in production involves evaluating software directly in a live environment as real users. It’s becoming increasingly common.

What’s one thing all your favorite legal shows have in common? Whether it’s Suits or The Lincoln Lawyer, they rarely show the amount of paperwork lawyers have to handle on a daily basis. Understandably so, paperwork isn’t the most glamorous part of the job but that doesn’t mean it’s not crucial. In fact, lawyers deal with tens, if not hundreds, of documents on a daily basis during most parts of their job, such as discovery, research, or drafting.