Over the last year, we have witnessed a shift in engineering working habits. COVID-19 forced many of us into lockdown. Instead of working from the office, coffee shops, and airport lounges, I found myself mostly working out of my (hastily built) home office. For many of us, this meant shifting back to a workstation over a trusty laptop. Not surprisingly, this did nothing to abate the heated discussion over which computers and operating systems are best for developing software.

NodeSource is very excited to announce the addition of Worker Threads support in N|Solid, it’s an amazing new feature for our customers on their journey with Node.js. Worker Threads are a very powerful feature in Node.js that allows developers to build more complex and robust applications.

Not many areas feature as much innovation as the area of app development. Recently we explored various mobile app trends from social media to virtual experiences. App development has become more innovative over time—and we have effective technologies and platforms helping us develop, test, and release successful applications. Most companies think of creating a B2B native app without considering other options available – namely, the web app.

We’re proud to share that Iguazio has received an honorable mention in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms, 2021. This is the second year in a row that Iguazio receives this recognition. The 2021 report assesses 20 vendors of platforms enabling data scientists and engineers to develop, deploy and manage AI/ML in the enterprise, across a wide array of criteria relating to their capabilities, performance and completeness of vision.

Data flows are an integral part of every modern enterprise. No matter whether they move data from one operational system to another to power a business process or fuel central data warehouses with the latest data for near-real-time reporting, life without them would be full of manual, tedious and error-prone data modification and copying tasks.

Let’s get this out of the way: To understand the much discussed ’death of the dashboard' proclamation, the phrase needs to be viewed under a different lens beyond the literal. Firstly, it's not a new concept at all: Yellowfin have been saying it for years. The problem is in the current confusing interpretation around what it means for business intelligence. In short, dashboards aren’t actually dying, nor is their usefulness for certain users spent.

In this episode of CDO Battlescars, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Unravel Data’s CDO, speaks with Meenal Iyer, Sr. Director of Enterprise Analytics and Data at Tailored Brands. They discuss battlescars in two areas, data and metrics: Growing Data Literacy and Developing a Data-Driven Culture and Standardization of Business Metrics.

There is a lot of talk these days about the dashboard being a thing of the past. After all, simply displaying KPIs and visualizations in a dashboard is something everyone can do, right? If monitoring KPIs is all you need to do, then we would agree: The dashboard is largely dead. We can deliver those singular data points to you anywhere, monitoring what you’re interested in, alerting you to changes and triggering action.

In their quest to find out if Keboola could be of wider benefit to a company that has so far been using the platform only as their ETL solution, Michal Hruska, a senior data consultant at Keboola, and Pavel Dolezal, Keboola’s CEO, met with Tim, the company’s data analyst. They sat down to talk about the beaten tracks of working with data and its challenges and the ways Keboola can help solve them.