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How Booking.com Used Data Streaming to Put Travel Decisions into Customer's Hands

Booking.com wanted to give people a “connected trip” experience, allowing customers to seamlessly book flights, accommodations, car rentals, and excursions in one visit. The company realized the value of data streaming early on in reaching this goal, but the operational effort had become overwhelming. Learn how Booking.com found the answer in Confluent’s data streaming platform. With its automated configuration that required no ongoing maintenance, the team was able to prioritize innovation with data and provide the comprehensive booking experience they had been searching for.

Tideways joins the Open Source Pledge

Tideways is joining the Open Source Pledge because we want to make a public commitment on our various open source contributions. Not only do we rely on open source software in our product Tideways, we are also building our business on top of the open source language PHP and its continued success. The mission of the recently started Open Source Pledge initiative is to establish a new social norm in the tech industry of companies paying Open Source maintainers.

REST vs. GraphQL: Which API Design Style Is Right for Your Organization?

The evolution of APIs (application programming interfaces) has been all the hype in recent years. In many ways, they're powering the modern internet as they open doors to organizations and developers around the globe. Data shows that 98% of enterprise leaders believe APIs are essential for survival concerning digital transformation, yet most struggle to develop a comprehensive rollout strategy.

Data Management and the Four Principles of Data Mesh

A relatively new term in the world of data management, data mesh refers to the process of creating a single, unified view of all enterprise data. This process can happen in several ways, giving business users easy access to the data they require for decision-making. Several principles guide data mesh design and implementation. This article will discuss the principles of data mesh and how they can help your business get the most out of its data.

Using AI in Insurance Underwriting for Accelerated Time-to-Value

For insurance companies, balancing customer expectations with the rigorous requirements necessary to mitigate risks poses a challenge. Especially when you’re using manual underwriting processes. By turning to artificial intelligence (AI) in insurance underwriting, you avoid costly delays, streamline your employees’ processes, improve accuracy, and create an optimal customer experience. In this blog post, you’ll learn how AI facilitates greater efficiency in underwriting.

More Fortune 500 Companies Are Adopting Snowflake Data Clean Rooms, Powering the Privacy-First Era

Privacy is no longer a growing requirement for doing business — it's the new status quo. The stakes for not protecting it have only intensified. Consumers have been demanding greater control and privacy over their data for years, and now vast numbers are taking action to protect it, turning off tracking, using cookieless environments and relying on ad blockers at rapidly increasing rates.

Visualize BigQuery data with Looker

Learn how to transform your raw BigQuery data into captivating visualizations and actionable insights. This video demonstrates how to seamlessly connect and visualize your BigQuery data using Looker’s user-friendly interface and powerful semantic modeling capabilities. Watch along and discover how Looker and BigQuery empower business users with self-service analytics today.