You’re building the next generation of your product, but you’re not sure whether embedding analytics is the right move. The demand is clear: According to insightsoftware and Hanover Research’s Embedded Analytics Report, self-service analytics and managed dashboards are of key importance for nearly all embedded analytics buyers, in large part because customers expect data insights, dashboards, and reporting built right into your application.

Manual data handoffs, stale batch jobs, and brittle polling loops quietly erode margins in e-commerce. Orders, payments, and tickets arrive continuously, but the systems that should react—inventory, fulfillment, accounting, CRM—often lag. Webhooks fix the core bottleneck by pushing events when they happen instead of making your apps pull and check on a schedule. The result is fresher data, fewer race conditions, and leaner infrastructure.

I’m a Data Streaming Engineer and a developer advocate, which means I spend a lot of time thinking about the day-to-day experience of building applications with data streaming and stream processing. I muse about a world of data in motion where entire organizations have the governance needed to manage, discover, and understand the complex relationships between data streams.

Set up Databricks Apps in minutes and start writing data application logic.

BigQuery Studio’s improved console interface helps streamline your workflows, enhances your productivity, and gives you greater control.

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s a timely reminder that the files you touch, share, and rely on every day often hold your most valuable data and are exactly what attackers are after. Unstructured data, like spreadsheets, documents, logs, and backups, makes up the majority of your business data. That’s what makes it the prime target for ransomware.