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Growing With The Data Cloud - Lightfold's Story Of Startup & Success Through The Pandemic

Lightfold, a young analytics consultancy based in Brisbane, Australia, came into being in 2019, just before COVID hit, with the goal of helping companies gain mastery over their data by helping them build modern data stacks centered around Snowflake. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Ryan Green, chats with three members of the Lightfold leadership team–CEO John Cosgrove, Data Evangelist Graeme Lewis, and Director, Design and Product, Kylie Willett–about their company’s origin story and about the way in which Snowflake’s technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations think about data.

Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.

Protect Your Assets and Your Reputation in the Cloud

A recent headline in Wired magazine read “Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself.” There is no corporation that wants that headline and the reputational damage and financial loss it may cause. In the case of Uber it was a relatively simple attack using an approach called Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue. This is when an attacker takes advantage of authentication systems that require account owners to approve a log in.

Using Apache Solr REST API in CDP Public Cloud

The Apache Solr cluster is available in CDP Public Cloud, using the “Data exploration and analytics” data hub template. In this article we will investigate how to connect to the Solr REST API running in the Public Cloud, and highlight the performance impact of session cookie configurations when Apache Knox Gateway is used to proxy the traffic to Solr servers. Information in this blog post can be useful for engineers developing Apache Solr client applications.

From Data Engineering To Data Science To Producing Results For Today's Top Brands.

The simplicity of Snowflake—especially when it comes to scaling—is described by Nauman Hafiz, CTO of Constellation as a superpower. In this interview, Nauman sits down with Itamar Ben Hemo, CEO of Rivery, to discuss the impact of the data cloud on their business. They discuss moving from data engineering to data science, working with today's top brands, and freeing businesses to get the most value out of their data.

Future of Data Meetup: Enrich Your Data Inline with Apache NiFi

In this meetup, we’ll look at the different options for enriching your data using Apache NiFi. When and why would we prefer using NiFi for enrichment over a potentially more holistic solution, like Flink or Spark? What are the limitations? And how can we get the best of both worlds, performing data enrichment with NiFi when it makes sense and using our CEP engine when that makes the most sense? Join John Kuchmek and Mark Payne to find out!