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How to Connect ThoughtSpot to Amazon Redshift Serverless

Many businesses rely on Amazon Redshift Serverless for their cloud data warehouse and ThoughtSpot to derive insights from the data stored within. For this blog, I’m going to show you how to create a connection between Amazon Redshift Serverless and ThoughtSpot. It’s easy to connect Redshift with ThoughtSpot whether you have it running as a cluster which you have provisioned, or serverless.

Introducing WSO2 Private CIAM Cloud and Identity Server 6.0

WSO2 Identity Server is an API-driven open source IAM product designed to help you build effective CIAM solutions. It is based on open standards such as SAML, OAuth, and OIDC with the deployment options of on-premise, cloud, and hybrid. It supports complex IAM requirements given its high extensibility. WSO2 Identity Server manages more than 1 billion identities worldwide.

Cloud pubsub services compared: Azure Web PubSub vs Ably

In this post, I compare two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably, to determine which provides the best development experience. The context will be a multi-user pixelart drawing application that I've built with both services. This is not a step-by-step instruction on how to build the entire application. I'll highlight some key features and differences. The GitHub repository for the app has further details and includes CodeTours to guide you through the solution.

Evolution of API Technologies: From the Cloud Age and Beyond

We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner, APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new products/services and business models. The popularity of APIs has grown significantly in the last decade or so, but the history of APIs stretches back much further.

The Evolution of APIs: From the Cloud Age and Beyond (Part 2)

In our last blog post, we traced the evolution of APIs in the cloud age. The cloud age introduced the idea of an “API economy” — or the business practice of organizations exposing their digital services or information through the controlled use of APIs. While the API economy looks attractive today, we believe it will become even stronger in the future.

Optimize your cloud data cost: 4 steps to reduce cloud data platform cost before they control you

If you have managed a cloud data platform, you have undoubtedly gotten that call. You know the one, it's usually from finance or the office of the CFO, inquiring about your monthly spend. And it usually comes in one of two forms: While both are clear and present dangers to cloud data platform owners, they don’t have to be.

What is an API Gateway?

An API gateway is a server that sits between your backend services and your users. It provides an abstraction layer that helps you manage the communication between clients and your services. API gateways are a single point of entry into a microservices application and they work like a reverse proxy: They receive API calls from clients, route them to the right microservices in the backend, and return aggregated responses to clients.

5 steps to master the data governance maturity curve

Data governance was an exclusive set of skills and tools based on old-school rules until a few years ago. Today, that's changed. While people who manage data still need tools, rules, and protocols to control and secure data use and sharing, three major trends have transformed the data ecosystem. First, the explosion of data from many nontraditional sources (personal devices, sensors, social data, etc.) provided businesses with massive and unprecedented information to dig for insight.

Accelerating IT to the Speed of Business

Businesses today adapt to change with breathtaking speed. Lines of business now follow their products out the door digitally and continue tracking usage throughout the lifecycle. This gives companies valuable insights into how customers use and interact with their products, enabling them to analyze and evolve solutions while nurturing customer relationships.

How to deploy game updates with Unity Cloud Content Delivery and Codemagic

TL;DR: The Unity Cloud Content Delivery tool is a solution that helps deliver data to users in a synchronized way, which speeds up patching and enables live game updates. You can set up a project in Unity’s CCD cloud to deliver your game’s assets to customers’ devices. Additionally, you can integrate CCD with a CI/CD service to ensure consistent delivery of all parts of the updated app and to automate deployment, reducing the amount of manual work.