To celebrate GitLab’s latest release and GitLab Commit 2021 we offer free cycle time readout of all of your personal and company projects hosted on GitLab.com for a limited time. Use this link and your GitLab credentials to sign into Logilica Insights and we let you know about your software teams cycle time, delivery velocity and much more.

Network encryption is a vital security step in hardening your application and guarding your data. Additionally, it is more often becoming a requirement by many organizations and laws (like HIPAA). In this article, we will discuss how to secure network communication between your application and the SQL Server database using an encrypted connection. We will demonstrate how encryption can be enabled and leveraged from SourcePro DB with no source code changes to your application.

BigQuery is capable of some truly impressive feats, be it scanning billions of rows based on a regular expression, joining large tables, or completing complex ETL tasks with just a SQL query. One advantage of BigQuery (and SQL in general), is it’s declarative nature. Your SQL indicates your requirements, but the system is responsible for figuring out how to satisfy that request. However, this approach also has its flaws - namely the problem of understanding intent.

In our guide on the best Grafana dashboards examples, we wanted to show you some of the best ways you can use Grafana for a variety of different use cases across your organisation. Whether you are a software architect or a lead DevOps engineer, Grafana is used to make analysis and data visualisation far easier to conduct for busy engineering and technical teams throughout the world.

Building a REST API? There’s a few things you’ll need to know before you get started. In this article, we break down the basics of REST APIs and tell you how they’re delivered, and what you need to do to create one.

Simone Clancy, Director of People Strategy at Yellowfin, and Jessica Maree, Program Director at VICT4W, had the opportunity to interview each other about leadership and mentoring, and share some valuable lessons they've learned.

When Apple launched its App Store in 2008, it opened a window of opportunity for thousands of software developers who rushed to invent the mobile-first world in which we all live today. Vendors that embraced the new paradigm, such as game developer Imangi, saw breakthrough success.

As your data operations evolve, they become messier. Diverse data sources and data models at their sources, multiple movements of data throughout your platform, and cobbled-up infrastructure, which has grown in complexity through every deployment have made it hard to identify, trace, classify, and understand your data assets. This can be as simple as an analyst spending hours trying to figure out where a data attribute in a table came from and whether it is trustworthy.

Being a software developer is an amazing job with a growing job field ensuring there is great security and need in the market. But, with a great job that is highly skilled comes the demand of having a high understanding of the tools and languages needed to properly develop software efficiently.

Hightouch and Fivetran turn your data warehouse into your customer data platform.