DreamFactory specialises in REST API generation for any number of database types however an underrepresented benefit is the ability to mount and manage any third party API via a HTTP service connector. This gives you the ability to generate documentation and secure an existing API as if it were created natively within DreamFactory.

Cloudera is trusted by regulated industries and Government organisations around the world to store and analyze petabytes of highly sensitive or confidential information about people, healthcare data, financial data or just proprietary information sensitive to the customer itself.

Companies today are faced with an analytics conundrum. On one hand, there’s a higher demand than ever for actionable business insights, but on the other there’s limited resources to deliver BI content to on-technical business end-users. To fill this gap, the industry is increasingly turning to the next generation of self-service analytics tools. These tools reduce time to insight, speed up insight to action, and also allow BI teams to focus on more strategic analytics work.

This tutorial will walk through a common use case for the Kong Gateway Key Authentication plugin: using API key authentication to protect a route to an API server endpoint. It’s a simple use case, but it will give you the foundation to deploy and configure the plugin for your own unique project needs. Before we walk through our mini-project, let’s cover a few core concepts.

One of the most powerful capabilities provided by Kong Konnect Enterprise is the support for Hybrid deployments. In other words, it implements distributed API Gateway Clusters with multiple instances running on several environments at the same time. Moreover, Kong Enterprise provides a new topology option, named Hybrid Mode, with a total separation of the Control Plane (CP) and Data Plane (DP).

This post tells a story of a performance mistake that is quickly made even by experienced developers: The expectation that a built-in PHP function has better performance than a better suited data structure written in PHP. The protagonist in these stories is array_unique, a function that takes a list of values and removes duplicate entries to return a list of each value occurring only once.

While Kubernetes is a very powerful and comprehensive application, it can also be very complicated and confusing to new users. Thankfully, the community is great at pulling together to try to tame the Kubernetes beasts, and as more users join the platform, more handy tools to help you manage your cluster are developed. Kubernetes Resources range from everyday helper tools to development tools to troubleshooting tools, and in this article we’ll discuss fifteen of the best ones.

Many of you rely on Dataflow to build and operate mission critical streaming analytics pipelines. A key goal for us, the Dataflow team, is to make the technology work for users rather than the other way around. Autotuning, as a fundamental value proposition Dataflow offers, is a key part of making that goal a reality - it helps you focus on your use cases by eliminating the cost and burden of having to constantly tune and re-tune your applications as circumstances change.

Businesses of all sizes and entire industries rely on analyzing personal data to beat their competitors and better serve their customers. For example, information from your CRM (customer relationship management) software can help you understand how to convert more leads in a particular area or from a specific demographic.

When you secure a new data engineering position, it’s important to get off on the right foot. You need to respond to new data sources, data types, data sets, and applications efficiently. In the era of Big Data, this can be more than challenging. During this early stage of your job transition, you need to impress, and you can do this by re-thinking your data engineering strategy.