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No, Automation Won't Kill Banks, But it Will Change the Financial Services Game, Part 2

Technology drives change but change has become particularly frenetic in the last decade. This trend, says Fintech expert Chris Skinner, is partly inspired by the global financial crisis, but equally enabled by the digital revolution. “I am a technologist,” says Skinner “and have spent all of my career looking at how technology might change the future of finance and financial services.

Data Transformation & Log Analytics: How to Reduce Costs and Complexity

Logs are automatically-generated records of events that take place within a cloud-based application, network, or infrastructure service. These records are stored in log files, creating an audit trail of system events that can be analyzed for a variety of purposes, including: Enterprise organizations use log analytics software to aggregate, transform, and analyze data from log files, developing insights that drive business decisions and operational excellence.

Fine-Grained Authorization with Apache Kudu and Apache Ranger

When Kudu was first introduced as a part of CDH in 2017, it didn’t support any kind of authorization so only air-gapped and non-secure use cases were satisfied. Coarse-grained authorization was added along with authentication in CDH 5.11 (Kudu 1.3.0) which made it possible to restrict access only to Apache Impala where Apache Sentry policies could be applied, enabling a lot more use cases.

How to accelerate digital transformation with Automated Business Monitoring

With automation becoming more user-friendly and streamlined than ever before, it's understandable organizations across sectors are examining how it can enhance their analytics capability and accelerate their business shift toward digital transformation.

How to ace on premise to cloud migration in 2021

The cloud is all the rage right now. The tech giants like Amazon and Google are almost exclusively focusing on cloud technologies. The small companies migrate to the cloud faster than birds fly south for the winter. So, what is so wrong with keeping your app and data on an on-premise server, safely locked in one of your offices?

Building HIPAA Compliant APIs

Legal disclaimer: Nothing stated herein is legal advice. It is provided for informational purposes only. You should work closely with legal advisors to determine exactly how HIPAA may affect your business. Health care represents 17% of US GDP, around $4 trillion in 2020. COVID has normalized the use of remote medicine and accelerated the dispersion of health care away from doctors’ offices and hospitals, to services being delivered on smartphones and online apps.

How to trigger Cloud Run actions on BigQuery events

Many BigQuery users ask for database triggers—a way to run some procedural code in response to events on a particular BigQuery table, model, or dataset. Maybe you want to run an ELT job whenever a new table partition is created, or maybe you want to retrain your ML model whenever new rows are inserted into the table. In the general category of “Cloud gets easier”, this article will show how to quite simply and cleanly tie together BigQuery and Cloud Run.

Making the Most of your Legacy Assets without Creating Future Legacy Roadblocks

Insurance legacy systems are often seen as one of the biggest barriers to speeding up innovation and digitalization. And the COVID-19 pandemic has made even clearer how important it is to be able to respond quickly to changing conditions, and a less physical world. So how can insurers make the most of their legacy systems and avoid creating new ones in the process?

Instrumented testing: how to unlock a new era of manual testing impact

Getting quality bugs is only half the QA battle—you need issue reports showing actual testing session insights that could negatively impact your users. And if you have skilled manual testers to help you find these bugs, the next problem becomes…how do you fix them? For that, you need contextual information about the steps and environmental conditions leading up to the bug.