In Kong, plugins can be thought of as policy enforcers. In the case of rate limiting, Kong offers two plugins: An open source one and Enterprise. Both plugins can limit requests per consumer, route, service or globally. Configuring the same plugin is also possible on a more than level. When this occurs, an order of precedence is used to determine which configuration to run. With this capability, it is possible to apply fine-grained policy control. In this article, we cover an advanced use case.

Every Rails app has a breaking point; a level of activity that it simply cannot handle. Your braking point depends on big architectural decisions, yes — and also on the tiniest changes committed by your most junior developer. That's why it's vital to regularly test your application's performance under load. In this article, Milap Neupane gives us a Rails-centric introduction to load testing with a powerful open-source tool called JMeter.

For healthcare and life sciences organizations, 2020 began like many other years. They looked to the year ahead and focused on how to best serve their patients, members, and other constituents through their latest innovation. As we now know, nothing about 2020 was ordinary, especially for leaders within these industries.

Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are three processes that automate integrating software development into a product and deploying the modified product to test and production environments.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted supply chains and brought economies around the world to a standstill. In turn, businesses need access to accurate, timely data more than ever before. As a result, the demand for data analytics is skyrocketing as businesses try to navigate an uncertain futured. However, the sudden surge in demand comes with its own set of challenges.

The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is the latest Big Data offering from Cloudera. It includes Apache HBase and Phoenix as part of the platform. These two components are provided in 3 form-factors: Cloudera’s Apache HBase customers typically run mission-critical applications that cannot afford any downtime. They need a way to migrate to a new deployment either without a production outage or, at a minimum, a tiny outage.

The role of data in COVID-19 vaccination record keeping Now that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved by the FDA for use in the US, and the Moderna vaccine likely isn’t far behind, we are now on the verge of being able to emerge from the social distancing world that began earlier in 2020. Recent news has talked about distributing a vaccination record card to everyone who gets a COVID-19 vaccine.

One of the big trends we’ve seen this year is organizations going direct to consumer. Manufacturers who sold through retail outlets are moving online, and as a result a huge amount of digital transformation is occurring. A customer of ours has done exactly that. Kyowa is a Japanese cosmetics and health food company and they’ve moved from retail to online and digital, and Yellowfin has been a significant part of that journey. In particular, they’ve used Signals.

This is the 3rd blog in our series on Snowflake Resource Optimization. In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we showed you how Snowflake’s unique architecture allows for a virtually unlimited number of compute resources to be accessed near-instantaneously. We also provided best practices for administering these compute resources to optimize performance and reduce credit consumption.

So, you’ve made a cool People Analytics App, filled it with data from your HCM, Finance, Talent Review System, and Recognition System (I could go on). You’ve also governed access to it to specific people and can use it to tell compelling stories.