Have you been burned by the unexpected costs of a cloud data warehouse? If so, you know about the failed economics of some cloud-native solutions on the market today. If not, before adopting a cloud data warehouse, consider the true costs of a cloud-native data warehouse. Data warehouses have been broadly adopted to provide timely reports and valuable insights. However, traditional deployments are notoriously cumbersome and cost-prohibitive at large scales.

Data engineers love to use SQL to solve all kinds of data problems. For this and more, Snowflake is a perfect partner. Snowflake’s support for standard SQL and several SQL variations, combined with JavaScript stored procedures, has helped me solve complex data challenges. But sometimes you might have the need for custom code.

There are a few standard structured data formats and discussions galore on which of them is more advantageous. Within Xplenty, users are able to process JSON and XML data formats with ease, and this article shares an example showing the functions that facilitate processing XML on Xplenty.

It's important to understand the uses and abuses of streaming infrastructure. Apache Kafka is a message broker that has rapidly grown in popularity in the last few years. Message brokers have been around for a long time; they're a type of datastore specialized for "buffering" messages between producer and consumer systems. Kafka has become popular because it's open-source and capable of scaling to very large numbers of messages.

When testing APIs, software engineers often repeat identical values across multiple requests, but who wants to waste time typing the same values every time? Insomnia’s environment variables solve this problem by allowing you to define a value once as an environment variable and reference that value wherever it’s needed. Insomnia also enables you to override certain variables using sub-environments or folder environments.

Monitoring for your Node.js apps can be hard. The tricky part is understanding what you need to monitor, instrumenting your code, and then making sense of all the data that’s been emitted. (That’s almost every part you might say 😅 ). At AppSignal, we dogfood our product and understand the pain users feel ourselves. The key points we focus on are the ease of use, flexibility, and developer experience.

NodeSource is excited to announce support for the aarch64 (ARM 64-bit) architecture in Enterprise Linux based distributions! It includes: In the last decade x86_64 was the dominant architecture in Enterprise Linux based distributions, but since 2018 there has been a significant increase in arm64 downloads. Also, big tech companies such as Apple and Amazon are adopting the arm64 processor.

Digital transformation is one thing. Getting people involved is another. Right now, there’s a disconnect between the culture of digital transformation that companies say they aspire to create and the organizational behavior they actually have, says Lisa Heneghan, Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of KPMG, UK. But here’s the good news: Organizations that invest in bridging the people gap will benefit the most from innovation, according to Heneghan.

Every business wants to stay agile. They invest in analytics to learn about their customers and their internal state, and they use these insights to make bold and innovative decisions. But then they run into a common problem: how to put those decisions into action. This is where a solutions analyst comes in. These multi-talented creative thinkers will look at the current state of play and identify the smartest path forward.

Digital technologies have been advancing at a breakneck pace, and companies are taking advantage in order to beat their competitors and better serve their customers. According to the 2018 “State of the CIO” report, 40 percent of IT budgets are now allocated for the express purpose of digital transformation regardless of industry. What’s more, 70 percent of companies say that they either already have a digital transformation strategy, or they’re working on putting one into place.