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Cloud Complexity and the Need for Tighter Security Grow Together

Whether on-premises, private, hybrid or multicloud, or at the edge – working in the cloud is complex. And as the enterprise expands, so too does the threat surface for cyberattacks. Ransomware, in particular, is among the biggest risks organizations now face and cloud-based data is accounting for 39% of successful attacks.

Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails

Web applications usually rely heavily on databases, for the most part. And as applications grow, databases grow too. We keep scaling web servers and background workers to keep up with the heavy load. But eventually, the database needs to keep up with all the new connections from these processes. One way to tackle this is to grow a database with an app using vertical scaling. This means adding more CPU power and memory to the database server. But this is usually slow.

Migrating a Flutter app to Material 3

At Google I/O 2021, Google announced the next evolution of Material Design, Material You, along with Android 12. The Material Design system’s biggest overhaul yet brought redesigned components, new colors, a wide range of shapes, simplified typography, new elevation, better accessibility, and many other tweaks. With this update, Flutter apps can have a consistent design across multiple platforms.

Create a Process Improvement Plan from the Ground Up With Process Mining

Shakespeare wrote that the course of true love never did run smooth. The same could be said of diving into a process improvement project without a plan. Before jumping in head first with process mining to identify and fix a broken or inefficient process, start with a strong plan to avoid headaches for yourself and others. A written plan provides direction, while giving your stakeholders something to react to. They’ll see exactly what you want to do, and have the opportunity to make suggestions.

All the Features A Robust Data Lake Should Have

From databases to data warehouses and, finally, to data lakes, the data landscape is changing rapidly as volumes and sources of data increase. With a growth projection of almost 30%, the data lake market will grow from USD 3.74 billion in 2020 to USD 17.6 billion by 2026. Also, from the 2022 Data and AI Summit, it is clear that data lake architecture is the future of data management and governance.

Interview With CTO Mahe Rangareddy

For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leads from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO Mahe Rangareddy. Mahe Rangareddy is the Chief Technology Officer at Alpha Omega Integration, a government contracting company in Tysons VA. An expert in data analytics, he promotes innovation and improvement within the company.

A story of Lazy Loading File System Operations for better dev system performance

In this blog post I want to share a story of a performance bottleneck using the filesystem that we experienced in our development setup. In the Tideways backend, we have a simple homegrown database migration tool that scans a directory for.sql files and applies them if not already done. It is a very old piece of code that I used since before the times of doctrine/migrations. It is much simpler but works for us.