Perusing the media to know what people are saying about a company is common practice for many businesses. But it’s not easy to keep up with every outlet around, especially when social media is in the mix. The media monitoring market is booming as companies need to be in the know when it comes to their social media mentions. If a disgruntled customer complains about a business online, it’s in the business’s best interest to respond and do some damage control before things escalate.

According to a McKinsey report, companies making intensive use of customer analytics are 2.6 times more likely to have a significantly higher ROI than their competitors. Intensive users of customer analytics are 23 times more likely to outperform their competitors in terms of new customer acquisition than non-intensive users, and 9 times more likely to surpass them in customer loyalty.

Migration in Rails is a tool that allows the developer to use Ruby to change an application's database schema. Instead of using SQL scripts, we use Ruby code, which is database independent, so it is easy to move the application to a completely new platform. We define these database changes in domain-specific language (DSL), and these migrations can be rolled back and managed along with the application source code.

A NameError is raised when a referenced variable or a constant, such as a module, a class, or a constant variable, isn't defined or is invalid. The Uninitialized Constant error is a variation of the NameError exception class and has several reasons to occur. When this error occurs, several class names appear in place of Something.

When a leading office supply chain coined the phrase “That was easy!” in an iconic 10-year-long ad campaign, that simple idea resonated with people everywhere. And that’s no coincidence. None of us wants our daily tasks to be labor-intensive, time-consuming, or complicated. The same is true in the world of insurance. To drive growth, insurers need to make it easy for agents and brokers.

The best time to load test your website is when you are in the development phase. This will allow you to identify potential issues before the application is released to the public.

NodeSource Node.js binary downloads keep increasing monthly, providing millions of users worldwide with the power of Node.js. This blog post gives us important insights into using Node.js across Linux environments and the Node.js community in general. Nodesource has been packaging and distributing Node.js for Linux environments for 9 years. Every major and minor release, as well as security updates. We’ve seen a massive increase in downloads every year.

I used to work with organizations to support their software evaluations, selections, and implementations. What regularly started as a desire for greater visibility into data, generally turned into a need for better management of data across their ecosystems. Basically, organizations cannot look at individual data and analytics projects without evaluating their needs in a cohesive manner. The reality is that selecting a new set of tools for data optimization requires a lot of effort.

Recent months were very busy for our team and some exciting new releases are coming soon. Meanwhile, in this post, we’re sharing updates to Loadero that took place in November 2022. There are some updates to our API, to the way Loadero works with test run artifacts in the results reports, new browser versions, and the Loadero Python client that we were developing for quite a long time and finally are happy to offer to our users along with examples of using it for storing test data in Github.

Cross-cloud analytics are critical to breaking down data silos. Moving data with usability, security, low-latency, and audibility makes it a reality.