The pace of change in the world is rapidly accelerating. Technology companies must prioritize speed to market to stay ahead of this curve, but speed can sometimes come at the expense of risk. The recent CrowdStrike incident is a sobering reminder that even the largest and most capable organizations are not immune to errors that can lead to significant downstream impacts.

API governance sets the rules and practices to manage APIs efficiently, ensuring they remain discoverable, consistent, and secure. It’s crucial for businesses aiming to control API sprawl and enhance collaboration. This guide explores API governance, its role in effective API management, its benefits, and best practices for successful implementation.

Fivetran announces upcoming integration with Polaris catalog.

In today's data-driven world, Power Query has become an indispensable tool for professionals dealing with data analysis and manipulation. However, it's crucial to understand the limitations of Power Query to maximize its potential and complement it with more advanced tools when necessary.

Keboola offers a robust virtual branching environment, enabling users to seamlessly create a shadow copy of their entire Keboola Project. This allows for development and testing of changes without affecting the production environment. These development branches contain a copy of the underlying project data, ensuring that when a pipeline is executed in the development branch, the production data remains unaffected.

According to a survey by Markets and Markets, the EdTech sector is seeing an unparalleled upswing, with the worldwide market size expected to reach an astounding $232.9 billion by 2027 at a CAGR of 13.2% over the period 2022–2027. This extraordinary expansion highlights the critical need for Edtech software testing services as well as a revolutionary change in how we study and access educational information.

In today’s regulatory environment, organizations are compelled to adopt stringent security measures to mitigate the risk of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data breaches in their production environments. However, the pressure to provision more test data in non-production environments, often sourced from production data, has introduced new vulnerabilities.

Idempotent operations produce the same result even when the operation is repeated many times. The result of the 2nd, 3rd, and 1,000th repeat of the operation will return exactly the same result as the 1st time. In this post, we will demystify the concept of idempotency—a fundamental property that ensures consistency, predictability, and reliability in APIs and distributed systems.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.8.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. See the Upgrading to 3.8.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.7.x section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps. In a previous release, 3.6, Tiered Storage was released as early access feature.

Modern data platforms enable enterprises to extract valuable business insights from data, sourced from various origins. Data engineers, data scientists, and other data practitioners utilize both data streaming and batch processing frameworks as a means to provide these insights. While batch processes work on historical data, stream processing extracts insights in real time, enabling businesses to react faster with respect to changing events.