Video footage is widely available in the current era of digital communication. Moving images have developed into a crucial method for message delivery, from brief social media posts to extensive online courses. The development of technologies that make the production of such material not only feasible but also effective and artistically impressive has exploded during the past 10 years.

Semantic layers are a game changer, allowing organizations to define metrics and business logic in one, centralized location. Because business users can trust that their data is built on a single source of truth, the semantic layer also empowers self-service analytics. Looker Modeler has become a leader among semantic layers, allowing users to seamlessly layer on top of their business data.

Snowflake and Salesforce have built on our existing partnership to unify the full breadth of customer and business data and generate actionable insights for our customers. We are happy to announce the general availability of Bring Your Own Lake (BYOL) Data Sharing with the Snowflake Data Cloud from Salesforce Data Cloud. Organizations can now leverage Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing to accelerate decision-making and help streamline business processes.

This year, we’ve witnessed a significant shift in the tech landscape. Industry giants like Amazon (AWS), Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, and others are embracing GraphQL APIs, both for their internal operations and external interactions. GraphQL, hailed as the SQL for APIs, is more than a query language – It's a runtime that efficiently retrieves data from databases.

Monolithic architectures have long been the go-to when it comes to software design and building applications. However, monolithic architectures have their fair share of drawbacks and make it harder to make changes to an application efficiently. Therefore, monolithic architectures have given way to a new type of architecture that allows developer teams to make faster and more efficient changes, known as microservices architecture.

Data management is a critical aspect of any business, and secure, efficient data transfer mechanisms are an absolute must. This is where Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) comes into play, offering a method to transfer files securely over networks. However, with the rise of cloud computing, a more accessible, scalable, and cost-effective solution has emerged: Cloud SFTP.

In the dynamic realm of technology, how we conceive, construct, and uphold applications exerts a significant influence on their scalability, ease of maintenance, and ultimate prosperity. Throughout this blog, we will embark on an expedition through the evolutionary trajectory of software architecture.

Virtual reality experiences are becoming more common across a wide range of industries, from healthcare to retail. However, gaming still stands out as a leader in this technological evolution. Virtual reality (VR) game development – currently a more than $7 billion market – is expected to bring in $53 billion by 2025. And in our 2023 game development report, 13% of surveyed developers noted they are working on a virtual reality game.

Automation, reliability and scale are the seeds for growing innovation.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to make work incredibly efficient—which means it’s the perfect complement to process automation technology. Process automation, and related approaches like business process management, already aim to improve productivity by automating what can and should be automated.