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Monitor The Speed of Your Website

An easy way to monitor the speed and rendering of your website, also how fast your website or any of the web pages on your website is to use the Website Performance Monitoring Service from LoadFocus. Why does this matter? Well, first of all you want your website to appear in search engines like Google in the first results. The speed of your websites and other metrics matter a lot on how search engines position your web pages in the search results.

Node.js's Underrated Combo: Passport and CASL

It’s easy to get lost with dozens of plugins and frameworks when starting a new project that requires basic authentication and authorization capabilities. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this article, we’re going to explore two valuable Node.js packages — Passport and CASL — that can help you boost the security of your application by providing both authentication and authorization functionality.

Change Data Capture and Kafka to break up your monolith

Getting data from a database into Kafka is one of the most frequent use cases we see. For data integration between enterprise data sources when migrating from monolith to microservices, what better than CDC? We talked about breaking up a monolith and the importance of data observability previously. Now we’re showing you how to do it with a typical microservices architecture pattern including PostgreSQL, Debezium and Apache Kafka.

Between KYC and Stimulus Lending, Banks Are Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

But low-code automation can help. Amid the pandemic, banks are under enormous pressure to comply with stricter regulations and keep up with growing demand for new lines of credit. Here’s Appian Financial Services Industry Lead in Europe, Herbert Schild, on how low-code automation can help at a critical time. What are the challenges with issuing rapid stimulus loans?

The 6 Soft Skills Data Engineers Need to Succeed

Soft skills can be almost as important as data engineering skills when you apply for a job. Soft skills can make the difference between stress and efficiency or being unsatisfied with your position and a raise. When data engineers and data scientists earn bachelor’s degrees, they usually take classes in topics like data warehousing, programming languages, machine learning, and data science.

Achieving Energy Efficiency With Data Efficiency: Vermont Gas + Data Governance Leaders

Vermont Gas (VGS) is a leader in energy efficiency and innovation, offering a clean, safe, affordable choice for over 53,000 homes, businesses, and institutions in northwest Vermont. They pride themselves on providing timely, comprehensive service for all their customers, ensuring they have heat, hot water, and energy to get through the cold New England winter.

Drinking our own champagne - Cloudera upgrades to CDP Private Cloud

Like most of our customers, Cloudera’s internal operations rely heavily on data. For more than a decade, Cloudera has built internal tools and data analysis primarily on a single production CDH cluster. This cluster runs workloads for every department – from real-time user interfaces for Support to providing recommendations in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Upgrade Advisor to analyzing our business and closing our books.