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Appium vs Selenium - Architecture, Functionality, Applications, and Everything in Between

It’s perhaps difficult to remember life before smartphones. Today, mobile phones have transformed dramatically to become the information and communication hub fundamental to modern life: from paying for your next meal to tracking your sleep habits. This explosion of the mobile industry puts testing professionals under pressure to keep up with speed without sacrificing their mobile apps’ quality.

When Debugging Meets Performance

Our ongoing goal at Rookout, the Live Debugging company, is to turn the debugging of live, remote applications into something that every developer can easily do as part of their daily workflow. Recently, we have taken this challenge one step further. What if we could make it so developers were also able to solve performance issues on a daily basis as well? Some recent additions we made to the Rookout platform are the first step towards turning that vision into a reality.

6 Tech Trends and Predictions That Are Happening Faster Than You Think

Whoa! Another prediction season is already upon us. Shaped by the fast-moving aftershocks of the COVID-19 crisis, 2021 promises to be a time of change. As usual, we made our predictions list and checked it twice. But rather than guess the future, we asked experts, business leaders, and big thinkers to help us size up noteworthy trends and technologies that should be on your radar in 2021 and beyond. Here’s a quick rundown of what we found out.

Cloud Data Management Guide: Solutions & Best Practices

Your data can quickly get out of control when you’re working with multiple cloud storage services and applications throughout your organization. Complex cloud ecosystems can make it difficult to know what data you have, how it’s being managed, whether it’s safe, and how to use it effectively. Cloud data management platforms can stop this frustrating scenario in its tracks.

Get to Know Your Retail Customer: Accelerating Customer Insight and Relevance

There are lessons to be learned from the brick and mortar or pure-play digital retailers that have been successful in the Covid-19 chaos. As the pandemic’s stress test of e-commerce, in-store insights, supply chain visibility, and fulfillment capabilities have revealed shortcomings, and long-lasting consumer experiences— it has also allowed many companies to pivot to very successful strategies built on enterprise data and the digitization efforts that accompany it.

Global View Distributed File System with Mount Points

Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the most popular file system in the big data world. The Apache Hadoop File System interface has provided integration to many other popular storage systems like Apache Ozone, S3, Azure Data Lake Storage etc. Some HDFS users want to extend the HDFS Namenode capacity by configuring Federation of Namenodes. Other users prefer other alternative file systems like Apache Ozone or S3 due to their scaling benefit.

The practical benefits of augmented analytics

Augmented analytics uses emerging technologies like automation, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language generation (NLG) to automate data manipulation, monitoring and analysis tasks and enhance data literacy. In our previous blog, we covered what augmented analytics actually is and what it really means for modern business intelligence.

What Is a Data Pipeline?

A data pipeline is a series of actions that combine data from multiple sources for analysis or visualization. In today’s business landscape, making smarter decisions faster is a critical competitive advantage. Companies desire their employees to make data-driven decisions, but harnessing timely insights from your company’s data can seem like a headache-inducing challenge.

What are ETL tools?

Thinking of building out an ETL process or refining your current one? Read more to learn about how ETL tools give you time to focus on building data models. ETL stands for extract-transform-load, and is commonly used when referring to the process of data integration. Extract refers to pulling data from a particular data source. Transforms are used to make that data into a processable format. Load is the final step to drop the data into the designated target.