As all developers know, when building software things don’t always go as planned. In fact, most of the time they don’t. With today’s modern distributed architectures it’s more important than ever to have the proper tools in your toolbelt. This allows us to automate as much of the software delivery lifecycle as possible and then be able to immediately triage issues when they arise.

It’s amazing how much we can get done by automating business processes. Whether it’s augmenting human labor, reducing risks, or making customers happy, when we do automation right, we can make big things happen in any organization. Perhaps this is why: In other words, falling behind the automation curve could be lethal. Coming out on top means automating as if the future of your business depended on it.

Virtual experiences have been booming in retail and e-commerce. And it’s no wonder. VR and AR offer a ton of benefits to companies that sell products online, or use online channels to divert traffic to stores or sales professionals. These experiences can increase conversions, boost word-of-mouth traffic, and lower return rates. Want to see some examples?

The Heroku cloud platform has long been a popular solution for teams seeking a convenient application hosting solution. Today we’re thrilled to contribute to the Heroku ecosystem with the release of our DreamFactory Heroku Add-on. Heroku users can now launch hosted DreamFactory instances directly from the Heroku dashboard, and easily generate APIs for a wide variety of data sources, including PostgreSQL.

We’re pleased to announce the release of DreamFactory 4.4! Our releases tend to be thematic, and 4.4 focuses on big data. Four new connectors are now available to commercially licensed enterprise users, including: If you’d like to give any of these features a test drive, please contact our sales team at [email protected] to arrange for a free 14 day trial! If you’re an existing client please contact your account executive to make arrangements!

Having introduced the flow delivery challenges and corresponding resolutions in the first article ‘Cloudera Flow Management Continuous Delivery while Minimizing Downtime’, we will combine all the preceding solutions into an example of flow management continuous delivery architecture. DataFlow Continuous Delivery Architecture In the whole process, we can see the following steps.

Today’s Data Privacy Day offers consumers an opportunity to learn about how companies use, collect, and share their personal information. At the same time, it gives companies a chance to focus on and highlight how they are protecting customer data. Although most businesses view data privacy practices as a way to mitigate their risk, good practices around data privacy can actually differentiate your organization from your competitors.

As your organization begins planning and budgeting for 2021 initiatives, it’s time to take a critical look at your cloud migration strategy. If you’re planning to move your on-premises big data workloads to the cloud this year, you’re undoubtedly faced with a number of questions and challenges.

Our “State of the API Economy 2021” report indicates that despite the many financial pressures and disruptions wrought by COVID-19, 75% of companies continued focusing on their digital transformation initiatives, and almost two-thirds of those companies actually increased their investments and efforts. Because APIs are how software talks to software and how developers leverage data and functionality in different systems, they are at the center of these digital transformation initiatives.

We’ve released a new version of our load testing plugin for Jenkins CI. Load Testing CI/CD Plugin helps to run load tests automatically as a Post-build action and mark the build as PASSED, UNSTABLE or FAILED based on errors received during the test run and the average response time. Use the Post build actions and define your load test limits in order to mark the build UNSTABLE or FAILED.