Innovation in hypervisor technology in the early 2000’s from both commercial and open source projects was the genesis for the public cloud as we know it today. Virtualization and Moore’s law, together with advances in storage technology, mobile and wireless, created a data explosion that continues to accelerate through today.

Today’s businesses need ways to create software solutions quickly and inexpensively. No-code platforms make it possible for anyone to build a small application that can streamline a business process, add value to data, and automate tasks. In the following article, you will learn more about no-code and why more companies plan to use it.

Did you know that employees spend approximately 20% of their computer time hunting for the data and features they need inside enterprise applications? Rather than working on specific job tasks, they are getting lost in a maze of log-in prompts and dropdown menus — losing a fifth of their productivity in the process. Having a well defined microapp strategy is therefore an important part of increasing your organisation’s productivity.

Low-code tools have become increasingly popular over the last few years as more businesses look for ways to become more competitive without spending a lot of money. You can get great results from applications built with low-code development platforms. The following will help you decide whether you need a low-code tool and which one you should choose. Did you know you can generate a full-featured, documented, and secure REST API in minutes using DreamFactory?

Cloudera Flow Management, based on Apache NiFi and part of the Cloudera DataFlow platform, is used by some of the largest organizations in the world to facilitate an easy-to-use, powerful, and reliable way to distribute and process data at high velocity in the modern big data ecosystem. Increasingly, customers are adopting CFM to accelerate their enterprise streaming data processing from concept to implementation.

The Snowflake Data Cloud provides the unique ability for anyone to join their own data sets with thousands of live third-party data sets near-instantly, securely, and without moving data. Businesses operating in the Data Cloud gain a huge advantage over their competitors who are stuck in data silos and struggling with stale data sets downloaded from their legacy data providers weeks, months, or years ago.

Before the end of the year, I met with Christina McCoy, a Customer Success Manager for our federal region. We discussed some of her observations and proven practices for driving adoption in her accounts. Christina joined Qlik two years ago; she has over five years of CSM experience and is a graduate of Howard University, where she was a pitcher for the Bison’s softball program.

With the rise in the usage of internet and smartphones, the number of browsers too have increased over the last two decades. Currently, there are multiple browsers across the world and different users use different browsers. Also, every browser has different versions which are in use and you can’t simply assume that your website will look perfect on every browser. So, a website must be compatible across multiple browsers and their different versions in order to gain a significant user base.

Web Developers frequently come across issues where the developed website or web application does not work as expected on certain combinations of browsers and operating systems. Does this mean that enough effort was not spent in the automation testing process? The possibility is that the web developer and test automation engineer did not do thorough cross browser testing!

If anyone's ever been to AWS ReInvent in Vegas before, you'll know it's a crazy ride. This year we missed out (at least we have cleaner consciences and healthier wallets). But the high quality of content hadn't changed. We've been binging on sessions ‘til the bitter end (it officially ended Friday). So for our community, here is a summary of a few talks related to Apache Kafka.