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The QA Challenge Facing 2023: A talent shortage

Layoffs, budget cuts, market shifts, outsourcing halts. Times are tight in engineering departments across the globe. While crowdsourcing can mitigate many of those issues, there’s a glaring QA challenge staring down the last two quarters of 2023: a talent shortage. Let me be clear: lack of qualified talent. There are enough bodies, enough devices, and O/S combinations to hobble together a crowdsourced testing team that can check the boxes.

Getting Started with Elasticsearch Mapping

Elasticsearch Mapping is a process of defining the schema or structure of the data that is going to be indexed and searched. Mapping determines how Elasticsearch will interpret and handle the data being indexed, including the field names, data types, and how they are analyzed and indexed for search. Mapping in Elasticsearch is essential for ensuring that the data is indexed and searched accurately and efficiently.

Top 5 ELT Tools

To become a data-driven business and perform effective data management, organizations must construct high-performance data pipelines that can effectively collect, process, and analyze their enterprise information. When handling data processing and integration, companies have several choices for how to construct their data flows. Instead of writing custom data workflows from scratch, most businesses decide to use an ELT data platform that seamlessly connects the various datasets in their IT ecosystem.

Why low latency is essential for delivering realtime updates at scale

Each business (regardless of industry) and every software developer has latency on their radar. Yet, it's typically not at the top of the priority list, and generally, that's just fine. But when it comes to the world of realtime updates, this casual attitude can trip you up. When you're piecing together a system for realtime updates, low latency jumps from being an afterthought to a critical, front and center requirement.

Zero Trust Security: The What, Why and How

If you’ve been researching API security, you’ve likely seen the term “Zero Trust.” And you may already know that organizations can use Zero Trust to help protect their APIs from attacks. What you may not know is that Zero Trust is one of the best models for API security. According to Microsoft, “96 percent of security decision-makers state that Zero Trust is critical to their organization’s success.” But what is Zero Trust exactly?

Understand the Differences: API Authentication vs API Authorization

If you landed on this blog post, chances are that you care about keeping your API secure. It’s an important topic to discuss: API exploits are on the rise, and you don’t want unauthorized users accessing your data. A big part of that security is implementing API authentication and API authorization. These API access control measures are a foundational aspect of API security.

Seven data integration and quality scenarios for Qlik and Talend solutions

By now, you should have read the headlines that Qlik's acquisition of Talend is complete, and we're excited to expand our best-in-class capabilities to help you access, transform, trust, analyze, and take action with your data. You might have seen Mike Capone's QlikWorld keynote or the recent "What's Next is Now" webinar and wondered how to leverage these new capabilities in your organization.