Do you need to process a lot of data in real time? Event streaming is a pattern that could help. David Sanchez walks us through how to do event streaming in Rails with Apache Kafka, the popular open-source event streaming platform.
Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a revolution. Customers increasingly expect their online experiences to be interactive, immersive, and realtime by default. The need to satisfy user expectations is driving the exponential growth of event-driven architectures in organizations of all shapes and sizes. And by enabling users to have realtime experiences whenever and wherever they want, 24/7, mobile drives this change further and faster.
You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that’s helped define cloud computing and today’s cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that’s not so in the case of the arresting “API Mandate,” perhaps better thought of now as the API Mandate or API-First Mandate.
Last week ThoughtSpot took big steps toward further focusing our pricing on a single metric: customer value. In the course of my career, I’ve worked at many companies, and seen countless products, packages, and editions launched. Often, these initiatives are guided by what’s in it for the company: how do we get better margins, cross or upsell products together, or maximize revenue?
Scammers exist in all forms of commerce. With the advancement of e-commerce, fraud has taken on new forms and become more powerful than ever before. Fraudsters take full advantage of any loophole in any system. Preventing, detecting, and eliminating fraud is one of the major focus areas of the e-commerce and banking industries at present. Banks and other financial institutions are investing in new ways to meet the challenge of preventing fraud.
Supply chain shocks have wracked organizations across the globe, and healthcare and life sciences companies aren’t immune. News headlines were focused on personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages early in the pandemic, and more recently hospitals have faced shortages of much-needed medical supplies like crutches, gauze, and medications.
The threats of hackers and data theft grows by the day and even smaller eCommerce sites are not safe from attack. Security should be a top priority for any eCommerce website owner, no matter how big or small their site may be. Fortunately, there are plenty of great security plugins available to help keep your site safe and secure. In this article, we will take a look at 18 of the best plugins for keeping your eCommerce site secure.
At least every few years, utility companies release squadrons of drones into the skies to digitally photograph hard-to-reach equipment and check for wear and tear. Around the world, there are 3 million miles of high-voltage transmission lines – enough to go from the moon and back half-a-dozen times – and as much as 64 million miles of local transmission lines; that represents a lot of images, and even more data.
