The insurance industry is undergoing massive modernization to improve outdated processes and enhance policyholder experiences. Delivering a connected insurance experience has become critical for insurers to stay competitive as the marketplace digitizes and insurtechs emerge, bringing new challenges to more established providers. Core to an insurer’s overall connected insurance experience are workflows that ensure a seamless, accelerated digital underwriting process for potential policyholders.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 2.8, which further simplifies API management and improves security for all services across any infrastructure. This announcement demonstrates Kong’s continued commitment to our customers and community by providing a next-generation service connectivity platform to intelligently broker information across modern architectures.

In recent years, investors have been placing an increased emphasis on a range of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues resulting in ESG reporting becoming more important. These issues are garnering more attention from legislators and regulators from around the world. As a result, there are more demands on companies to report on their activities and practices and how they impact environmental and social sustainability.

I have a bit of a confession to make, I’ve never really bothered to learn Python. The last time I briefly used it, Python 3 had just been released and was being ignored by almost everyone due to all to breaking changes people had porting over to it from Python 2. This is crazy, as in my opinion, Python is only behind JavaScript in terms of the most used language in the world. I have no excuse not to learn it and see what the fuss is all about!

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There is no doubt that eCommerce is a staple in the economy post-COVID, which is why omnichannel retail will continue to be a competitive advantage moving forward. Over the past decade, online shopping channels have transitioned from an attractive option to a requirement — but this is just the beginning. You can effectively collect, integrate, and act on customer data through greater business intelligence by implementing digital technologies into your overall retail strategy.

Apache Impala is used today by over 1,000 customers to power their analytics in on premise as well as cloud-based deployments. Large user communities of analysts and developers benefit from Impala’s fast query execution, helping them get their work done more effectively. For these users performance and concurrency are always top of mind.

Risk management is a highly dynamic discipline these days. Stress testing is a particular area that has become even more important throughout the pandemic. Stress tests conducted by authorities such as the Federal Reserve Bank in the US are designed to keenly monitor the financial stability of the banking sector, especially during economic downturns such as those brought on by the pandemic.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen incredible growth in the number of data apps being built on Snowflake, including large customer-facing apps from companies such as BlackRock, Instacart, Lacework, and others. We’re proud of the fact that our platform helps developers bring these applications to life faster, scale better, and provide more powerful insights to their users, whether they be employees, partners, or customers.

Software development is constantly evolving, from technologies to best practices to methodologies. But the end goal remains the same: how can we bring new features to market faster to keep our customers happy without sacrificing the quality of our product? Enter DevOps. DevOps is an engineering culture or philosophy that aims to increase the speed and efficiency of the software development process so companies can innovate faster while maintaining the integrity of their product.