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Fast & Curious: Find and Fix Slow Queries & API Requests

AppSignal was built because we were tired of slow and clumsy monitoring setups. Instead, we built monitoring that’s easy yet powerful - an intuitive interface enables you to figure out what’s happening in no time. Today, our team made finding slow events effortless. We’ve fully overhauled our slow events feature, helping developers to quickly find and fix slow queries and API requests.

Rest vs SOAP: The Key Differences You Need To Know

When choosing between these two popular web API (application programming interface) formats it can be surprisingly difficult to know which one you should select for your infrastructure. Although both Rest (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) share attributes in common with how they handle HTTP protocols, there are a number of key differences as discussed in this article.

Solution Architect: Become the Ultimate Problem Solver

There's an old XKCD cartoon that describes a conversation between a manager and a software developer. This kind of conversation happens all the time. Business leaders know their strategic goals. IT people know what the tech can do. But aligning goals with technology is an ongoing challenge.This is where solution architects come in. They act as a bridge between the business and technical side, and they figure out how to get things done.

Cloudera Operational Database Infrastructure Planning Considerations

In this blog post, let us take a look at how you can plan your infrastructure planning that you may have to do when deploying an operational database cluster on a CDP Private Cloud Base deployment. Note that you may have to do some planning assumptions when designing your initial infrastructure, and it must be flexible enough to scale up or down based on your future needs.

Leveraging Docker Containers to Manage Sauce Connect Tunnels

Sauce Connect Proxy™ is a built-in HTTP proxy server that opens a secure "tunnel" connection for testing between a Sauce Labs virtual machine or real device and a website or mobile app hosted on your local computer ("localhost") or behind a corporate firewall. It provides a means for Sauce Labs to access your application or website.

Beware of Creating a New Legacy of Artificial Intelligence Silos

Although the issue of silos in IT and data management are well known, companies appear to be falling back into this trap by not distributing their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities across their business. New research from Qlik and IDC revealed that just 20 percent of businesses widely distribute these capabilities across the organization.

Beware of Creating a New Legacy of Artificial Intelligence Silos

Although the issue of silos in IT and data management are well known, companies appear to be falling back into this trap by not distributing their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities across their business. New research from Qlik and IDC revealed that just 20 percent of businesses widely distribute these capabilities across the organization.

How to Migrate Your Enterprise Data Warehouse to a Cloud Data Warehouse

Migrating a data warehouse from a legacy environment requires a massive upfront investment in resources and time. There is a lot to consider before and during migration. You may need to replan your data model, use a separate platform for tasks scheduling, and handle changes in the application’s database driver. Therefore, organizations must take a strategic approach to streamline the process. This article presents a step-by-step approach for migrating a data warehouse to the cloud.