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Apache Pulsar walks into a data bar

Some time ago, the concept of event streaming was not that widespread. In addition to that, the platforms provided were much fewer than today, and required more technical depth to set up and operate. However, as time passed, those platforms matured, community grew, the documentation was improved and the rest of the world started to wake up to the advantages these platforms can bring to address the real-time experiences businesses need. And Apache Pulsar is a great example.

How To Pick The Right Type of Log Data Visualisation

Data visualisations allow users to organise and present log data in a practical, usable, and sensible manner. This tool in log management ensures that the data collected communicates real-time, actionable insights that will support timely and informed decision-making. Knowing which types of visualisation best suits a particular data set is critical in giving data visualisation optimal business value. Here is how to pick the right type of log data visualisation. Pie charts

How to Secure REST APIs: API Keys Vs. OAuth

REST, a.k.a. Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style commonly used in software development. Applications built via REST-style development tend to be excellent examples of distributed hypermedia applications. However, they don’t often have excellent innate security options. That’s where API keys and OAuth tokens come in. As Dr.

The importance of Collaborative BI in a more 'remote' working world

The world has turned upside down. You don’t need me to tell you that. And, thanks to weeks of working from home, a new way of working may be upon us when we flip back. Many are seeing this period as a pivotal time in changing the way many organisations will function. Business has seen first hand that it can run effectively with many of its people working remotely.

Rise of the Data Cloud

It’s only natural to edge forward incrementally. But every once in a while, there is a step-level change that really alters the game. The Data Cloud is exactly that – an opportunity to completely mobilize your data in the service of your business. The Data Cloud is a new type of cloud, so you can avoid bunkering and siloing your data across the infrastructure and application clouds, as well as your on-premise systems.

Snowflake's Product Innovations for 2020

At Snowflake, we are relentlessly focused on our customers and on creating innovative technology to better serve their needs. Today marks another milestone where we demonstrate such focus. In this blog, I detail the latest innovations to our cloud data platform. These new features make even more powerful all six data workloads enabled by our platform – data warehouse, data lake, data exchange, data applications, data engineering, and data science.

The Imperative For Change

The ingredients of competitive advantage and differentiation tend to evolve over time. Throughout history they have included access to capital, raw materials, labor; they have been based on economies of scale and economies of scope. At IDC, it is our contention that the new basis for differentiation will be economies of intelligence.

Cucumber vs Testsigma| Behaviour Driven Development Compared

The BDD tool, Cucumber has a frontend that is written in natural language and reduces the dependencies on developers for the construction of an automated framework. Testsigma is an automated testing tool that further reduces the dependency on developers by removing the programming language’s extensive backend. With the help of these tools, developers can now focus on feature development better and need not worry about automating the tests.

Sunsetting LoadImpact v4

As outlined in our rebranding announcement post from Feb 24th, today we're disabling access to v4 projects in the LoadImpact web app at app.loadimpact.com (v3 projects will continue to be available until Dec 31st, 2020). All v4 projects, tests, and test results will henceforth only be accessible from app.k6.io. The same login credentials are valid across the two web apps. Rest assured, no data is going away, it's technically an older of two frontends being sunsetted.

Kafka SMS health alerts via Zapier integration

Systems fail from time to time. And there is nothing worse than being unaware a system is down at all. Which is why we wrote the email alerts from Lenses.io tutorial. But what about those evenings where you are enjoying a documentary or just having an email-free evening? After all, system failures rarely happen at a magically convenient time.