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Rollbar Academy: Notifications and Issue tracking

Understanding and utilizing notification rules helps keep the right people informed about Rollbar issues, and they also play an important role in automated issue tracking too. You'll learn how these features work in tandem to help improve your developer experience, and how you can implement them to work effectively for your team and its needs.

The Future of the Modern Data Stack

The Modern Data Stack is quickly picking up steam in tech circles as the go-to cloud data architecture, and although its popularity has been quickly rising, it can be ambiguously defined at times. In this blog post we’ll discuss what it is, how it came to be, and where we see it going in the future. Regardless of whether you’re new to the modern data stack or have been an early adopter, there should be something of interest for everyone.

Building connections while having fun: The CS team's Center of Funcellence

Our Customer Success (CS) team here at Appian enjoys spending time with one another both inside and outside of work. This is one of the many reasons our Center of Funcellence group exists. In our most recent blog post, Co-Presidents Jennifer and Abs, explain what the group does, how they facilitate team bonding and interaction, and what their favorite memories are since they’ve joined.

When to Use Change Data Capture

Automated ETL (extract, transform, load) and data integration workflows are essential for the modern data-driven organization, and they can swiftly and efficiently migrate data from sources to a target data warehouse or data lake. But ETL must run at regular intervals — or even in real-time — so how can you know which information is fresh and which information you’ve already ingested? Solving this problem is the goal of change data capture (CDC) techniques.

Why CFOs Should Champion the Consumption Business Model

Traditionally, CFOs focus on cost and cost control when managing the financial actions of a company. “Value” is assessed by putting a quantifiable number behind everything. It’s time to shift that mindset and take into account a different kind of value—the kind you can derive from an investment. Rather than worrying solely about the bottom line, ask the question: If you spend more today, what will you end up creating tomorrow?