An API essentially paly the role of a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Every time you use an application like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you are using an API. The API is more than middleware however — it’s grown into an innovative business concept that can transform your business and digital strategy. When using APIs though, there are a variety of mistakes that developers can make.

Microservices are a style of architecture used by many organizations for software development. In the past, the IT industry used monolithic or service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions as the standard. However, the lack of dynamic scalability of this type of architectural system is no longer adequate for the increasing complexity of today’s infrastructures. Microservices addresses this by providing a highly agile and scalable alternative.

Modak, a leading provider of modern data engineering solutions, is now a certified solution partner with Cloudera. Customers can seamlessly automate migration to Cloudera’s cloud-based enterprise platform CDP from on-prem deployments and dynamically auto-scale cloud services with Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE)’s integration with Modak Nabu™.

A more agile and efficient infrastructure is key to realizing the cost savings and productivity gains businesses needed to succeed in today’s highly competitive market. Recent surveys by Roger Magoulas & Steve Sawyer, May 19, 2020, show that 88% of enterprises are currently using cloud in some form or another. This adoption is not surprising as clouds have been around now for several decades since Amazon Web Services (AWS) was launched in 2002.

Providing the ability to ask questions of data is useful, but only if you can guide analytics users toward the right answers. Read: What is natural language query, anyway?

In 2020, in response to the pandemic, we saw an urgent shift to SaaS and various emerging technologies. It was covered at length in “Introducing Trends 2021 – 'The Great Digital Switch'.” Largely driven by necessity, organizations needed to make drastic moves “to keep the lights on” and cater to operations in a more virtual and remote style. This big leap forward drastically changed the IT landscape and infrastructure in a lot of organizations.

When your marketing team manages a myriad of social media platforms (from Facebook to TikTok), it is hard to keep an eye on the ROI of your marketing efforts. Each platform comes with its own set of dashboards that provide marketing analytics. But the trends and insights from those dashboards are limited to each specific platform. Knowing how you performed on Google Ads tells you very little whether you should increase your Facebook advertising expenditures.

One of the major downfalls that businesses have to keep up with, especially in this digital age, is maintaining constant connection with their consumers. Hiring more and more employees to secure consumers through one-on-one interactions is slowly becoming a thing of the past. As businesses shifted to the online mode, Chatbots and other forms of electronic communications have emerged as industry standards.