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Mobile App Launch Checklist

We created this resource to solve one basic problem: Once you go through all the work of building an app, how can you be sure to nail the landing? In the rush to get an app out, many developers can forget to tag releases or lose depository information that simply needed to be earmarked for a future update. There are some final security measures that need to be taken to protect your app. Whether it’s due to excitement or fatigue, it happens.

Friend or Foe?

In today’s world of readily available apps, whether on your phone or a cloud service, consumers do not expect a lot of training before starting to use them. Apps are designed to be intuitive and lead you through them in the way that you would expect them to work – as it relates to the purpose of the app. Same is true with analytical applications. The best ones are intuitive – they look familiar and are intuitive to navigate.

The difficulty of Memory Profiling in PHP

Did you ever have a memory leak in your PHP program and couldn't locate the exact source in your code? From my experience with memory profiling in PHP, this is caused by the PHP engine and how it manages memory. PHP uses a custom memory manager on top of the native memory management in C for multiple reasons...

BigQuery in June: a new data type, new data import formats, and finer cost controls

This is the first installment in a monthly review of recently-released BigQuery features. While our rather active release notes do contain concise but actionable information, we’ve heard from some of our users that they’d love a little more information on these updates and what they mean in a bigger picture. This month, we present a number of practical new features, primarily focused on data types and data file formats.

Build an Enterprise Level Password Vault with Talend and CyberArk

In this article, we are going to show how easy it is for Talend to integrate with enterprise password vaults like Cyberark. By doing this no-developer has direct access to sensitive passwords, Talend need not know password during compile(design) time, and password management (change/update password) is done outside of Talend. This saves administrators time as well as improves the security of the overall environment.

Don't Let your Data Lake become a Data Swamp

In an always-on, competitive business environment, organizations are looking to gain an edge through digital transformation. Subsequently, many companies feel a sense of urgency to transform across all areas of their enterprise—from manufacturing to business operations—in the constant pursuit of continuous innovation and process efficiency.

5 Reasons Your App Crashes and How to Fix Them

In 2016, on the eve of the Black Friday sales frenzy in the US, a research firm called Apteligent released a report estimating how much money firms could lose if their apps crashed on the big day. The report tallied up the amount of money spent by retail app customers on Black Friday the previous year and worked out what would happen if every customer experienced at least one crash during peak hours.

Key considerations for choosing a cloud integration (iPaaS) solution

Digital Transformation, the application of digital capabilities across the organization to uncover new monetization opportunities, is the path that any company wishing to survive in today’s world must follow. Sectors like agriculture, healthcare, banking, retail, and transportation are exploring challenges and opportunities that have come with the digital revolution. As a result of this, new business models have emerged while IT departments have become the focus of digital transformation.