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The Modern Data Streaming Pipeline: Streaming Reference Architectures and Use Cases Across 7 Industries

Executives across various industries are under pressure to reach insights and make decisions quickly. This is driving the importance of streaming data and analytics, which play a crucial role in making better-informed decisions that likely lead to faster, better outcomes.

Data Integration in the Life Sciences: Eliminate Data Silos for Good

In the life sciences industry, where breakthroughs in research and healthcare are fueled by data, data silos can be a big problem. Data silos might be caused by things like legacy systems, departmental divisions, disparate data formats, or lack of interoperability standards. Data silos can manifest at any point in the product lifecycle and make it hard for the right people to access and use the information they need, when they need it.

Data-Driven Testing: A Tutorial for QA Testers

Picture this: you’re testing online registration forms, and you need to ensure that every input field in the form is working as expected. To do this, you build a manual test for one input field. And then another for a second. And then another for a third…and so on. Thankfully, this scenario isn’t likely to come true, and it’s all thanks to data-driven testing.

What Is Data Governance and Why It Matters?

Data governance refers to the strategic management of data within an organization. It involves developing and enforcing policies, procedures, and standards to ensure data is consistently available, accurate, secure, and compliant throughout its lifecycle. At its core, data governance aims to answer questions such as.

Mastering API Gateway Auth: Proven Methods for Secure Connectivity

Securing your API gateway is critical to protect your services from unauthorized access and ensure safe data transmission. In this article, we’ll explore the essentials of API gateway auth, discuss the major authentication methods, and offer guidance for implementing and overcoming challenges in API gateway authentication—providing you with the knowledge to keep your digital assets secure.

Snapshot Testing in the Backend

The first time I learned about snapshot testing was in the context of front-end testing. It made a lot of sense. Writing an assertion-based test to check if a component was correctly rendered as HTML is tricky. And difficulty grows with the complexity of the output. Snapshot testing seemed a reasonable technique to get the job done, even with some caveats.

Continuous Deployment Challenges in Native Mobile Applications

In this blog post, explore the unique challenges of Continuous Deployment in native mobile apps, including the complexities of app store distribution and rollback limitations, and discover insights on navigating these hurdles while striving for efficient CI/CD workflows in mobile development.

Building command-line applications in Python

If you are into programming, you might have used commands like cp, mv, cat, etc, to perform different operations using a text interface like bash or Windows PowerShell. This article discusses implementing command-line applications in Python with functionalities such as keyword arguments, flags, positional arguments, and mode selection. It also discusses how to implement the Linux head command in Python.