BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg: optimized storage for the open lakehouse
The BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg storage engine offers autonomous storage optimizations, clustering, and high-throughput streaming ingestion.
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Postman Load Test Tutorial
Postman is highly popular in the testing tools space for verifying API requests. While its use for general API testing is widely adopted, conducting load testing with Postman is not as straightforward. In this post, we assume that you have some experience working with Postman and are familiar with the fundamentals of creating and sending requests. If you’re new to Postman, there are numerous resources available in the Postman Learning Center.
Optimize Your AWS Data Lake with Streamsets Data Pipelines and ChaosSearch
Many enterprises face significant challenges when it comes to building data pipelines in AWS, particularly around data ingestion. As data from diverse sources continues to grow exponentially, managing and processing it efficiently in AWS is critical. Without these capabilities, it’s harder to analyze and get any meaning from your data.
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The Five Critical Pillars of Customer Identity and Access Management
In today's interconnected digital landscape, effective management of customer identities is not just a technical requirement but a strategic asset. Customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems are at the heart of this, ensuring secure and seamless user experiences across numerous digital interfaces. Whether for individual consumers or business clients, CIAM facilitates personalised interactions while safeguarding sensitive data, complying with global regulations, and improving business enablement and operational efficiency.
Shift Left: Bad Data in Event Streams, Part 2
Alright, I’m back. Time for part 2. In the first part, I covered how we handle bad data in batch processing. In particular, cutting out the bad data, replacing it, and running it again. But this strategy doesn’t work for immutable event streams as they are, well, immutable. You can’t cut out and replace bad data like you would in batch processed data sets.
Better together: BigQuery and Spanner expand operational insights with external datasets
BigQuery external datasets for Spanner let you browse, explore and query Spanner tables as if they were native BigQuery tables.
The Complete Guide for Accessibility Testing
Over one billion people worldwide live with some form of disability. Accessibility testing ensures that digital platforms are usable for everyone, including people with disabilities.
The Fall and Rise of Embedded Plugins: The Trend Away from IFrames
IFrames were used, and are still used, in many embed frameworks. After much experimentation, including many unsuccessful platforms, iframes have proven themselves to be a simple and powerful way to let partners customize your experience. However, their limitations are also known: Consequently, platform teams have tested and continue to test alternatives. Certain platforms now exclude iframes entirely, while others combine iframes with non-iframe alternatives.
What Is End to End Testing?
Many organizations struggle with fragmented testing approaches covering only individual components or features, leading to gaps in the system’s reliability and user experience.
One Workflow to Rule Them All
Let’s say you’re leading a company that receives thousands of documents daily. These documents come in various formats like Excel, PDFs, CSVs, and more. And they differ in terms of layout. Before you can analyze the data, your team spends hours sorting, cleaning, and preparing these documents. Most of their time is spent preparing the documents for integration into business systems. Then, a colleague shares how intelligent document processing helped him save time and boost productivity.