Talend Spring ’18 (Talend 7.0) was Talend’s biggest release yet. With improvements to Cloud, big data, governance and developer productivity, Talend Spring ’18 is everything you need to manage your company’s data lifecycle. For those that missed the live webinar, you can view it here.

A common practice in any development team is to conduct code reviews, or at least it should be. This is a process where multiple developers inspect written code and discuss its design, implementation, and structure to increase quality and accuracy. Whether you subscribe to the notion of formal reviews or a more lightweight method (such as pair programming), code reviews have proven to be effective at finding defects and/or insufficiencies before they hit production.

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.

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.