The year is 1424. You’re shipping goods across the world, and the ship in question gives you a bill of lading. It’s a piece of paper containing details about what your goods are, where you’re shipping them from, and where they’re headed. Fast forward to 2024. You’re shipping your goods across the world, and the shipping company gives you a bill of lading. It’s still (most likely) a piece of paper.

The last decade has seen a giant shift by organizations into the cloud for software, storage, and compute, resulting in business benefits ranging from flexibility and lower up-front costs to easier maintenance. But lately we have seen more and more companies re-evaluating their cloud strategies and opting to move their data back to on-premises infrastructure due to several key factors.

Apache Flink offers a variety of APIs that provide users with significant flexibility in processing data streams. Among these, the Table API stands out as one of the most popular options. Its user-friendly design allows developers to express complex data processing logic in a clear and declarative manner, making it particularly appealing for those who want to efficiently manipulate data without getting bogged down in intricate implementation details.

The evolution of APIs (application programming interfaces) has been all the hype in recent years. In many ways, they're powering the modern internet as they open doors to organizations and developers around the globe. Data shows that 98% of enterprise leaders believe APIs are essential for survival concerning digital transformation, yet most struggle to develop a comprehensive rollout strategy.

Over the past year, we’ve been dedicated to making Databox faster and more powerful for you and your team. We’ve introduced new features, visualizations, and integrations to help you leverage your data to make better decisions. In case you missed any of these updates, we’ve put together a roundup of the top highlights from 2024.

Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and configure APIs, and explain how it played, and continues to play, a crucial role in the release of a new v2 Konnect API specification. The key takeaway here is: don’t do more work than is necessary.

Heuristics is the key to turn you into the Turkish Olympic guy. It is something that comes with experience. At a certain point, experts all develop that “sense” in their field of work. Repeated exposure to hundreds of problems helps them recognize patterns that beginners don’t easily see. Heuristics is not always foolproof, but it's good for immediate problem-solving.

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven business landscape, having a comprehensive view of your operations is essential for success. Dashboards provide a centralized, real-time visual representation of key metrics, tasks, and performance indicators, enabling teams to stay organized and make informed decisions. ClickUp’s customizable dashboards elevate this by allowing users to build and personalize their own layouts tailored to specific needs.

Data pipeline automation plays a central role in integrating and delivering data across systems. The architecture is excellent at handling repetitive, structured tasks, such as extracting, transforming, and loading data in a steady, predictable environment, because the pipelines are built around fixed rules and predefined processes. So, they will continue to work if you maintain the status quo, i.e., as long as your data follows a consistent structure.