One of the common methods that businesses and organizations use to make sense of their complex and scattered data is data visualization. Data visualizations provide a quick way to understand the masses of data collected - - providing easy access to insights needed to drive growth. A dashboard is a data visualization tool that is commonly found in enterprise web applications.
Working with collaboration tools like Miro and VS Code Live Share has transformed my expectations of collaborative interactions. However, I found myself trying to move my cursor around websites during calls with colleagues, despite not sharing my screen. It was as if I believed they could see my cursor. I even caught myself saying, 'and when I click here...', only to realize I was sharing with nothing but the void. I decided to do something about this with a project I'm calling 'Cursors Everywhere'.
In the world of video livestreaming, emojis are the ultimate game-changers! These tiny icons pack a powerful punch, instantly amplifying audience engagement and sparking a connection with viewers. Beyond being adorable expressions, emojis add an emotional touch to interactions, breaking down barriers between content creators and their audience. From heartfelt appreciation to genuine excitement, emojis speak volumes with their appearance.
Elasticity is far from a solved problem – especially for transportation and logistics companies providing realtime updates. Prior to 2006, startups finding sudden success had to drive – often in a hurry – to a store like Best Buy to purchase new servers and support an unexpected surge in users.
We are excited to announce the release of the Ably Kafka Connector 3.0. Version 3 brings a host of improvements, including: Overall, the Ably Kafka connector v3.0 makes the management of Kafka pipelines extension to millions of web and mobile users simpler and more reliable.
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows developers to run their code without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. With Lambda, developers can upload their code and the service takes care of scaling, provisioning, and managing the servers required to run the code. This means developers can focus on writing code and not worry about the underlying infrastructure.
With the rise of online ordering and the growth of delivery, consumers and businesses alike order more packages, expect them faster, and want rapid updates on progress, delays, and changes. Companies providing transportation and logistics services, then, have a compelling reason to add realtime update features to their apps. In other articles, we’ve talked about the broad challenges transport and logistics companies face when providing realtime updates, including scalability and low latency.
In the past decade, chat apps have gone from being a disruptive new technology to something we use every day. Today, WhatsApp boasts over 2 billion daily active users, by far the market leader, followed by WeChat with 1.3 billion and Facebook Messenger at just under 1 billion. Chat apps, put simply, are going nowhere. In that time, customers have come to expect a consistent experience across their chat apps – and a core set of functionality has evolved across all major providers.
Elasticity, as the term implies, is the ability for software infrastructure to stretch and shrink in line with fluctuating usage. Elasticity is important in many contexts – because usage can always fluctuate – but it’s especially important for sports, media, and entertainment apps, which frequently serve user bases that grow and shrink rapidly depending on events, trends, and breaking news.
