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The Future of Snowflake Data Product APIs: How ETL Creates Bottlenecks and API Generation Accelerates Adoption of Data Products

Snowflake has created an ecosystem where data is not just an asset but the backbone of innovation and operational efficiency. With regard to Snowflake, DreamFactory Software offers a robust platform for developing internal or private APIs that serve as crucial conduits for these data products. Our integration with Snowflake through dedicated connectors is transforming the way businesses access, analyze, and utilize their data.

How to perform exploratory testing in a remote work era

In software testing, exploratory testing stands out as an immersive approach where testers delve into applications, evaluating performance through various actions. As quality assurance professionals, the goal is to adopt a user's perspective, navigating the application just as an actual user would. This hands-on methodology is instrumental in uncovering and reporting bugs that could compromise the application's functionality, playing a vital role in enhancing user experience.

A Closer Look at The Next Phase of Cloudera's Hybrid Data Lakehouse

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is primed to reshape the way just about every business operates. Cloudera research projected that more than one third (36%) of organizations in the U.S. are in the early stages of exploring the potential for AI implementation. But even with its rise, AI is still a struggle for some enterprises. AI, and any analytics for that matter, are only as good as the data upon which they are based. And that’s where the rub is.

How to deploy a Rails app to Render

There are many ways to deploy a Ruby on Rails application to the internet. Between hosting on your own hardware, renting a virtual machine, using a cloud provider, and using a platform, the opportunities are endless. The low-hassle way to host a Rails application is to use a Platform as a Service (PaaS). In this article, we'll show you how to deploy a Rails Application to Render.com, and as a bonus, monitor it with Honeybadger! You can find the final project here on Github.

B2B Integration: Securing Your Data

In an era where data is a critical business asset, securing it in B2B integration scenarios is more important than ever. This article explores the essential strategies and technologies for robust data security in B2B contexts. Data is a critical asset for businesses, which makes securing it during B2B integration more important than ever. This article will explore the best practices and tools that can aid in robust data security. Here are the 5 key takeaways from our B2B integration article.

Discover The Power Of Backtrace: An Introduction And Live Demo

In this 10 minute video, you’ll receive a 2.5 minute introduction to the Backtrace platform, and a 7 minute demo highlighting key capabilities of the system. We open with a discussion on what types of errors can be submitted to Backtrace, and then dig deep on the Debug and Explore views. We highlight Triage briefly, and show how engineers can use Slack to be notified of new issues and immediately be brought into a Debug view.

Simplifying BI pipelines with Snowflake dynamic tables

Managing complex data pipelines is a major challenge for data-driven organizations looking to accelerate analytics initiatives. While AI-powered, self-service BI platforms like ThoughtSpot can fully operationalize insights at scale by delivering visual data exploration and discovery, it still requires robust underlying data management. Now, that’s changing. Snowflake's new dynamic tables feature redefines how BI and analytics teams approach data transformation pipelines.

Gen AI And LLMs Will Change Our Lives Profoundly

How will Gen AI and LLMs impact the nature of people's jobs and worker productivity? "Data Cloud Now" anchor Ryan Green kicked off the Data and AI Predictions 2024 event in January by discussing that topic with Snowflake's CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and Mona Attariyan, Director of Engineering. The conversation also covers the potential for AI to generate misinformation and the need to establish ethical guardrails for the technology.

API First Development | Why API-First Development Matters

Jeremy H - March 4, 2024 API-first development prioritizes designing and building application programming interfaces (APIs) before any other components of the application. This approach ensures that APIs, which allow different software systems to communicate, are central to the development process.