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Transformational triumph: eBay's data fabric modernization

In today’s economy, every business is eager to accelerate beyond and above the competition. Critical to this effort is the data your business runs successfully on, its backbone, and a good team behind the magic. Join eBay, the world's leading online marketplace, to hear how they accelerated their operational data with impressive results. Not only did the company experience no downtime, but they reduced data volumes by a whopping 50% — resulting in less friction, smoother operations, and a team built to enable success and scale.

Protect Your Assets and Your Reputation in the Cloud

A recent headline in Wired magazine read “Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself.” There is no corporation that wants that headline and the reputational damage and financial loss it may cause. In the case of Uber it was a relatively simple attack using an approach called Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue. This is when an attacker takes advantage of authentication systems that require account owners to approve a log in.

XPath Locators Cheat Sheet For Better Testing

Use this cheat sheet to build a strategy for locating elements known as XPath. When working in web development and web testing, it can be necessary to traverse an HTML document and identify specific elements on a web page. One case in which this is particularly useful is in the development of automated UI tests. Oftentimes, automating web application testing is dependent upon programmatically locating elements on a web page and leveraging these elements to perform specific actions.

Deep Cloning in JavaScript

Javascript is the basis of today’s modern web technology and plays a pivotal role in providing effective functionalities to websites and web applications. One of the essential elements that power its capability to include complex functionalities is objects in Javascript. From performing as a holy grail that aids developers in creating complex data structures to storing multiple properties an object in JS can serve multiple purposes at once.

6 Best Data Extraction Tools for 2022 (Pros, Cons, Best for)

A data extraction tool can help you speed up one of the most error-prone engineering processes: collecting raw data from different sources. In this article, we are going to analyze the following 6 market leaders in data extraction: Before we dive in, let’s look at all the problems you can avoid by implementing a data extraction tool.

Top 5 tools for Local SEO

SEO is one of the most important branches of digital marketing. All businesses are fighting the online battle to attain top search engine rankings, so SEO holds special significance in this digital landscape. Local SEO is one of the most important SEO practices that allow you to improve your local search engine visibility. As a business owner, you would like to gain a competitive edge in local search results to market your business more effectively.

Data Science Maturity and Understanding Data Architecture/Warehousing

This is a guest post for Integrate.io written by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist recognized as the "father of the data warehouse." Inmon wrote the first book and magazine column about data warehousing, held the first conference about this topic, and was the first person to teach data warehousing classes. Data science is immature. This statement is not pejorative; it is simply a statement of historical fact. As such, it is not arguable.

Preventing PII in Test environments

Data privacy and security are a top concern for most organizations. It’s easy to see why given changes over the past few years. These types of protections can be great for us as consumers. However, they also make it extremely difficult to create realistic production simulations in pre-production. It’s hard to rapidly develop new applications if you can’t iterate against realistic data.

5 Magic Fixes for the Most Common CSV File reader Problems | ThoughtSpot

I’ve encountered a thousand different problems with spreadsheets, data importing, and flat files over the last 20 years. While there are new tools that help make the most of this data, it's not always simple. I’ve distilled this list down to the most common issues among all the databases I’ve worked with. I’m giving you my favorite magic fixes here. (Well, okay, they aren’t really “magic” but some of them took me a long time to figure out.)