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Amazon uses a lot of adjectives to describe its cloud data warehouse: AWS Redshift is "fast," "simple" and "cost-effective." It's also popular. GE, McDonald's, Bosch, Coca Cola, and countless other brands, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, have added Redshift to their tech stacks. But why is AWS Redshift used? And why is it the world's No.1 cloud data warehouse? Below, learn more about what Redshift does, how it does it, and why it could be a great fit for your organization.

API gateways are a critical component of a modern architecture. Apigee X is Google Cloud's API management platform. It also allows users of the legacy Apigee Edge product to leverage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) products and features, like Cloud Armor and Load Balancers. With these new security and availability advantages come a new set of challenges. The biggest challenge is accessing API backends in multiple VPCs. This introduces VPC peering transitivity restrictions.

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Insomnia is a fast and lightweight open source desktop application that doubles as a tool for API design and testing and as an API client for making HTTP requests. It has built-in support for REST Client, gRPC and GraphQL. All of that is just what you get out of the box. Many users of Insomnia aren’t aware of its secret menu: plugins. Plugins are key to enhancing your usage of Insomnia. Insomnia already boasts a library of nearly 350 plugins, and they’re quick and simple to install.

Microservice is now the architecture of choice for many developers when crafting cloud-native applications. A microservices application is a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate with each other, enhancing collaboration, maintainability, scalability, and deployment. There are several options for enabling this communication between microservices. REST is the most popular among developers, sometimes used synonymously with APIs. However, gRPC can be a better alternative to REST.

Cap tables are a valuable tool for a close look at the equity capitalization within your organization. But relying on static spreadsheets makes it difficult to gain a comprehensive, real-time view of your capitalization structure. Sifting through spreadsheets manually and reconciling disconnected systems are both time-consuming and cumbersome.

When CTO James Dixon coined the term “data lake” in 2011, he imagined a single storage repository where organizations could store both structured and unstructured data in their raw format until it was needed for analytics. But without the right storage technology, data governance, or analytical tools, the first data lakes quickly became “data swamps” - morasses of data with no organizational structure and no efficient way to access or extract meaningful insights.