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Growing With The Data Cloud - Lightfold's Story Of Startup & Success Through The Pandemic

Lightfold, a young analytics consultancy based in Brisbane, Australia, came into being in 2019, just before COVID hit, with the goal of helping companies gain mastery over their data by helping them build modern data stacks centered around Snowflake. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Ryan Green, chats with three members of the Lightfold leadership team–CEO John Cosgrove, Data Evangelist Graeme Lewis, and Director, Design and Product, Kylie Willett–about their company’s origin story and about the way in which Snowflake’s technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations think about data.

Webinar Recording: Accelerating Cloud Data Modernization

As organizations seek to become more competitive, they are often looking to enrich their data sets for analytics to gain deeper insights. The data used for enrichment may include text data, machine data, image data, geospatial data, and real-time data. This data may be high volume, highly diverse, and disparate in nature. As part of this effort, organizations are moving to cloud data platforms to store and manage this modern data.

When Private Cloud is the Right Fit for Public Sector Missions

It’s no secret that IT modernization is a top priority for the US federal government. A quick trip in the congressional time machine to revisit 2017’s Modernizing Government Technology Act surfaces some of the most salient points regarding agencies’ challenges: In the private sector, excluding highly regulated industries like financial services, the migration to the public cloud was the answer to most IT modernization woes, especially those around data, analytics, and storage.

Best Practices for Effective Mobile Testing: The Modern Mobile Automated Testing Pyramid

Learn about our reimagined mobile test automation pyramid for modern DevOps practices. With the mobile market growing explosively and customer expectations increasing just as rapidly, today’s mobile app development and QA teams are under tremendous pressure to deliver constant updates for their apps while providing a continuous and seamless user experience.

5 Prerequisites to Consider While Building Trustworthy AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at a breakneck pace, and it is swiftly emerging as a potential disruptor and vital enabler for almost every business in every sector. At this point, the technology itself is not a barrier to the mainstream use of AI; rather, it a collection of challenges that, unfortunately, are far more human, such as ethics, governance, and human values, are.

Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.

What is continuous deployment?

After working on a new feature or an improvement, it's normal that you want to deliver these changes to your users as fast as possible. Depending on your deployment pipeline, confidently deploying changes to production might include coordinating with whoever is leading on-call, getting their approval, manually deploying your changes, spending hours to monitor how it goes, and performing a rollback in case something goes wrong.

Top 5 iOS App Testing Frameworks

Learn about the top test automation frameworks for testing iOS apps, including the benefits and advantages of each plus sample code. A huge number of mobile testing tools have been developed in recent years to support mobile development in response to the explosive growth of the mobile app and device market in recent years. When it comes to choosing what mobile test automation framework is right for you, there is a huge array of options, each with different strengths and weaknesses.