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September 2023

How to Build an API on AWS

AWS is the largest cloud provider and with that it there can be challenges to build an API on AWS when trying to securely expose data. The most notable way to expose this data is by hand-coding an API to interact with the various AWS systems. This might be an acceptable way to approach the problem but with recent developments with AI and other low-code/no-code tools, developers are expected to do more with less.

Robust Disaster Recovery with Kafka and Confluent Cloud | Data Streaming Systems

Explore the resilience of Kafka, understand the implications of datacenter disruptions, and mitigate data loss impacts. Learn to scale with Confluent Cloud, cluster and schema linking, and how to use an active/passive disaster recovery pattern for business continuity.

Kong Konnect RESTful Admin APIs and AWS AppSync GraphQL Services - Part I: Query

GraphQL is a query language to enable applications to fetch data from servers. In fact, as it isn't tied to any specific database or storage engine, GraphQL can aggregate data from multiple sources to create a natural representation of your data. The representation is a graph. The following image illustrates a typical GraphQL abstraction: A few common GraphQL use cases include.

Do the Benefits of Cloud Outweigh the Costs?

Companies are now making a decisive shift from traditional on-premises Oracle software to Oracle’s cutting-edge cloud solutions. In fact, a recent Gartner report on cloud expenditure found that cross-industry cloud spend has risen from 8% as a percentage of total IT spend in 2018 to 16% in 2022. Worldwide spending on public cloud services is expected to grow by 21.7% in 2023.

Top 5 Best Practices for Building Event-Driven Architectures Using Confluent and AWS Lambda

Confluent and AWS Lambda can be used for building real-time, scalable, fault-tolerant event-driven architectures, ensuring that your application logic is executed reliably in response to specific business events. Confluent provides a streaming SaaS solution based on Apache Kafka® and built on Kora: The Cloud Native Apache Kafka Engine, allowing you to focus on building event-driven applications without operating the underlying infrastructure.

AWS, Qlik, and SAP Data: Turning the Lifeblood of Business into Value and Action

One of my favorite analogies is that data is the lifeblood of the business. Before you roll your eyes at me (I see it now), hear me out. At your annual physical, when you get your blood work done, think of how much information is uncovered about your overall health from a tiny vial of your blood. From those 10 CCs they extract comes back pages of information regarding your cell counts, glucose, cholesterol, and other information.

Technology Spotlight: Open Data Lakehouse for Private Cloud

Cloudera emphasizes the importance of trusted data for reliable AI. We've introduced Open Data Lakehouse for private cloud, incorporating Apache Iceberg for enhanced data management and security. This empowers analysts and data scientists with direct access to all data, including real-time streaming. Iceberg's capabilities reduce silos, lower storage costs, and mitigate business risks. We also focus on scalability, introducing features like snapshots and user quotas in Apache Ozone. Cloudera prioritizes enterprise readiness with Zero Downtime Upgrades and broader hardware and software support.

Kong announces new AWS Workshops and AddOns for EKS Blueprints for Terraform

The Kong and Amazon (AWS) partnership is stronger than ever! As Kong continues to evolve, with Kong Konnect and Kong Mesh, the means of integrating with AWS grows as well. In a continuous effort to offer cutting-edge collaborations, Kong announces new Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) based contributions: Kong Konnect AddOns for the EKS Blueprints for Terraform framework and two new Kong AWS workshops.

Telecommunications Data Monetization Strategies in 5G and beyond with Cloudera and AWS

The world is awash with data, no more so than in the telecommunications (telco) industry. With some Cloudera customers ingesting multiple petabytes of data every single day— that’s multiple thousands of terabytes!—there is the potential to understand, in great detail, how people, businesses, cities and ecosystems function.

Revolutionize Your Data Experience With Cloudera on Private Cloud

In the age of the AI revolution, where chatbots, generative AI, and large language models (LLMs) are taking the business world by storm, enterprises are fast realizing the need for strong data control and privacy to protect their confidential and commercially sensitive data, while still providing access to this data for context-specific AI insights.

3 Steps to Assure Cloud Migration Success: A Detailed Assessment

Gartner predicts that by 2026, 75% of organizations will adopt a digital transformation model predicated on the cloud as the fundamental underlying platform. Every organization has a cloud strategy and vision with annual goals, yet the business risky cloud migrations have aged in backlogs or implemented with straying budgets & timelines. ‘Assurance’ is the most critical factor in business readiness, scoping, budgeting, and concluding the cloud migration.

FinOps Camp Episode 3: Considerations for Mapping your FinOps Adventure

FinOps Camp Episode 3: Considerations for Mapping your FinOps Adventure Program elements, use cases, and principles to manage cloud data costs Join SanjMo Principal and Founder Sanjeev Mohan and Unravel VP of Solutions Engineering Chris Santiago as we share considerations for mapping your FinOps Adventure.Creating a solid FinOps strategy is crucial to navigating the rapidly-evolving world of cloud services.

Koyeb Metrics: Built-in Observability to Monitor Your Apps Performances

At Koyeb, we're working to build the most seamless way to deploy apps to production without worrying about infrastructure. But there's still plenty to keep you busy at the application layer with performance tuning and troubleshooting. That's why we're introducing Metrics — an easy way to monitor and troubleshoot application performance. Deploying on Koyeb makes thinking about infrastructure or orchestration unnecessary.

Where Are IIS Log Files Located? How to View IIS Logs on Windows & Azure

Discover where IIS log files are located on both Windows servers and Azure. This guide offers a step-by-step tutorial on how to locate and view your IIS logs, ensuring efficient troubleshooting and security audits. For a standard Windows Server, the default log location is: %SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles If your IIS logs are not stored in the default location, follow these directions below to look up where they are currently being stored.

Accelerate Docker builds with cache

Speed and efficiency are paramount during the build process. If you use a Dockerfile to build your container images from source code, you want to know about build cache. In this blog post, we’ll talk about what happens when you create a Docker image using a Dockerfile, how caching works with Docker, and how to optimize your Dockerfiles to maximize the benefits of build cache with Docker and on Koyeb.

How to use Google Charts with React for Dynamic Data

According to research from Matillon and IDG, data volumes increase by 63 percent per month on average in an organization. Examining such substantial volumes of data without the right tools makes it impossible to make informed decisions, even in small businesses. The key to deriving useful and profit-driving insights from data is data visualization - which turns complex raw figures into meaningful visual representations of the data. Google Charts is a free data visualization library provided by Google.

Choosing the Right ETL Tool for Google BigQuery Storage

Google BigQuery is a robust and scalable cloud-based data warehouse that allows storing and analyzing vast amounts of data. BigQuery is a natural choice if your data already exists on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). But before you leverage the platform, you need to extract the source data, carry out transformations, and load the data into your data lake or warehouse. This is where the ETL process and the ETL tools play a significant role.

Dockerfile Deployment on High-Performance MicroVMs is GA

Today, we are excited to announce the support of Dockerfile based deployments in general availability. You can now deploy any GitHub repository that contains a Dockerfile across all our locations worldwide. It can be used to deploy APIs, full-stack applications as well as workers with no extra cost. Building and deploying using Dockerfiles offers more flexibility: you can deploy any kind of application, framework, and runtime, including with custom system dependencies.