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July 2023

The Showdown: Snowpark vs. Spark for Data Engineers

Should you migrate your big data workflows from Spark to Snowpark? Are you wondering what all the fuss is about? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, Snowpark and Spark go head-to-head as we compare their crucial features. We’ll discuss the tradeoffs between the two tools, backing our claims with evidence from a benchmarking analysis. Discover the best tool based on.

Enhancing Customer Experiences with CIAM

In a recent interview, David deBoisblanc, managing partner at Duczer East and a valued partner of WSO2, interviewed Geethika Cooray, vice president and general manager of IAM at WSO2, to gain insights into the importance of CIAM for the C-suite and its impact on customer retention. The following excerpts from their conversation look at valuable insights on CIAM, its significance for the C-suite, and the emerging trends in the industry. Here's what Geethika said.

Calving Apache Iceberg

Apache Iceberg is an open-source high-performance format for huge analytic tables that brings the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data. It enables engines like Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive, and Impala to work with the same tables, simultaneously and safely. Discover how Apache Iceberg can transform the way you store and manage your big data, and take your analytics to the next level.

Raising the Bar: Strategies to Level Up as a Software Tester | Anuj Magazine | #softwaretesting

In this insightful video, Anuj Magazine shares his tips and advice on how software testers can raise their game and advance their careers in the field. Drawing on his extensive experience in the industry, Anuj provides practical insights and actionable advice on the key skills and strategies that software testers need to master in order to stand out in a competitive market.

Recording a performance test with Grafana Cloud k6 (k6 Office Hours #93)

Senior Frontend Engineer Edvinas Daugirdas demonstrates recording a performance test with Grafana Cloud k6 and some other new features that have recently come to Grafana Cloud. He is joined by Developer Advocates Marie Drake and Nicole van der Hoeven to talk about getting started with k6 for free.

Streaming Pipelines to Databases - Use Case Implementation

Data pipelines do much of the heavy lifting in organizations for integrating and transforming and preparing the data for subsequent use in downstream systems for operational use cases. Despite being critical to the data value stream, data pipelines fundamentally haven't evolved in the last few decades. These legacy pipelines are holding organizations back from really getting value out of their data as real-time streaming becomes essential.