If you have managed a cloud data platform, you have undoubtedly gotten that call. You know the one, it's usually from finance or the office of the CFO, inquiring about your monthly spend. And it usually comes in one of two forms: While both are clear and present dangers to cloud data platform owners, they don’t have to be.
An API gateway is a server that sits between your backend services and your users. It provides an abstraction layer that helps you manage the communication between clients and your services. API gateways are a single point of entry into a microservices application and they work like a reverse proxy: They receive API calls from clients, route them to the right microservices in the backend, and return aggregated responses to clients.
Data governance was an exclusive set of skills and tools based on old-school rules until a few years ago. Today, that's changed. While people who manage data still need tools, rules, and protocols to control and secure data use and sharing, three major trends have transformed the data ecosystem. First, the explosion of data from many nontraditional sources (personal devices, sensors, social data, etc.) provided businesses with massive and unprecedented information to dig for insight.
Businesses today adapt to change with breathtaking speed. Lines of business now follow their products out the door digitally and continue tracking usage throughout the lifecycle. This gives companies valuable insights into how customers use and interact with their products, enabling them to analyze and evolve solutions while nurturing customer relationships.
TL;DR: The Unity Cloud Content Delivery tool is a solution that helps deliver data to users in a synchronized way, which speeds up patching and enables live game updates. You can set up a project in Unity’s CCD cloud to deliver your game’s assets to customers’ devices. Additionally, you can integrate CCD with a CI/CD service to ensure consistent delivery of all parts of the updated app and to automate deployment, reducing the amount of manual work.
Qlik enhances analytics exploration in Snowflake by launching Direct Query, a new capability that allows Qlik Sense applications and dashboards to query Snowflake directly using SQL pushdown.
