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ChaosSearch addresses critical pain points and overcomes core operational challenges for FinTech companies, allowing them to accelerate application development and streamline their operations in the cloud. The ChaosSearch data lake platform delivers search and relational analytics at scale directly in Amazon S3, with no data movement, no ETL process, and zero administrative overhead.

In this blog post we are going to cover writing a bare-bones API in ASP.NET that can read, write, and delete data from a test database.

According to Statista, global e-commerce sales were worth $4.9 trillion in 2021. With that figure set to increase by 50% over the next 4 years, ensuring customer loyalty is critical. A high repeat purchase rate is key to the success of any e-commerce business. Fortunately, it’s also one of the easiest metrics to track and improve upon.

Many companies find that it is not enough to simply keep up with the competition in their industry. Such well-known organizations as Amazon and Microsoft continually expand their service offerings, making it hard to compete. Innovation continues to be a huge buzzword in the software industry. Tech companies need a reliable way to provide clients with what they need most, which is service wherever and whenever they need it. One industry that does this best is the SaaS (Software as a Service) space.

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune.

The keynote presentation at DataOps Unleashed 2022 featured a roundtable panel discussion on the State of DataOps and the Modern Data Stack. Moderated by Unravel Data Co-Founder and CEO Kunal Agarwal, this session features insights from three investors who have a unique vantage point on what’s changing and emerging in the modern data world, the effects of these changes, and the opportunities being created.

User interface testing (sometimes called graphical user interface testing) involves testing software applications according to what the end user will see on their screen and how they’ll interact with it. For example, can you type in text boxes or click the checkboxes? Are fonts, headers, and other visual elements correct? UI testing can be done manually or with a test automation tool.

TL;DR: You can automate the publishing of your Unity VR apps to the Oculus Store using Codemagic and the Oculus CLI tools. Creating VR Unity apps is really cool… but how can you easily share them with your friends during the dev phase? In a previous article, I discussed why automating building and publishing of your Unity projects can be interesting and useful, particularly when you want to get continuous feedback from your nice beta testers.

You have dedicated tons of man-hours to building your product and strengthening your service. You are trying to ensure that your application is useful but, above all, that it succeeds at making users come back for more. But then, *gasp*, they don’t! Why? What went wrong? How can you get them to come back?

Import maps is the new feature in Rails 7 that allows us to say goodbye to Node.js and tools like Webpack. There's no need for bundling anymore. With this new mechanism, you can still manage your JavaScript libraries with a specific version. Instead of one big file, though, your application serves many small JavaScript files. It’s essential you know how import maps work to benefit from the newest version of Rails (but don’t worry, you can still use tools like Webpack instead).