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The Looker API allows you to programmatically manage your Looker environment. Learn how to do it here!

Error handling is one section of our job that we tend to neglect, especially when working on something new, interesting, or something we just need to get working. We’ll handle errors later, we say — and that’s often a big lie. But that’s not even the worst part. The problem comes when we decide to ‘quickly’ add some code to handle our errors and completely forget about the importance and relevance of a properly constructed error message.

Cloud-native has been one of the biggest trends in software development for quite a while. Developing, deploying and managing applications outside of local machines and entirely in the cloud offers countless opportunities to businesses. The cloud computing delivery model helps them bring new ideas to market faster and respond swiftly to customer requests. From a technical point of view, cloud-native development provides faster and lighter runtimes, reduces complexity and stabilizes applications.

A proper onboarding strategy featuring a standard set of processes and tools increases employee retention rates, improves job performance, and creates a happier workforce. In this short guide, we'll look at how poor onboarding experiences can adversely affect mobile development teams, as well as some engineering-specific tips to design great onboarding processes for your prospective mobile developers.

There are good reasons for spreading workloads and applications across multiple clouds. Options include using a combination of public and on-premises cloud platforms, a strategy known as hybrid cloud—or using more than one public cloud provider, a strategy known as multi-cloud. What are those benefits? And what are some of the best strategies for achieving them? Let’s explore that.

Slowly but surely, HTTP/2 is becoming the favored protocol for transporting data files between clients and servers. While HTTP/1 used to be the only way of loading web applications, it’s now lagging behind, especially on the UX front. Since 2015, HTTP/2 APIs have taken the lead with lightning-fast server responses. In particular, they’re responsible for state changes and server responses without the need for browser reloads.

If your company works with the US Department of Defense (DoD) as a contractor or subcontractor, you will need to prepare to meet CMMC requirements in order to successfully bid on and win contracts. This recent development has been a significant adjustment for small organisations who wish to work with or continue working with the DoD.

Heroku Postgres databases are powerful tools for managing and analyzing data. You can run large-scale data processes for your business off of Heroku Postgres. While management is made much simpler with Heroku, the insight of a skilled developer and data analyst when manipulating databases makes a big difference in the outcomes. This is especially true when migrating a database. Here are five things you need to know about migrating Heroku Postgres databases.

Databases are an important part of application development. They let you store data in a way that is easy to manage and manipulate. MySQL has been the standard for this for decades. The one drawback is that databases only store data. If you want to do something with that data, a MySQL REST API makes it possible. Here is what you need to know to use MySQL REST APIs in your projects.

As our customers continue their journey to achieve healthier data, we are constantly looking for ways to help them make that journey more quickly and successfully. By applying data health concepts across Talend Data Fabric in innovative new ways, everyone from business professionals to data professionals can get more value from their data, faster.