As the cybersecurity threat landscape continues to evolve globally, organizations operating in the financial sector are seeing regulations shift to address the associated risks, and none may prove more impactful than the European Union’s (EU) Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This regulation aims to strengthen the operational resilience of financial entities (FEs), and their third-party information and communication technology (ICT) providers.

An effective data governance strategy is crucial to manage and oversee data effectively, especially as data becomes more critical and technologies evolve. This strategic approach to data governance aligns with findings from a McKinsey survey, suggesting that companies with solid data governance strategies are twice as likely to prioritize important data — leading to better decision-making and organizational success.

New BigQuery functions monitor skew between training and serving data, and monitor drift in serving data over time, all using SQL.

In this edition of our series dedicated to spotlighting the movers and shakers in the tech world, we're thrilled to welcome Michael Muinos, an experienced Software Engineer currently residing at Google who is also the founder of Algos With Michael. Through this conversation, we aim to dive deep into the experiences that have defined Michael's career, alongside exploring the challenges and triumphs encountered, we will also share advice for aspiring software engineering professionals in this piece.

Hey there! We're back for our second edition of Tips and Tricks. As we said in our first post on Drizzle ORM, our new Tips and Tricks mini blog series is going to share some helpful insights and cool tech that we've stumbled upon while working on technical stuff. Today, we're going to talk about the template databases of PostgreSQL. Remember, these posts will be super short reads. If you don’t like the topic of one of the posts, no problem! Just skip it and check out the next one.

The breadth of SAP data enables enterprises to gain a complete picture of their operations and transactions but only when it is unlocked.

Test data is a critical component of software testing, referring to the input values, files, or other resources used to exercise a software application or system during testing. In other words, test data is the fuel that powers software testing, enabling teams to validate the functionality, performance, and security of a software product.

As Kafka evolves in your business, adopting best practices becomes a must. The GitOps methodology makes sure deployments match intended outcomes, anchored by a single source of truth. When integrating Apache Kafka with GitOps, many will think of Strimzi. Strimzi uses the Operator pattern for synchronization. This approach, whilst effective, primarily caters to Kubernetes-based Kafka resources (e.g. Topics). But this isn’t ideal.

Figuring out what APIs are doing in Kubernetes can be difficult. Read the pros and cons of WireShark, Kubeshark and Speedscale and when to use which.

Floods are the most common natural disaster worldwide. A flood is demarcated as an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. Flash flooding befalls when heavy rainfall over a short period hits areas with inadequate drainage. Other causes of flood events comprise high tides, storm surges, river overflow, and snow melt. Each year, floods extinguish assets worth billions of dollars. In the last five years alone, monetary losses caused by floods worldwide were estimated at 299 billion U.S.