Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

This is the 3rd blog in our series on Snowflake Resource Optimization. In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, we showed you how Snowflake’s unique architecture allows for a virtually unlimited number of compute resources to be accessed near-instantaneously. We also provided best practices for administering these compute resources to optimize performance and reduce credit consumption.

So, you’ve made a cool People Analytics App, filled it with data from your HCM, Finance, Talent Review System, and Recognition System (I could go on). You’ve also governed access to it to specific people and can use it to tell compelling stories.

So, you’ve made a cool People Analytics App, filled it with data from your HCM, Finance, Talent Review System, and Recognition System (I could go on). You’ve also governed access to it to specific people and can use it to tell compelling stories.

Teams have been testing software for as long as software has existed. With the increased adoption of continuous integration and delivery, automated tests are becoming essential. Behaviour-driven development (BDD) is a modern approach to developing software that grew out of Agile and test-driven development. Most teams/organisations can benefit from test management and BDD, but BDD adoption is much more than simply managing tests – automated or manual.

Lifetime Value vs Acquisition Cost: The LTV:CAC ratio, a golden metric scrutinized by VC’s and Growth Marketers alike, requires not just the integration of dozens of data sources, but also the know-how to build reports that make sense to industry pros.

In this article, we'll see how to use Airtable to store realtime messages using a group chat app as an example. We'll use Ably's realtime infrastructure to power the chat app and make use of WebHooks to publish messages to Airtable directly in the correct order from Ably. Check the full source code of the group chat app written in VueJS on GitHub and the live demo of the application at https://realtime-chat-storage.ably.dev/

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the lifeblood of the economy: according to Deloitte, companies with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.7 percent of all businesses in the U.S., and employ 48 percent of the private workforce. Yet despite their sheer numbers, SMBs don’t have access to the power, budget, and resources that larger organizations can wield, particularly when it comes to digital transformation.

APIs (application programming interfaces) are an essential, yet often overlooked, component of the modern organization’s IT environment. According to a 2020 study, 83 percent of IT professionals and executives say that API integration is “critical” to their business strategy. These days, a single organization may rely on dozens or hundreds of third-party APIs, each of which may have a significant downstream effect on a company’s productivity and profitability.

We’re excited to share that after adding ANSI SQL, secondary indices, star schema, and view capabilities to Cloudera’s Operational Database, we will be introducing distributed transaction support in the coming months. The ACID model of database design is one of the most important concepts in databases. ACID stands for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. For a very long time, strict adherence to these four properties was required for a commercially successful database.

Across nearly every sector working with complex data, Spark has quickly become the de-facto distributed computing framework for teams across the data and analytics lifecycle. One of most awaited features of Spark 3.0 is the new Adaptive Query Execution framework (AQE), which fixes the issues that have plagued a lot of Spark SQL workloads. Those were documented in early 2018 in this blog from a mixed Intel and Baidu team.