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Heroku leverages the open-source technology of PostgreSQL to deliver a powerful and reliable database-as-a-service solution. Heroku Postgres acts as both a source and destination for data integration. With native support for a variety of programming languages and features that ensure security and compliance, it is a top resource for many companies. What do you need to know about Heroku, and what tools should you use to perform ETL (extract, transform and load) and ELT (extract, load and transform)?

As organizations look to improve business operations and outcomes, global industries are pushing for data-driven transformation. The 2021 Cloudera Data Impact Awards recognize those organizations that have pulled ahead of the pack with efforts to leverage the power of data to improve operations and better serve their customers. The finalists in the “Industry Transformation” category are MTN, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Sberbank, and Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI).

We as a society have always been intrigued by the concept of testing. In fact readers of a certain age may even remember when we all became briefly obsessed with anthropomorphic crash test dummies in the late 80s and early 90s. What started out as an ad campaign about vehicle safety transformed into a line of toys, a television show and even video games.

In this podcast episode, we talked to Applitools’ Angie Jones about all things related to test automation: tools, best practices, how to reach a higher level of DevTestOps, what role AI will play in software testing, and a lot more.

Learn when to use a dashboard or a report to level up your business performance by making data-backed decisions.

In this post, we will explore memory heap allocation in Node and push local hardware to its limit. Then we will find practical ways to monitor Node processes to debug memory issues. Ready? Let’s get going! To follow along, you can clone the code from my GitHub.

Great user experience on the web comes from being able to provide users with exactly what they want in the most seamless way possible. Behind the scenes, some user actions may take more time to process than others. For example, showing or hiding an HTML element is a quick operation whereas making an XHR request to get data from an external API is a slower operation. JavaScript provides us with a way to handle them all without giving up that instant delight users naturally expect.

As more companies invest in a cloud native infrastructure, they’re choosing to prioritize their applications as microservices—architecting them into distinct servers. Each component is responsible for one (and only one) feature. For example, you might have Server A responsible for handling billing logic, Server B for handling user interaction and Server C for handling third-party user interactions.

It’s that time again, when everyone is making their predictions for what the hot new trends will be in the coming year. What colors will we be wearing and painting our living room walls? How will we be working? What will we be doing when we’re not at work or at home?

Redshift has had the highest market share of any RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) solution for a number of years. Companies around the world use it to store and mine deeper insights from data. What is Redshift exactly, and what are the benefits that have given it the top ranking for companies around the world?