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API Strategy Fundamentals: Obtaining Executive Sponsorship

The term “digital strategy” has become something of a buzzword, but when it comes to defining your company’s approach to APIs and its digital economy, it’s paramount that you create a truly strategic plan that has the support of your organization’s executive. Without a validated, well-articulated, and executive-backed plan, your organization will find it almost impossible to consistently and successfully hit its targets.

Replace and Boost your Apache Storm Topologies with Apache NiFi Flows

Recently, I worked with a large fortune 500 customer on their migration from Apache Storm to Apache NiFi. If you’re asking yourself, “Isn’t Storm for complex event processing and NiFi for simple event processing?”, you’re correct. A few customers chose a complex event engine like Apache Storm for their simple event processing, even when Apache NiFi is the more practical choice, cutting drastically down on SDLC (software development lifecycle) time.

Major Brands Democratize Data with Snowpark Accelerated

Earlier this year at Snowflake Summit 2021 , we announced Snowpark Accelerated , a new program for partners who integrate with Snowpark. It provides them with access to technical experts and additional exposure to Snowflake customers. It’s been incredibly exciting to watch what our partners have been building with the help of our new developer experience, which brings deeply integrated, DataFrame-style programming to the languages developers like to use.

Qlik and Fortune Launch "The Pandemic Effect on the Fortune Global 500" Data Analytics Site

The story of the last year+ is one of disruption and change across every aspect of our lives. As we all navigated a ‘new norm,’ businesses naturally had to pivot as well, with some sectors finding new opportunities while others scrambled to reimagine their entire go-to-market strategies.

Why you should go framework agnostic for test automation?

The most flexible native mobile-app testing solution.” It’s a bold claim that we are making about the BitBar Real Device Cloud. One of the essential features of being the most flexible is being framework-agnostic. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at this term and see how QA teams and managers can benefit from such a platform. BitBar Cloud recently extended Flutter support to include Flutter 2.2 released by Google on May 18th, 2021.

CDC in Salesforce and How to Export Attachments

Salesforce is one of the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. A lot of companies use it for every aspect of their business. In fact, Salesforce bills itself as a Customer 360 platform. If you’re familiar with Salesforce, you know there are a lot of tools. The right choices allow you to get the most actionable use of the wealth of data from the platform. We’ve talked before about how to create a Salesforce ETL pipeline.

Kubernetes Ingress gRPC Example With a Dune Quote Service

APIs come in all different shapes and forms. In this tutorial, I’ll show you a Kubernetes Ingress gRPC example. I’ll explain how to deploy a gRPC service to Kubernetes and provide external access to the service using Kong’s Kubernetes Ingress Controller. And to hype you up a little bit about the upcoming live-action movie, Dune, based on Frank Herbert’s book, I created a Kubernetes service that delivers Dune quotes.

The Dark Truth Behind Session Recording

A company is entitled to use session recording or session replaying as long as their marketing and analytics needs require so. However, as enticing the recording of everything the user does at all times can be, even within the existing regulations, there is a high chance that doing so will quickly push the data towards a non-compliant realm. And even in cases where regulations may not be explicit on the matter, we see more and more how the industry is leaning towards discouraging these practices.