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With technology innovations raging at incredible speeds over the past few decades, new and exciting platforms for gathering, storing, transforming, and manipulating data are entering the market every day. Apache Hadoop was one of these disrupters when it entered the market in 2006, offering distributed storage and big data processing using a network of many computers.

The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been an important federal law in healthcare since 1996. Part of its purpose was to create standards meant to protect sensitive patient information, and it took on even more important once the digitalization of patient health records became widespread. Now it’s required for certain types of businesses to protect patient health information—or face fines that range from $100 to $50,000 per violation.

A significant part of breaking a monolithic application into microservices involves a redesign of how the application manages data — usually through a data management strategy called “information hiding.” In this respect, breaking a monolith into microservices isn’t just about establishing clear separations between the code for different services. It’s also about creating clear separations between the data that each microservice interacts with. Why information hiding?

CDP Operational Database Experience (COD) is a PaaS offering on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). COD enables you to create a new operational database with a few clicks and auto-scales based on your workload. Behind the scenes, COD automatically manages cluster deployment and configuration, reducing overheads related to setting up new database instances. Additionally, auto-scaling eliminates the need to size a cluster for your workloads.

To grow your eCommerce business ahead of your competitors you need to rely on analytics. Ecommerce analytics is the compass that replaces your gut feelings as you scale your e-shop to higher grounds and more online sales. In this ultimate guide to eCommerce analytics we will look at: What is eCommerce analytics? Why is eCommerce analytics crucial for the success of your store? What are the best metrics and KPIs to track for eCommerce?

In the age of surgical robots, smart refrigerators, self-driving vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles, connectivity undoubtedly is a foundational block for our modern world. Connectivity not only enables easy access to resources, but it also opens up opportunities to drive innovation by connecting isolated systems. Connectivity drives digital transformation.

We're introducing the brand new Bitrise Gen2 Build Infrastructure that is running fully on macOS, with the macOS-based hypervisor, cloud-scale orchestration, and enterprise-level security.

Git is a terrific tool that many developers use to keep track of their projects’ versions. Despite the fact that there are many different version control systems, git is by far the most used. The focus on distributed development and the ease with which branches can be used for good reasons. A branch is a simple approach of departing from the main development flow. It's typically used in a branch to add a new feature or correct an issue.

If you’ve been following Apache Kafka over the past few years, you’ll know a very important milestone has now been reached. The company that was spun out of LinkedIn to propel this open source technology to the future is now going Public. Well done Confluent, congratulations on your IPO!

There was a big announcement this year at GrafanaCon 2021 that performance testing tool k6 is being aquired by Grafana Labs. It was really exciting news for folks who cheer for open source because these are two giant projects. At time of this writing, k6 has over 12K stars and Grafana with a respectable 42K stars on Github as well. In full transparency, I have used both of those repos many times over the years and am a fellow stargazer.