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Evolution of API Technologies: From the Cloud Age and Beyond

We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner, APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new products/services and business models. The popularity of APIs has grown significantly in the last decade or so, but the history of APIs stretches back much further.

The Evolution of APIs: From the Cloud Age and Beyond (Part 2)

In our last blog post, we traced the evolution of APIs in the cloud age. The cloud age introduced the idea of an “API economy” — or the business practice of organizations exposing their digital services or information through the controlled use of APIs. While the API economy looks attractive today, we believe it will become even stronger in the future.

How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP's Open Lakehouse

In June 2022, Cloudera announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open-table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation, which helps users avoid vendor lock-in and implement an open lakehouse. The general availability covers Iceberg running within some of the key data services in CDP, including Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW), Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE), and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML).

7 Tools to Launch a Successful Digital Project

Launching a digital project may get really overwhelming. You have to think about a dozen little tasks, from basic ones (like a simple website) to longer-term ones (like SEO and marketing). To make your life easier, here are seven tools to help you launch a successful digital project, be it a tool, an e-book or a new online business.

Automate Your Report Process with Databox

Whether you’re creating reports for your clients or simply looking to improve your internal reporting process, manual reporting can be complicated and time-consuming. Copy and pasting the data you need from different tools into your own presentation takes time and leaves room for errors. Automating this process will not only save hours of work, it can improve the quality and cadence of your reports.