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Reach - Becoming a Data-Driven Financial Technology Company with Snowflake

Reach is the premier partner for online businesses that want to connect with consumers around the world, expand their business, and increase global sales. Using their unique Merchant of Record model, Reach helps retailers process global payment transactions wherever a retailer’s customer is based. Learn how Reach is able to consolidate various data tools and technologies into one with the Snowflake Data Cloud, while increasing their velocity of data acquisition with data sharing.

Fix the broken promise of Customer 360 initiatives

Investment in Customer 360 is supposed to lead to truly transformative results, from marketing and sales efficiency to product innovation. Too often, the reality isn’t delivering on that promise. Despite significant and increasing spend on Customer 360 initiatives, 93% of consumers still receive irrelevant marketing communications. 66% of customers are unhappy with their experiences. The promise of customer 360 has failed because of unhealthy data — data that's inaccurate, hard to access, and difficult to transform.

Optimize Your API Gateway with Chaos Engineering

As engineers and architects, we automatically build resilience into platforms as far as possible. But what about the unknown failures? What about the unknown behavior of your platform? The philosopher, Socrates, once said “You don’t know what you don’t know”. What if I could tell you there is a way to turn these unknowns into knowns – a way to understand how your platform will behave to specific failure events…

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Datadog & Speedscale: Improve Kubernetes App Performance

By combining traffic replay capabilities from Speedscale with observability from Datadog, SRE Teams can deploy with confidence. It makes sense to centralize your monitoring data into as few silos as possible. With this integration, Speedscale will push the results of various traffic replay conditions into Datadog so it can be combined with the other observability data. Being able to preview application performance by simulating production conditions allows better release decisions. Moreover, a baseline to compare production metrics can provide even earlier signals on degradation and scale problems. Speedscale joined the Datadog Marketplace so customers can shift-left the discovery of performance issues.

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.