Winter is clearly over here, the sun is shining, which means it is time to sum up everything that is new in the Tideways Winter 2021 release. Aside from this blog post explaining the new features in detail and the documentation, we also invite you to our 30 minute webinar "New Features and Improvements launched in Winter 2021" scheduled for 4th March 2021, 15:00 Europe/Berlin. The webinar will also include an exclusive intro to two brand new features that are launching into Beta next week.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery materialized views. Materialized views (MV’s) are precomputed views that periodically cache results of a query to provide customers increased performance and efficiency.

The component previewer is a feature that allows you to preview your data at each component step without having to validate packages and run full-scale production jobs. It gives you the ability to extract, transform and preview your data on any transformation component, allowing you to debug your pipeline and/or to confirm and validate your data flow logic. Component previews are similar to the data previews available on source components, which you might already be familiar with.

Snowflake continued expanding its platform capabilities at the start of the new year, adding updates to data sharing, Snowsight, and data pipelines that help customers and partners access, mobilize, and share their data for better data-driven outcomes. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the exciting announcements from January 2021.

Today, we have really exciting news to share with you all. The Enterprise version of our Kong Gateway is now generally available, and it’s like nothing we’ve ever released before. One standout component of version 2.3 is that it now has a “free” operating mode so that anyone can start off using the Enterprise gateway product – something previously reserved for only our paying customers.

We’ve added 11 Improvements to Databox Charts. Now, you’ll be able to visualize and explore more of your data right from within Databox.

Digital transformation has been a top enterprise priority for years, and in the wake of the global pandemic, that urgency has only increased. Many industries have had to manage in weeks or months what previously would have taken years. According to surveys conducted for our “State of the API Economy 2021” report, three-quarters of enterprises remained focused on digital transformation in 2020, and two-thirds of those companies actually increased their investments.

We have set some ambitious targets for 2021 in making Loadero an even better service to help our customers testing web applications easier, write scripts more comfortably and get detailed results reports that can be analyzed quickly for valuable insights about their app’s performance. With the first month of 2021 just ended, we would like to share some recently added improvements to Loadero application.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Konnect, the service connectivity platform designed from the ground up for the cloud native era, delivered as a service. We live in a connected world. Every application we use, whether within or outside of work, is a connected application built on top of dozens – sometimes thousands – of services that enable our digital, connected experiences.

The Heroku cloud platform has long been a popular solution for teams seeking a convenient application hosting solution. Today we’re thrilled to contribute to the Heroku ecosystem with the release of our DreamFactory Heroku Add-on. Heroku users can now launch hosted DreamFactory instances directly from the Heroku dashboard, and easily generate APIs for a wide variety of data sources, including PostgreSQL.