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The WhatsApp outage highlights our dependence on realtime technology - but why is it so hard to get right?

Billions of people rely on WhatsApp each day to communicate in realtime. Friends exchange memes, expats catch up with their families, businesses take bookings and run customer support, and teams ranging from emergency services to on-call engineers at tech companies even use WhatsApp as their primary communication tool. So when WhatsApp had an hours-long global outage on 25 October 2022, the world noticed.

How to solve four SQL data modeling issues

SQL is the universal language of data modeling. While it is not what everyone uses, it is what most analytics engineers use. SQL is found all across the most popular modern data stack tools; ThoughtSpot’s SearchIQ query engine translates natural language query into complex SQL commands on the fly, dbt built the entire premise of their tool around SQL and Jinja. And within your Snowflake data platform, it’s used to query all your tables.

Accelerating Projects in Machine Learning with Applied ML Prototypes

It’s no secret that advancements like AI and machine learning (ML) can have a major impact on business operations. In Cloudera’s recent report Limitless: The Positive Power of AI, we found that 87% of business decision makers are achieving success through existing ML programs. Among the top benefits of ML, 59% of decision makers cite time savings, 54% cite cost savings, and 42% believe ML enables employees to focus on innovation as opposed to manual tasks.

Does Your Company Need a Data Observability Framework?

You have been putting in the work, and your company has been growing manifold, Your client base is growing more than ever, and the projects are pouring in. So what comes next? it is now time to focus on the data that you are generating. When programming an application, DevOps engineers keep track of many things, such as bugs, fixes, and the overall application performance. This ensures that the application operates with minimum downtime and that any future errors can be predicted.

It is Time to Rebundle the Modern Data Stack

When you look closer at the Modern Data Stack (MDS) you need to brace yourself. The number of tools companies use for their databases, user administration, data extraction, data integration, security, machine learning, and a myriad of other use cases has grown astronomically. Matt Turck, VC at FirstMark, composes a yearly infographic of the hot tools in the datascape: And this is just a shortlist of both the most popular and fastest-growing tools.

Power Up Your Data Operations with Templates & SpotApps

Gaining insights from your data can be time-consuming. Or as simple as a few clicks. Depending on if you want to do everything by yourself, or if you let us help. For example, next time one of your stakeholders asks: “Can you deliver the dashboards by the end of next week?” You can say yes with confidence, and in this blog we are going to show you why and how it is done.

10 Keys to a Secure Cloud Data Lakehouse

Enabling data and analytics in the cloud allows you to have infinite scale and unlimited possibilities to gain faster insights and make better decisions with data. The data lakehouse is gaining in popularity because it enables a single platform for all your enterprise data with the flexibility to run any analytic and machine learning (ML) use case. Cloud data lakehouses provide significant scaling, agility, and cost advantages compared to cloud data lakes and cloud data warehouses.

Streamline Test Failure Analysis for Quality Engineering Teams

Automated software testing powers faster releases and higher-quality user experiences. As developers make changes to the applications, automation engineers, test leads, and developers work together to resolve issues that occur on some of the automated tests. Test failure analysis activities allow these teams to perform root cause analysis (RCA) for these failures. These activities can take increasing amounts of time as the scale of automated testing grows.