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HTTP Keep-Alive - In Light

HTTP Keep-Alive is a feature of web servers that allows clients to keep connections open. It's also called "persistent connections." The idea behind HTTP Keep-Alive is to prevent the connection from timing out and closing, which would require the client to reconnect. This saves time for both users and the website’s server. HTTP/1.1 is designed to allow keep-alive connections by default, but HTTP/1.0 is not.

REST API Best Practices for Parameter and Query String Usage

Over the last ten years, APIs have grown in popularity and utilization. They've evolved into critical components of application infrastructure, and as businesses continue to use and build them, good API architecture will become increasingly important. A smart API design helps performance and the overall developer experience, whether they're public or internal. The most common APIs employ HTTP requests to access and use data and follow a RESTful architecture.

10 Tools to Help You Create Shareworthy Content

Creating content that your readers will feel compelled to share on social media is crucial to reaching a wider audience. Nevertheless, content marketers can sometimes overlook the importance of this kind of organic exposure when putting together a strategy to gain visibility. This is mainly because sharing is out of their hands. No matter what tactics you use, you can never bank on a certain number of readers liking, tweeting, or posting a link to your latest article.

5 BigCommerce Tech Stack Tools You Need to Know About

Our Five Key Points: There are so many e-commerce platforms to choose from, from Shopify to eBay to open-source solutions like Magento. BigCommerce is a popular choice thanks to a clear pricing structure and the ability to provide online stores that give consumers the best purchasing experience. You can improve on this even further with the right BigCommerce tech stack tools from other e-commerce solution providers.

Salesforce Data Migration: Best Practices & Strategies To Make It Successful

Five things you should know about Salesforce best practices for data migration: Migrating data into or out of Salesforce is a time-consuming, but necessary task. However, data migration is a challenge for any e-commerce enterprise. There are both organizational and technical challenges that you need to manage and overcome to ensure a smooth Salesforce integration process. This post helps you develop your data migration strategy for Salesforce.

How ETL Can Help You Succeed as a Big Data Architect

The boom in Big Data has created an insatiable demand for data professionals at all levels. Analysts, DBAs, data engineers, security consultants – employers are crying out for people with the right skills and experience. Perhaps the most sought-after of all these professionals is the big data architect.

Now generally available: BigQuery BI Engine supports many BI tools or custom application

Customers who work with data warehouses, running BI on large datasets used to have to pick low latency but trading off freshness of data. With BigQuery BI Engine, they can accelerate their dashboards and reports that connect to BigQuery without having to sacrifice freshness of the data. Using the latest insights helps them make better decisions for the business.

Roundtable Recap: DataOps Just Wanna Have Fun

We like to keep things light at Unravel. In a recent event, we hosted a group of industry experts for a night of laughs and drinks as we discussed cloud migration and heard from our friends at Don’t Tell Comedy. Unravel VP of Solutions Engineering Chris Santiago and AWS Sr. Worldwide Business Development Manager for Analytics Kiran Guduguntla moderated a discussion with data professionals from Black Knight, TJX Companies, AT&T Systems, Georgia Pacific, and IBM, among others.