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Founded in 1991, CNC (Czech News Center) is one of the largest media companies in the Czech Republic. They offer dozens of print and online publications to the Czech market, including Blesk, Aha!, and E15. A commitment to journalistic integrity has enabled their growth, now reaching millions of readers. They are currently undergoing a vast digitalization process with the aim to become the fastest-growing and largest media house in the Czech Republic.

You may have heard the term shift-left testing which is essentially moving the testing to an earlier stage in the project lifecycle, essentially the activity is moved to the left on the project timeline. The benefits of testing earlier have always been understood but not always happened when we consider performance testing which in some cases is still left until the very end of the delivery process.

Fivetran pipelines reliably load your data to your chosen destination, but then what? Without joining, filtering, and aggregating your data, your business can’t produce data models to answer critical business decisions. This is why data transformations are essential to every business looking to maximize value from the data they collect from disparate sources.

A French startup is leveraging its modern data stack to overturn a longstanding business model.

You no longer need to coordinate with your administrator and manually translate formulas from Salesforce SQL to Standard SQL.

Monitor the number of surveys being created, track new responses coming in, see which surveys are generating the most responses, and more with Databox’s integration with SurveyMonkey.

Nearly 30 SEO professionals share the top Google ranking factors they are paying attention to in 2021.

The Modern Data Stack is quickly picking up steam in tech circles as the go-to cloud data architecture, and although its popularity has been quickly rising, it can be ambiguously defined at times. In this blog post we’ll discuss what it is, how it came to be, and where we see it going in the future. Regardless of whether you’re new to the modern data stack or have been an early adopter, there should be something of interest for everyone.

Automated ETL (extract, transform, load) and data integration workflows are essential for the modern data-driven organization, and they can swiftly and efficiently migrate data from sources to a target data warehouse or data lake. But ETL must run at regular intervals — or even in real-time — so how can you know which information is fresh and which information you’ve already ingested? Solving this problem is the goal of change data capture (CDC) techniques.

Traditionally, CFOs focus on cost and cost control when managing the financial actions of a company. “Value” is assessed by putting a quantifiable number behind everything. It’s time to shift that mindset and take into account a different kind of value—the kind you can derive from an investment. Rather than worrying solely about the bottom line, ask the question: If you spend more today, what will you end up creating tomorrow?