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What is a key performance indicator? A government key performance indicator (KPI) is a quantifiable measure that the public sector uses to evaluate its performance. Government KPIs function like KPIs used by for-profit businesses — they demonstrate the organization’s overall performance and its accountability to its stakeholders. In more layman terms, public sector KPIs serve two important purposes.

We are excited that bidirectional data sharing between BigQuery and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. This will make it easy for customers to enrich their data use cases by combining data across different platforms securely, without the additional cost of building or managing data infrastructure and complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines.

Some mobile app development teams today are still dealing with the challenges of maintaining physical/on-premises real devices for mobile app testing. This blog post makes the case for moving real device testing to the cloud.

This article was origninally published here. In this article, we’re spilling the beans on why we switched from Azure to Codemagic and showing you exactly how to supercharge your CI/CD game. We’re covering the entire spectrum — from compiling and creating release notes to testing and deployment. Let’s rewind a bit to our iOS developers’ struggles. Our CI process (think builds, tests, and coverage) was taking a chunky 40–50 minutes.

At NodeSource, we understand the hesitance and scrutiny that often accompany claims of "Node.js compatibility". The Node.js ecosystem is vast and intricate, and as Matteo Collina rightly points out, passing a "hello world" example is just the start. We believe N|Solid should be a component of every Node.js project, especially in production, to provide developers and organizations with the most advanced performance and security observability tooling.

Implementing an API gateway API key is key to securing your APIs. In this guide, you’ll learn to generate and apply these keys, ensuring your AWS API gateway effectively authenticates and processes authorized client requests. We’ll dive into setup procedures, management tips, and security best practices to help you maintain robust access control. Get ready to fortify your services’ entry points.

Thorough software testing aims to identify and resolve potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a high-quality user experience. However, optimal testing levels can be hard to achieve for most quality assurance (QA) teams. An optimal testing level requires balancing testing thoroughness, coverage, and speed with resource allocation.

Qlik is a vital and powerful analytics tool that’s used by companies across every sector, including gaming giant SEGA, and the company continues to improve its offerings, from SaaS to cloud solutions. With an ever-growing collection of capabilities, there are bound to be a few features that even the most expert Qlik users may not utilize. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the most underrated Qlik capabilities that every data master (and junior!) should know.

In an era where businesses are adopting digital transformation at a rate that is beyond comprehension, exposure management is a critical component of any strategy to successfully handle the omnipresent problem of mitigating cyberattacks, data breaches, and other security threats. Businesses could profit from adopting new technology and digital services, but doing so expands the attack surface, making them more vulnerable to forthcoming attacks.

Organizations rely on high-performance data warehouses for storing and analyzing large amounts of data. An important decision in setting up a data warehouse is the choice between Star Schema vs. Snowflake Schema. The star schema simplifies the structure of a database by directly connecting dimension tables to a central fact table. The star shaped design streamlines data retrieval and analysis by consolidating related data points, thereby enhancing the efficiency and clarity of database queries.