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Jeeves Grows Up: How an AI Chatbot Became Part of Unravel Data

Jeeves is the stereotypical English butler – and an AI chatbot that answers pertinent and important questions about Spark jobs in production. Shivnath Babu, CTO and co-founder of Unravel Data, spoke yesterday at Data + AI Summit, formerly known as Spark Summit, about the evolution of Jeeves, and how the technology has become a key supporting pillar within Unravel Data’s software.

What is Data as a Service (DaaS)?

As the amount of data companies are faced with snowballs, the need for efficient data governance grows. An increasing number of organizations are turning to cloud service providers for data management. In this context, data as a service, often referred to as DaaS, is becoming an essential tool for managing data integration, data storage, and data analytics.

What is File Transfer Protocol?

Transferring files between two or more machines is an essential part of the ETL (extract, transform, load) process. Of course, there are multiple ways to move data, including flat file databases. For example, you can physically copy the data onto a USB drive or send it to the recipient via email. But methods like these are far less efficient than sending data via FTP. So what is FTP exactly, and how do you use it to transfer files and data? Keep reading for all the answers.

Kong Gateway OSS Turns Six!

🎂 Make a wish and blow out the candles…we’re celebrating Kong’s sixth anniversary! 👏👏👏 In 2015, Mashape open sourced Kong Gateway, launching the next generation of API management. In our last anniversary post, I took a look back at our history. For this 6th anniversary post, I’ll focus on how this year went and look forward to what’s coming up next.

America's Cybersecurity Mandate: 5 Ways to Adopt Zero-Trust Architecture

President Joe Biden issued an “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” as of May 12, 2021. The order includes numerous actions and mandates to confront the dangers of cyber attacks that are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Cybersecurity has real and significant implications, both in economical and national security terms. At the time of this writing, the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack caused quite a stir on the USA’s east coast.

Unleashing Siloed Design Into IPs

Many IP and data management tools provide a project-centric view of the design process, creating what are known as design silos. While this makes some sense, as most designers tend to think of themselves as working on a project at time, and other items within the company are tracked on a project basis (such as cost, resources, and timelines), this approach is not without its drawbacks.

Here's What Software Errors Could be Costing your Business

Software errors are annoying – they are troublesome for IT departments and affect many company processes. A software error is essentially a mismatch between what is expected of the program and the produced output. Sometimes these software errors could have negligible impact, while on other occasions, they could wreak absolute havoc, especially for industries like banking, healthcare, airlines, and stock markets.