API abuse was once one of the most infrequent vectors for cyber security attacks. It has now moved up the list to be one of the most frequently used techniques. In a time when data is a company’s competitive edge, more and more organizations are embracing APIs to integrate various databases and applications effectively. With the amount of information shared between these APIs, securing the data and user access to that information has become increasingly important.

Web applications usually rely heavily on databases, for the most part. And as applications grow, databases grow too. We keep scaling web servers and background workers to keep up with the heavy load. But eventually, the database needs to keep up with all the new connections from these processes. One way to tackle this is to grow a database with an app using vertical scaling. This means adding more CPU power and memory to the database server. But this is usually slow.

CDP Operational Database enables developers to quickly build future-proof applications that are architected to handle data evolution. It helps developers automate and simplify database management with capabilities like auto-scale, and is fully integrated with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). For more information and to get started with COD, refer to Getting Started with Cloudera Data Platform Operational Database (COD).

This is a guest post for Integrate.io written by Bill Inmon, an American computer scientist recognized as the "father of the data warehouse." Inmon wrote the first book and first magazine column about data warehousing, held the first conference about this topic, and was the first person to teach data warehousing classes. Five things to know about this topic.

Database replication involves storing copies of a database in different locations. Learn how it works and how to get started.

CDP Operational Database (COD) is a real-time auto-scaling operational database powered by Apache HBase and Apache Phoenix. It is one of the main data services that run on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud. You can access COD from your CDP console.

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.

The AlloyDB connector from Integrate.io empowers organizations to rapidly consolidate all of their data into AlloyDB—a high-powered, Google Cloud database that is 100% compatible with open-source PostgreSQL. By serving as an easy-to-set-up, high-speed data pipeline to AlloyDB, Integrate.io helps businesses modernize their legacy proprietary databases by migrating them to open-source, PostgreSQL-compatible systems.

Do you have a Node.js project that you want to put into production but don't know how? In this tutorial, you'll learn how to deploy a Node.js and MongoDB application to Heroku. Before we get started, let's take a very quick look at Heroku and MongoDB.

Transactional databases are essential to many apps and software. Learn more about them and their benefits with Fivetran.