Snowflake leaders offer insight on AI, open source and cybersecurity development — and the fundamental leadership skills required — in the years ahead. As we come to the end of a calendar year, it’s natural to contemplate what the new year will hold for us. It’s an understatement to say that the future is very hard to predict, but it’s possible to both prepare for the likeliest outcomes and stay ready to adapt to the unexpected.

For organizations looking to accelerate their Azure adoption while maintaining control, security and reliability, Fivetran provides a best-in-class solution that consistently outperforms ADF.

In the new age of Industry 4.0 the shopfloor is no longer an isolated environment. It’s the heartbeat of manufacturing operations, responsible for producing, monitoring, and refining goods. But since the lines blur between operational technology (OT) on the shopfloor and information technology (IT) in the enterprise, integrating these systems has become a formidable challenge.

If you want to run a SaaS app where your customers can each have one of their own domains pointing to your app, then you will encounter two problems: For example, let's say you wanted to provide a status page service hosted at yourapp.com that allows customers to set up their own domain (like status.acmecorp.com) to be served by your app. Let's dive into the solutions..

Querying databases comes with costs—wall clock time, CPU usage, memory consumption, and potentially actual dollars. As your application scales, optimizing these costs becomes crucial. Materialized views offer a powerful solution by creating a pre-computed, optimized data representation. Imagine a retail scenario with separate customer and product tables. Typically, retrieving product details for a customer's purchase requires cross-referencing both tables.