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Large-scale, sophisticated attacks like the SolarWinds cyber intrusion and the Microsoft Exchange Server hack are disturbing, to say the least. These are more than just bad headlines; they reflect fundamental, systemic problems with the security postures in most enterprises. One underreported issue is the continued adherence of organizations to principles that maintain strong perimeter controls to prevent things outside from coming in.

These are a new class of vendors like Gainsight and C3 who are building applications based on the idea data will drive a transaction, rather than transactions driving the data. The challenge for every enterprise software vendor is how to respond to this threat because it's going to be difficult. For big vendors, you're going to have vested interests internally who don't see this challenge coming or don't know how to respond to it. Some may even underestimate the threat of the change.

The power of the Internet and the World Wide Web is known to everyone. Within a few years after its inception, businesses started to take advantage of all the facilities in features. And within no time, e-commerce became prominent as a new way to do business. Nowadays, it is the dominant way any company or business can reach its customers across the globe with a website.

A new Python package from Fivetran and Astronomer enables connector management in Airflow.

Not sure what is the best way to track inbound calls? 30+ experts share how they approach call tracking and the metrics they care most about.

In this episode of Metrics & Chill, Ramli John of ProductLed shared how they took the opportunity to grow revenue via activation.

Continuous development is an umbrella term that includes many DevOps processes. For that reason, it is important to understand what is continuous development to help you ensure that each of your DevOps processes are efficient and effective. Read along or jump ahead to the section that interests you the most.

Large portions of software development budgets are dedicated for testing code. A new component may take weeks to thoroughly test, and even then mistakes happen. If you consider software defects as security issues then the concern goes well beyond an application temporarily crashing. Although even minor bugs can cost companies a lot of time to locate the bug, resolve it, retest it in lower environments, then deploy it back to production.