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Data Champions: Balancing IT and Business Needs

Digital transformation has been on the agenda for a long time, but the sudden need to respond to the unprecedented challenges of 2020, has meant the buzzword has become an executable reality for many enterprises. I recently came across a KPMG report that revealed that 80% of executives are increasing investments on emerging technologies now, to drive higher realized value in the future. Underlying digital transformation and investment decisions is a precious asset: data.

What data tells us about crime during lockdown

Recently, we took another look at our Chicago crime dataset to see what was different in crime as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown and what we found was fascinating. This is a dataset provided by the City of Chicago that tracks any type of reported crime. We often use it to demonstrate the power of Yellowfin. The first thing we saw was that a lot of crime went down. This chart shows crime rates in Chicago over the past two years.

Managing DreamFactory Scripted APIs with GitHub and Your Favorite IDE

DreamFactory's scripted service feature ranks among the most popular capabilities, allowing developers to create APIs using PHP, Python, or NodeJS which can then be secured using role-based access controls, accessed using auto-generated API keys or other authentication providers such as Active Directory and Okta, and executed alongside other APIs as part of an API composition-based workflow.

Node.js Resiliency Concepts: Recovery and Self-Healing

In an ideal world where we reached 100% test coverage, our error handling was flawless, and all our failures were handled gracefully — in a world where all our systems reached perfection, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Yet, here we are. Earth, 2020. By the time you read this sentence, somebody’s server failed in production. A moment of silence for the processes we lost.

Stackify's New Pricing: Everything you need to know

Stackify Retrace pricing is changing. We’re moving away from our old device-based billing to a modern usage-based billing. This means you’ll pick a plan based on the exact amount of projected logs and performance traces you collect and nothing more. You’re probably wondering why and what’s in it for me. Stackify has one core belief that has guided us since our inception and will never change.

Building an effective data approach in a hybrid cloud world - part 3

In our last two posts, we talked with Deloitte’s Marc Beierschoder and Martin Mannion respectively about the requirement organizations have to deploy their data and analytics, quickly, into a hybrid environment. On top of that, there is the fundamental aspect of consistent security and governance of your enterprise data cloud and need for multiple users with different requirements to access data flexibly.