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Snowflake's Retail Data Cloud

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.

The Power of Unlocking and Unifying Data

Every day, humans produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Just to put that number into perspective, there are 18 zeros in a quintillion. Unifying data can allow you to take advantage of it and benefit your business. The vast majority of organizations have collected nearly endless amounts of data. Yet, these same organizations are starving for information that can be used to make more informed decisions. Information may be stored in databases that don’t talk to each other.

Top 5 iOS App Testing Frameworks

Learn about the top test automation frameworks for testing iOS apps, including the benefits and advantages of each plus sample code. A huge number of mobile testing tools have been developed in recent years to support mobile development in response to the explosive growth of the mobile app and device market in recent years. When it comes to choosing what mobile test automation framework is right for you, there is a huge array of options, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

What is continuous deployment?

After working on a new feature or an improvement, it's normal that you want to deliver these changes to your users as fast as possible. Depending on your deployment pipeline, confidently deploying changes to production might include coordinating with whoever is leading on-call, getting their approval, manually deploying your changes, spending hours to monitor how it goes, and performing a rollback in case something goes wrong.

Welcome to the decade of data

To quote Hemingway: change happens gradually, then suddenly. We see this in the world around us. Think back to 2019. There’s no denying how much the pandemic reshaped our professional and personal lives, with technology driving this change at massive scale. Yet these changes, despite their ubiquity, are really the culmination of trends like cloud and automation that were well underway.

Transformational triumph: eBay's data fabric modernization

In today’s economy, every business is eager to accelerate beyond and above the competition. Critical to this effort is the data your business runs successfully on, its backbone, and a good team behind the magic. Join eBay, the world's leading online marketplace, to hear how they accelerated their operational data with impressive results. Not only did the company experience no downtime, but they reduced data volumes by a whopping 50% — resulting in less friction, smoother operations, and a team built to enable success and scale.

Protect Your Assets and Your Reputation in the Cloud

A recent headline in Wired magazine read “Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself.” There is no corporation that wants that headline and the reputational damage and financial loss it may cause. In the case of Uber it was a relatively simple attack using an approach called Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue. This is when an attacker takes advantage of authentication systems that require account owners to approve a log in.

XPath Locators Cheat Sheet For Better Testing

Use this cheat sheet to build a strategy for locating elements known as XPath. When working in web development and web testing, it can be necessary to traverse an HTML document and identify specific elements on a web page. One case in which this is particularly useful is in the development of automated UI tests. Oftentimes, automating web application testing is dependent upon programmatically locating elements on a web page and leveraging these elements to perform specific actions.

Deep Cloning in JavaScript

Javascript is the basis of today’s modern web technology and plays a pivotal role in providing effective functionalities to websites and web applications. One of the essential elements that power its capability to include complex functionalities is objects in Javascript. From performing as a holy grail that aids developers in creating complex data structures to storing multiple properties an object in JS can serve multiple purposes at once.