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Future of Data Meetup (2022): Using Apache Iceberg for Multi-Function Analytics in the Cloud

Iceberg is a high-performance table format intended for large-scale analytics that ensures easy accessibility of data stored in multiple file formats common in the Hadoop ecosystem for different use cases common in the lakehouse architecture. During this meetup, we’ll assume you’ve never heard of Apache Iceberg and explain the basics: what problems the Apache Iceberg project is addressing, how iceberg works, what features iceberg tables offer and how you can put Iceberg to use in your own data projects that utilize Hive, Spark, or Impala.

Explaining AUR: A Universal Retail Language

By tracking the average revenue per unit over a given period, AUR has become one of the most important metrics for e-commerce, department stores, and retailers of all sizes. Especially when compared with price intelligence, competitor sales, and other data, AUR helps retailers unlock crucial insights and even automate pricing strategies and inventory management, helping to drive more sales. Learn how Integrate.io can help you tap into metrics like AUR and how it can grow your business.

How to Optimize Customer Identity and Access Management

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) has become indispensable for organizations. According to an article by the Business Research Company, the CIAM market is expected to reach $45.56 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate of 18.6%. The research firm adds that the increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices — such as smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes and medical sensors — will be the primary driving factor for this growth.

15 Questions to Evaluate Your QA Team's Software Testing Process

Keeping software testing processes on track is an overarching goal every QA lead wants for their team. Yet, development projects aren’t always plain sailing. No one wants unhappy clients, and, worse, overworked QA engineers and developers. We all have to accept that activities don’t always stick to the initial planning. Requirements change near the final stages, feature requests are unclear to business values, leaving little time for critical areas to get tested.

Strategic Partners Perforce Software and Microsoft, in Collaboration With GitHub, Announce New Gaming Initiatives

To Help Game Creators Spend Less Time Setting Up and Managing Their Pipeline, Perforce Software Debuts New Game Development Virtual Machine with Microsoft as well as Helix Core Actions with GitHub.

Build Serverless APIs with Node.js and AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda has been around for a few years now, and it remains the most popular way to experiment with serverless technology. If you're not familiar with serverless, it's a model of development in which managing, provisioning, and scaling servers is abstracted away from application development. Servers do exist in a serverless world, but they are completely managed by the cloud provider, allowing developers to focus on packaging their code for deployment.

It Is Not Technology Versus Business; It Is Technology AND Business

Last year, my friends at Appian commissioned some research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Financiers ridden with technical debt. The results were interesting: Research from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Appian, finds that just over a third (34%) of IT decision makers believe that the reduction or elimination of legacy IT would do most to help their organisation achieve its automation objectives.

Which are the types of performance testing?

Software developers try to implement applications that not only is responsive and fast with a very small number of users but also with multiple users using the application. To be able to measure this we need to rely on different types of performance testing. Performance testing should be an integral part of the agile release manifesto.