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10 best practices for building a modern data stack

Companies are tightening the belts with one exception: data. The modern data stack shows no signs of a recession with Frank Slootman the CEO of Snowflake saying at their annual user conference they will not slow hiring plans. CNBC Tech Council executives noted how technology investments are business drivers, not cost centers. And Foundry’s annual cloud computing survey cites cloud analytics as a top growth driver. A digital economy is fueling this growth in the data sector.

WestJet Airlines Scales Easily & Quickly With The Snowflake Data Cloud

WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. It is the second-largest Canadian airline, operating over 700 flights a day and carrying more than 22 million guests a year. Learn why Breyten Van Tonder, Senior Manager of Data Engineering at WestJet and his team utilize the Snowflake Data Cloud to enable their user community to be more analytical and innovative with their data.

Take control of your data consumption spend without killing your innovation

In this 5 minute video Talend customer Aurizon shows how they take control of their consumption costs with data requirements running 24/7, how they are enabled to continue to innovate without the need to ask for more budget and how to design a foundation for data and analytics with healthy data that delivers business outcomes.

End-to-End API Monetization with NodeJS, Stripe, and Moesif

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

What Is ETL, and Why Should Ecommerce Businesses Use It?

Here are five things to know about ETL and how it benefits your Ecommerce business: Think about all the data that exists in your Ecommerce business. That might include customer data, inventory data, sales data, advertising data, and social media data. Now think about all the software and systems that store that data. These might include transactional databases, relational databases, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and SaaS tools.

Worker Threads Monitoring in N|Solid [6/10] The best APM for Node, layer by layer.

One of the more popular ways for developers to use Node.js is to leverage Worker Threads. Workers (threads) are useful for performing CPU-intensive JavaScript operations, according to the official documentation. They have proven to be the best solution for CPU performance due to the following features.

The Human Side of the Equation - How Stories Bring Data to Life (Part 1)

As data science has taken center stage in a lot of organizations, many are relearning what they’ve already known – that dry, mathematical calculations don’t inspire and don’t stick. It’s the story that matters. In this first of a two-part blog series, we look at the history and neuroscience of storytelling and how it can help us understand data at a more human level.