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Bucketing, also known as binning, is useful to find groupings in continuous data (particularly numbers and time stamps). While it’s often used to generate histograms, bucketing can also be used to group rows by business-defined rules. I’ll walk through the simple bucketing various data types as well as custom buckets.

Migrating a data warehouse from a legacy environment requires a massive upfront investment in resources and time. There is a lot to consider before and during migration. You may need to replan your data model, use a separate platform for tasks scheduling, and handle changes in the application’s database driver. Therefore, organizations must take a strategic approach to streamline the process. This article presents a step-by-step approach for migrating a data warehouse to the cloud.

Canada is poised to become a world-leader in privacy regulation and with new regulation comes record-breaking fines for those who can’t keep up. In November, Canada introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act. If passed, companies could face fines of up to five percent of global revenue or $25 million CAD — whichever is greater — for violating Canadians’ privacy.

How do you manage to release often without major issues? Create a checklist for your software releases, a list of steps to blindly follow every time release a new piece of software. Here is an example of what steps your list should contain: This list can go on and on, by I would suggest that every team should have a similar checklist. This checklist should be reviewed and updated every 1-2 weeks (doesn’t matter if you do Scrum or Kanban), most likely at the team retrospective meetings.

In 2019, software testing was a $40 billion dollar industry. By 2026, it’s predicted to grow to $60 billion. This signals a paradigm shift in the importance of software testing and quality assurance. With an increased amount of testing and more advanced test strategies, it’s crucial to have a powerful test management tool.