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Growing With The Data Cloud - Lightfold's Story Of Startup & Success Through The Pandemic

Lightfold, a young analytics consultancy based in Brisbane, Australia, came into being in 2019, just before COVID hit, with the goal of helping companies gain mastery over their data by helping them build modern data stacks centered around Snowflake. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Ryan Green, chats with three members of the Lightfold leadership team–CEO John Cosgrove, Data Evangelist Graeme Lewis, and Director, Design and Product, Kylie Willett–about their company’s origin story and about the way in which Snowflake’s technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations think about data.

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.

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.

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.

6 Important Questions to Ask Before Choosing Your Web Host Provider

In this digital age, a company website is a sine qua non for most successful businesses. Your company website gives the ever-crucial first impression to your potential customers. Well, the experience your consumers will have will depend on the web hosting service you pick. A good web hosting provider will do heavy lifting for you. However, the plethora of reputable web hosting services in the market can make it hard to decide which one would best suit your company. It calls for careful research and consideration to select the best fit for your website.

Demo: Unravel Data - Keep Cloud Data Budgets on Track (Automatically)

Data teams need to be able to set cloud data budgets at a specific scope - and know if your various teams or departments are tracking to those budgets. But today, most data teams only know that the budget was overrun after it’s too late. With Unravel, establishing and tracking budgets to prevent overruns is easy.

Using Apache Solr REST API in CDP Public Cloud

The Apache Solr cluster is available in CDP Public Cloud, using the “Data exploration and analytics” data hub template. In this article we will investigate how to connect to the Solr REST API running in the Public Cloud, and highlight the performance impact of session cookie configurations when Apache Knox Gateway is used to proxy the traffic to Solr servers. Information in this blog post can be useful for engineers developing Apache Solr client applications.