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Mobile UX: Five ways fintech apps are outcompeting traditional banking apps

One of the most important factors when choosing a finance app is user experience. We reveal five important UX processes that fintech apps use to remain competitive and why traditional banks should adopt these methods to minimize the loss of valuable customers.

How to Set Up Amazon Redshift on AWS

In a digitally powered economy, having access to data can help companies navigate market changes, perform customer analytics and adjust their strategy to meet demand. Unfortunately, most of the data company’s generate are unstructured and siloed across various departments in the organization. According to Forbes, 95 percent of businesses cite the need to manage unstructured data as a problem for their business.

Preventing Customer Churn with Continual, Snowflake, and dbt

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the customer churn/retention use case. This should contain everything needed to get started on the use case, and enterprising readers can also try this out for themselves in a free trial of Continual, following the customer churn example in the linked github repository.

Introducing Build Insights Pro for build- and test analytics

Track your build and test performance to get unstuck, get on track and accelerate your pipelines. Visualize performance and identify bottlenecks by using historical build and test performance tracking. Today, we introduce Build Insights Pro, a new awesome extension to help you achieve more.

Steps to Install Kafka on Ubuntu 20.04: 8 Easy Steps

Apache Kafka is a distributed message broker designed to handle large volumes of real-time data efficiently. Unlike traditional brokers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, Kafka runs as a cluster of one or more servers which makes it highly scalable and due to this distributed nature it has inbuilt fault-tolerance while delivering higher throughput when compared to its counterparts. This article will walk you through the steps to install Kafka on Ubuntu 20.04 using simple 8 steps.

11 Redshift Tips for Startups

There has never been a better time to start a startup, thanks to all of the advancements in communications and data management technology. Data engineering and utilization are at the core of every new startup that plans on disrupting and dominating its markets. Fortunately, Amazon Redshift can make the data management aspects of running a business much easier. Here are 11 Amazon Redshift tips for startups.

Failover Across Clouds

In this extended demo, Sahaj Saini shows you how Snowflake can replicate data and account metadata (like users, roles, compute resources, resource monitors, etc...) and failover these over across cloud providers on demand. For the fictional company, Style Me Up, he'll demonstrate how to set up replication with failover groups and trigger a failover and redirect client applications.