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Our new podcast, "The People Behind Your Favorite Apps," shines the spotlight on the developers, testers, and others who work tirelessly to bring amazing technologies to market. How they come up with solutions to big challenges, collaborate at scale, and deal with high-pressure deadlines and increased expectations from the business and customers alike.

In the previous two articles in this series, we created our Lambda function and the Alexa Skill. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to connect Amazon Alexa Skill to the AWS Lambda function to trigger Bitrise builds via a voice user interface.

To be effective, solo data analysts or engineers need to focus on refining algorithms and analyzing data, not building data pipelines.

Providing developers and the Node ecosystem NodeSource Node.js Binary Distributions via.rpm, .deb as well as their setup and support scripts is one of our primary contributions to the community. Our binaries have been downloaded more than 100m times in the last year, powering applications across the globe.

In the digital world, application programming interfaces (APIs) are how we interact with our applications. API design is critical to creating a good user experience, and it must translate the capabilities of your applications into an interface that is both easy to use and understand. Therefore, API design is communication-focused, and this should be considered throughout the entire API development process.

With Playwright, you can launch or connect to a Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox browser and exchange instructions. The DevTools protocol (for Chrome browsers) and a bespoke protocol (for Firefox and WebKit browsers) are used for these messages. The primary benefit of adopting Playwright over Puppeteer is that Playwright supports many browser manufacturers, whereas Puppeteer exclusively supports Chrome-based browsers.

Data visualization is a core element and key capability of embedded analytics. Embedded data visualization tools create real-time visualizations (charts, graphs, etc) and can be embedded into any software application or integrated into a cloud or standalone app, and provides every user quick and easy ways to visualize information. This article explores the benefits of using embedded data visualization tools in your applications, and discusses how it can improve upon the traditional analytics experience.

Since I joined Snowflake, I have been asked multiple times what data warehouse modeling approach Snowflake best supports. Well, the cool thing is that Snowflake supports multiple data modeling approaches equally. Turns out we have a few customers who have existing data warehouses built using a particular approach known as the Data Vault modeling approach, and they have decided to move into Snowflake. So the conversation often goes like this.

E-commerce is the future of B2C retail, with online retailers expected to generate a total of $5.55 trillion in sales in 2022. The benefits of e-commerce are almost endless: This business model overcomes geographical limitations, allows merchants to sell new products and services 24 hours a day, and eliminates many of the costs associated with managing a brick-and-mortar store. But do you know how e-commerce influences B2B analytics?