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Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Hills. For the last 16 years, Salesforce has a consistent look and feel.  In 2015, Salesforce launched its new platform, known as Salesforce Lightning. However, Salesforce users have been consistently using Salesforce classic and are much more comfortable with its user interface. Through its Lightning version, Salesforce has launched a new interface that is capable to increase organizational productivity and help in their faster deployment and seamless transition across all devices.    A number of Salesforce Classic users have switched to Salesforce Lightning and many are planning for this migration ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. The manufacturing business faces huge transformations nowadays. Due to rapid development of digital world and broad application of data science, various fields of human activity seek improvement. Modern manufacturing is often referred to as industry 4.0 that is the manufacturing under conditions of the fourth industrial revolution that has brought robotization, automation and broad application of data. The amount of data to be stored and processed is growing every day. Therefore, today's manufacturing companies need to find new solutions and use cases for this data. Of course, data brings ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. When accessing an API or database in R, it is often necessary to provide credentials such as a login name and password. You may find yourself being prompted with something like this: When writing an R script that requires a user to provide credentials, you will want a way to have the script prompt the user or, better yet, programatically provided the credentials in the R script. Either way, be careful! You don’t want to put your credentials out there in ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jim Hatcher, Principal Architect. Microservices are starting to take over nearly every aspect & angle of modern enterprises In one survey of more than 350 senior development stakeholders, 91% said they are currently using or have plans to use microservices and 92% said they increased their number of microservices in the last year. This rise has come in conjunction with an imperative for businesses to be far more agile in their development of applications and software—an imperative driven by increasing amounts and types of data. The microservices imperative Historically, when organizations developed ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Willi Goesgens. This is an update of the 2016 blog post How to put ArangoDB to Spartan-Mode. A lot of things have changed in the last years. We moved our API implementation from JavaScript to C++. ArangoDB now has a new (default) storage engine, namely RocksDB instead of MMFiles. RocksDB is a great storage engine. However, it also trades memory for speed. If you start with the default configuration you might end up with using much more memory for ArangoDB than expected. Therefore let’s focus on our new storage engine, and make a configuration to ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - AnalyticBridge. Author: Vincent Granville. I present here some innovative results in my most recent research on stochastic processes. chaos modeling, and dynamical systems, with applications to Fintech, cryptography, number theory, and random number generators. While covering advanced topics, this article is accessible to professionals with limited knowledge in statistical or mathematical theory. It introduces new material not covered in my recent book (available here) on applied stochastic processes. You don't need to read my book to understand this article, but the book is a nice complement and introduction to the concepts discussed here. None of the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” While Ralph Waldo Emerson may not have said these exact words, the principles remain as true as ever today. Going Beyond Improving Today’s Customer Experience If you’ve been following my blog, you may remember a post from 2016, where I introduced a simple formula to illustrate the perpetual challenge of evolving customer experiences; as expectations rise, we need to continuously evolve our experiences simply to maintain equilibrium in the market. Over time, the customer experiences from different brands begin ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Gradual steps (source: Pixabay) This post was originally published on Quartz. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars, and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars. Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Your production database environment stores personally identifiable information in an encrypted form, limits access to these fields and masks them when displayed. However, some types of data encryption create potential performance problems as well as security issues. Your data may be at risk unless you mask it effectively. The State of Database Security The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective worldwide in May 2018. It applies to any company that obtains data from any customer in the European Union and provides for extremely harsh penalties for companies that breach ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Ahmed Bouchefra; In this tutorial, you'll learn how to easily add a complete authentication system to your Django application with login, logout and password change and reset functionalities. We'll be using Django with a MySQL database. We'll also be using django-crispy-forms and Bootstrap 4 for styling the application UI. Prerequisites Let's start with the prerequisites for this tutorial. In order to follow the tutorial step by step, you'll need a few requirements, such as: Basic knowledge of Python, Working knowledge of Django (django-admin.py and manage.py), A recent version of Python 3 installed on your system (the ... Read More