Tag: REST

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Whenever application security is mentioned, people think of securing applications against some of the most frequent attacks such as injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, and the like. However, while these attacks are prevalent, knowing how to protect your application from them alone will not be sufficient - especially when you’re running MySQL. Today we are going to look at a different side of security - we are going to look into how to properly secure MySQL. As MySQL security is a pretty big thing, treat this post as the start of a series of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Vladimir Sumina; Apps can make our lives a lot simpler. Since the advent of cloud computing, there’s no longer a need for us to carry physical notebooks; we can instead take out our smartphones and write a quick — or long-form — note on the fly. There are many note-taking apps out there, which is why we made this list to help you choose the best note-taking app for your needs. We could talk about these apps for days, but to keep this article from getting too long, we’ve narrowed down the best of the best to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suzanne Morgen. The following is an excerpt from Cautionary Tales in Designed Experiments by David Salsburg. This book is available to download for free from SAS Press. The book aims to explain statistical design of experiments (DOE) to readers with minimal mathematical knowledge and skills. In this excerpt, you will learn about the origin of Thomas Bayes’ Theorem, which is the basis for Bayesian analysis. Source: Wikipedia The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) was a dissenting minister of the Anglican Church, which means he did not subscribe to the full body of doctrine espoused by the Church ... Read More

Feed: Sander Knape on Sander Knape. Table of Contents The popularity of centralized platform teams is rising. The latest Puppet State of DevOps Report shows that 63% of the respondents have at least one internal platform. Platforms are vital enablers for a more DevOps way of working as they provide self-service capabilities that development teams can autonomously utilize. The definition of a “platform” isn't set in stone though. Many organizations still struggle to put together a platform team that is really able to add value to the development teams. It's a challenge to build a team with the proper mindset ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; The continual advances in AI and in machine learning offer ample opportunities for improving the experiences of your customers and employees. One area that exemplifies this are service desk chatbots. Using this type of chatbot, your employees and customers can get their questions answered quickly, resolve their issues easily, and, as a result, improve their relationships with your organization steadily.  To help you get the most out of your service desk chatbot, we’ll break down what it is, some of its applications, and the top benefits you can expect from using it ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. The Amazon Redshift Data API makes it easy for any application written in Python, Go, Java, Node.JS, PHP, Ruby, and C++ to interact with Amazon Redshift. Traditionally, these applications use JDBC connectors to connect, send a query to run, and retrieve results from the Amazon Redshift cluster. This requires extra steps like managing the cluster credentials and configuring the VPC subnet and security group. In some use cases, you don’t want to manage connections or pass credentials on the wire. The Data API simplifies these steps so you can focus on data consumption instead of ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Dina Duhon. If you’re like me and the rest of the conference team, you’ve probably attended more virtual events this year than you ever thought possible. You can see the general evolution of virtual events by watching the early ones from April or May and compare them to the recent ones. We at SAS Global Forum are studying the virtual event world, and we’re learning what works and what needs to be tweaked. We’re using that knowledge to plan the best possible virtual SAS Global Forum 2021. Everything is virtual these days, so what do we ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Pflug. Identity thieves would love to get their hands on your health records. © Getty Image Recently nine pharmacists from across the country were charged for their part in a $12.1M health care fraud scheme. The pharmacists allegedly took money for prescription medications that were neither purchased nor dispensed. The indictments further allege that the defendants billed Medicare and Medicaid for medications that were often medically unnecessary and for some medications that were purportedly dispensed to deceased beneficiaries after their dates of death.  While rarely this brazen or widespread, these techniques represent a few of the common ways fraudsters cheat the system, driving up the cost ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Posts on R Lover ! a programmer. Yet another post about COVID-19 vaccines. Ironically I started with Modernafor the first two poststhen shifted to Pfizer for the 3rd postwhen they released data first. Yesterday Moderna actual data became available (greatnews), along with some additional information we can model. Literally as I waswriting the post more Pfizer data came out with even more good news. Last time Last time we paid homage toDoing Bayesian Data Analysis by Dr. John K. Kruschke (hereafter, simply DBDA) while exploringoverall effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine. This time we’ll revisit brms and STANwhich we ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joe Furbee. SAS loves data. It's our raison d'être. We've been dealing with Big Data long before the term was first used in 2005. A brief history of Big Data*: In 1887, Herman Hollerith invented punch cards and a reader to organize census data. In 1937, the US government had a punch-card reading machine created to keep track of 26 M Americans and 3 M employers as a result of the Social Security Act. In 1943, Colossus was created to decipher Nazi codes during World War II. In 1952, the National Security Agency was created to ... Read More