Tag: Updates

Feed: What's New. Author: Erin Gengo, Robert Bloom. As we reimagined data management across all of Tableau, we identified five pillars for the  migration process framework that dovetailed well with our Snowflake selection criteria, and would thereby increase trust and confidence in the data that everyone uses. These pillars are: staffing, governance, authentication, communication, and documentation.  We’ll first discuss staffing, governance, and authentication in this post, highlighting some key lessons learned, unexpected issues with responses, and recommendations to consider when migrating and tackling data sets—large or small, simple or complex. Staffing We don’t want to sugar-coat the complex undertaking of ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Justas Markus. Are you uncertain whether your Macbook is as secure as it can be? Given how many threats are out there, it would probably be worth your while to take some time and make adjustments to how you have been using the computer until now.Read the methods below and create a strategy to improve the overall security of the computer. However, be sure not to abandon it because it will come back to bite you back.Method #1 – Install Reliable Antivirus SoftwareStart with getting antivirus software. The important thing is to have a ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Vitess; Previously posted on link at Nov 3, 2020.Traditionally, MySQL has been used to power most of the backend services at Bolt. We’ve designed our schemas in a way that they’re sharded into different MySQL clusters. Each MySQL cluster contains a subset of data and consists of one primary and multiple replication nodes.Once data is persisted to the database, we use the Debezium MySQL Connector to capture data change events and send them to Kafka. This gives us an easy and reliable way to communicate changes between back-end microservices.Vitess at BoltBolt has grown considerably over the ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. At most of the places I've worked, the primary language used was not what I gravitated to naturally. If you're going to ask for a language of choice personally, it's python. I appreciate the explicit nature, that it's often pseudocode that can execute and it has a rich ecosystem of libraries (though that’s most languages these days). But as much as anything I latched onto Django in its early days. If you're not familiar with Django it's a popular framework for web apps written in Python. What I loved about it in particular was one of its ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Matillion tries to be customer obsessed in everything we do – and that includes our product roadmap. To support this, our product team holds regular focus groups with users. They also join our CEO, Matthew, in traveling the world to meet with customers. And our annual Customer Advisory Board meeting brings together as diverse a cross section of the Matillion community as we can muster.Now with Matillion ETL release 1.50, we’ve taken another big step forward by crowdsourcing our product roadmap – introducing two new features that came straight from the Matillion Community.That’s because even ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Joe Norman. By Joe Norman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vish Kale, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, Contact Center at AWSBy Lauren Hakim, Product Marketing Manager at Zendesk Zendesk and VoiceFoundry released the Amazon Connect app on the Zendesk Marketplace earlier this year as part of a broader vision for the intelligent contact center of the future. The Amazon Connect app for Zendesk combines Amazon Connect’s highly scalable, pay-as-you-go, advanced contact center capabilities with Zendesk’s sophisticated ticketing and customer support system. The app also provides customers with access to the entire suite of artificial ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. Since universities typically face reliable bursts of traffic, such as on admissions day, they are not often concerned with the ability to scale infinitely—a key reason for going serverless. By doing so with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the University of York now has the ability to scale down to zero, which helps the university better manage applications, reduce costs, and increase agility. Saving costs while going serverless The University of York’s journey to the cloud began in 2018. David Thompson, head of software development at York, said, “We were really inspired after ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lucia Stanham. A need for hybrid and multicloud strategies for financial services The financial services industry is a dynamic space that is constantly testing and pushing novel use cases of information technology. Many of its members must balance immense demands—from the pressures to unlock continuous innovation in a landscape with cloud-native entrants, to responding to unexpected surges in demand and extend services to new regions—all while managing risk and combatting financial crime. At the same time, financial regulations are also constantly evolving. In the face of the current pandemic, we have seen our customers accelerate ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Econometrics and Free Software. Some weeks ago I tweeted this: GUIs were a mistake — Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 9, 2020 you might think that I tweeted this as an unfunny joke, but it’s not. GUIs were one of the worstthings to happen for statisticians. Clickable interfaces for data analysis is probably one of thegreatest source of mistakes and errors in data processing, very likely costing many millions tocompanies worldwide and is a source of constant embarassment when mistakes happen which cost thereputation, and money, of institutions or people. Remember the infamous Excel mistake by Reinhard and ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Well, we've already discussed isolation and made a digression regarding the low-level data structure. And we've finally reached the most fascinating thing, that is, row versions (tuples).Tuple headerAs already mentioned, several versions of each row can be simultaneously available in the database. And we need to somehow distinguish one version from another one. To this end, each version is labeled with its effective "time" (xmin) and expiration "time" (xmax). Quotation marks denote that a special incrementing counter is used rather than the time itself. And this counter is the transaction identifier.(As usual, in reality this is more ... Read More