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Follow these steps to enable SSL connections and properly configure user privileges to keep your database secure
Learn why, when, and how to use conflict-free replicated data types to bring strong eventual consistency to your geo-distributed applications
With these key optimizations, your favorite relational database can support the high connection volumes and high-speed ingestion rates of IoT workloads
Code reviews make better software, better developers, and better teams. Follow these steps to getting them right
Learn how to use the TiDB Operator to deploy, monitor, and manage the distributed, MySQL-compatible, TiDB database on Kubernetes clusters
Low-code platforms can be an effective way to streamline business processes, but how and where do you start? Here are some keys to keep in mind
Take advantage of Flink’s DataStream API, ProcessFunctions, and SQL support to build event-driven or streaming analytics applications
Kubernetes has added many layers of support for building stateful applications and managing them at scale. It’s only a start
Resource tagging can be useful, but it’s hardly an effective way to control cloud costs. Here’s how to do better
How today’s low-code platforms go beyond rapid app dev to streamline the entire software development lifecycle
With so much information flowing through APIs, the API management system offers a central hub for business insight
A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud
The data lake is a new approach to data management that requires a new approach to analytics
How do you bring reliability, security, and manageability to microservices communications? Enter the service mesh
Follow these steps to ensure a successful transition from monolithic app to distributed microservices. They worked for Sumo Logic
How TigerGraph achieves fast data ingest, fast graph traversal, and deep link analytics even for large data sets
A successful multicloud strategy requires effective awareness of all interdependencies—and a new approach to network monitoring
From navigating cloud storage options to verifying the data post-transfer, follow these steps to avoid the hazards of cloud migration
Only by breaking your systems can you learn to make them better. Just break them in a controlled way
Apache Flink is made for applications that continuously apply the same business logic to a series of inputs. That’s most business applications
What’s the secret to devops success? Start with continuous integration and continuous deployment
W3C standard annotation is a fundamental upgrade to the web that will bridge information silos and enable far easier content sharing and reuse
Nested data structures are a boon to modeling, storage, and query performance, but pose challenges to traditional BI tools. Here’s how to overcome them
There is more to a successful application of machine learning than data science
A brief introduction to the open source hybrid transactional and analytical database and how to tune write operations for maximum performance
These key technologies are “re-platforming” the enterprise to enable faster, easier, more flexible access to large volumes of precious data
How to overcome the challenges of remote communication, asynchronicity, and transactions in microservices infrastructure
Qumulo File Fabric is a modern, highly scalable file storage system that spans the data center and the public cloud
Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let’s look at an example
How to protect your WebSocket-enabled application against traffic spikes by using Redis as a real-time request counter
Use Jelastic's container-based PaaS to ease the migration of your VM-based Java applications into modern container clusters
How to improve cloud governance and cloud cost management by implementing a global tagging policy
How blockchain, NLP, AI-driven tools, machine learning, serverless computing, and devops innovations will change life for developers in 2018
Take advantage of matrix factorization and graph algorithms to give the users of your application exactly what they want
Look to these excellent tools to improve CLI and web admin, SQL queries, schema migration, and replication and recovery in your MySQL environment
Natural language processing is the key to communicating with users, but doesn't solve the business problem on its own
How to use InSpec, Chef's open source audit and test framework, to define and enforce security standards
Microsoft Azure generally has the lowest on-demand and discounted instance pricing, while AWS runs in the middle of the pack
How to build a simple machine learning pipeline that allows you to stream and classify simultaneously, while also supporting SQL queries
Your microservices architecture requires multiple data models. Should you opt for polyglot persistence or a multi-model database?
Built on Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet, Dremio brings self-service to data analysts and SQL queries to NoSQL data sources
As size and load grow, performance tends to slow. Keep these keys in mind to keep MySQL running smoothly
Cloud-native applications and infrastructure require a radically different approach to security. Keep these best practices in mind
Take advantage of the open source in-memory database’s built-in data structures and commands to simplify metering at scale
A guided tour of the Awless CLI for Amazon Web Services, an alternative to the AWS CLI with simpler syntax, smart defaults, and powerful templates
If these are the reasons you’re avoiding PaaS and building on AWS, it’s time for a rethink
Data synchronization and offline capabilities are key to successful mobile apps. Follow these guidelines to selecting a provider
How to create a high-performance, highly available, and flexible access control system using binary data and bitwise operators in Redis
Memcached is sometimes more efficient, but Redis is almost always the better choice
You don’t need to be a data scientist to do machine learning, but you do need data skills. Start with these