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React Hooks Common Mistakes

React Hooks is a new addition to React which enables you to use state and other features of the library without having to create a class. By ‘hooking into’ React’s existing features, you can significantly reduce the number of concepts you have to grapple with, and you can create custom hooks to share all kinds of non-visual logic, making your code much more reusable.

Tips for Successful Data Analysis & Benefits

This short guide for conducting successful big data analysis will take you through a couple of the most essential tips to help you learn how to analyse data & become a better data analyst by avoiding rookie mistakes and embracing the correct mindset to get the most from your data. We’ll also cover some of ways that conducting effective data analysis can help your organisation.

Election Reporting at Scale - DreamFactory and Decision Desk HQ

Over the years the DreamFactory team has collaborated on a lot of really interesting API-oriented projects. Many of these projects involve integrating the DreamFactory platform into a much larger technology ecosystem. To put this into perspective, although our client base ranges widely in terms of both industry and company size, we often work with organizations tending towards the larger end of the scale.

Fraud Prevention - 3 Data Strategies for Financial Services

Fraud awareness in the Financial Services industry is more important than ever. According to the September 2020 benchmarking report conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in response to the coronavirus, 77% of survey respondents, representing a range of industries, have observed an increase in the overall level of fraud as of August, compared with 68% in May. The report reveals 68% of respondents have observed an increase in payment fraud schemes (vs.

Support for Calling External Functions via Azure API Management Now in Public Preview

In June, Snowflake announced the public preview of the external functions feature with support for calling external APIs via AWS API Gateway. With external functions, you can easily extend your data pipelines by calling out to external services, third-party libraries, or even your own custom logic, enabling exciting new use cases. For example, you can use external functions for external tokenization, geocoding, scoring data using pre-trained machine learning models, and much more.

Why Product Managers Should Care About Testing

A product manager’s job first and foremost is to deliver value to their customers with the products they oversee. In order to ensure quality, those products need to be tested. Testing before release in a well thought-out manner gives product managers the confidence to create and execute high quality products and user experiences.

Want Post-Pandemic Business Success? Embedded Analytics is the New Normal

With COVID-19, it has become clear that ideas and assumptions that worked in the past will no longer apply now and in the future. The region is expected to face its deepest economic slowdown since the 1970s due to COVID-19. Businesses might be wondering what to do next.

How to Own That New State-of-the-Art Model Repo!

Deep learning has evolved in the past five years from an academic research domain, to being adopted, integrated and leveraged for new dimensions of productivity across multiple industries and use cases, such as medical imaging, surveillance, IoT, chatbots, robotic,s and many more. From NLP to computer vision, deep learning has been breaking the barriers of SOTA algorithms and providing results that were, otherwise, impossible to achieve.

Record JMeter Tests Chrome Extension

If you need to run a JMeter Load Test and it’s a burden to download Apache JMeter locally on your machine, open it and manually create your JMeter test file, now there is a much easier way to record browser interactions with JMeter. The LoadFocus | JMeter Load Testing in the Cloud Chrome Extension for recording JMeter test script files (.JMX files) from LoadFocus is a free tool to easily record and run load tests in the cloud.

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

Exactly-once is a desirable (if not critical) message delivery guarantee and a remarkably complex engineering challenge to solve. In this blog post, we will look at what exactly-once means in the context of distributed pub/sub systems, and the exactly-once guarantees that the Ably realtime pub/sub messaging platform provides. Ably often acts as the broker in data streaming pipelines: publishers send messages to our platform, and we deliver these messages to subscribers.