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The best marketing is truly data-driven, creating powerful product promotions and offers through an understanding of customer needs and preferences. But for many organizations, building this understanding is more akin to solving an ever-growing jigsaw puzzle (with no easy edge pieces!) than reading data insights from a beautiful dashboard.

Kong Konnect is an API lifecycle management platform streamlining the connectivity between your APIs and microservices. The control plane is hosted in the cloud by Kong and available across the US, EU, and AU, while the data plane is managed by you within your preferred network environment, like Koyeb.

The conversation around data fetching and API management is increasingly dominated by two major players: GraphQL and REST. These technologies, while serving the same purpose of facilitating communication between client and server, offer markedly different approaches and philosophies. GraphQL, emerging as a powerful alternative to the traditional RESTful architecture, brings a new dimension to data retrieval efficiency and flexibility.

Unlike a data warehouse that stores enterprise-wide data, a data mart includes information related to a particular department or subject area. For instance, a sales data mart may contain data related to products, clients, and sales only. Read this blog to develop a better understanding of these departmental data repositories.

Happy holidays from Confluent! It’s that time in the quarter again, when we get to share our latest and greatest features on Confluent Cloud. To start, we’re thrilled to share that Confluent ranked as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023, and The Forrester Wave(™): Cloud Data Pipelines, Q4 2023! Forrester strongly endorsed Confluent’s vision to transform data streaming platforms from a “nice-to-have” to a must-have.

2023 was the year of generative AI, with applications like ChatGPT, Bard and others becoming so mainstream we almost forgot what it was like to live in a world without them. Yet despite its seemingly revolutionary capabilities, it's important to remember that Generative AI is an extension of “traditional AI”, which in itself is a step in the digital transformation revolution.

REST is a powerful and ubiquitous paradigm for web application development. It offers huge benefits that can help any service be more efficient, more extensible, and more scalable. Node.js is a popular solution for building fast, efficient, and scalable APIs. It is highly extensible, offering an ecosystem of packages that deliver fast and unified development.

In this blog post, we dive into the top five developer struggles associated with maintaining self-hosted CI/CD hardware, and present solutions offered by Bitrise.

So you’re still processing invoices manually, huh? That's no way to live. If you’ve come here in search of a better way, you won’t be disappointed. Maybe you’ve heard terms like OCR and IDP thrown around and are looking for a little more information to help you get started. I’ll answer questions like What is OCR invoice processing? How is IDP different from OCR? And is one always better? Let’s get into it.

European logistics, freight and delivery companies require real-time data across their shipping network to meet the needs of the festive season.