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How Open Source Helps Bring Back Product Obsession

Did you know that one of the Sauce Labs co-founders created Selenium and that Appium was incubated in Sauce Labs? Open source is in our DNA! When a company relies heavily on open source, it is a common practice to develop strategies and long term goals to manage the relationship between the company’s products and the open source ecosystem.

Episode 9: Introduction to Indexes

In this episode, we learn about a very important technique for making database queries faster: indexes! Indexes are a very powerful technique and are critical to understanding how databases work under the hood. In this lesson we talk about how database indexes make use of the binary search algorithm to speed up queries. We also cover the trade-offs associated with using database indexes, and why it might not be a good idea to use too many indexes.

EP.1 The Past, Present, and Future of the Data Cloud w/ Frank Slootman, Chairman & CEO of Snowflake

As founder and CEO of Snowflake, Frank Slootman, has had a first-hand look at the rise of the data cloud. In fact, he helped coin the very term "data cloud." He is a pioneer in helping organizations migrate their data to the cloud, manage it there, and make it accessible for machine learning and other sophisticated analytics techniques. On this episode, Frank speaks about some of the powerful new capabilities enabled by the cloud data platform, including the ability to share data with ease and convenience that was not possible before. #RISEOFTHEDATACLOUD

Top 10 Best Node.js Open Source Projects to Keep an Eye On

NodeJS is a server-side platform that’s built on the JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine) of Google Chrome. It’s an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for JavaScript code execution outside the browser. The platform, being event-driven, works on a non-blocking I/O model, making it lightweight and effective in building web applications. With the platform, you could simultaneously run code on the client and server side, hastening the development process.

Discover and Explore Data Faster with the CDP DDE Template

It is hard to believe if you have had previous experience with setting up, sizing, and deploying a distributed search engine service that this is possible. Imagine how many times IT has lost valuable time spending hours trying to understand Apache Solr application requirements and map them into how to best size and deploy the Solr service. Time that is lost to Line of Business as well.