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How Genius Sports delivers realtime data to their customers' frontend at speed and at scale

In this webinar, Gary Williams, Genius Sports IT Infrastructure Team Lead explains how Genius Sports used Ably to built a high availability realtime data streaming system that delivers the freshest data to power the second screen experience for sports fans all over the world. About Ably Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.

Supergrain Offers Snowflake-Native Messaging Solution

Supergrain’s mission, says company CEO and Co-founder George Xing, is to “create the fastest, easiest, most frictionless customer engagement product experience for our customers.” In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” he explains to host Daniel Myers how Supergrain is meeting that goal. The key, he says, is that the Supergrain software runs directly on a customer’s Snowflake instance, giving them the ability to use any and all of their Snowflake data to create messaging campaigns.

5 Best Practices for Simplifying Data Management

Businesses have been managing data for decades. Tasks like dealing with data silos, keeping data secure and preparing data to be analyzed are nothing new. What is new, however, is the scale and complexity of data management. The total volume of data that businesses manage is exponentially increasing.

How to Prepare Images to Be Published on a Website

Studies show that people remember over 80% of the visual information, whereas, for text, the number stands at a mere 20%. Images can completely transform the look and feel of a website or a blog. High-quality images relevant to the content on the web page have the power to transform your normal website into something extraordinary. Preparing images before you publish is an important step to ensure your website is well designed and optimized. This, in turn, aids in loading the website faster.

Pharmaceuticals Sales Analytics with ThoughtSpot, Snowflake, and SDG Group

See how easily you can search to generate granular, actionable insights with Live Analytics on prescription sales and market share data for a fictional pharmaceutical company. Learn how to analyze IQVIA (third-party prescription data) and Veeva (sales CRM) data with ease and speed to track market performance and assess market share and salesforce performance. ThoughtSpot Analytics on top of the Snowflake Data Cloud with the expertise of SDG Group enable you to combine these different data sources and ask ad-hoc exploratory questions with ease.

How To Monetize Your APIs: Choosing Your API Monetization Stack

The technology you choose to start your project with determines what your product is capable of now and what it will be capable of in the future. Finding the right stack to build on top of is one of the biggest engineering challenges you can face. Picking a stack that allows you to build a product and get to market rapidly is great unless that same choice limits the scalability and features of a product in the future.

How to Build a Culture of Innovation in Your Organisation

Our businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on technology with each passing month and year. Particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, digital technology in the workplace has matured at a staggering pace. Companies across all industries have been demanding more speed, agility, and flexibility since the global shift to remote work and technology has delivered across the board.

What is Web Testing? Types of Web Application Testing

Web testing, at its core, is simply checking your web application or your website for problems before you make that web application or website live. Web testing is designed to check all aspects of the web application’s functionality, including looking for bugs with usability, compatibility, security, and general performance.

State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction

A state machine can hold all possible states of something and the allowed transitions between these states. For example, the state machine for a door would have only two states (open and closed) and only two transitions (opening and closing). On the other hand, complex state machines can have several different states with hundreds of transitions between them.