The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of remote selling techniques as organizations adapt to the work-from-home environment, such as the “new school” digital buying practices and “digital-first” sales trends. The transition from face-to-face to virtual selling is ongoing but has already increased the adoption of remote sales models. Many sales reps are also working from home which is a new challenge.
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. More than ever, now is the time for organizations to prioritize data security. This week we look at some data security trends that are shaping the industry today. Illustration by Balaji KR A recent study conducted by RiskBased Security has labeled 2020 the worst year for data security with a shocking 36 billion records compromised, twice the number from 2019.
Lumen is a stripped down version of the powerful and now very popular Laravel PHP framework, focused on performance and serving stateless requests. I doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of Laravel, but it also doesn’t need them when serving API requests. For example, sessions, cookies and views are not a part of Lumen. It’s not intended for serving websites so everything around that got ditched.
2020 was an unpredictable year that presented several challenges, such as the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As part of the “new normal,” the world has adopted infection prevention procedures. The 2020 calendar year was defined by face coverings, constant sanitization and physical distancing. At its core, the year was an exhausting, surreal 12-month period for many.
Well, hello 2021: are you going to be good to me? In conversations with family, friends and coworkers, most are cautiously optimistic that with vaccines being rolled out things will start to return to some semblance of normalcy in a few months. Meanwhile, there is much work to be done. Enterprise IT managers and leaders always have big mandates and in 2020, those expectations exploded. Technology, after all, has been everyone’s lifeline during the pandemic.
In our last blog, "What's New in Splunk Cloud: Part 1," we reviewed a host of new Splunk Cloud features that we have delivered through our accelerated releases since the beginning of 2020. A large part of this effort focused on empowering Splunk Cloud admins and making their experience as self-service as possible. In this blog, we will examine our latest effort to continue this empowerment: Splunk Cloud’s Admin Configuration Service (ACS).
Python optimization is the solution to speed performance issues. But, when do you optimize, and what parts of the code should be optimized? This article will help you answer these questions. Developers always want to efficiently write neat code. However, things are quite different when working with a Python-based data science project. There will be situations where you need Python optimization. However, there are cases where optimization yields irrelevant results.
“We all get our credit cards replaced a lot. Our online ecosystem is getting more complex with the number of accounts we have. We wanted to simplify that, and make it less complicated to get those cards back on file,” says Katherine Chavez, Director of Marketing for Strivve (formerly Switch, Inc.). Strivve is a startup that aims to take the pain out of updating credit and debit cards by automating the updating process.
Of all the polls, round-ups, and end-of-year wrap-ups, none gives us as much trepidation as the 2021 projected line-up for MVP hacks. As provider lists grow longer, and monitored data grows broader, we decided to distill our list of culprits down to the most likely suspects you’ll need to monitor. Ready? Okay!
You’ve probably heard about Prometheus, the leading open source project focused on metrics and alerting, and how it has changed the way the world does monitoring and observability. But if you’re brand-new to the technology, how can you dip your toes in and get started? I was in this position not long ago myself. I am a very hands-on type of learner, and usually when I want to explore new technologies, I start with “hello world” apps and small toy projects.
