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7 Data Management Pitfalls To Avoid

Introduction

Most businesses are aware of why migrating applications and workloads to the cloud is beneficial. Cloud technology is a necessity in today’s big data world. However, with change comes risk. When IT systems go down or aren’t managed effectively, the entire business suffers. 

Big data investment is clearly advantageous, but poor management can mean a big mess. Averting a data management crisis is easier when you’re aware of the common mistakes others have made. That way you can be ready with a solution instead of spending time on the phone or on a video call with your team. 

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Why Is Interoperability Coming Into Play With IoT Devices?

IoT devices are growing in numbers at a speed as high as ever. The cumulative numbers of IoT devices are expected to reach 75 billion by 2025 with the addition of ~ 10 billion devices each year.

A variety of devices are coming into play (from home appliances to wearables to automobiles to security) with different technical profiles, manufactured by different brands on different standards. There is a need to develop the ability for all these devices to communicate with each other and to make them interoperable.

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Lock-In: Let Me Count the Ways

Vendor lock-in can occur a few different ways


We've all heard the term "Vendor Lock-in," but many don't know about the wide variety of ways in which this stealthy lock-in takes place. Rigidity and frustration caused by this lock-in can mean high costs for enterprises and unhappiness for developers. With new technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, vendors are finding more ways to force users to stay on their platform and purchase their offerings.  The following list describes the different kinds of lock-in that have been seen in the IT industry.

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Knowledge Graphs, AI, and Interoperability: What the Experts Say

Knowledge graphs are spreading everywhere: from Airbnb and eBay to Alexa, and from using JSON-LD on the web for better SEO to leveraging taxonomy to define AI. Combining knowledge graphs and machine learning, benchmarking graph databases, and W3C initiative for interoperability is shaping up. January 2019 was a lively month in the graph landscape.

The Semantic Zoo - Smart Data Hubs, Knowledge Graphs and Data Catalogs by Kurt Cagle is a brief history of semantics and knowledge graphs, context, and how to leverage it, as well as some key architectures in the semantic space: knowledge graphs, smart data hubs, semantic data catalogs, metadata managers and smart contracts.

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The Story of Open Standards and the Subsequent Evolution of IT Interoperability

In my previous blog, I discussed the importance of open standards while choosing a tech stack while developing your enterprise application. But the idea of open standards for IT is still a bit new to many people. So, here, I discuss how open standards evolved and why they are so important now.

“Open standards for information technology” seems to be a new term that everyone is talking about recently. But, as a matter of fact, open standards have been here for a long time. The socket and the plug that you use for charging your electronic devices, USB cables that fit perfectly into the given slots, or the WiFi signals that your devices connect to — all of these adhere to open standards. Standards are everywhere, whether you acknowledge them or not.

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A JavaScript Flavor 52% of Developers Don’t Know About

Reason is a programming language created by Facebook that was released in 2017, but has a small community today. According to a survey by StateofJS, the Reason language has not been heard of by almost 52% of people. Facebook says it is a faster and simpler cousin of JavaScript and that proves the point that the syntax of Reason was made keeping JavaScript programmers in mind. Facebook needed a new language, but, in addition to that, did not want to create an entirely new language, i.e. they did not want to create everything from scratch. They wanted to build it on top of an existing language so that programmers didn’t need to learn an entirely new syntax and semantics. This resulted in the birth of Reason which is made 80% on top of OCaml. OCaml is a language that has been around for 22 years now. Although OCaml has a small community and is mainly used in academics, there is a reason why OCaml makes Reason so great.

Reason’s compilation target is JavaScript and hence it creates beautiful, readable compilation code in JavaScript, thus helping a huge army of JavaScript programmers across the globe. For example, the code given below is in Reason.