It was fantastic discussing solutions and opportunities around GenAI with many of you at Google NEXT last month. The landscape of business transformation has leveled up, and it’s incumbent upon all of us to be conscientious of the value of these amazing new products, while tempering our expectations of the outcomes as we explore these […]
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Unleash the Power of Your CloudFront Logs: Analytics with AWS Athena
CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN), accelerates website performance by delivering content from geographically distributed edge locations. But how do you understand how users interact with your content and optimize CloudFront’s performance? The answer lies in CloudFront access logs, and a powerful tool called AWS Athena can help you unlock valuable insights from them. In […]
Connecting SFCC with Other Clouds
Are you looking to revolutionize your e-commerce strategy? Look no further than Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) and its powerful integrations with other Salesforce clouds. SFCC’s ability to seamlessly connect with Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud, and Sales Cloud opens up a world of possibilities for businesses seeking to enhance their customer engagement, drive sales, and optimize […]
Salesforce Data Cloud – What Does noETL / noELT Mean for Me?
In the realm of data management and analytics, the terms ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) have been commonplace for decades. They describe the processes involved in moving data from one system to another, transforming it as needed along the way. However, with the advent of technologies like Salesforce Data Cloud, a […]
ELT IS DEAD. LONG LIVE ZERO COPY.
Imagine a world where we can skip Extract and Load, just do our data Transformations connecting directly to sources no matter what data platform you use? Salesforce has taken significant steps over the last 2 years with Data Cloud to streamline how you get data in and out of their platform and we’re excited to […]
Step by step guide to secure JDBC SSL connection with Postgres in AWS Glue
Have you ever tried connecting a database to AWS Glue using a JDBC SSL encryption connection? It can be quite a puzzle. A few months ago, I faced this exact challenge. I thought it would be easy, but I was wrong! When I searched for help online, I couldn’t find much useful guidance. So, I […]
Apache Spark: Merging Files using Databricks
In data engineering and analytics workflows, merging files emerges as a common task when managing large datasets distributed across multiple files. Databricks, furnishing a powerful platform for processing big data, prominently employs Scala. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how to merge files efficiently using Scala on Databricks. Introduction: Merging files entails combining the […]
Create and Retrieve Secrets from the Azure Key Vault using an ASP.Net Core Application
As everyone knows, maintaining application-level security for passwords, certificates, API keys, and other data is a bit of a critical thing. It was necessary for my project to safeguard the SMTP password. I wanted to know how to protect my SMTP password in some way. I then discovered the Azure Key vault concept and began […]
All Aboard! Visualize Business Impact with the Enterprise Cloud Transit Map
Cloud modernization is the primary driver of digital transformation and impactful business value. Cloud platforms have evolved from core technology to disruptive ecosystems of strategic advantage. Migration and modernization are vital to reach new markets, deliver innovative products, improve resiliency, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences. But it’s easy (and common) to lose sight of […]
Using Optimize Multimodal AI
At Perficient, one significant benefit of being a premier partner with elite cloud providers the likes of Google, AWS, and Azure, is the early adopter access granted to level up SMEs (subject matter experts) so that partner engagements between Perficient and its customers are meaningful, profitable, and repeatable. In this initial blog post from Josh […]
GCP Container Registry to Artifact Registry Migration
I got an email from Google Cloud Platform today entitled: [Action Required] Upgrade to Artifact Registry before March 18, 2025 This is not the first time Google has discontinued a product I use. They gave full year of lead time but I knew I would forget about it before then. I decided to look into […]
AWS S3 Integration with Snowflake
In today’s ever-changing world, data is essential for every kind of organization, customer, or business. These days, most businesses use cloud storage to store data that is recoverable, quickly available, and safe. Users always want upgrades and the most recent technology to apply to their applications. Users won’t be able to obtain continuous data updates […]