Qlik Dork

The only thing worse than your data pipeline not meeting your SLAs, is having your business users make decisions that are costly for the company because the data in their applications is stale.

Yesterday I received a ping like I do each quarter from a horrible human being… Cory in IT.

Basic Auth to OAuth Many vendors, including ServiceNow, enable more refined security than a simple basic user name and password, called OAuth.

My Smart Knee In December of 2023 I had a fight with a step ladder, and it won.

Background 6 years ago I wrote a post entitled “Actionable Intelligence” in which I described flipping the script on the data storytelling world.

The Black Hole Your cloud database bill just arrived, and it’s a real doozey.

Background Recently I’ve heard a lot of comments suggesting that Qlik Sense must be pre-loaded.

Background Recently a very close family friend reached out to me and said “Can you help me visualize some data?”

Diving into Parquet: It’s Not Just About the File Format I’m finally diving into something I’ve been hinting at for a while: Diving into parquet files.

Prerequisite In my previous post on The Importance of Metadata I shared an example of some data values that looked crazy when viewed without the metadata about them.