Many data security and privacy regulations apply to organizations using Adobe Campaign. In addition to complying with state-mandated regulations, organizations also choose to implement the ISO/IEC 27001 global security standard as a best practice. ISO-27001/27002, a supplement to this standard, recommends forcing password reset at periodic intervals. Since Adobe Campaign usually has plenty of operators, identifying and resetting each password can be a tedious task. Let me show you how to reset operator passwords at one go using Adobe’s SOAP methods.
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Voice Commerce in iOS
Voice assistants are becoming mainstream in the app world, particularly e-commerce apps. Imagine shopping by just talking to an app. That’s how easy it is going to be.
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Easing Server Overload in Video Tracking Applications
Video tracking applications are becoming commonplace with a growing number of use cases such as perimeter surveillance, asset tracking, medical imaging, and traffic violation monitoring. One of the problems that a developer must tackle while building a video tracking application is server overload.
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Automated Data Extraction from Lab Reports
Regardless of the many technological leaps made over the past decade, firms in the healthcare, insurance, and finance sectors still deal with a staggering amount of paperwork. Because of the lack of unified data platforms, it is still a common practice to use paper documents when there is a need for ad hoc data transfer between organizations. This is especially true in the case of insurance companies in India, which require you to attach medical records from hospitals with the claim request forms.
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Optimizing Performance and Ensuring Availability of Amazon Redshift Cluster
Adopting an architecture that meets specific user requirements during setup, you can guarantee optimal performance from your Amazon Redshift cluster. Let us take a look at some of the architectural choices that are available to manage workload and steer clear of outages.
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Apple Business Manager—The New Path for Distributing iOS Apps In-House
In 2020, when a surging pandemic and safety protocols shuttered many offices, we were among the IT firms to switch entirely to remote work. We adapted to its rhythms almost instantly, logging into work like clockwork, collabing over Zoom and Meet, and diligently meeting deadlines and release dates. Access to internal systems and data was something to be ironed out. An in-house mobile application became the need of the hour. Building the iOS app was no sweat but the distribution path wasn’t so clear-cut at first.
I’ll soon explain how we sorted this out.
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Public Key Info Hash SSL Pinning in Swift Using TrustKit
This post is for anyone who’s trying to implement Public Key Info Hash SSL Pinning in iOS using TrustKit. The process is very straightforward except when you goof up by missing a tiny detail. A lot of documentation is already available on this topic. I’m just bringing the whole process under one roof.
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Building Covid-19 Twitter Data Aggregation Platform with PySpark CLI
In a previous blog post, we explained how you can use PySpark CLI to jumpstart your PySpark projects. Here, I’ll explain how it can be used to build an end-to-end real-time streaming application.
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Automating Insurance Claim Adjudication
Claim adjudication, the process of determining the financial liability of a claim by the insurance company, is quite complex and time-consuming. Adjudication can be quick if the received claim is clear to the dot, in the sense that all the information is accurate and the claim is within the limits of the policy. But, as with all things in life, this is never the case.
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PySpark CLI—An Efficient Way to Manage Your PySpark Projects
In the world of big data analytics, PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark, has a lot of traction because of its rapid development possibilities. Apart from Python, it provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, and R. Despite the simplicity of the Python interface, creating a new PySpark project involves the execution of long commands. Take for example the command to create a new project:
$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit \ --master local[*] \ --packages 'com.somesparkjar.dependency:1.0.0' \ --py-files packages.zip \ --files configs/etl_config.json \ jobs/etl_job.py
It is NOT the most convenient or intuitive method to create a simple file structure.
So is there an easy way to get started with PySpark?
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