McDonald’s Digital Transformation Special Sauce Is Curiosity

In addition to driving sales, digital programs enable McDonald’s to elevate customer engagement, measure marketing effectiveness and forecast future performance.

Specifically, Kempczinski credited strong cross-functional collaboration for the digital loyalty programs expedited success, noting that several company teams worked together to standardize infrastructure and align the system which paved the way for MyMcDonald’s Rewards — their first global digital offering.

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How AI and Data Can Help Retail’s Ongoing Pandemic Challenges

Successful retailers have pivoted to meet the challenge of hybrid orders, but there are still many pain points, according to Rob Saker, global head of retail and manufacturing at Databricks, a cloud-based data, AI, and analytics platform.

A challenge in leveraging all this data can be the lack of a that single source of truth, said Katy Campbell, senior manager for analytics delivery at the air mattress manufacturer and retailer Sleep Number, during a virtual session at NRF.

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Automated API deployments using APIOps -Edition 1

APIOps places the Azure API Management infrastructure under version control to achieve these goals. Rather than making changes directly in API Management, most operations happen through code changes that can be reviewed and audited. This approach supports the security principle of least-privilege access.

APIOps not only enforces policies within API Management, but also helps support security by providing feedback for proposed policy changes.

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Evolve JSON Schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with the AWS Glue Schema Registry

As applications, websites, and machines increasingly adopt data streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which serve as a highly available transport layer that decouples the data producers from data consumers, it can become progressively more challenging for teams to coordinate and evolve JSON Schemas

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Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps), targeting an Azure customer in Asia.

Attack vectors were UDP reflection on port 80 using Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time Protocol (NTP) comprising one single peak, and the overall attack lasted approximately 15 minutes.

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