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Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn what decision intelligence is, how it could help businesses, and much more. Illustrated by Derrick Roy We covered the basics of decision intelligence (DI) in an earlier Five worthy reads blog. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how it is going to help businesses flourish in 2022.

MQTT is a standard messaging protocol used for the Internet of Things (IoT) because it requires minimal resources and can be executed by small microcontrollers found in connected devices. IoT devices have a real need for this type of lightweight protocol because it guarantees fast and reliable communication with minimal hardware requirements, keeping power consumption and manufacturing costs low.

Read on to find out about the best bits of this year's London Kafka Summit, back as an in-person event.

Not many years ago, the role of the data steward was the domain of the world’s largest organizations. When I was in college, the only person I heard of with this job title worked for one of Detroit’s Big Three automakers. Even as mainframes were supplanted by other computing paradigms, only sprawling corporations with intensive electronic data processing needs could possibly have enough information to justify a full-time staff member charged with overseeing it all.

Speed is the key to the success of our products. Instead of guessing your next step, data can navigate your path faster to complex business decisions.

Magnite, the biggest independent sell-side advertising solution, empowers publishers with their innovative monetization technology. Trusted by the world’s foremost agencies and brands, Magnite’s advertising technology provides publishers access to brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory, powering billions of advertising transactions every month. In 2021, Magnite’s revenue exceeded $416.5 million.

If you’re a 1.x user of InfluxDB, you might be a Kapacitor user as well. If so, you’re also familiar with TICKscripts, the data processing and transformation language for Kapacitor, the batch and stream processor for InfluxDB. Kapacitor is a great tool, but it’s largely a black box, so using and implementing TICKscripts to execute data processing tasks, checks, and notifications can be a challenging developer experience.