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Why Machine Data is the Retail Industry's Best Kept Secret

As more customers are looking for a high-tech and seamless customer experience online, the fight to survive in the retail industry has become fierce. Forward-thinking retailers are beginning to leverage machine data generated by their customers to gain greater insights into customer buying journeys and provide their customers with a seamless digital experience.

Drupal Security Scanner - Just in Time for Drupalgeddon2

Just as news hits of two highly critical security vulnerabilities in Drupal – a popular open source CMS that powers 4.2% of known CMS websites – we have expanded our external Vulnerability Scanner yet again with Drupal specific security checks. We now offer peace of mind for anyone with a WordPress, Joomla!, SilverStripe or Drupal site, as well as checks for thousands of known software and configuration vulnerabilities for all major software products and operating systems.

Finding and fixing N+1 queries in Django apps

The Django ORM makes it easy to fetch data, but there's a downside: it's easy to write inefficient queries as the number of records in your database grows. One area where the ease of writing queries can bite is you is with N+1 queries. Expensive N+1 queries go undiscovered in small development databases. Finding expensive N+1 queries is an area where Scout is particularly helpful.