Week in review -- December 19, 2016

Hello everyone,

Here's the list of the most important changes we made last week:

Project Power in Credits

A few weeks ago we announced the Project Power (you can find it under User & Settings -> Project Power tab). As we continue to improve this part of Keboola Connection, we are introducing a new unit for measuring the Project Power -- Credits.

We've also begun displaying these power credits for resource consumption instead of Storage IO in job detail.

 
For now, it's most notable that 1 credit is equal to 1 GB of processed data and the smallest unit we measure is "nano credit" (previously Byte). Anyway, don't worry, an upcoming post about this feature will describe Project Power in full.


New GoodData Extractor

You can find it as GoodData Reports. 

The old version of GoodData Extractor has been deprecated and we are preparing a migration tool to ease the transition to the new one.

Read more here http://status.keboola.com/new-version-of-gooddata-extractor.


Create a Project with Promo Code

It is now possible to create a project with a Promo Code. This can be useful for workshops or other events, where attendants will be using Keboola Connection. Please contact your Maintainer for more details.


Enjoy your week and Merry Christmas!

Week in Review -- December 12, 2016

Howdy everybody, 

Here's some highlights from this last week:

  • Performance of the new parallel uploading technique we mentioned last week saw a significant improvement.  We're now able to load 60GB from a foreign S3 bucket (outside of KBC) to a Snowflake storage bucket in approximately 33min.  And the only direction that's going is faster.
  • There are some newly available storage api endpoints for key/value metadata.  Feel free to check out the API documentation for further info.
  • There was a new blog post on our blog: Querying JSON ad-hoc in Snowflake
  • We've updated the JSON parser Chrome extension for Papertrail and it's available in the Chrome Web Store

Be sure to tune in again next week for more updates!


 

Week In Review -- December 5, 2016

Here's the list of most important changes we made last week:

- Docker runner supports headless csv: If columns are specified in the output mapping(in manifest file or in configuration object) then the corresponding csv file is considered to be without a csv header. More details

- Docker runner supports sliced output csv files: More than one csv file can be mapped to one output table, moreover all such files will be uploaded to storage in parallel. This way files bigger than 5GB can be uploaded to storage. More details

- Little cherry on top: Adding new table in Database writer UI now maps the storage table name to the database table name and not the table id:

Happy Monday, Have a great week ahead!


Job failures

There were jobs failures between 10:30 AM - 12:50 PM caused by low disk space on one of the jobs workers.

We're sorry for this inconvenience.

Week In Review -- November 7, 2016

As always, here's the list of most important changes we made last week.

  • Load to Redshift workspaces fetches information about Primary Key(s) from Storage API metadata
  • Fixed issue when Primary Key couldn't be deleted after table optimization on Redshift storage backend
  • Table aliases can now be loaded to Workspaces/Sandboxes and Transformations too

And we enabled Project Power feature to all users of Keboola Connection, so you can check Storage usage of your project.

Extended Versions Management

We've recently introduced the configuration versioning management in transformations: http://status.keboola.com/transformation-versions-management

Now we've added a diff feature which allows comparisons of two adjacent versions, i,e., the differences between two configuration updates.  For example, the user can now track and compare changes of sql queries in their transformations or changes in other parameters(input/output mapping).

Moreover, we extendeded this feature to other components such as all database extractors, all generic components and more are coming soon..


Feel free to try it and let us know how you like it :)




Job Failures

Today, July 3, 2016, between 21:47 and 22:25 UTC+2, we encountered issues that may have led to fail some running jobs. We resolved the issues and everything should be running normally now. We are sorry for any inconvenience.