InterWorks’ Guide to Snowflake Summit 2025
Conference season is in full swing! If you’re in the data warehousing and data cloud world at all, then you know we have a big one coming up next week. That’s right, Snowflake Summit 2025 officially kicks off next week from June 2-5 (that’s Monday to Thursday for the date-challenged like myself) in San Francisco. […]
Data Ethics: Why Should We Care?
Data Trends for 2025 Data has often been described as the new oil because the effective use of it can revolutionize our society just like fossil fuels have in the past. Consumers continue to create and share data at a faster pace and businesses continue to accumulate this information. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Mastering Data Governance: Setting the Stage
Here’s a question for you: If you were asked to define “Data Governance,” how confident would you be in your answer? Considering how quickly the data space is changing, we wouldn’t blame you if your confidence in that answer isn’t as high as you’d like it to be For us, we’d say that data governance […]
A Big Week in AI
What Happened? Last week brought a burst of AI announcements from the major players, each positioning their latest capabilities as breakthrough advances: OpenAI launched Codex research preview for parallel agent orchestration in coding. Microsoft Build delivered MCP Registry support for Windows, GitHub’s evolution from “pair programming” to “peer programmer” agents and open-sourced Visual Studio Code […]
Data Strategies Myths vs. Realities: What’s Effective and What’s Not
Note: This is a quick writeup of the content from a webinar of the same name. If you want to give it a watch, check it out here! Data is the new oil — but only if you know how to refine it. In today’s business landscape, a robust data strategy isn’t just a nice-to-have: […]
Using a ThoughtSpot REST Package
The package I’ve been building throughout this series is a simple API for calling REST API’s against your ThoughtSpot cluster. Let’s walk through how to use it! Requirements This package is built to be used in Laravel applications and requires PHP 8.2. You’ll need the URL of a ThoughtSpot cluster, a username with privileges to […]
Testing a Composer Package
If you’ve created a Laravel app before you may be used to using tools like Pest or PHPStan. These are great for testing the functionality of the app and readability of your code. However, these both require the structure of a Laravel app to run and our repo only contains the package code. Fortunately, a […]
Publishing a Composer Package
You’ve built a composer package that works great locally and you’d like others to see how great it is. But when the run composer require they can’t find it. That’s because it only exists on your computer and we need to publish it! Fortunately, this process is very easy. The first thing we need to […]
Agentic AI and Tableau Next: A Look Inside the Future of Analytics
On the flight out to Tableau Conference this past April, I set out to get up to speed on Tableau’s newest platform, Tableau Next. While digging in, one term kept popping up: Agentic AI. At first, it felt like just another bit of AI jargon. But by the time I landed — and definitely by […]
Writing Code for a Composer Package
We now have somewhere to put our package code and a functional Laravel app to test it in live. There are skeleton packages that act as templates like this one, but there’s a benefit to doing it manually at least once. It’s like being forced to do math by hand before being allowed to use […]
