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Jerod Johnson

Jerod Johnson

Senior Technology Evangelist

Jerod is a high school math and computer science teacher-turned software developer-turned technology evangelist. He currently develops CData Software's partnerships, attends trade shows, generates content for CData Software and other sites, and has had the honor of presenting and speaking on behalf of CData Software at user groups, trade shows, developer conferences, and more.

Blogs by Jerod Johnson

November 10, 2017

Data Connectivity with Go

by Jerod Johnson

Eight years ago, today, the Go programming language was released as an open source project. Since then the interest in Go has grown by leaps and bounds, launching its way into the 10 most popular languages on GitHub. Go is expressive and efficient, using potent concurrency mechanisms to e...

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Solutions & Use CasesData ConnectivityGo
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June 14, 2017

Building Data-Driven Apps with Ruby

by Jerod Johnson

Ruby provides natural (but complex) development features in a free, flexible platform for creating expressive Web applications. Our ODBC drivers offer simplified access to your data, allowing you to write SQL-92 queries to work with data from any of the 80+ supported sources. By utilizing...

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Solutions & Use CasesData ConnectivityRuby
ODBC Connectivity in MS Excel for Mac
June 8, 2017

ODBC Connectivity in MS Excel for Mac

by Jerod Johnson

Earlier this year we announced the release of our ODBC Drivers for Mac and Linux/UNIX environments. With the ability to install our drivers on virtually any environment, you gain greatly expanded flexibility and functionality. For instance, you can now work with data from 80+ sources in M...

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Solutions & Use CasesData ConnectivityMacExcelProducts
New Embedded Tunneling Support in API Server
May 24, 2017

New Embedded Tunneling Support in API Server

by Jerod Johnson

The API Server has been enhanced with built-in 'Cloud Gateway' tunneling functionality. This powerful new capability allows users of API Server to create a secure reverse tunnel to any publicly accessible host, allowing external clients to connect to your on-premises API Server data behin...

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NewsSolutions & Use CasesCData API Server
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May 23, 2017

Connect Node-RED to API Server and Let Your Data Flow

by Jerod Johnson

Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool, built around JavaScript. With it, you can build applications using in a drag-and-drop interface to control the flow of data to and from a variety of sources, from IoT devices to APIs and online services. When paired with the API Server , which bu...

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Solutions & Use CasesCData API ServerData ConnectivityNode-REDJavaScript
API Server security operations
May 18, 2017

API Server Overview: REST APIs for Your Data

by Jerod Johnson

The API Server allows you to build a single, uniform REST API for your company's data, which is often stored in dozens of on-premises and Web-based sources, ranging from traditional databases and applications (like QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel) to SaaS and other cloud-based data sources...

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Solutions & Use CasesCData API Server
Connectivity to Azure Cosmos DB
May 16, 2017

Turnkey Connectivity to Azure Cosmos DB

by Jerod Johnson

Last week, at Build 2017, Microsoft introduced Azure Cosmos DB , a globally distributed, multi-model database offering five distinct consistency levels, ranging from strong to eventual. Since one of the data models for Cosmos DB accounts is the MongoDB API, you get turnkey connectivity to...

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NewsMicrosoft AzureCosmosDB,CData Drivers
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April 4, 2017

React & D3.js + API Server: Dynamic Data Apps

by Jerod Johnson

React D3.js + API Server: Dynamic Data Apps The CData API Server provides users with a quick and easy way to create uniform APIs from any of the 80+ supported RDBMS, NoSQL, and SaaS data sources. Since many popular JavaScript frameworks (like React and D3 ) are capable of consuming OData, ...

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Solutions & Use CasesCData API ServerData ConnectivityODataJavaScript
Strategies to Mitigate SaaS Service Interruption
March 8, 2017

Strategies to Mitigate SaaS Service Interruption

by Jerod Johnson

Consistent data access is critical to data-driven applications and services. However, unlike RDBMS operations or flat file integration, SaaS service integration relies heavily on network connectivity. As we all know, networks are subject to certain issues - DNS failures, network configura...

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Solutions & Use CasesData ConnectivityCData DriversProducts
January 25, 2017

Angular2 + API Server: Dynamic Database Apps

by Jerod Johnson

The API Server provides users with a quick and easy way to create REST APIs to access your database, whether your database is hosted on-premises or in the cloud. Since Angular2 can natively consume OData, you can easily build dynamic Web apps based on your databases using Angular2 with th...

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Solutions & Use CasesAngular
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November 16, 2016

Connect to More Data in Dundas BI

by Jerod Johnson

Earlier this week, Dundas published a blog article featuring our ODBC Driver for JSON. By connecting to data in Dundas BI using our ODBC Drivers, users are able to utilize a single and unified experience across all data sources and all devices, providing full functionality and faster perf...

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Solutions & Use CasesNewsDundas
Using AngularJS to Build Dynamic Web Pages with Salesforce.com Data
October 13, 2016

Using AngularJS to Build Dynamic Web Pages with Salesforce.com Data

by Jerod Johnson

Since the publication of this article, we have bundled our OData Connectors into a single product, called API Server, which allows you to easily build RESTful APIs (including OData) for your data. The connectivity principles outlined below still hold. Learn more. AngularJS (Angular) is a ...

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Solutions & Use CasesData ConnectivitySalesforce