Forbes May 21, 2020
Adrian Bridgwater

Health technology is in the news constantly at the moment, for obvious reasons. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has fueled speculation and discussion surrounding the development of ‘track and trace’ applications that we can all use on our smartphones.

These apps’ worth, effectiveness and core [software] architectural engineering has been widely questioned.

But software application developers, programmers, coders, systems architects and database administrators (they go by many names depending on their seniority and specialism) won’t want the job of trying to build these apps unless they know the technology infrastructure is there to support the data.

Data ingestion defined

Specifically, we need to consider the challenge of ‘data ingestion’ i.e. the process of connecting, collecting, corralling, containing and controlling the flow...

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