By Robert Grimm This is post #2 in a series. If you missed the first, read it here. Welcome back to the wondrous world of package management. You’ll recall we started exploring this world after pip, Python’s package manager, switched to a new package resolver that strictly adheres to version…

By Robert Grimm In late 2020, we started having difficulties with the installation of Python packages. At times, the default package manager for Python, pip, would take hours for what used to take seconds. Worse, it might just refuse to install the packages altogether, with an error message indicating a…

By Robert Grimm Not surprisingly, Amazon’s AWS enforces rate limits on their services. Their client libraries also incorporate automatic retries. They may allow an application to gracefully recover after exceeding those rate limits. …

by Paul Lee It was an early Wednesday morning, November 2021. My heart bursting with excitement, I got out of bed to check my phone. Thirty minutes until the Uber arrived to take me to Newark Airport. It was Day 1 of Enigma’s Engineering/Data Science team retreat in Savannah, GA. …

Over the past two years, Enigma has embraced flexibility, empowering employees to choose a working arrangement that allows them to do their best work. …

What if you could predict when a company was going to go bankrupt, months in advance? Monthly revenue data can help you do exactly that — identify businesses in distress long before they default on payments. We used Enigma’s bankruptcy data and merchant transaction data to highlight how revenue trends…

Every lender wants to know how their portfolio compares to their peers, but typically it’s a struggle to get this kind of competitive intelligence. …

In a year of record volatility, lenders have struggled to access timely and reliable data about small businesses. Enigma’s Merchant Transaction Signals address this gap, providing key signals about the financial health and growth of small and medium businesses across the U.S. The data Enigma has partnered with leading banks and payment…

Madeline Ross and Juliana Sullam on Jul 30, 2020 It’s rare to see how our government dollars are working in real time. However, the U.S. …