What's new in Esri tutorials Feb 26
Enable query response caching to optimize services
An organization in New Zealand wants to make its Hochstetter's frog habitat data publicly accessible to increase awareness and support conservation efforts. By sharing this information openly, the organization expects a growing number of users to view maps and submit queries through web maps, apps, dashboards, and other client applications.
While increased access is a positive outcome, the organization is concerned that a high volume of repeated queries could place additional strain on its ArcGIS Enterprise system. Rather than scaling infrastructure by adding more CPU and RAM, the organization looks for a more efficient way to handle this anticipated load. Because many users are expected to request the same data repeatedly, the Enterprise administrator decides to use query response caching to improve performance and reduce database load. Query response caching is a technique used in computing and data systems where the results of a query (a request for data or information) are stored temporarily in a cache. When the same query is requested again, instead of processing the query from scratch, the system retrieves the stored result from the cache and returns it immediately. Benefits of query response caching include improved performance and speed, reduced load on backend systems, scalability, and more.
You'll use a sample hosted feature layer representing the Hochstetter's frog habitat to enable response caching in Enterprise. You'll learn how response caching works, when it is appropriate to use, and how to configure it for hosted feature layers. Once you complete this tutorial, you'll have the skills to configure response caching for your own hosted feature layers, which improves performance for users accessing biodiversity maps, conservation dashboards, and other applications that rely on consistent query patterns.
Compare locations based on nearby amenities
A corporation is looking to open a new regional office space in Portland, Oregon. There are many variables to consider when picking an office location. For example, employees may be more interested working in an office when it is near cafes and restaurants.
In this tutorial, you'll use ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App to create sites for your potential office locations, add a web layer of transit stops, and assess which potential office location has the most desirable nearby amenities.
Get started with ArcGIS Tapestry
ArcGIS Tapestry is an advanced demographics dataset that groups areas based on shared demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle characteristics. Its detailed summaries reveal patterns and provide insights about a community's complexity that go beyond what can be seen when looking at a single statistic.
In this tutorial, you'll use Tapestry data to help a local politician running for a city council seat in Albany, New York. To guide their campaign strategy, they want to understand their voting base, not just with census numbers, but with detailed information about their demographic and lifestyle patterns. In ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App, you'll map Tapestry data across the city and summarize the findings with an infographic.
Though this tutorial uses Business Analyst, you can access Tapestry data using a variety of ArcGIS products and capabilities, including the Enrich Layer tool in ArcGIS Online and the Enrich tool in ArcGIS Pro. To learn more about Tapestry, including other examples of real-world use cases, see the ArcGIS Tapestry story.