If you’re one of those website owners or businesses that employ a Facebook live chat widget on their website, this post is more than critical for you. Facebook is very soon (May 9, 2024) about to terminate the operation of its live chat—the embedded widget that allows you to use it as your website chat plugin. Currently, countless users employ Facebook live chat on their websites. All these people must find alternatives to their current plugin once Facebook stops offering its live chat.

At Kong, we take the robustness and performance of our gateway product seriously, dedicating ourselves to maintaining high standards through a robust internal benchmark framework and infrastructure. Our setup includes a dedicated bare metal cluster for running performance tests, seamlessly integrated into our CI/CD process. Moreover, we conduct extensive performance testing for each major, minor, and patch release candidate.

Table driven tests, also known as parameterized tests, have became very popular over the past few years, due to their ability to eliminate repetition. Table driven tests make it quite a bit easier to re-use the same values for different sets of tests by just moving the table outside of the scope of the test function. Different tests may benefit from the same input, and each test may have completely different configration, concurrency etc…

With data continuously growing in complexity and quantity, ensuring data security is more important than ever when choosing to buy a business intelligence (BI) solution. From data protection to data governance, having a BI platform that enables you to control, audit, encrypt and manage user access and usage of sensitive data is essential.

Bringing your futuristic vision for a new product to life is one of the biggest hurdles for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new product development process may seem mysterious in the beginning, however, when cracked, this journey to a final product can easily become a straight line. The majority of customers shopping online regularly are usually clueless about the rigorous and time-consuming process that every product goes through before they enter the digital realm.

Calculating log analytics ROI is often complicated. For many teams, this technology can be a cost center. Depending on your platform, the cost of a log management solution can quickly add up. For example, many organizations use solutions like the ELK stack because the initial startup costs are low. Yet, over time, costs can creep up for many reasons, including the volume of data collected and ingested per day, required retention periods, and the associated personnel needed to manage the deployment.

The automotive industry has been undergoing significant changes as it works to adapt to growing market demands and challenges associated with electric, autonomous, and hybrid vehicles. Here, we take a look at some notable automotive trends 2024 that were highlighted in our report, 2024 State of Automotive Software Development. Read along or jump ahead to the section that interests you the most.

You can now query Delta Lake tables stored in Cloud Storage or Amazon Web Services S3 directly from BigQuery, without exporting or copying the data.

BigQuery supports multimodal embedding generation via Vertex AI models, and for structured data with PCA, Autoencoder or Matrix Factorization models.

Discover how to streamline your Gradle builds with the new Critical Path Analyzer and Diagnostic Builds features. It helps you to identify and resolve bottlenecks, quicker, making your build and test processes faster and more efficient.