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The Fall and Rise of Embedded Plugins: APIs For Embed Frameworks

Although important to see alternatives to iframes, iframes are still a valuable and commonly applied method for successful embed frameworks. And even if considering alternatives, iframes help to understand possibilities, along with design and technical details to consider for a successful platform. There’s more to embed Frameworks than letting partners appear in your interface.

Securing Multi-Cloud Environments: Challenges and Best Practices

The adoption of multi-cloud environments has increased as businesses recognize their numerous advantages. A company is considered multi-cloud when it leverages cloud services from two or more providers for its applications and operations. Unlike a single-cloud setup, multi-cloud systems often involve the integration of both private and public clouds or a combination of the two.

How Solid Queue works under the hood

Whether or not you're active in the Rails ecosystem, you might already have heard some of the buzz around Solid Queue, a new database-backed backend for ActiveJob. Solid Queue is a simple and performant option for background jobs that lets you queue large amounts of data without maintaining extra dependencies like Redis. We've already talked about how to deploy, run, and monitor Solid Queue, but we haven't yet explored how Solid Queue works.

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

The first Rails 8 beta has officially been released, bringing an exciting set of features, bug fixes, and improvements. This version builds on the foundation of Rails 7.2, while introducing new features and optimizations to make Rails development even more productive and enjoyable. Key highlights include an integration with Kamal 2 for hassle-free deployments, the introduction of Propshaft as the new default asset pipeline, and extensive ActiveRecord enhancements.

A Complete Guide to Testing as a Service

Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) is rapidly gaining popularity growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% from 2024 to 2030. Organizations adopting TaaS report up to 30% cost savings compared to traditional in-house testing. Testlio October 5th, 2024 Discover Outsourced Testing Best Practices Engineers and product managers face the challenge of balancing speed, quality, and cost in software testing as technology continues to evolve rapidly.

Unleashing the Power of Amazon Redshift Analytics

Table of Contents Amazon Redshift has become one of the most popular data warehousing solutions due to its scalability, speed, and cost-effectiveness. As the data landscape continues to evolve, businesses are generating and data processing increasingly large datasets. Efficient analysis of these datasets is essential to making informed, data-driven decisions. Amazon Redshift allows companies to extract meaningful insights from vast amounts of structured and semi-structured data.

SQL Transformations for Optimized ETL Pipelines

Table of Contents SQL (Structured Query Language) is one of the most commonly used tools for transforming data within ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. SQL transformations are essential for converting raw, extracted data in CSV, JSON, XML or any format into a clean, structured, and meaningful format before loading it into a target database or cloud data warehouse like BigQuery or Snowflake.

How to Calculate TPS in Performance Testing: A Kubernetes Guide

Transactions-per-Second (TPS) is a valuable metric for evaluating system performance and is particularly relevant for engineers overseeing Kubernetes environments.TPS, alongside average response time, provides critical insights into system performance during load testing. This post covers two approaches to calculating TPS; a manual approach applicable in all environments, and an automatic Kubernetes-specific solution using production traffic replication.

Kubernetes Load Testing: How JMeter and Speedscale Compare

At some point, your development team may be considering implementing load testing (also known as stress testing) as part of your software testing process. Load testing validates that your web app is able to withstand a large number of simultaneous users, decreasing the chance that any traffic spikes will bring down your services once deployed. These stress tests can be highly granular, giving you the opportunity to test run virtually unlimited strategies before they are set into the wild.