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.

In March, Snowflake announced exciting releases, including advances in AI and ML with new features in Snowflake Cortex, new governance and privacy features in Snowflake Horizon, and broader developer support with the Snowflake CLI. Read on to learn more about everything we announced last month.

BrowserStack is a popular web and mobile testing platform. While the cross-browser testing tool has been the go-to for Quality Assurance (QA) teams and product managers since 2011, many are now turning to other solutions to simplify and automate their testing processes. But how do you pick the right BrowserStack alternative testing tool? Do you rely on user reviews, popularity, or the most budget-friendly option?

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.

With the explosion of generative AI tools available for providing information, making recommendations, or creating images, LLMs have captured the public imagination. Although we cannot expect an LLM to have all the information we want, or sometimes even include inaccurate information, consumer enthusiasm for using generative AI tools continues to build.

In the pursuit of excellence, Quality Assurance (QA) has embarked on a profound journey of automation. Beginning with manual testing as its foundation, QA has progressed steadily through functional automation and smart automation, culminating in its embrace of Intelligent automation and Codeless automation. This evolution mirrors our transition from traditional waterfall models to agile methodologies.

G2 is a leading platform for business software reviews, and their awards are based on customer satisfaction and feedback. To be recognized as a Leader, a product must have high ratings in both. We would like to thank all of our customers for their support and feedback. We would not get so many accolades without you. ‍

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.

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.