As analytics technology evolves, so do user needs and expectations. Many customers approach us hoping to boost their application’s analytics capabilities, which are often struggling to meet user demand.

In this post, we’ll see how ChatGPT can be used to reinvigorate APIs by creating an OpenAPI specification for an existing API that has existing documentation.

In the contemporary software development landscape, unit tests have become paramount for ensuring software quality. A prevalent practice during these tests involves mocking outgoing calls to decouple the code under test from external dependencies. Imagine, for a moment, a scenario where instead of writing mocks with pre-defined behaviours, you duplicate the behaviour of a real-world server.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming. The developer-friendly, self-service UI provides an easy and curated way to find, understand, and enrich all of your data streams, enabling users across your organization to build and launch streaming applications faster.

Apache Iceberg’s ecosystem of diverse adopters, contributors and commercial support continues to grow, establishing itself as the industry standard table format for an open data lakehouse architecture. Snowflake’s support for Iceberg Tables is now in public preview, helping customers build and integrate Snowflake into their lake architecture. In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into the considerations for selecting an Iceberg Table catalog and how catalog conversion works.

Serialization and deserialization are two fundamental processes that play a pivotal role in achieving this goal, especially within the context of Node.js. Serialization and deserialization are the unsung heroes behind the scenes, responsible for converting complex data structures into formats that can be easily stored, transmitted, and reconstructed when needed. In Node.js apps where data is at the core of application functionality, a solid understanding of these processes is crucial.

Data security will remain one of the biggest concerns for businesses this year. According to IBM, the average data breach in 2023 cost 4.45 million - and 82% of that involved data stored in the cloud. Damages from cybercrime, including the cost of data recovery, could total $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, causing more business owners to review their data security protocols. Which specific changes should you implement in the next 12 months?

Creating a visually captivating, interactive user interface is fundamental to our work as developers. And SwiftUI, Apple’s declarative UI framework, is a game-changer, providing views, controls and layout structures for the iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS operating systems. Of all SwiftUI’s many components, SwiftUI buttons stand out as particularly crucial elements for user interaction.