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React.js vs. Next.js: Which Framework is Better, and When?

When React arrived on the scene in 2013, it quickly became the darling of developers by making everything about UI delightful and component-y. Yet as millions embraced React, they also demanded more than just delightful UI. Developers craved snappier performance and better search engine optimization (SEO). That's when Next.js waltzed in, whispered "server-side rendering," and changed the game. Next.js builds on React's legacy and takes it to new horizons.

Model Observability and ML Monitoring: Key Differences and Best Practices

AI has fundamentally changed the way business functions. Adoption of AI has more than doubled in the past five years, with enterprises engaging in increasingly advanced practices to scale and accelerate AI applications to production. As ML models become increasingly complex and integral to critical decision-making processes, ensuring their optimal performance and reliability has become a paramount concern for technology leaders.

Enhance Your Cyber Defense with Red Teams as a Service: Strengthening Security Strategies

According to the most recent statistics, on a global scale, approximately 1 in 31 organizations encountered a ransomware attack each week during the initial quarter of 2023. Additionally, there is a daily identification of over 560,000 new instances of malware, contributing to a staggering total of more than 1 billion malware programs currently in circulation.

The PHP stat cache explained

90% of the time when I explain how the stat cache works in PHP, people are surprised because they expected it to work differently. It was invented to solve a very limited problem when you call several file system related operations on the same file in quick succession. Why should you know how it works? Because sometimes you need to work around the cache with the clearstatcache() function to get PHP code to run without errors.

The value of data observability to the data analyst

At the beginning of my career as a data analyst, I had to rely on other team members when something went wrong in our data pipeline, often only finding out about it after the event. That experience was one of the driving factors for me to join Kensu. When I spoke with the team for the first time, I had that “lightbulb moment”: data observability is a way of providing help to various data team members, including data analysts, in making their lives more productive and less painful.

Kong Gateway 3.4 for OSS: Bring Your Own Language with WebAssembly!

The Kong Gateway 3.4 for Open Source (OSS) release is massive for our community users. Notably, this release introduces support for Web Assembly (Wasm), bringing a new level of extensibility and customization to Kong Gateway. Read on to learn more about the new capabilities in Kong Gateway 3.4 for OSS.

Top 10 Tools For Search Engine Marketing Success

Search engine marketing (SEM) forms the bedrock of businesses striving for visibility, customer engagement, and ultimate growth. With countless SEM tools saturating the market, it can be a daunting task for businesses to sift through and select the most effective ones. To simplify this process, this article will guide you through the top 10 SEM tools that are crucial to optimize your marketing efforts.

Kong Gateway 3.4 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect

We’re delighted to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.4 for Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect, featuring significant enhancements, such as secrets rotation support in secrets management, expanded plugin support in consumer groups, and more. The highlight of this update is the designation of Kong Enterprise 3.4 as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. Starting now, any customer running Kong Enterprise version 3.4.x.x will receive technical support for three years — until 2026.

eCommerce Load Testing (Step 2): Capture Traffic

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what comes next after selecting the business-critical APIs to test first: capturing traffic. Capturing traffic for the service can be done through tools like Speedscale, GoReplay, VCR, K6, and JMeter.