Visual tests are essential for making sure your website looks good, but they also can be challenging to run if your website has a lot of dynamic elements. In a typical visual regression test, your goal is to compare new website versions against previously set baselines to check that unnecessary changes don’t accidentally get loaded to production.

The world is undergoing a remarkable transformation fueled by data. Organizations have accumulated silos across their data infrastructure to support various workloads, languages, tools, and formats because of technology limitations. These silos can have major consequences in the form of greater operational burden, security vulnerabilities, increased total cost of ownership, incomplete insights, and reduced agility.

Financial dashboards bring performance into focus by collecting the most important metrics and indicators in one location. But when organizations build their financial dashboards from the ground up, challenges often arise. A primary hurdle is making the right design choices to create dashboards that drive successful business decisions. To overcome this hurdle, it helps to incorporate ideas that have already been implemented, evaluated, and improved on by others.

At Snowflake Summit 2022, we introduced a new way of building apps with the Snowflake Native App Framework. Today, we are excited to bring the power of the Snowflake Native App Framework to developers around the world with the public preview in AWS. Developers can now start building and testing Snowflake Native Apps in their accounts in AWS. Distribution and monetization capabilities will be available in public preview on AWS later this year.

Containers have emerged as the modern approach to package code in any language to ensure portability and consistency across environments, especially for sophisticated AI/ML models and full-stack data-intensive apps. These types of modern data products frequently deal with massive amounts of proprietary data.

Amidst growing concerns around user privacy and regulatory laws, the cookieless paradigm has been gaining momentum over time in digital advertising. In addition, web browsers are increasingly blocking third-party cookies altogether in web sessions, necessitating the need for new authentication methods in web applications. Cookieless authentication is a secure way to verify user identities in web applications without relying on cookies.