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Streams Forever: Kafka Summit London 2024 Keynote | Jay Kreps, Co-founder & CEO, Confluent

Join the Confluent leadership team as they share their vision of streaming data products enabled by a data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka. Jay Kreps, Co-creator of Apache Kafka and CEO of Confluent, will present his vision of unifying the operational and analytical worlds with data streams and showcase exciting new product capabilities. During this keynote, the winner and finalists of the $1M Data Streaming Startup Challenge will showcase how their use of data streaming is disrupting their categories.

Testing Microservices and Distributed Systems with JMeter

This blog post is about testing microservices and distributed systems with JMeter. It will focus on the principles of performance testing applications that are architected this way. We will not look at which JMeter samplers to use in order to generate a load against microservices or how to configure these samplers. This post will consider best practise and consideration in designing your performance testing when faced with these applications.

Continuous Deployment Challenges in Native Mobile Applications

In this blog post, explore the unique challenges of Continuous Deployment in native mobile apps, including the complexities of app store distribution and rollback limitations, and discover insights on navigating these hurdles while striving for efficient CI/CD workflows in mobile development.

Open Source Fractional GPUs for Everyone, Now Available from ClearML

If you’ve been following our news, you know we just announced free fractional GPU capabilities for open source users, enabling multi-tenancy for NVIDIA GPUs and allowing users to optimize their GPU utilization to support multiple AI workloads as part of our open source and free tier offering.

How to Create an Application Migration Strategy

Creating an effective application migration strategy is crucial for organizations seeking to migrate their applications to a new environment, such as a cloud platform or a different on-premises infrastructure. A well-planned migration strategy ensures a smooth transition, minimizes downtime, and mitigates potential risks and challenges. Here’s what you need to do in order to create an application migration strategy.

Introducing Tableflow

We’re excited to talk about our vision for Tableflow, which makes it push-button simple to take Apache Kafka® data and feed it directly into your data lake, warehouse, or analytics engine as Apache Iceberg® tables. Making operational data accessible to the analytical world is traditionally a complex, expensive, and brittle process and we believe we can do better to unify the operational and analytical estates.

Implementing Real-Time Communication in iOS with WebSockets

In iOS, WebSockets enable real-time communication between a client (an iOS app) and a server. Unlike traditional HTTP connections which are stateless, short-lived and request data on demand, WebSockets use a single long-lived connection to send and receive data simultaneously. This significantly reduces response times which is crucial for apps that rely on instant updates and live data to support functions such as chat and multiplayer games.

Snapshot Testing in the Backend

The first time I learned about snapshot testing was in the context of front-end testing. It made a lot of sense. Writing an assertion-based test to check if a component was correctly rendered as HTML is tricky. And difficulty grows with the complexity of the output. Snapshot testing seemed a reasonable technique to get the job done, even with some caveats.