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Amazon Kinesis vs. Kafka: A Detailed Comparison of Data Stream Services

The key differences between Amazon Kinesis and Kafka are: Introducing data streamers! These services validate and route messages from one application to another, managing workload and message queues effectively. The result? Users process messages through a centralized processor and handle large data streams more efficiently. Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka are two data stream services.

Webinar Recap: Scale your Software Development with Automation Testing and CI/CD

Last week, our team at Katalon partnered with CircleCI to present a webinar: Scale your Software Development with Automation Testing and CI/CD. There’s no denying the benefit of automation testing in CI/CD pipeline has on product development cycles: it enables faster builds and deploys by continuously generating quicker and more efficient feedback loops.

The top 5 software testing trends of 2021

2020 challenged all of us. Remote work forced many companies to rethink their QA processes and the tools and methods they use for software testing. Consumers and customers continued to expect high-quality products, and software development teams needed to maintain their pace of delivery and even speed up in order to stay competitive.

How to centralize test automation in Jira and Xray

Xray is a powerful and highly customizable tool that can be adapted to fit your needs. We have a vibrant testing community and user base that often surprises us with unexpected solutions and workarounds. Simon Champenois is a QA Manager and member of the “Xray France User Club.” He created a unique workflow that allows Xray users to centralize test automation in Xray and Jira.

Podcast with Charles Miller on Documentation Best Practices

Ep. 5: Charles Miller, documentation strategist. To help you fend off documentation from being the Achillies heel of your API product, we have a thirty-year veteran of technical writing on our podcast today. Charles Miller is currently the lead content strategist for APIs at Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systems company.

What It Actually Means to be HIPAA Compliant

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, is a federal regulation in the United States that protects healthcare data containing personal health information, or PHI. It also covers Electronic PHI, or E-PHI, which are digital records of this information. The ability to effectively using healthcare data is essential for improving patient outcomes, quality of care, resource allocation, revenues, and other operations.

Top 7 Trends in Marketing Analytics for 2021

Powered by advances in machine learning, marketing analytics delivers more bottom-line impact with each passing year. It enables organizations to improve the targeting of ads and other content, optimize their ad spend through advanced marketing attribution, increase customer lifetime value, reduce churn, and more. While technology is making granular targeting and measurement possible, marketers are also doubling down on measures to ensure consumer privacy and data governance in their initiatives.

Automating Contract-Centric Experiences to Accelerate Front End Development

This Kong Summit 2020 session focuses on the war stories, and subsequently the patterns HyperCurrent employed, from building an API chargeback/monetization product using OAS, Kotlin, Spring Boot and Kong. We will discuss how a programmatic approach can be used to deliver an elegant REST-ful API while enforcing an anti-corruption layer for domain logic without writing API contracts by hand. By using Kotlin and Spring Boot along with a controller/DTO approach, we can automatically produce an OAS contract, HTML docs, a console and a client side SDK.