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How Transformation in Application Development is Driving Innovation and Change in Testing

The way that applications are developed and deployed has changed massively in recent years. From new trends in CI/CD to the use of Kubernetes and containers to increased leverage of AI and machine learning, organizations are boosting agility and enabling increased collaboration, insight and intelligence for their applications. This is especially true for businesses in media and telecom, who see increased demand from users and are responding by embracing innovation (for example, Aberdeen research shows that media and telecom businesses are more likely to be leveraging AI/ML and microservices). To respond to these changes, leading organizations are looking for automated testing solutions that are designed to work with modern development practices.

The True Cost of Downtime For Businesses

In this post, we’re sharing some of the best insights from specialists across a variety of industries to answer: What is downtime & why is downtime so detrimental for businesses? As well as answering this key topic we’ll also cover how businesses can take steps to prevent downtime & understand the underlying causes behind this often costly concern. Downtime is a term used to refer to a period of time in which a system, website or service is unavailable to its users.

Data Egress Cost Analysis

Understand the impact of data transfer and egress costs across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. One of the questions most frequently asked by cloud-savvy, price-aware customers goes something like this: OK, so we like that your tool makes it easy to integrate our cloud database and storage in our centralized data warehouse, but I know our budget will be scrutinized for total cost of ownership (TCO), including our data egress costs.

How to Manage Ruby Memory Usage

Even the most prominent and reliable frameworks are notorious for burning out resources if not configured perfectly. In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better. Ruby is a scripting language built for use in web applications and similar stuff.

Why is there a lack of women in tech? Questions answered.

Women in tech is an interesting subject for many reasons. We hear endlessly how the tech industry lacks women, how the gender pay gap is still an issue and how we still lack women in high managerial positions. But we still don’t know why this is. Are women purposely not choosing the tech industry or does the issue run deeper than that?