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Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability

In today’s post, we will be looking into a software design pattern called Facade. When I first adopted it, it felt a little bit awkward, but the more I used it in my Rails apps, the more I started to appreciate its usefulness. More importantly, it allowed me to test my code more thoroughly, to clean out my controllers, to reduce the logic within my views and to make me think more clearly about an application’s code’s overall structure.

Why Every Web Developer Should Explore Machine Learning

If software's been eating the world for the past twenty years, it's safe to say machine learning has been eating it for the past five. But what exactly is machine learning? Why should a web developer care? This article by Julie Kent answers these questions. I don't have kids yet, but when I do, I want them to learn two things: Whether or not you believe that the singularity is near, there's no denying that the world runs on data.

.NET Developer Finds Latent Bugs with Prefix

Rostyslav Kosmirak is a .NET developer from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine using Rider and Visual Studio IDE. Kosmirak was not looking for a Dynamic Code Profiler when he came across Prefix. Kosmirak explains that initially he was searching through Google for a log management system when he stumbled on Prefix. Upon downloading, Kosmirak discovered hidden performance problems in his code before they manifested to actual performance problems.

Benchmarking Time Series workloads on Apache Kudu using TSBS

Time Series as Fast Analytics on Fast Data Since the open-source introduction of Apache Kudu in 2015, it has billed itself as storage for fast analytics on fast data. This general mission encompasses many different workloads, but one of the fastest-growing use cases is that of time-series analytics. Time series has several key requirements: At first glance, it sounds like these requirements would demand a special-purpose database system built specifically for time series.

Beyond Connectivity - Top 5 Ways Data and Analytics Drive Transformation in Telecom

The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a fundamental reinvention and transformation. Faced with a range of emerging pressures – including consolidation, a changing competitive landscape, and commoditization of traditional services – communication service providers (CSPs) are seeking new revenue streams and novel business approaches.

Some of the Top SQL-on-Hadoop Tools with Pros and Cons

Hadoop ecosystem now serves as a comfortable home to Big Data now, and the Hadoop data stores now have a greater acceptance across the world by programmers, developers, data scientists, and database management experts. These ecosystems are as convenient as the data storages; however, the inherent reporting system of Hadoop poses a few challenges for the users to overcome.

Documentation and Agile Performance Testing

Introduction Once upon a time documentation was one of the most important aspects of Quality Assurance and this was not limited to the functional test efforts but the non-functional testing as well. We spent days, weeks, months even creating Performance Test Strategies, Approaches, Plans, Test Case, Completion Reports etc. Most of these documents were required before any automation could be written and before a sensible performance testing framework could be considered.

Katalon Announces Partnership Program to Offer Expanded Services to Their Customers

Atlanta, GA – March 6, 2020 – Katalon is proud to announce the launch of a new partnership program and two initial service partners, KMS Technology and KMS Solutions. The new program will leverage these partnerships to offer implementation and training services for Katalon’s award-winning test automation platform. Since its launch in 2015, Katalon has experienced exponential growth with thousands of worldwide users.

A medical device manufacturer meets mission-critical regulations with Xray

Xray gave us full traceability of the requirements from specifications to test plans and test results. As a medical device manufacturer, Xray helps us maintain compliance with regulations while saving us development effort and cutting reporting time by 50%. Medical device manufacturers operate in an increasingly regulated environment. These companies have a unique set of challenges with how they design, release and operate their products.