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Introducing Ably LiveSync: Seamlessly sync database changes with frontend clients

We’re excited to announce that Ably LiveSync is now in public alpha! LiveSync is a state synchronisation product that allows you to watch changes to your database and publish them reliably to millions of frontend clients, enabling those clients to stay up to date with the latest changes in realtime.

Quality Engineering for CEOs: A Series Introduction

For flawless digital experiences, quality engineering (QE) is more than just a technical requirement—it’s the driving force behind innovation and success. Steve Semelsberger, Testlio’s CEO, will share his valuable insights in an engaging LinkedIn series designed to help fellow CEOs unlock the strategic benefits of QE. In this series, Steve will address your toughest questions and demystify the complexities of building a robust QE framework.

S1.E3: How to fit testing into DevOps? | QA Therapy Podcast

If you’re struggling to integrate testing seamlessly into your pipeline, join us in this enlightening episode as we delve into the world of testing within DevOps with our esteemed guest, Lisa Crispin, our very own QA Therapist! Lisa, a prominent figure in the testing community and an avid advocate for Agile and DevOps practices, shares her wealth of knowledge and insights.

Adding views to an API-only Rails app

Ruby on Rails has long been celebrated for its ‘convention over configuration’ philosophy, simplifying web development for countless programmers. However, what if you’ve started with a lean Rails API-only application and now find yourself needing a front-end? This isn’t uncommon, especially with the rise of JavaScript frameworks and SPAs.

How much is the cost to develop a flutter app?

When it comes to developing cross-platform apps, Flutter is one of the top choices that comes to developers' minds. But, what’s the reason behind it? Thanks to the innovative cross-platform development capabilities offered by the Flutter framework, creating native applications for both Android and iOS platforms has become remarkably simple.

The Rise of AI in FP&A: How insightsoftware Empowers Your Team

Despite the transformative potential of AI, many financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams are hesitating, waiting for this emerging technology to mature before investing. According to a recent Gartner report, a staggering 61% of finance organizations haven’t yet adopted AI. Finance has always been considered risk averse, so it is perhaps unsurprising to see that AI adoption in finance significantly lags other departments.

Event-Driven Microservices in Banking and Fraud Detection | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

How do we know whether Event-Driven Microservices are the right solution? This is the question that Tributary Bank faced when they looked at modernizing their old fraud-detection system. They were faced with many challenges, including scalability, reliability, and security. Some members of their team felt that switching to an event-driven microservice architecture would be the magic bullet that would solve all of their problems. But is there any such thing as a magic bullet? Let's take a look at the types of decisions Tributary Bank had to make as they started down this path.

LLM Validation and Evaluation

LLM evaluation is the process of assessing the performance and capabilities of LLMs. This helps determine how well the model understands and generates language, ensuring that it meets the specific needs of applications. There are multiple ways to perform LLM evaluation, each with different advantages. In this blog post, we explain the role of LLM evaluation in AI lifecycles and the different types of LLM evaluation methods. In the end, we show a demo of a chatbot that was developed with crowdsourcing.

Introducing Confluent Cloud OpenSearch Sink Connector

Amazon OpenSearch is a popular fully managed analytics engine that makes it easier for customers to do interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and semantic and keyword searches. It can also be used as a vector engine that helps organizations build and augment GenAI applications without managing infrastructure (we’ll talk about this in future blogs). Additionally, the service provides a reliable, scalable infrastructure designed to handle massive data volumes.