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September 2023

Sprint2Cloud: A Quicker Way to Get Through Cloud Migrations

In today’s high-velocity digital arena, businesses are thrust into the whirlwind of global events, rapid technological advancements, and the incessant push for innovation. Yet, amidst the tempest of mergers, digital acceleration, and shifting tech paradigms, charting a confident path towards cloud migration can be daunting.

Securing the Future: Navigating Risks with Large Language Models (LLMs)

Large language models (LLMs) have recently garnered immense popularity and global attention due to their versatile applications across various industries. The advent of ChatGPT in late 2022, particularly resonating with Gen Z, exemplifies their impressive capabilities. Nowadays, the cumbersome process of navigating automated phone menus (pressing 1 or 2) for customer support is becoming less desirable, with chatbots like Siri and Alexa offering a more user-friendly alternative.

How to measure the success of exploratory testing?

Success. We all seek it. However, what defines success? It all depends on the goals we have established. We often hear that testing is about ensuring there are no bugs. That's wrong in many ways. First, testing doesn't assure; testing gives information about quality so the team can decide what to do next, hopefully using it to improve its current status.

Accelerate Docker builds with cache

Speed and efficiency are paramount during the build process. If you use a Dockerfile to build your container images from source code, you want to know about build cache. In this blog post, we’ll talk about what happens when you create a Docker image using a Dockerfile, how caching works with Docker, and how to optimize your Dockerfiles to maximize the benefits of build cache with Docker and on Koyeb.

Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. Functions or procedures written by users in these languages are executed inside of Snowpark’s secure sandbox environment, which runs on the warehouse.

5 takeaways from Matthew O'Riordan's chat on the Category Visionaries podcast

Category Visionaries is a podcast where founders and CEOs share their stories from the front line of business. It specializes in discussions with leaders who are disrupting and reimagining the business model of their industry. Our CEO Matthew O’Riordan recently sat down with the podcast’s host, Brett Stapper, to discuss his journey since founding Ably, the reasons he did so, and the decisions he’s made along the way. Here’s the full discussion.

The LINQ Join Operator: A Complete Tutorial

I think most C# developers would agree that LINQ is an integral part of the experience of writing code with the language. LINQ provides a fluent, intuitive, and consistent way to query data sets. In this post, we’ll help in your LINQ-mastering quest by covering the LINQ join operator. We’ll start the post with a definition of LINQ itself, so we’re all on the same page. After that, you’ll see an explanation of join operations in LINQ.

Leveraging Machine Learning in Product Analytics for Enhanced Insights and Actionability

Product analytics traditionally hinged on examining user interactions to extract actionable insights. The integration of machine learning (ML) has elevated this process, enriching our understanding and our ability to predict future trends. Let's unfold how ML integrates into product analytics and the transformative advantages it introduces. ‍