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September 2023

How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows

Is Windows your favorite development environment? Do you want to run Apache Kafka® on Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), now you can, and with fewer tears than in the past. Windows still isn’t the recommended platform for running Kafka with production workloads, but for trying out Kafka, it works just fine. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.

Streaming Pipelines With Snowflake Explained In 2 Minutes

Streaming data has been historically complex and costly to work with. That's no longer the case with Snowflake's streaming capabilities. Together, Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Tables (in public preview) break the barrier between batch and streaming systems. Now you can build low-latency data pipelines with serverless row-set ingestion and declarative pipelines with SQL. You can easily adapt to your business requirements to change latency as a single parameter.

Perforce Streams: Everything You Need to Know

This video provides an overview of the main types of streams in Helix Core, as well as the iconography and relationships between stream types in the Helix Visual Client (P4V). Perforce solutions engineer, Jase Lindgren, also provides some example use cases and workflows for each stream type (mainline, development, release, virtual, and task), so you can learn how to best leverage each type.

Rolling Back and Reverting Files in P4V: An In-Depth Guide

In this in-depth tutorial on reverting files in Perforce Helix Core, solutions engineer Ryan Maffesoli provides a complete walkthrough of how to rollback files and codelines. Learn how to revert changes based on revision number, changelist number, date, or label. We’ll also cover the process of submitting and syncing revised files.

Perforce Helix Core Beginner's Guide: Version Control Basic Concepts

This video provides a high-level introduction to Helix Core, the Helix Visual Client (P4V), as well as centralized version control concepts. Led by Perforce solutions engineer, Jase Lindgren, this tutorial provides new users with an overview of the P4V interface, and introduces some of the Perforce Helix Core terminology like depots, workspaces, and changelists. This video is the first in our new beginner’s guide series for Helix Core.

Perforce Helix Core Beginner's Guide: How to Create a Workspace

Workspaces allow you to sync files from the Helix Core server to your local machine so you can work on them. In this how-to video Jase Lindgren Perforce solutions engineer will guide you through the steps to creating and working with multiple workspaces as an individual user. This video is the second in our new beginner’s guide series for Helix Core.

Perforce Helix Core Beginner's Guide: Submitting, Syncing, and Managing File Changes

This video covers some of the basic Helix Core operations like checking out files, submitting changes, and getting the latest revisions from collaborators. In this step-by-step walkthrough from solutions engineer Jase Lindgren, you’ll also learn what changelists are and how to manage them. This is the third video in our new beginner’s guide series for Helix Core.

Perforce Helix Core Beginner's Guide: Undoing Changes and Fixing Deleted Files

In this Perforce Helix Core / P4V beginner’s guide video, we will cover more advanced Helix Core operations like reverting changes, undoing submitted changes, fixing deleted files, and reconciling offline work. This is the fourth video in our new beginner’s guide series for Helix Core.

Introducing Deployment Tracks in Choreo

As we continuously improve Choreo's capabilities, we're excited to introduce a significant new addition: Deployment Tracks. This empowers users to achieve backward-compatible API releases, ensuring a smoother experience for API publishers and API consumers alike. This transition will entail minor user interface (UI) changes in the Choreo console for your existing components.