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June 2024

Embedded Snowpark Container Services Set RelationalAI's Snowflake Native App on Path for Success

Despite the seemingly nonstop conversation surrounding AI, the data suggests that bringing AI into enterprises is still easier said than done. There’s so much potential and plenty of value to be captured — if you have the right models and tools. Implementing advanced AI today requires a solid data foundation as well as a set of solutions, each demanding its own tools and complex infrastructure.

Six easy steps to adapt your App icons for Apple's new Dynamic Tinting Feature

At the latest WWDC, Apple unveiled an exciting new feature: dynamic tinting for app icons. This update calls for developers to adjust their app icons to support this functionality, ensuring a more visually consistent experience across iOS. This change is significant for maintaining a seamless user interface, allowing app icons to adapt to various system-wide themes, including dark mode, and providing a cohesive look throughout the operating system.

What Are Quality Gates?

Quality gates are just what they sound like: They ensure the delivery of high-quality software by serving as quality milestones (or “gates”) during various stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), preventing bad code from passing through. Here, we explain what are quality gates, how they work, and how to implement them using static analysis. Read along or jump ahead to the section that interests you most: Manage Your ci/cd pipeline with Static Analysis.

Running Apache Kafka at the Edge Requires Confluent's Enterprise-Grade Data Streaming Platform

Modern edge computing is transforming industries including manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, defense, retail, energy, and much more—pushing data management to far-reaching data sources to enable connected, low latency operations and enhanced decision making. These new use cases shift workloads to the left—requiring real-time data streaming and processing at the edge, right where the data is generated.

Unlocking the Edge: Data Streaming Goes Where You Go with Confluent

While cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate due to its tremendous value, it has also become clear that edge computing is better suited for a variety of use cases. Organizations are realizing the benefits of processing data closer to its source, leading to reduced latency, security and compliance benefits, and more efficient bandwidth utilization as well as supporting scenarios where networking has challenging constraints.

How to Scale RAG and Build More Accurate LLMs

This article was originally published on The New Stack on June 10, 2024. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading pattern to combat hallucinations and other inaccuracies that affect large language model content generation. However, RAG needs the right data architecture around it to scale effectively and efficiently.

Helix Plan - Real-Time Planning for Studios

Introducing Helix Plan, a real-time planning tool for studios with the professional-grade configuration and security you expect from Perforce. Helix Plan provides a single tool for decision-making at the project, program, and portfolio levels. Free Project Management Software Helix Plan (formerly Hansoft) is an enterprise-class planning tool that helps teams work faster, smarter, and with unrivaled efficiency.

Tideways 2024.2 Release

Get the cake, Tideways is turning ten! Exactly on this day ten years ago, we lifted the veil on Tideways’ predecessor and thus began our exciting journey that continues to this day. We would like to celebrate by presenting interesting new features to you. Summary: Don’t miss out on our webinar that will guide you through these new features, taking place July 3rd starting at 3 pm.

3 Strategies to Supercharge Developer Operational Efficiency

Developer operational efficiency is crucial for streamlining API management processes and empowering development teams to work more effectively. In this blog post, we'll explore three key tips to unlock developer operational efficiency — leveraging API documentation and self-service credential management, automating API lifecycle management, and optimizing resources and performance — using Kong Konnect and Kong Kubernetes Ingress Controller (KIC).

Databricks: Achieve performance and reliability with purpose-built AI

88% of Databricks users surveyed are turning to AI to improve bug-fixing effectiveness (Databricks). Why? Troubleshooting modern data stacks is typically a toilsome and manual process. The good news – data teams that use DataOps practices and tools will be 10 times more productive (Gartner). With this in mind, Unravel is hosting this live event to demonstrate how AI-enabled observability for Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform helps you proactively achieve performance and reliability.

Announcing AI-Powered API Test Generation in Katalon Studio

It's well known that creating API test cases can be time-consuming and repetitive. Manually adjusting web service requests and verification steps is not only tedious but also prone to errors, especially when dealing with complex systems. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a game-changing feature in Katalon Studio that will revolutionize your testing workflow: AI-powered API test generation from OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.