Mastering container orchestration is the key to scaling applications seamlessly in today’s dynamic digital realm. By leveraging sophisticated platforms like Kubernetes or Docker Swarm, businesses streamline the management of complex application architectures, ensuring efficient resource allocation, fault tolerance, and automated scaling.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming. The developer-friendly, self-service UI provides an easy and curated way to find, understand, and enrich all of your data streams, enabling users across your organization to build and launch streaming applications faster.

Serialization and deserialization are two fundamental processes that play a pivotal role in achieving this goal, especially within the context of Node.js. Serialization and deserialization are the unsung heroes behind the scenes, responsible for converting complex data structures into formats that can be easily stored, transmitted, and reconstructed when needed. In Node.js apps where data is at the core of application functionality, a solid understanding of these processes is crucial.

As analytics technology evolves, so do user needs and expectations. Many customers approach us hoping to boost their application’s analytics capabilities, which are often struggling to meet user demand.

Data analytics tools help your organization understand the insights in your data through custom dashboards, reports, applications, and other visualizations. This software category covers a broad range of capabilities and use cases, from drag-and-drop, no-code dashboard creation software to end-to-end data extraction, analytics, and management platforms. We picked eight of the top data analytics tools for 2024 by referencing G2 ratings and reviews.

Deliver faster marketing insights with governed data movement and democratization.

Apache Iceberg’s ecosystem of diverse adopters, contributors and commercial support continues to grow, establishing itself as the industry standard table format for an open data lakehouse architecture. Snowflake’s support for Iceberg Tables is now in public preview, helping customers build and integrate Snowflake into their lake architecture. In this blog post, we’ll dive deeper into the considerations for selecting an Iceberg Table catalog and how catalog conversion works.

“According to BrowserStack, around 58% of companies are using visual testing in their QA cycle.” The need for creating high-performing web applications has pushed developers as well as QA teams to establish test methodologies that are ultra-productive. Be it test automation solutions or harnessing value through advanced test practices such as visual testing.

In the contemporary software development landscape, unit tests have become paramount for ensuring software quality. A prevalent practice during these tests involves mocking outgoing calls to decouple the code under test from external dependencies. Imagine, for a moment, a scenario where instead of writing mocks with pre-defined behaviours, you duplicate the behaviour of a real-world server.

Writing an effective bug report is essential for providing software developers with all the necessary information to understand, reproduce and resolve the issue. A well-documented bug report saves time and ensures a smoother debugging process. Writing a comprehensive bug report helps software developers quickly understand the issue and reduces back-and-forth communication. It's a key practice for effective bug tracking and issue resolution in software development.