Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

We released two big updates to our Sketches feature: a much improved UI and a dedicated link in the navigation bar. You can now visually convey your ideas, designs, and plans effortlessly.

Multiplayer brings every piece of the system design puzzle into a single platform. By integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket repositories, we enable users to access, view, and (in the future) modify source code within the context of their platform's design.

API testing is the process of verifying that APIs are working and performing as expected. Developers and QA engineers test APIs by sending requests to various API endpoints and validating the responses against expected outcomes. The goal is to determine if the APIs meet the set standards for functionality, performance, scalability, and security. This process includes testing the “happy path” scenarios and negative cases to ensure proper security checks are in place.

Since HP ALM/Quality Center was acquired by Micro Focus (and now Open Text), users have been outgrowing its functionality. While HP upgraded many of its solutions to be more compatible with Agile and to support automation, ALM/Quality Center was left behind. What was once considered a best-in-class solution is becoming more obsolete by the day, having no resources allocated to development and limited support for customers. Today, there are better ALM options available.

Confluent Cloud, a leading cloud-native platform for building data streaming applications, and BigQuery, Google's serverless data warehouse, are revolutionizing how businesses handle data. Together, they offer a powerful solution for real-time data ingestion, processing, and analysis—now enhanced by BigQuery’s new continuous query. Many organizations grapple with challenges in moving data from their data warehouses to real-time processing platforms.

The purpose of this post is to describe the integration and benefits of combining Google’s new BigQuery Continuous Queries capability with Keboola’s orchestration capabilities. Combining these capabilities enables organizations to react more quickly to external and internal events.

Qlik offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to enhance data integration, analytics, and data quality, seamlessly integrating with Google BigQuery. Qlik's data integration tools enable efficient and secure data ingestion from various sources into BigQuery, ensuring real-time data availability for analytics. With Qlik's advanced analytics capabilities, users can perform sophisticated data analysis and gain actionable insights from their BigQuery data.

Ruby on Rails is an excellent choice for building a REST API, stemming from its design principles and robust feature set. It encourages a resource-oriented architecture, including built-in routing, migrations, and task tools. Rails also includes Active Record, an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) layer, which simplifies database interactions.

In the world of software development, quality assurance (QA) is crucial for delivering reliable and robust applications. One of the most effective strategies to enhance software quality is "shift-left testing.".

Fivetran combines log-based replication with ease of use to make SAP data accessible.