If you’re one of those website owners or businesses that employ a Facebook live chat widget on their website, this post is more than critical for you. Facebook is very soon (May 9, 2024) about to terminate the operation of its live chat—the embedded widget that allows you to use it as your website chat plugin. Currently, countless users employ Facebook live chat on their websites. All these people must find alternatives to their current plugin once Facebook stops offering its live chat.

Bringing your futuristic vision for a new product to life is one of the biggest hurdles for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new product development process may seem mysterious in the beginning, however, when cracked, this journey to a final product can easily become a straight line. The majority of customers shopping online regularly are usually clueless about the rigorous and time-consuming process that every product goes through before they enter the digital realm.

In a world where digital innovation propels us forward, the stakes for software development have never been higher. Quality and reliability are the twin pillars upon which the reputation and success of software are built. Yet, as the complexity of software systems escalates and development cycles accelerate, ensuring software quality through meticulous testing has become quite a challenge.

How did the Kong Mesh team design and bring Kong Mesh into Kong Konnect? In this blog post, we’re going to dive into this question to understand what’s going on behind the scenes with Mesh Manager.

With the explosion of generative AI tools available for providing information, making recommendations, or creating images, LLMs have captured the public imagination. Although we cannot expect an LLM to have all the information we want, or sometimes even include inaccurate information, consumer enthusiasm for using generative AI tools continues to build.

In March, Snowflake announced exciting releases, including advances in AI and ML with new features in Snowflake Cortex, new governance and privacy features in Snowflake Horizon, and broader developer support with the Snowflake CLI. Read on to learn more about everything we announced last month.

In the pursuit of excellence, Quality Assurance (QA) has embarked on a profound journey of automation. Beginning with manual testing as its foundation, QA has progressed steadily through functional automation and smart automation, culminating in its embrace of Intelligent automation and Codeless automation. This evolution mirrors our transition from traditional waterfall models to agile methodologies.

Table driven tests, also known as parameterized tests, have became very popular over the past few years, due to their ability to eliminate repetition. Table driven tests make it quite a bit easier to re-use the same values for different sets of tests by just moving the table outside of the scope of the test function. Different tests may benefit from the same input, and each test may have completely different configration, concurrency etc…

BrowserStack is a popular web and mobile testing platform. While the cross-browser testing tool has been the go-to for Quality Assurance (QA) teams and product managers since 2011, many are now turning to other solutions to simplify and automate their testing processes. But how do you pick the right BrowserStack alternative testing tool? Do you rely on user reviews, popularity, or the most budget-friendly option?

At Kong, we take the robustness and performance of our gateway product seriously, dedicating ourselves to maintaining high standards through a robust internal benchmark framework and infrastructure. Our setup includes a dedicated bare metal cluster for running performance tests, seamlessly integrated into our CI/CD process. Moreover, we conduct extensive performance testing for each major, minor, and patch release candidate.