In the vast universe of coding, JavaScript has earned itself a reputation of being a dynamic, high-level, interpreted language, often employed for enhancing user experiences on the web. However, as the complexity of web applications increased, developers craved more structure, static typing, and syntax variations. Enter the JavaScript dialects. They can be seen as extensions of the original JavaScript, with each one providing alternatives suited to diverse needs and preferences.

We made some big announcements during our keynote at Collision in Toronto; our AI Assistant, Adrian, and the open sourcing of our Node.js Runtime, N|Solid Runtime. They are a big part of our vision for the future of software development, one that is powered by telemetry, security, and AI - which was the topic of our talk. In this post we will share more about our vision and specifically how NodeSource is enabling that future.

Software testing is a comprehensive umbrella term for a wide variety of different types of testing. These testing types are categorized based on the purpose, AUTs, or approach. Understanding how these types of QA testing work will help you and your team better develop the test plan. In this article, we will learn how the testing types are categorized, 15 most popular testing types, and their place in the Software Testing Life Cycle.

This blog series covers how to run, train, fine-tune, and deploy large language models securely inside your Snowflake Account with Snowpark Container Services This year there has been a surge of progress in the world of open source large language models (LLMs). This world of free and open source LLMs took yet another major step forward just this week with Meta’s release of Llama v2.

Delegation in programming refers to handing off a task from one part of a program to another. It's an essential technique in object-oriented programming, empowering clean, maintainable code by ensuring that each object or method is responsible for a specific task or behavior. Understanding and using delegation is key to mastering Ruby and other object-oriented languages. Delegation promotes separation of concerns, making your code more modular and easier to understand, test, and refactor.

Oracle Database—or Oracle DBMS—consolidates, stores, and retrieves large amounts of big data. With a market value of $253,206, Oracle Corporation is one of the largest technology companies in the world. But why use Oracle DBMS in your organization? In this post, learn the benefits of Oracle DBMS and how DreamFactory makes it easier to use this relational database management system. Here are the key things to know about the benefits of Oracle DBMS: Table of Contents.

It’s no secret that companies that listen to their customers have a greater chance at success. That is why we value our customers’ voice at insightsoftware. You use our products every day to run your organization, make critical decisions, achieve your business goals, and bring success to your own stakeholders. This approach provides you with a unique perspective on how our offerings can be enhanced with new features and tools that help you and your end users work better.

In the age of big data, where humans generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day, organizations like yours have the potential to harness more powerful analytics than ever before. But gathering, organizing, and sorting data still proves a challenge. Put simply, there's too much information and not enough context. The most popular commercial data warehouse solutions like Amazon Redshift say they deliver structured, usable data for businesses. But is this true?

Utilizing big data is one of the biggest assets your organization can use to stay ahead of the competition. Even though big data continues to grow, most organizations have yet to leverage its capabilities fully. Why? Because millions of data sources exist on the internet and physically. Ingesting and integrating this data can quickly become overwhelming. With data lakes, you can integrate raw data from multiple sources into one central storage repository.

Ozone is an Apache Software Foundation project to build a distributed storage platform that caters to the demanding performance needs of analytical workloads, content distribution, and object storage use cases. The Ozone Manager is a critical component of Ozone. It is a replicated, highly-available service that is responsible for managing the metadata for all objects stored in Ozone. As Ozone scales to exabytes of data, it is important to ensure that Ozone Manager can perform at scale.