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How Fivetran and Redkite combine to help retail enterprises understand, track and meet the needs of their customers.

Not long after graduating college, in the late 2010s, I had a data analysis job that scarred me for life. It involved reading through hundreds of documents—some of them handwritten—and meticulously, painstakingly entering data into spreadsheets. Who among us hasn’t been scarred by a similar experience? I remember thinking, as I spent mindless hours copy-pasting rows of text from one screen to another, that there had to be a better way. Mercifully, there is.

Organizations rely on accurate, real-time data to make informed decisions. Almost 64% state big data—and the ability to analyze it—is one of the most important investments to gain an edge over the competition. Through accurate calculations based on reliable data companies can make critically complex, real-time business decisions. Power BI is one of today’s go-to data visualization tools for data-driven businesses relying on precise, reliable, real-time data to generate valuable insights.

Ruby on Rails has always been at the forefront of developer productivity, and building robust, highly interactive web applications has never been easier. Rails has been accurately described as the one-person framework. However, building your app is only half the battle. The other half is publishing it for others to use. Unfortunately, being able to deploy your application has always been an afterthought for most developers.

In regulated industries, compliance, consistency, and safety are paramount. Structure and predictability are the hallmarks of a regulated test strategy. As a result, software testing is often limited to step-by-step, scripted procedures. Yet, unscripted exploratory testing is emerging as a modern best practice, even in highly regulated domains. At first glance, exploratory testing may appear to be at odds with the rules of a regulated industry.

In iOS, geofencing is a location-based feature that enables us to define geographical boundaries and trigger actions, or alerts, when a device enters or exits those boundaries. This feature has become vital to all kinds of apps, enabling them to deliver personal, timely and contextual experiences.

The excitement (and drama) around AI continues to escalate. Why? Because the stakes are high. The race for competitive advantage by applying AI to new use cases is on! The launch of generative AI last year added fuel to the fire, and for good reason. Whereas the existing portfolio of AI tools had targeted the more technically minded like data scientists and engineers, new tools like ChatGPT handed the keys to the kingdom to anyone who could type a question.

WireMock & Speedscale are both notable API simulation tools. Here’s how they compare across usability, monitoring, scalability, and customization.

We're pleased to announce the launch of Standard Webhooks! Kong has been part of the Technical Committee of this standard with other great companies like Svix (the initiator of the project), Ngrok, Zapier, Twillio, Lob, Mux, and Supabase. This was a year-long effort of gathering feedback, use cases, and debating about what and how to define what landed. Standard Webhooks is one initiative to standardize the way producers and consumers can have a contract to communicate.

Google Gemini is the latest generative AI sensation and it’s now available in Keboola, our self-service data operations platform. This integration marks the next step for AI-powered data processing and unlocks new opportunities for Keboola users, language model enthusiasts, data scientists, application builders, and data engineers. But this is just the start.