This blog post was written by Pedro Pereira as a guest author for Cloudera. Right now, someone somewhere is writing the next fake news story or editing a deepfake video. An authoritarian regime is manipulating an artificial intelligence (AI) system to spy on technology users. No matter how good the intentions behind the development of a technology, someone is bound to corrupt and manipulate it. Big data and AI amplify the problem. “If you have good intentions, you can make it very good.

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We recently sat down to discuss the language for the next Kong Gateway Plugin Development Kit (PDK). Given the number of JavaScript developers in the world and the variety of libraries and debugging tools available, there was only one logical choice. I’m excited to share that with the Kong Gateway (OSS) 2.4 release, that functionality is now available to you all!

In HeathTech apps, it’s often the case that you’re dealing with private or health-related data. This requires compliance with regulations, such as HIPAA in the United States. These regulations force you to handle sensitive data in a well-defined manner, so only specific people can read it, and if they do, it should be logged for later auditing.

Here at Ably, we deal with hard engineering problems all the time and pushing at the edges often results in us running up against all sorts of interesting gotchas. We recently made some AWS NLBs fall over, and had a hazardous encounter with Cassandra counter columns. In our day-to-day, we use gRPC for fast and efficient data exchange with mutual client/server state synchronization.

Russell Stephens from Compass shares how his team cut down the time spent on testing from 80 hours to 4 and shortened their release cycles to one week. Read on to find out what steps they took to achieve this!

Businesses hoping to make timely, data-driven decisions know that the value of their data may degrade over time and can be perishable. This has created a growing demand to analyze and build insights from data the moment it becomes available, in real-time.