Slowly but surely, HTTP/2 has become the preferred protocol for transferring data files between clients and servers. In contrast, HTTP/1, which once stood as the sole method for loading web applications, is now falling short, particularly in terms of user experience. Since 2015, HTTP/2 APIs have taken the lead with lightning-fast server responses.

Whether you agree with Elon's prediction or not, it's hard to ignore AI's far-ranging impact, especially on how we approach work. Over the last two years, we have seen AI progress rapidly, leaving many of us wondering, "Will AI replace my job?" It's a question that software engineers have also been grappling with. As ironic as it may seem, the people writing the code driving the technology revolution face the same uncertainty about whether AI might replace them in the future.

In recent years, machine learning operations (MLOps) have become the standard practice for developing, deploying, and managing machine learning models. MLOps standardizes processes and workflows for faster, scalable, and risk-free model deployment, centralizing model management, automating CI/CD for deployment, providing continuous monitoring, and ensuring governance and release best practices.

Organizations generate vast amounts of data daily during various business operations. For example, whenever a customer checks out out at a retail outlet, data such as the customer identifier, retail outlet identifier, time of check out, list of purchased items, and the total sales value can be captured in the Point of Sales (PoS) system. Similarly, field sales staff may record possible sales opportunities in spreadsheets.

Every software application undergoes rigorous functional and non-functional testing to meet business requirements. When we talk about delivering top-tier software, performance is key. How fast does it run? How stable is it under pressure? Can it scale with growing demand? Does it remain reliable when pushed to its limits? These questions are at the core of performance testing, and that’s where benchmark testing steps into the spotlight.

We’re excited to unveil a sneak peek of the upcoming NeoLoad 2024.3 release, which will be generally available this November. One of the most anticipated features in this release is remote terminal emulation (RTE) support — a game-changer for teams responsible for the performance of mainframe and other legacy systems.

The problem with test data is that it can become stale very quickly. This is either through its use from testing or from the fact that it is naturally aging in the test environments. This is not just an issue for performance testing, although the volumes of data sometimes required for performance testing do make it harder. This also affects functional testing as well as batch testing and business acceptance testing amongst others.

Testing web applications is more difficult today than ever before, as testing on the web is time-consuming. Complexity increases with technology, and businesses and developers need efficient tools to deal with it. This is where Selenium became one of the most widely used test automation tools and has been crucial in reducing testing efforts as well as improving user experience. Selenium is an open-source tool developed to automate web browsers.

Keep users informed and engaged with Ably's expanded push notification support. We're thrilled to announce that Ably Pub/Sub now supports web push notifications, in addition to our existing support for iOS and Android devices. With just a few lines of code, developers can easily integrate web push into their applications, providing a seamless and unified experience across all major platforms.