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Why Product Managers Should Care About Testing

A product manager’s job first and foremost is to deliver value to their customers with the products they oversee. In order to ensure quality, those products need to be tested. Testing before release in a well thought-out manner gives product managers the confidence to create and execute high quality products and user experiences.

Want Post-Pandemic Business Success? Embedded Analytics is the New Normal

With COVID-19, it has become clear that ideas and assumptions that worked in the past will no longer apply now and in the future. The region is expected to face its deepest economic slowdown since the 1970s due to COVID-19. Businesses might be wondering what to do next.

TM4J Is Now Zephyr Scale

When SmartBear added TM4J to our product portfolio earlier this spring, it brought us one more step towards our mission: help teams achieve quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), no matter where they’re starting from. The addition rounded out our test management portfolio, offering a solution to those customers who seek a SaaS test management solution within Jira. So why the name change?

How to Own That New State-of-the-Art Model Repo!

Deep learning has evolved in the past five years from an academic research domain, to being adopted, integrated and leveraged for new dimensions of productivity across multiple industries and use cases, such as medical imaging, surveillance, IoT, chatbots, robotic,s and many more. From NLP to computer vision, deep learning has been breaking the barriers of SOTA algorithms and providing results that were, otherwise, impossible to achieve.

Fivetran Receives ISV Partners Innovation Award From Databricks

We’re honored to win this prestigious award, and we’re doubling down on the Lakehouse architecture with Databricks SQL analytics plans. Fivetran is the proud recipient of the Databricks ISV Partners Innovation Award as announced at this week’s Data & AI Summit Europe event. The award recognizes how Fivetran has collaborated with Databricks to empower data professionals to accelerate time to insights with Delta Lake and the Lakehouse architecture for the modern data stack.

Record JMeter Tests Chrome Extension

If you need to run a JMeter Load Test and it’s a burden to download Apache JMeter locally on your machine, open it and manually create your JMeter test file, now there is a much easier way to record browser interactions with JMeter. The LoadFocus | JMeter Load Testing in the Cloud Chrome Extension for recording JMeter test script files (.JMX files) from LoadFocus is a free tool to easily record and run load tests in the cloud.

Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements

Today is a big day for Kuma! Kuma 1.0 is now generally available with over 70 features and improvements ready to use and deploy in production to create modern distributed service meshes for every application running on multiple clusters, clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. Before we unpack this release, a big thank you to the community and to the users that have helped releasing this major version of Kuma with their contributions and feedback.

Kong Enterprise 2.2 Now Generally Available!

Today, we’re proud to announce the release of Kong Enterprise 2.2 GA! Kong Enterprise 2.2 is built on top of version 2.2 of our popular open source gateway and brings with it a slew of new features and some Enterprise-only features on top. Let’s dive in! For a long time, Kong has supported not only HTTP/HTTPS traffic with REST and gRPC APIs, but also raw TCP streams. In version 2.2, we now extend our support to include UDP-based protocols as well!

Achieving exactly-once delivery with Ably

Exactly-once is a desirable (if not critical) message delivery guarantee and a remarkably complex engineering challenge to solve. In this blog post, we will look at what exactly-once means in the context of distributed pub/sub systems, and the exactly-once guarantees that the Ably realtime pub/sub messaging platform provides. Ably often acts as the broker in data streaming pipelines: publishers send messages to our platform, and we deliver these messages to subscribers.

How augmented reality improves conversions and engagement in mobile shopping apps

COVID-19 caused a significant shift in consumer sentiment; making mobile shopping ever so popular — and digital brand engagement a competitive necessity. With an increasingly noisy online marketplace and physical stores losing traction, it’s time to adopt immersive consumer tech to attract new shoppers, revenue, and brand recognition.