We’re excited to announce a new addition to our Kong Konnect EKS Blueprint Family: the Kong Konnect Mesh EKS Blueprint Add-on to deploy your Mesh Zones. Deploy your zones securely on AWS with the new Mesh Manager offering in Kong Konnect. It gives you an opinionated install of Kong Mesh to quickly ramp up on Kong Konnect’s Mesh Manager on Amazon EKS. Let’s dive in.

Parallel processing in computers is like having an efficient team working on different parts of a task simultaneously. In traditional programming, tasks are executed one after the other, like solving a puzzle piece by piece. However, parallel processing divides the task into smaller chunks, and these chunks are handled simultaneously by multiple processors or cores. Python provides modules that allow programs to leverage multiple processor cores efficiently.

Dear our valued customers, users, and partners, Cheers to a New Year filled with exciting possibilities! We hope you welcomed 2024 with joy and surrounded by your loved ones. As we close the chapter in 2023, we're excited to share a snapshot of the year's dynamic journey with you. From breaking through challenges to introducing cutting-edge features, your partnership has been key to our success.

The growing potential of web3 is undeniably revolutionizing the internet, but its vulnerability to security threats has raised significant concern over its usage. In 2022, the web3 domain experienced a substantial onslaught, with 165 major attacks resulting in cumulative losses of $3.6 billion. In 2023, notably the third quarter, the domain further witnessed staggering financial losses exceeding $720 million due to security breaches in web3 systems.

Businesses are in a persistent productivity slump that could last through 2030, according to a 2023 World Bank study. The tech boom that powered innovation and growth over the last three decades is fading. Many companies are counting on artificial intelligence (AI) to boost operational efficiency and counteract these alarming trends.

Today, businesses are facing some of the toughest digital innovation challenges we’ve ever seen in recent times. The climate crisis, the breakneck speed of technological innovation, and growing cybersecurity threats are just some of the hurdles that must be smartly addressed for organizations to succeed in today’s increasingly data-driven world. This is something we know to be true from recent discussions with our customers.

Customers today have high expectations for their digital experiences. They want their apps to be culturally relevant, device-aligned, and intuitive. As a result, global brands must go beyond simple translations for app localization testing to offer a great user experience worldwide. Localization testing includes different aspects, such as user interface (UI), functionality, and linguistic testing. However, effective localization goes further than getting the language right.

Vertex AI transcription models in BigQuery let you transcribe speech files and combine them with structured data to build analytics and AI use cases.

Welcome back to the Loadero newsletter and a happy new year to you all! As we look back at 2023 we see that it has been a rocky year and we are as eager as ever to move onwards to 2024! But before we jump into the new year, we wanted to bring you updates on what new features have been added in December.

With the integration of BigQuery and Document AI, you can extract insights from document data and build new large language model (LLM) applications.