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Build with Confidence: Beta API Specs Available Now

Few things are more frustrating than encountering a product with either no documentation or worse: documentation that leads you astray. When it comes to developing APIs, schemas typically define how requests and responses are formatted and guide how clients and services exchange data. Commonly, schemas aren’t used to generate documentation or software development kits (SDKs), allowing them to become stale and inaccurate.

Generative AI vs. Large Language Models: What's the Difference?

What are the differences between generative AI vs. large language models? How are these two buzzworthy technologies related? In this article, we’ll explore their connection. To help explain the concept, I asked ChatGPT to give me some analogies comparing generative AI to large language models (LLMs), and as the stand-in for generative AI, ChatGPT tried to take all the personality for itself.

The Ultimate Guide to ELK Log Analysis

ELK has become one of the most popular log analytics solutions for software-driven businesses, with thousands of organizations relying on ELK for log analysis and management in 2021. In this ultimate guide to using ELK for log management and analytics, we’re providing insights and information that will help you know what to expect when deploying, configuring, and operating an ELK stack for your organization. Keep reading to discover answers to the following.

Service Mesh vs. API Gateway | Understanding Key Differences

In the realm of microservices orchestration, the question of choosing between a service mesh vs. API gateway often arises. These two components play vital roles in managing communication within distributed systems. In this discussion, we’ll explore the differences between a service mesh and an API gateway, shedding light on their individual purposes and capabilities.

Game Developers Weigh In on Talent Shortages and Generative AI in Perforce Annual State of Game Development Report

Perforce Software announces release of the 2023 State of Game Development & Design Report. The annual industry report, conducted together with Incredibuild, the leading software development acceleration platform, gathers insights across AAA and Indie game development professionals to provide perspective on the current state of the gaming industry, emerging tools and platforms, along with opportunities that lie ahead.

How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows

Is Windows your favorite development environment? Do you want to run Apache Kafka® on Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), now you can, and with fewer tears than in the past. Windows still isn’t the recommended platform for running Kafka with production workloads, but for trying out Kafka, it works just fine. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.

Test Case Template with Examples: Free Excel & Word Sample for Download

Having a good test case template comes with tons of benefits. Not having to re-invent the wheel is one of them. Drawing from years of experience in the software testing industry, we have created a detailed template for you to note down your test case in the most organized manner, so that you can dedicate your time and effort to other high-value tasks. Scroll down and download your template, and if you want to get some tips on how to best write a test case, read on, we got you covered!

How Financial Services and Insurance Streamline AI Initiatives with a Hybrid Data Platform

With the emergence of new creative AI algorithms like large language models (LLM) fromOpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMa, and Bloomberg’s BloombergGPT—awareness, interest and adoption of AI use cases across industries is at an all time high. But in highly regulated industries where these technologies may be prohibited, the focus is less on off the shelf generative AI, and more on the relationship between their data and how AI can transform their business.

The LINQ Join Operator: A Complete Tutorial

I think most C# developers would agree that LINQ is an integral part of the experience of writing code with the language. LINQ provides a fluent, intuitive, and consistent way to query data sets. In this post, we’ll help in your LINQ-mastering quest by covering the LINQ join operator. We’ll start the post with a definition of LINQ itself, so we’re all on the same page. After that, you’ll see an explanation of join operations in LINQ.