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How to write a user story with great UX in mind

If your typical user story looks like: “As a new user, I want to create an account to have an account,” then you might have a problem. As a recent viral Twitter thread from user evangelist and UX pro Laura Klein pointed out a big issue in the QA community: how to write a user story. Product owners are trying to create and execute as many user stories as possible to define requirements and establish acceptance criteria.

A quick guide to load testing Grafana Loki with Grafana k6

As a software engineer here at Grafana Labs, I’ve learned there are two questions that commonly come up when someone begins setting up a new Loki installation: “How many logs can I ingest into my cluster?” followed by, “How fast can I query these logs?” There are two ways to find out the answers.

Kong Ingress Controller 2.4: Weighted Load Balancing, Support for TCP, UDP and HTTP Routes

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

Add Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper

Picture this scenario: you are a Rails developer and have spent the last couple of days developing that awesome feature that everyone is waiting for. It's big and complex, but it went through rigorous testing, so you are confident everything works as it should. There are deadlines to meet, so you deploy. Immediately, all hell breaks loose. Your feature straight up breaks the entire app for some of your users. It's hard to say why. No bugs showed up during testing.

Java: List of Checked & Unchecked Exceptions

Like most modern programming languages, Java includes the concept of exceptions to handle both errors and "exceptional events." When an exception occurs in your code, it disrupts the normal instruction logic and abnormally terminates the process. However, with a little foresight and code, you can often handle these exceptions gracefully, allowing your code to continue running and providing insight for tracking down the root cause of the unexpected result.

Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS

We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the correct backend application, running as one or more pods on GKE.

Katalon and AWS | Better Cloud Readiness and Software Quality

ATLANTA, Ga. — June 6, 2022 — Katalon, Inc., the provider of a leading test automation platform, today announced the availability of the Katalon Test Automation Platform through AWS Marketplace as a SaaS contract, enabling customers to buy and immediately start using the test automation, orchestration, and management solution to be agile & innovative to support business requirements and to provide superior customer experience.

How to Use a Continual Learning Pipeline to Maintain High Performances of an AI Model in Production - Guest Blogpost

The algorithm team at WSC Sports faced a challenge. How could our computer vision model, that is working in a dynamic environment, maintain high quality results? Especially as in our case, new data may appear daily and be visually different from the already trained data. Bit of a head-scratcher right? Well, we’ve developed a system that is doing just that and showing exceptional results!