Legacy applications pose multiple problems for data-driven organizations like yours. Outdated software might no longer receive support and maintenance from its vendor or might not integrate with modern technologies like cloud computing. Still, these applications are essential for day-to-day business tasks, and replacing them could impede productivity and profitability.

When developing an Elixir app, you'll often need to handle tasks in a way that does not interrupt the normal user request-response cycle. Tasks like sending emails are great examples of jobs that should be delegated to a capable background job processing service. In the Elixir ecosystem, Oban is one such background job processing library. In this article, we'll learn what Oban is, how it works, and how to instrument it using AppSignal.

Today we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Hybrid Tables in all AWS commercial regions. As part of Snowflake Unistore, Hybrid Tables unify both transactional and analytical workloads on a single database to simplify architectures as well as governance and security. Since launching the public preview of Hybrid Tables this year, we have seen adoption across industries from customers such as Siemens, Panther, Mutual of Omaha, PowerSchool, MarketWise and Project Lead The Way.

Getting different teams, business units and even companies to work together toward a common goal not only maximizes efficiency, but drives innovation. Effective collaboration on data and AI has never been more closely tied to success. At Snowflake, we’re removing the barriers that prevent productive cooperation while building the connections to make working together easier than ever.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Tricentis NeoLoad 2024.3, the latest update to our industry-leading performance testing platform. This release brings with it significant advancements, most notably support for Remote Terminal Emulation (RTE) — allowing organizations to performance test legacy systems.

Development teams and product managers have many variables that affect their daily processes, but perhaps the most impactful is the nature of their development environment. Having a proper development environment can fundamentally change the efficacy of an entire engineering team, unlocking incredible productivity and iterative development at scale.

Traditional testing approaches can struggle to keep up with the dynamic nature of modern development cycles. While effective in certain contexts, these methods may miss some defects, which can lead to costly fixes, customer dissatisfaction, and damage to the product's reputation. The problem lies in the limitations of scripted testing, which might lack the flexibility required to identify novel defects.

What is legacy code? Legacy code is source code that already exists and needs to be used again. It's not necessarily lousy code, but it often needs some effort to integrate into newer systems. That means you need effective ways of overcoming legacy code's issues. What are your chances of working with legacy code? Given that most of the top 10 programming languages on the TIOBE popularity index have been around for at least 20 years, your chances are very high.

At Snowflake BUILD, we are introducing powerful new features designed to accelerate building and deploying generative AI applications on enterprise data, while helping you ensure trust and safety. These new tools streamline workflows, deliver insights at scale, and get AI apps into production quickly. Customers such as Skai have used these capabilities to bring their generative AI solution into production in just two days instead of months.

The wealth management industry is on the cusp of transformative change as we approach 2025. The sector, long considered a bastion of stability, now faces a confluence of forces reshaping its foundations. From generational wealth transfer to the integration of cutting-edge technologies like AI and blockchain, firms must evolve rapidly to meet the expectations of a new generation of investors.