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Hitachi Vantara Makes Kubernetes Container Technology Acquisition

Container technology promises to usher in the biggest step change in infrastructure economics since server virtualization. By some estimates, customers are saving as much as 50% on infrastructure costs by switching from hosting cloud native applications in their own data centers to hosting containerized versions of those applications in a private, hybrid or public cloud.

How QA Teams Can Use Software Monitoring Tools

If you work in QA, you're probably accustomed to thinking of software monitoring as someone else's job. Traditionally, responsibility for monitoring applications fell to IT teams; QA's role ended with pre-deployment testing, and QA engineers did not usually touch monitoring tools. But the reality is that monitoring tools—meaning tools designed to help track application availability and performance, and also alert teams to problems—aren't just for IT teams.

Data-Driven Customer Success Management and How APIs Provide the Leading Indicator of Account Health

By employing API analytics platforms Customer Success Management (CSM) teams can proactively help customers reach their goals, which in turn encourages them to renew their subscription and upgrade their contract. Getting your customers to love you is snap with customer-centric API analytics: integrations will happen faster, support will be more on-point and you’ll be set-up to provide real ongoing value.

How to Fix Crashing Apps on an iPhone or Android?

If you’ve got an app that keeps going down for no apparent reason, don’t worry, this quick and easy guide will give you the tools to get it up and running smoothly. To help you better, first select what type of user you are and what problem you have: If you’re not from the tech world yourselves, you probably think us programmers get everything right all the time.

Maximizing performance of Apache Kudu block cache with Intel Optane DCPMM

Intel Optane DC persistent memory (Optane DCPMM) has higher bandwidth and lower latency than SSD and HDD storage drives. These characteristics of Optane DCPMM provide a significant performance boost to big data storage platforms that can utilize it for caching. One of such platforms is Apache Kudu that can utilize DCPMM for its internal block cache.

Replacing Recompose with React Hooks

Recompose is a React utility belt for function components and higher-order components that has been very useful to our frontend engineering team. After more than three years of working with it, we’ve identified a lot of pain points. In October 2018, the React team introduced Hooks which shipped with React v16.8 and provided an alternative to HOCs.

How to remove Recompose and replace with Hooks

In our last post, we explored the pros and cons of Recompose and why we decided to remove it from our codebase. This post includes the strategy we used to approach the large task of implementing that refactor. It’s important to note that this strategy was created to fit our specific situation and is not a one size fits all approach to removing Recompose. Specifically, it was intended to work with our large codebase that is modified by our devs daily.

How Platterz gained data-backed understanding of interaction with new features

Platterz helps cultivate happy workplaces by creating delicious food experiences to offices across the country. To do this, the business intelligence team at Platterz is on a never-ending mission to derive important insights from the multitude of data at their fingertips. Platterz had the data and the world’s best visualization tool - Looker - but they needed a way to organize the data seamlessly in a way that was optimized for their teams.

How Mall Group accelerates feature development and brings autonomy to 100+ engineers

Mall Group, the leading e-commerce group in Central Europe, recently employed Keboola to streamline operations and accelerate growth. In a matter of months, Keboola’s platform enabled Mall Group’s individual teams to become much more autonomous as well as accelerate feature development, testing, and deployment.