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Have you ever wondered how computer programs manage their memory, like how they clean up after themselves to keep things running smoothly? what happens to all those blocks you are no longer using? This is where the role of the garbage collector becomes significant. Think of the garbage collector as a diligent assistant that recognizes tools you have finished using. It proceeds to carefully place these tools back into their storage, effectively reclaiming memory.

With collaboration tools out there always pushing the frontier of responsive design in applications, such as Miro in the design space, it’s important to ensure that your own applications are providing the functionality developers are now expecting. A fairly typical tool used by all, be it employees of a business attempting to organize a schedule, or individuals organizing their own social lives, are schedulers.

Jason Gilmore - January 10, 2024 Our team regularly holds detailed technical discussions with some of the largest companies in the world. From these many discussions it’s become quite apparent that lying somewhere beneath the fancy logo and glitzy commercials you’ll find IT departments relying on tried-and-true technologies and protocols to get the job done.

At most federal government agencies, acquisition teams are understaffed and overworked. They have open positions that they can’t seem to fill. And their acquisition “systems” aren’t helping matters. Rather than working with one integrated government acquisition system, many agencies rely on separate applications that each perform one function. And the applications don’t communicate with each other or integrate with the financial system.

Admittedly, Chrome is the dominating browser with around 62.3% of market share as of Nov 2023, but if you only test your websites on Google Chrome, there is still around 38.7% of your users who visit your site on other browsers that you are missing out on. What if a bug occurs on those browsers? To ensure that no bugs went undetected, you need cross-browser testing. To test across browsers, you may need a cross-browser testing tool.

Testing is an essential part of any software development project to meet the ever-rising quality standards and deliver exceptional user experience. QA teams usually leverage automation testing tools with robust features to streamline this process and deliver quality faster. In this article, we compare 2 of the top candidates loved by QA professionals over the world: Katalon vs TestComplete. What will we cover in this review?

At Current 2023, we announced that Confluent Cloud is now up to 10x faster than Apache Kafka®, thanks to Kora, The Cloud-Native Kafka engine that powers Confluent Cloud. In this blog post, we will cover what that means in more depth.