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A Deep Dive into Memory Leaks in Ruby

In the first part of this two-part series on memory leaks, we looked at how Ruby manages memory and how Garbage Collection (GC) works. You might be able to afford powerful machines with more memory, and your app might restart often enough that your users don't notice, but memory usage matters. Allocation and Garbage Collection aren't free. If you have a leak, you spend more and more time on Garbage Collection instead of doing what you built your app to do.

Building a Pricing Strategy for Your APIs

An API is a unique product. There is no presentable UI or outcome a developer can show and market similar to a regular product in the marketplace. The only way to perceive its usefulness is to spend time testing and understanding the value it brings. Given these unique conditions, monetizing an exposed API requires a different approach compared to monetizing other products. This post discusses how to build a pricing strategy for your APIs and which aspects you should consider.

Modernizing MLOps: Why I Chose Continual

It says something about a company and its people when they drop the process of formulaic job interviews and just let you pitch ideas for the job you want. That’s what happened when I applied to Continual as a Technical Marketing Manager. Five weeks in, I’m pleased to say I’m working on those same ideas, which I’ll detail in a couple minutes.

Getting Started with Cloudera Stream Processing Community Edition

Cloudera has a strong track record of providing a comprehensive solution for stream processing. Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP), powered by Apache Flink and Apache Kafka, provides a complete stream management and stateful processing solution. In CSP, Kafka serves as the storage streaming substrate, and Flink as the core in-stream processing engine that supports SQL and REST interfaces.

Chanty - A Collaboration Tool That Helps Get Work Done, Together

How many emails do you receive and send each day to your coworkers on average? And how long does it typically take for you to update your team on the progress or objectives of your tasks? You should think about changing your collaboration tools if your productivity bothers you. There are many software solutions for team collaboration and communication. With so many alternatives available in the market, it might get difficult to choose the best one for yourself and your team.

How to Use APIs to Streamline Processes and Increase Efficiency

If your business is using APIs and other technologies, chances are you don’t know how they can help your bottom line. But, don’t be surprised if your business uses these services to improve efficiency, streamline processes and reduce costs when it comes time to integrate them into your existing business model. Here are a few examples of how businesses can use APIs to streamline processes.

High Praise for Hitachi Content Platform

Data is the fuel for today’s modern economy – it drives everything from large-scale manufacturing, financial services, energy and transportation to healthcare, media and entertainment and everything in between. This new philosophy of data-centricity has evolved the way organizations think about their IT environments, infrastructure, applications, solutions and even cloud providers.