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Snow Report: What's Happening At Snowflake In February

This month's edition of the Snow Report features insights from venture capitalists on starting an AI business in 2025. It also includes new product announcements, such as the integration of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Cortex AI, as well customer stories, technical tips, and info on upcoming events.

Meetings, Tech Debt, and AI Are Slowing Developers Down

AI was seen as a potential means to revolutionize developer productivity, but the 2024 DORA report tells a different story. Here’s the reality developers are facing: Tech debt and documentation remain massive blockers, and AI tools aren’t fixing them. Endless meetings leave no time to code, and AI can’t clear your calendar. AI tools? Useful but unreliable, like a junior dev that needs constant oversight.

Tricentis LiveCompare: Improve your efficiency with new advancements in change intelligence technology

With the newest release of Tricentis LiveCompare, we have updated SAP HANA apps, the Smart Impact apps dashboard, and other aspects to improve your experience. With new features for templates, reports, accessibility, user interface, performance, and test repositories, LiveCompare has even more robust capabilities to enable your organization to have a fast, efficient, and trustworthy testing process.

What To Do When Your Reporting Solution Reaches End-of-Life

If you’re relying on JasperReports or Crystal Reports to power your data reporting and insights, you’ve likely heard the news: many popular versions are reaching end-of-life, and it’s time to start planning your next steps. Keeping up with your reporting solution’s end-of-life dates aren’t just about deadlines—it’s about ensuring your organization’s reporting capabilities remain reliable, secure, and future-proof.

Building and Running Secure APIs with Kong and Traceable

Cloud native application development relies heavily on APIs. APIs have proven themselves as a scalable and efficient way to capture, deploy, and scale functionality. Consequently, APIs became a target for malicious actors to misuse. Therefore, building quality APIs with adequate security controls is essential. Kong is the world’s most popular API gateway. Kong Konnect is a unified API platform.

How to Track Service Level Objectives with Kong and OpenTelemetry

In this blog post, we will explore how organizations can leverage Kong and OpenTelemetry to establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and manage error budgets more effectively. By tracking performance metrics and error rates against predefined thresholds, teams can prioritize their work based on the impact on user experience and business objectives. This approach helps optimize the balance between innovation and reliability.

Gen AI or Traditional AI: When to Choose Each One

When it comes to leveraging AI to capture business value, it’s worth asking, “what kind of AI do we need exactly?” There are significant differences between the methodologies collectively referred to as AI. While 2024 might have almost convinced us that gen AI is the end-all-be-all, there is also what’s sometimes called ‘traditional’ AI, deep learning, and much more.