We're pleased to announce the launch of Standard Webhooks! Kong has been part of the Technical Committee of this standard with other great companies like Svix (the initiator of the project), Ngrok, Zapier, Twillio, Lob, Mux, and Supabase. This was a year-long effort of gathering feedback, use cases, and debating about what and how to define what landed. Standard Webhooks is one initiative to standardize the way producers and consumers can have a contract to communicate.

In 2023, generative AI took the spotlight, emerging as the most talked-about technology of the year. This content creating powerhouse can do everything from text, image, and video generation to answering questions through natural language queries. And its potential uses are vast. While many industries are still in the experimental phase, the insurance sector is poised to benefit significantly from the integration of artificial intelligence into its ecosystem.

Today, we're making global deployment more accessible than ever with our new Eco Instance types, starting at $1.61 per month ($0.0000006 per second). We're also increasing the resources of the Free Instance type, giving you more to work with at no cost.

Segment is a popular customer data platform (CDP) that enables users to collect and manage customer data in different formats and from different sources. The platform hosts tools to transform, migrate, and manage data with third-party destinations, including data warehouses. Segment is a powerful tool that can appear complex.

The app size on my phone is 1GB which is double the size of my next largest banking app and 10 times the size of the following two. Does SoFi care to optimize the app? I’m hoping getting rid of the crypto exchange will reduce the overall size.” Said Mizzo12 on Reddit For too long, have we sat silent and allowed our app sizes to grow too big! While some of us enjoy the luxury of 5G internet and what seems like infinite storage, not everyone does! So..

From online workshops and feature spotlights to customer stories that can inspire your own processes, we’re sure you’ll find something to love in this month’s update 👇

At our recent Snowday event, we announced a wave of Snowflake product innovations for easier application development, new AI and LLM capabilities, better cost management and more. If you missed the event or need a refresh of what was presented, watch any Snowday session on demand. Let’s dive into all new releases in September, October and November.

2023 was a year of significant developments in the fields of business intelligence (BI) and analytics. With a 50% rise in overall adoption of self-service BI solutions, continued focus on data governance and data security, and ever-evolving integration of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in analytics, many businesses have transformed their use of data considerably.

Imagine easily enriching data streams and building stream processing applications in the cloud, without worrying about capacity planning, infrastructure and runtime upgrades, or performance monitoring. That's where our serverless Apache Flink® service comes in, as announced at this year’s Current | The Next Generation of Kafka Summit.

Data has had quite the year, hasn’t it? I have worked in the data and analytics space more years than I would like to admit, but I can honestly say that it’s been one of the most exciting, wild rides in recent memory. Qlik has been along for that ride, and brought quite a bit of excitement all on its own. So I thought I would recap the five moments that really stand out for me from the world of data… and Qlik in 2023. But, hang on.