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What is Istio Service Mesh?

As a developer working with microservices architectures, you may find yourself facing numerous challenges. Managing multiple services, each with its own potential points of failure, can be complex. Issues such as communication difficulties, security concerns, and lack of visibility are common in these environments. These challenges are not unique. As microservices architectures expand, they often introduce complexities that can be demanding for development teams to handle.

S1.E12: From Agile to Holistic Testing | QA Therapy Podcast

Testing has undergone a significant evolution, encompassing a broader range of quality attributes and adopting a more holistic perspective. But what exactly does this entail? We're thrilled to welcome our special guest, Janet Gregory, a renowned conference speaker and prolific author in the topic of agile testing. Collaborate seamlessly throughout the testing process with Xray - from planning and execution to debriefing and reporting - using the tools you're already familiar with, all within Jira.

How Do You Test a SOAP and REST Service?

REST and SOAP are two critical web services technologies that revolutionize how businesses use APIs. Since APIs are so common, it's important to test them regularly to find vulnerabilities or potential operating problems within the web service. To test a SOAP or REST service, you can use tools like SoapUI or Postman to send requests to the service endpoint, validate responses, and verify that the service behaves as expected under various conditions.

CrowdStrike Security Failure: A Security Testing Update

Having strong security testing services are crucial, as demonstrated by the recent incident involving top cybersecurity service CrowdStrike, which rocked the industry. A global outage hurting companies, airlines, and government institutions throughout the globe was caused by a defective upgrade to their Falcon Sensor software. This terrible episode serves as a clear warning of the possible repercussions when security updates, intended to protect systems, contain undetected flaws.

How Generative AI is Transforming Application Modernization

Per the trends suggested by Red Hat, modernization is among the topmost funding priorities (45%) for global businesses - all thanks to the promises of better digital experience, cloud-native, and quicker time to market. Generative AI can fulfill these promises by automating legacy system updates, enhancing user interfaces, facilitating cloud migration, and expediting software delivery.

Special Episode: Data lakes drive next-gen AI infrastructure | MotherDuck

Get ready to think differently about modern data architectures as we sit down with George Fraser, CEO of Fivetran, and Jordan Tagani, CEO of MotherDuck, to explore recent evolutions of data management. They discuss MotherDuck’s innovative new connector built with Fivetran’s Partner SDK, reveal why local data processing on modern laptops is disrupting cloud-based processing and share insights on deploying AI workloads on data lakes.

Accelerate your data streaming journey with the latest in Confluent Cloud

The Q2 2024 Confluent Cloud launch introduces a suite of enhancements across the four key pillars of a Data Streaming Platform - Stream, Connect, Process, and Govern – alongside some significant work we have been doing with our partner ecosystem to help customers unlock new possibilities. Confluent has helped over 4,900+ global enterprises start their data streaming journey and was recently named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023.

How to Capture Logs for a Simba ODBC Driver in Windows, macOS, or Linux

This video provides a step-by-step guide on capturing logs for a Simba ODBC driver across different operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux. Whether you’re configuring your driver on a personal computer or in a server environment, this tutorial will help you effectively monitor and troubleshoot any potential problems.

Enhancing Your Elixir Codebase with Gleam

Do you write Elixir but sometimes miss the benefits of type safety we have in other languages? If the answer is "yes", you may want to take a look at Gleam. It is a relatively young language that runs on top of the BEAM platform, which means it can be added as an enhancement to an Elixir codebase without you having to rewrite everything. In this article, we will add Gleam code to an Elixir project.

Continuous Integration for WordPress: Best Practices for Testing and Deployment

While continuous integration is a common practice for most software development teams, the stateful nature of WordPress makes it more challenging to set up. For our open source WordPress plugin, we wanted to integrate our standard build and test process for every pull request using CircleCI. CircleCI is a cloud-based CI/CD platform that streamlines the development process for creating, testing, and deploying code changes.