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Contributing to Apache Kafka: How to Write a KIP

I’m brand new to writing KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals). I’ve written two so far, and my hands sweat every time I hit send on an email with ‘ KIP’ in the title. But I’ve also learned a lot from the process: about Apache Kafka internals, the process of writing KIPs, the Kafka community, and the most important motivation for developing software: our end users. What did I actually write? Let’s review KIP-941 and KIP-1020.

Snowflake Arctic Cookbook Series: Instruction-Tuning Arctic

On April 24, we released Snowflake Arctic with a key goal in mind: to be truly open. In line with that goal, the Snowflake AI Research team is writing a series of cookbooks to describe how to pretrain, fine-tune, evaluate, and serve large-scale mixture-of-experts (MoEs) such as Arctic.

Master the Craft: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Develop an API

This guide provides a streamlined approach to the API development process, detailing the essential phases from the initial concept to the realization of a fully operational API. You’ll discover how to plan, design, and implement your own API and ensure it’s reliable and secure. With practical insights and actionable advice, you’ll learn the nuances of API development, from understanding the needs of your users to creating a scalable infrastructure that can handle growth.

Product Update: Boost Databricks productivity, performance, and efficiency

Today, 65% of IT decision-makers believe their company is falling behind the competition in using data and analytics. Why? Organizations want real-time insights, fraud/anomaly detection, trend analysis, and systems monitoring. The good news – data teams that use DataOps practices and tools will be 10 times more productive.With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a live event to share new capabilities to help you achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform.

What is Live Testing? Guide To Do Live Testing In-depth

Live testing is to test software in real-world situations with real users instead of simulated data. This approach allows testers to check software quality in actual usage scenarios and real-world conditions. They do have their own risks to take into consideration, since we are interacting with real users and live systems here. In this article, we will explore the concept of live testing in-depth, and how you can better do live testing with the right tools and approach.

Web CI on Bitrise: Beta announcement

Mobile developers love using Bitrise, and we get it. But we also know your products and automation workflows extend beyond just mobile apps. That's why we're thrilled to announce Bitrise's expansion into web CI/CD! While in beta, this is your chance to help shape an industry-leading solution for your entire development process.