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70% Faster Deployments and High-Performance Private Network

It’s Day 2 of our Launch Week, and we’re excited to unveil our new networking stack! If you're following us, you know that we're obsessed with performance: we want fast deployments and a speedy network once your apps are live. Long story short: while working on optimizing deployments speed, we hit limitations with our old stack, we decided to revamp everything and built a new networking stack for the platform.

Top 10 SEO Tools to Consider in 2024

Search engine optimization (SEO) has evolved from being a niche marketing tactic to a fundamental strategy for driving website traffic and conversions. With constant algorithm updates and the increasing competition for search engine rankings, businesses need to stay on top of their SEO efforts. To do that effectively, investing in the right SEO tools is critical.

The Power of the Best-in-Class Ecosystem

In the business world, gaining the “unfair advantage” often seems like a strike of great luck and timing (think Zoom and the pandemic). But in reality, it’s often the result of deliberate strategies and actions (in Zoom’s case, delivering a superior user experience). One great strategy: getting the unfair advantage through a best-in-class technology ecosystem.

How we use hyperfine to measure PHP Engine performance

One of our recurring jobs at Tideways is to ensure that all of our instrumentation works with the new and upcoming PHP versions. For us, “working” doesn’t just mean that the results are correct, but that your PHP extension is fast, gathering insights for our customers with a minimal performance overhead.

The Confluent Q3 '24 Launch

The Confluent Q3 ’24 Launch is packed with the new features and tools needed to make stream processing a developer’s best friend. We’re also introducing Client-Side Field Level Encryption, WarpStream, and more! Our quarterly launches provide a single resource to learn about the accelerating number of new features we’re bringing to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.

New in Confluent Cloud: Making Serverless Flink a Developer's Best Friend, Protecting Sensitive Data, and More

The Q3 Cloud Bundle Launch comes to you from Current 2024, where data streaming industry experts have come together to show you why data streaming is critical today, especially in the age of AI, and how it will become even more important in shaping tomorrow’s businesses. This year’s Current event attracted over 2,500 attendees, both in-person and virtual, and featured 140+ learning sessions by industry experts.

Nuances of Quality Engineering for Emerging Technologies

Increasingly digital consumption of products and services, along with the shift to remote work and education, have significantly affected how software is developed and tested. According to Deloitte’s “2023 Quality Engineering Trends” report, “new technologies” is still the top factor driving testing spend.

The Pesticide Paradox in Software Testing

There’s an interesting term in agriculture called the pesticide paradox. When a pesky insect infestation is threatening a farmer’s hard-earned harvest, he sprays the crop with pesticide, killing (most of) them in an instant. What a glorious win of man against nature! But there’s a catch: the tiny percentage of those insects which fortunately survive will develop a natural resistance to the pesticide.