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What is QA Automation: Tools, Benefits, and Best Practices

Quality Assurance (QA) teams must run extensive tests to ensure that a website or application performs as intended before release. However, rather than manually running these tests, which can hinder productivity, modern teams are using QA automation. By automating QA testing workflows, teams can rapidly execute these tests using standardized processes, frameworks, and software. Developers can quickly fix any errors and deliver high-quality code so that product teams can speed up release times.

A Ride Towards the Successful Bike Taxi App Development

Bike-Taxi Apps: Hailing as the powerful giant who emerged to take control, take charge, and change the commutation landscape! But are you aware of the rising popularity of bike taxi app development? According to GlobeNewswire, the market for online taxi services will increase from $34.82 billion in 2022 to $38.54 billion in 2023, growing at a 10.7% CAGR. Actually, we are talking about way ahead of 2023.

What's New in Kong Gateway 3.7?

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway Open Source (OSS) 3.7. This latest version features cutting-edge AI Gateway updates with new streaming plugins, as well as performance and security improvements. Let’s dive into the enhancements and explore the tangible benefits that these features bring to your organization.

Modernize Payments Architecture for ISO 20022 Compliance

The payments industry is evolving rapidly, fueled by technological advancements, changing consumer behaviors, and a growing appetite for real-time transactions. As this transformation unfolds, new standards have been introduced to ensure the payments ecosystem's safety, security, and efficiency.

Data Engineering for AI at Scale with Qlik and Databricks

For data engineers, the Generative AI (Gen AI) era is a transformative shift in how we approach data architecture and analytics. Professionals at the forefront of this shift will be gathering in San Francisco, at the Data+AI Summit June 10-13. Attendees will be exploring tools that integrate with Databricks Intelligent Data Platform that decrease data management costs and improve data's impact on business outcomes.

Serverless Decoded: Reinventing Kafka Scaling with Elastic CKUs

Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications. However, this rise has also sparked discussions on improving Kafka operations and cost-efficiency—streaming data is naturally prone to bursts and often unpredictable, resulting in inevitable variations in workloads and demand on your Kafka cluster(s).

The ABCs of ASM: Understanding Attack Surface Management for Better Security

Enterprises are encountering an ever-increasing number of threats to their digital assets. Attack Surface Management (ASM) has emerged as a crucial practice to mitigate these risks and enhance overall cybersecurity. By understanding and effectively managing the attack surface, enterprises can proactively identify and address vulnerabilities, reducing the likelihood of successful attacks.

Introducing Confluent Cloud OpenSearch Sink Connector

Amazon OpenSearch is a popular fully managed analytics engine that makes it easier for customers to do interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and semantic and keyword searches. It can also be used as a vector engine that helps organizations build and augment GenAI applications without managing infrastructure (we’ll talk about this in future blogs). Additionally, the service provides a reliable, scalable infrastructure designed to handle massive data volumes.

Snowflake Expands Partnership with Microsoft to Improve Interoperability Through Apache Iceberg

Today we’re excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Microsoft to deliver a seamless and efficient interoperability experience between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric OneLake, in preview later this year. This will enable our joint customers to experience bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, with a single copy of data with OneLake in Fabric.