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How We Got a 12% Increase in RPS and a 37% Drop in Latency

At Kong, we run performance testing in CI in every commit or pull request that has a potential performance impact, as well as on each release. Thanks to the performance testing framework and its integration with Github Actions, we can easily get basic metrics like RPS and latency. Also, flame graphs to pinpoint the significant part that draws down performance. With that workflow in place, we figured one of the most significant parts of Kong’s hotpath is Nginx variable accesses.

4 Ways to Leverage Kong's jq Plugin

As part of the Kong Gateway 2.6 release, we shipped a brand new jq plugin for anyone with an enterprise license to use. It’s like we combined the request and response transformer plugins to form a single, more powerful plugin—supercharging the way we work with request and response bodies. If you’re not familiar with jq, it’s a JSON processing language that allows you to manipulate any JSON document and transform it however you need.

Supercharge Software Development with Low-code Test Automation

In a fast-changing world, technology and business leaders need to adopt new approaches to software development that will align customer-facing functions, improve customer experience, reduce operational costs and support business growth. According to Gartner’s IT Automation Predictions for 2021, these new approaches will allow teams to spend less time testing and more time innovating, shifting up to 30% of IT operations efforts from support to continuous engineering.

Hyperautomation: Reflections on Cacti, Innovation & Sustainable Growth

The best stories don’t always appeal to logic, but they often connect with us on an emotional level. Ditto for the story of Sumanta Basu’s remarkable evolution from a passionate cacti gardener to a trusted advisor to C-level executives as Practice Head of Intelligent Process Automation at Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting and business process services company with more than 220,000 employees. “I love gardening,” says Sumanta.

Test Coverage in Software Testing: Its Relevance & Important Techniques to Take Note

Software is wonderfully useful for so many situations but it can be a challenge to create something reliable – something that won’t be riddled with errors. Software that is lacking doesn’t just ruin the user experience, it can cause a load of problems that spread way beyond that. Research indicates that the cost of poor-quality software is about $2.8 trillion in the US alone. Needless to say, creating effective and dependable software should be a priority for any business.

IT Professionals Reveal Cloud Data Platform Highs and Lows of 2021

Wondering whether your struggles with the data lake, cloud data platform, or analytics at large are typical? Are you ahead or behind the curve? ChaosSearch recently commissioned a survey to understand the advantages and setbacks organizations face today in these areas, and we’re excited to share a sneak peek of the results. To uncover more detailed findings from our research, sign up to receive the full report once it’s available here.

Customer 360: Explained

Imagine synchronizing every piece of customer data from across your organization into a single integrated platform. You could generate a panoramic view of consumer activities and develop an understanding of what your customers really want. Customer 360 helps you do all of that. It's the practice of integrating customer data from multiple sources so you can deliver better experiences for every person who engages with your organization. Below, learn about customer 360, how it works, and its benefits.

Simplifying Use of External APIs with Request/Response Translators

Snowpark has generated significant excitement and interest since it was announced. Snowpark is a developer framework that enables data engineers, data scientists, and data developers to code in their language of choice, and execute pipelines, machine learning (ML) workflows, and data applications faster and more securely. While many parts of Snowpark are in preview stages, External Functions entered General Availability earlier this year.