Last week, mobile app developers gathered in Cupertino, California, and tuned in across the globe to hear the latest news and future roadmap for Apple at their annual developer conference, WWDC 2024. And Apple did not disappoint.

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into business operations is no longer optional—it’s necessary. Yet, too often, businesses fail to reap the full rewards. AI can’t produce the results that impress stakeholders and drive tangible results unless you take a strategic approach to its deployment.

When major B2B providers realize that the cost of acquiring new clients is becoming prohibitively high, with much longer sales cycles, both mid-sized and large service providers have shifted their focus towards generating 70 to 85% of their annual revenues from existing accounts year after year. They ensure renewals of Statements of Work (SoWs) and secure a significant portion of new business from these accounts through account mining.

Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 3.2 is here, and it’s an incredible release. It contains features related to graph theory, features that mean you’ll never need a database again, and a whole host of quality-of-life fixes.

In the age of AI, enterprises are increasingly looking to extract value from their data at scale but often find it difficult to establish a scalable data engineering foundation that can process the large amounts of data required to build or improve models. Designed for processing large data sets, Spark has been a popular solution, yet it is one that can be challenging to manage, especially for users who are new to big data processing or distributed systems.

Snowpark in Snowflake is a service that transforms data processing by allowing developers to write code in familiar languages like Python directly within the Snowflake, Inc. platform. The 5 key takeaways from this Snowpark article are: Of all Snowflake features, Snowpark has stood out in the data analytics environment by streamlining data processing and analytics workflows. It enables developers to write code directly within the Snowflake environment with non-SQL languages like Python and Java.

The telecom industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Fueled by tech advancements such as 5G, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML), telecoms have the opportunity to reshape and streamline operations and make significant improvements in service delivery, customer experience and network optimization.

The IllegalArgumentException is an unchecked exception in Java that is thrown to indicate an illegal or unsuitable argument passed to a method. It is one of the most common exceptions in Java. To illustrate, it's like what happens when trying to set a password in a registration system with specific requirements.