Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Auto-generate Postman Collections from traffic

Postman is a great tool for API testing during development. It’s GUI is simple to learn and ubiquitous. However, manually writing test cases for local development gets tedious fast if you have a lot of endpoints. Meticulously entering every detail for every use case takes forever. Also, if you get one HTTP Header or parameter wrong, it can take hours to diagnose. And even when it’s done, the API tests are almost immediately out of date because the API contract changes.

Unleashing the power of Java UDFs with Snowflake

As part of the Snowpark developer experience, customers can execute Java user-defined functions (UDFs) packaged in a JVM right inside Snowflake’s powerful processing engine for better performance, scalability, and concurrency. These Java UDFs can be used for data preparation and enrichment pipelines, implementing custom business logic, and even to run machine learning model inference. In this session, Felipe Hoffa demonstrates how simple it is to get started with Java UDFs for your use case.

Introducing Build Insights Pro for build- and test analytics

Track your build and test performance to get unstuck, get on track and accelerate your pipelines. Visualize performance and identify bottlenecks by using historical build and test performance tracking. Today, we introduce Build Insights Pro, a new awesome extension to help you achieve more.

Using CSS Style Sheets on C++ Applications

Using CSS style sheets, UI designers and developers have the power to easily brand and style their applications. Views Style Sheets, available as part of the Visualization C++ software, follow the HTML Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard. They provide an easy to use mechanism for customizing the appearance of the Views Gadgets, enabling you to style your C++ application the way you want it to look. This blog looks at two common applications.

Distributed Monoliths vs. Microservices: Which Are You Building?

The concept of microservices has been popular for several years. As a result, many developers, companies have started building their applications using a microservices architecture. There are several reasons why a company or developer would want to move to microservices, including building a scalable application, maintaining the developer’s productivity without relying on each other, etc. Your teams start to build microservices by containerizing applications etc.

Preventing Customer Churn with Continual, Snowflake, and dbt

In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the customer churn/retention use case. This should contain everything needed to get started on the use case, and enterprising readers can also try this out for themselves in a free trial of Continual, following the customer churn example in the linked github repository.

Functional Programming in Elixir with Witchcraft

While Elixir is a functional programming language, it is different from most of the other popular functional languages like Haskell, Scala, OCaml, and F#. Elixir pragmatically handles concurrent systems with high fault tolerance. In other words, Elixir is an FP language because this naturally fits it, and not for its own sake. So, porting idioms blindly from Haskell to Elixir can lead to undesired results.