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How to Evolve your Microservice Schemas | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

Schema evolution is the act of modifying the structure of the data in our application, without impacting clients. This can be a challenging problem. However, it gets easier if we start with a flexible data format and take steps to avoid unnecessary data coupling. When we find ourselves having to make breaking changes, we can always fall back to creating new versions of our APIs and events to accommodate those changes.

Will AI take over software testing jobs? Human impact and why you shouldn't panic

When ChatGPT first hit the market its human-like responses were astonishing, yet somewhat eerie. Many thought, “It communicates just like me.” It follows that the next logical thought was, “It’s going to take over my job.” However, the fear that AI-driven tools will replace human software testers is unfounded. AI will certainly impact testing jobs, including market expectations, skillsets, and required knowledge.

Mapbox Snowflake Native App Opens Geospatial Analytics to New Audiences

Geospatial data can give a business a competitive edge — especially when it’s combined with the company’s own data resources. Considering a new store location? You’ll want to analyze not just where your nearest competitors and potential customers are, but also retail footfall numbers, historical traffic patterns, distance from distribution centers, environmental factors, potential delivery times to customers and more. You need geospatial data to make it all happen.

How Embedded Analytics Drives Product-Led Growth

Achieving product-led growth (PLG) is a continuous goal for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises aiming to scale efficiently and sustainably. The challenge is differentiating your product enough in a crowded market to retain users, and unlock new revenue streams. Traditional approaches to product-led growth often fall short in meeting the dynamic needs of today's data-driven users, who seek immediate, actionable insights within the applications they use.

Swift Networking Essentials: Using URLSession and URLRequest in iOS Apps

Let’s start at the very beginning, so it’s clear exactly what we’re talking about here – in Swift, networking is the process of sending and receiving data between an iOS application and a remote server or another device over the internet.