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Kafka Summit Europe 2021: Top talks & takeaways

In keeping with tradition, we’ve chowed our way through the entire all-you-can-eat buffet of Kafka Summit Europe 2021 talks to bring you the best content to catch up on. Jay Kreps’ keynote this year addresses a few Kafka-shaped elephants in the room, as well as an overall shift in the way event-driven business is surfacing. On the technology front, Confluent announced new support for Kubernetes as an orchestration layer running on Kafka in a private cloud.

How to use ThoughtSpot and Databricks SQL

Today, the rate of innovation around data processing has accelerated beyond what any of us previously thought possible. Databricks recently announced their Databricks SQL offering, which is the next step in this evolution and builds on the foundation of Delta Lake to deliver interactive analytics at scale. This offering pairs with ThoughtSpot’s Modern Analytics Cloud to empower everyone in an organization to find answers to their questions with simple access to the data lake.

Best scriptless testing tools for angular based applications

A long time ago, we started building software, basic calculator stuff. Small, uncluttered, and light software. Then we increased the size, complexity, and dependencies. As the complexities of the software applications increased, the need for software testing became more and more apparent. That was when Manual testing of software applications came into being. Soon, when the software was big and hefty, manual testing became a hectic and time-consuming job too.

API design 101: Links to our most popular posts

APIs play a critical role in helping software connect and communicate, as well as making the lives of developers a little easier. Over the years we’ve published a number of posts to help developers design APIs to get the most from them. Below is a list of our most popular API design posts you can read now or bookmark for later.

Learning how to use k6 live + serverless architecture with Nocnica Fee (k6 Office Hours)

In this office hours, Nicole van der Hoeven and Simme Aronsson are joined by Nocnica Fee from New Relic, who volunteered to learn how to use k6 for the very first time, live! We also had a chat about serverless architecture and how it's different from traditional architecture.

Operationalize Your Insights - The Self-Service Data Roadmap, Session 4 of 4

In this webinar, Unravel CDO and VP Engineering Sandeep Uttamchandani describes the fourth and final step for any large, data-driven project: the Operationalize phase. You've found your data (Discover phase), readied it for processing (Prep phase), and built out your processing logic and machine learning model(s) (Build phase). Now you need to Operationalize all your work to data as a live project, in production.

Cloud-Based Testing - A tester's perspective

Cloud-based testing has become quite integral these days. Most businesses have already done the shift towards cloud-based testing. The main reason is – it is faster, inexpensive, flexible, and requires no maintenance. The best part is that we do not own it, can easily lease it from a service provider, can easily scale up and scale down according to requirements and only have to pay for the amount of time we use the cloud resources.

How DueDil leverages Apigee API-first approach to deliver data insights at scale

As their name reflects, DueDil provides due diligence services ranging from customer-specific risk evaluations and selections to customer onboarding and real-time risk monitoring for leading financial services, high-growth tech and insurance companies. Founded in 2009, the company helps more than 3,000 enterprise users from over 400 clients to not only understand with whom they’re doing business, but to do so with increased efficiency and in compliance with regulatory requirements.