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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.

API Generation: A Better Way of Snowflake Data Extraction for Data Products

Organizations are constantly seeking more efficient ways to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data into their data warehouses. Snowflake, is one of the leaders in cloud data warehousing, has traditionally recommended ETL/ELT processes for data ingestion and extraction. However, for organizations building internal data products, there is a new kid on the block: API generation. Here’s the key things to know from this article.

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.

Lessons Learned From Scaling An Open Source | Angie Byron

Drupal—an open source CMS—turned 20 years old recently, and has grown from a small student hobby project to an enterprise-grade digital experience platform running ~3% of the Internet. This talk will explore the many lessons learned (most of them the hard way ;)) in navigating an international open source developer community through various scalability challenges. Angie is Director of Community at Aiven, Core Maintainer and Product Manager for Drupal, O’Reilly Author, Mom.