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Xcode 16 is now available on Bitrise with major stack updates

‍Our commitment has always been to ensure that our developers enjoy a seamless experience on Bitrise. However, with every major tool or version update, there is always a potential for disruptions, especially for workflows that have grown reliant on the specifics of an older stack.

Introducing Confluent's OEM Program: Deliver Data Streaming Faster and Unlock Revenue Growth

As real-time experiences become integral to everyday life and data-driven technologies like GenAI drive the next wave of innovation, one thing is clear: real-time data is the key to enterprise growth. The Confluent OEM Program empowers MSPs, CSPs, and ISVs to quickly unlock new revenue streams by integrating the industry-leading data streaming platform into their customer offerings.

New in Confluent Cloud: Making Serverless Flink a Developer's Best Friend, Protecting Sensitive Data, and More

The Q3 Cloud Bundle Launch comes to you from Current 2024, where data streaming industry experts have come together to show you why data streaming is critical today, especially in the age of AI, and how it will become even more important in shaping tomorrow’s businesses. This year’s Current event attracted over 2,500 attendees, both in-person and virtual, and featured 140+ learning sessions by industry experts.

70% Faster Deployments and High-Performance Private Network

It’s Day 2 of our Launch Week, and we’re excited to unveil our new networking stack! If you're following us, you know that we're obsessed with performance: we want fast deployments and a speedy network once your apps are live. Long story short: while working on optimizing deployments speed, we hit limitations with our old stack, we decided to revamp everything and built a new networking stack for the platform.

Cognitive Biases in Software Testing: A Guide To Overcome

We are humans, and humans sometimes make mistakes. We make hundreds of decisions on a daily basis, and sometimes those decisions are not entirely based on rationality, but on cognitive biases. Anyone, including testers, can be subjected to the trappings of cognitive biases. Those biases are the result of years of evolutionary adaptation, and they allow us to make quick judgements (we all want to survive). However, they usually aren't the best judgements.

How we use hyperfine to measure PHP Engine performance

One of our recurring jobs at Tideways is to ensure that all of our instrumentation works with the new and upcoming PHP versions. For us, “working” doesn’t just mean that the results are correct, but that your PHP extension is fast, gathering insights for our customers with a minimal performance overhead.

The Confluent Q3 '24 Launch

The Confluent Q3 ’24 Launch is packed with the new features and tools needed to make stream processing a developer’s best friend. We’re also introducing Client-Side Field Level Encryption, WarpStream, and more! Our quarterly launches provide a single resource to learn about the accelerating number of new features we’re bringing to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.

The Pesticide Paradox in Software Testing

There’s an interesting term in agriculture called the pesticide paradox. When a pesky insect infestation is threatening a farmer’s hard-earned harvest, he sprays the crop with pesticide, killing (most of) them in an instant. What a glorious win of man against nature! But there’s a catch: the tiny percentage of those insects which fortunately survive will develop a natural resistance to the pesticide.