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Game Developers Weigh In on Talent Shortages and Generative AI in Perforce Annual State of Game Development Report

Perforce Software announces release of the 2023 State of Game Development & Design Report. The annual industry report, conducted together with Incredibuild, the leading software development acceleration platform, gathers insights across AAA and Indie game development professionals to provide perspective on the current state of the gaming industry, emerging tools and platforms, along with opportunities that lie ahead.

Securing the Future: Navigating Risks with Large Language Models (LLMs)

Large language models (LLMs) have recently garnered immense popularity and global attention due to their versatile applications across various industries. The advent of ChatGPT in late 2022, particularly resonating with Gen Z, exemplifies their impressive capabilities. Nowadays, the cumbersome process of navigating automated phone menus (pressing 1 or 2) for customer support is becoming less desirable, with chatbots like Siri and Alexa offering a more user-friendly alternative.

Securely Connect to LLMs and Other External Services from Snowpark

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. Functions or procedures written by users in these languages are executed inside of Snowpark’s secure sandbox environment, which runs on the warehouse.

Accelerate Docker builds with cache

Speed and efficiency are paramount during the build process. If you use a Dockerfile to build your container images from source code, you want to know about build cache. In this blog post, we’ll talk about what happens when you create a Docker image using a Dockerfile, how caching works with Docker, and how to optimize your Dockerfiles to maximize the benefits of build cache with Docker and on Koyeb.

How to Run Apache Kafka on Windows

Is Windows your favorite development environment? Do you want to run Apache Kafka® on Windows? Thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2), now you can, and with fewer tears than in the past. Windows still isn’t the recommended platform for running Kafka with production workloads, but for trying out Kafka, it works just fine. Let’s take a look at how it’s done.

How to use Google Charts with React for Dynamic Data

According to research from Matillon and IDG, data volumes increase by 63 percent per month on average in an organization. Examining such substantial volumes of data without the right tools makes it impossible to make informed decisions, even in small businesses. The key to deriving useful and profit-driving insights from data is data visualization - which turns complex raw figures into meaningful visual representations of the data. Google Charts is a free data visualization library provided by Google.

Choosing the Right ETL Tool for Google BigQuery Storage

Google BigQuery is a robust and scalable cloud-based data warehouse that allows storing and analyzing vast amounts of data. BigQuery is a natural choice if your data already exists on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). But before you leverage the platform, you need to extract the source data, carry out transformations, and load the data into your data lake or warehouse. This is where the ETL process and the ETL tools play a significant role.

Design and Deployment Considerations for Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS

Various factors can impede an organization's ability to leverage Confluent Cloud, ranging from data locality considerations to stringent internal prerequisites. For instance, specific mandates might dictate that data be confined within a customer's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), or necessitate operation within an air-gapped VPC. However, a silver lining exists even in such circumstances, as viable alternatives remain available to address these specific scenarios.