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Emerging Tech Trends: Navigating the Most In-Demand Technical Careers for 2024

As we step into 2024, the tech industry continues to be a whirlwind of innovation and growth. With every passing year, technology reshapes not just how we live our daily lives but also the very fabric of our career landscapes. This year, certain tech roles are standing out, fueled by advancements in AI, cybersecurity, and cloud computing.

Using Streams Replication Manager Prefixless Replication for Kafka Topic Aggregation

Businesses often need to aggregate topics because it is essential for organizing, simplifying, and optimizing the processing of streaming data. It enables efficient analysis, facilitates modular development, and enhances the overall effectiveness of streaming applications. For example, if there are separate clusters, and there are topics with the same purpose in the different clusters, then it is useful to aggregate the content into one topic.

How to Automate Data Extraction from Patient Registration Forms in Healthcare

Automating data extraction from patient registration forms in healthcare is crucial to enhancing patient care efficiency, accuracy, and overall quality. Over 71% of surveyed clinicians in the USA agreed that the volume of patient data available to them is overwhelming. This abundance of data highlights the importance of streamlining the extraction process. Manual extraction is time-consuming and prone to errors, hindering patient safety.

Mastering Data Persistence in iOS with SwiftData

Introduced in 2023, SwiftData is the latest addition to the range of database framework options in Swift, Apple’s primary programming language for iOS. Built on top of Core Data, two levels above SQLite, it’s great for simplifying our persistent stores and it allows us to use declarative code, which is a really useful time-saver.

Introducing Apache Kafka 3.7

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.7.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. See the Upgrading to 3.7.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.6.x section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

Apache Kafka 3.7: Official Docker Image and Improved Client Monitoring

Apache Kafka® 3.7 is here! On behalf of the Kafka community, Danica Fine highlights key release updates, with KIPs from Kafka Core, Kafka Streams, and Kafka Connect. Kafka Core: Kafka Streams: Kafka Connect: Many more KIPs are a part of this release. See the blog post for more details.

Deploy Apps and Containers in Singapore on High-Performance Infrastructure GA

Everything you need to deploy high-performance serverless apps is available in Singapore: Singapore is our first Asia-Pacific region in GA, joining Washington, D.C. and Frankfurt, Germany, EU in the GA club with all our services available in these 3 regions. The new Eco instances are now available in Singapore and allow you to start for only $1.61/month, billed per second.

Autoscaling Now In Public Preview: Build, Run, and Autoscale Apps Globally

Today marks a monumental milestone: Autoscaling is now in public preview and available to all our users. Don't like to wake up in the middle of the night to scale up? Do you still have nightmares of the time you forgot to scale down your cloud infrastructure? Autoscaling is the answer: we adjust infrastructure to demand dynamically. We built our autoscaling feature to be: Autoscaling is powerful and raises some questions: It was the most requested feature on our feedback platform with new regions.