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Understanding Kafka with Speedscale #speedscale #kafka #visualization #engineering #production

In this video, we're breaking down the complex world of Apache Kafka and showing you how to gain deep visibility into your event streaming architecture using Speedscale. Kafka is the backbone of modern, cloud-native systems, but understanding what's happening in production—which topics are receiving traffic, where messages are going, and how services are interacting can be a real challenge. We'll cover how Speedscale makes Kafka visualization and debugging simple by.

DreamFactory Apache Spark and Databricks Integration: REST APIs for Delta Lake and Unity Catalog

DreamFactory's df-spark integration provides a production-ready, plug-and-play connector that automatically generates REST APIs for Apache Spark clusters, Databricks SQL Warehouses, Delta Lake tables, and Unity Catalog resources. This integration enables organizations to expose Spark data through standardized REST endpoints without writing custom API code, supporting both SQL-based workloads and advanced Spark Connect operations.

[Workshop 101] Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Platform with Kong AI Gateway

Join us for an in-depth session, "Build an Enterprise-Grade AI Platform with Kong AI Gateway," where we'll explore how organizations can securely operationalize AI at scale. Discover how Kong AI Gateway unifies APIs and AI services under one platform—enabling centralized governance, cost-efficient observability, and consistent policy enforcement across LLMs, embeddings, and AI workflows. Learn how to accelerate innovation while maintaining compliance and performance through capabilities like prompt introspection, semantic caching, and dynamic routing across private and public AI models.

Scenario Testing: A Complete Guide For QA And Software Teams

In contemporary software engineering, it is not sufficient to simply confirm that software applications function perfectly across all features – they also need to behave correctly with real users in real worlds. In this context, scenario testing has a significant role to play. Scenario testing fills the gap between functional testing and real user experience based on validating software by simulating end-to-end user journeys.

Engineering the Path to Autonomous Quality

AI has rewritten the rules of software development. Developers can now generate, fix, and ship code in seconds. This is transformative, but as shared by SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner, “The tools that help us build software are advancing much faster than the tools that ensure we can trust it.” For software quality to keep up with AI coding, today’s tools must evolve to remain effective. SmartBear is answering this call.

Automating PDF Testing: From Manual Checks to Comprehensive Validation

PDF documents play a critical role in various industries, serving as the final output for customer-facing documents such as invoices, contracts, and compliance reports. However, testing these documents poses significant challenges due to their complex nature, which includes mixed content, dynamic data, and strict formatting requirements. Manual testing of PDFs is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error, making automation an essential component of a robust testing strategy.

Seamless SSO: How to Integrate Okta (SAML 2.0) with DreamFactory

In today’s environment of distributed applications and microservices, unified identity and access management are essential. If you’re working with DreamFactory as your API-platform and want to leverage Okta for Single-Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, you’re in the right place. This post walks you through setting up Okta as your Identity Provider (IdP) and DreamFactory as your Service Provider (SP) for SAML 2.0-based login.

Better integration tests in Cursor using proxymock

Cursor is fantastic at cranking out code changes. I recently used it to splice a brand-new downstream API call into one of our Go microservices, and the diff looked great. The unit tests finished before I lifted my coffee mug, yet I still had zero certainty the change would survive contact with real traffic. That gap is all about integration tests, so I paired Cursor with proxymock and the outerspace-go demo service to prove the behavior end to end.