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August 2023

Driving Better Developer Experience with SwaggerHub Portal

SmartBear is excited to announce the release of SwaggerHub Portal, a feature of SwaggerHub allowing you to customize consumer-facing documentation for your APIs to maximize API discoverability. With its intuitive interface, you can easily create onboarding guides, reference documentation, and other materials that help developers both understand and integrate your APIs into their applications. With Portal, you can easily sync your API designs from SwaggerHub with zero context switching.

Introduction to Design Patterns in Software Development

In the realm of software development, designing apps that are reliable and scalable is crucial. Design patterns are essential in achieving these objectives, being useful in OOP, UI and even QR Code design. The main reason is that design patterns offer reusable solutions to typical problems. This post explains the idea of design patterns, exploring their types, benefits and practical applications.

Benefits of Real-Time Data Integration for Business Intelligence

Data-driven businesses like yours require up-to-the-second actionable insights to stay ahead of the curve. According to recent industry reports, businesses that can make timely decisions based on real-time data have been shown to outperform their competitors by 20%. Real-time data integration processes and transfers data to a centralized location as quickly as possible, enabling you to make informed decisions and address organizational challenges immediately, rather than in a few hours or days.

Your Ultimate Embedded Analytics Starter Pack

As technology advances, so do user expectations. Many customers approach us hoping to boost their application’s analytics capabilities, which are often struggling to keep up with user demand. We see the same analytics challenges time and time again: Disjointed user experience — A lack of customization and functionality prevents your users from viewing data in a way that satisfies their needs. Few dashboards are built to serve the needs of many.

LLM and AI advancements ignite a new chapter of FinOps

Organizations across all industries are racing to understand large language models (LLMs) and how to incorporate the generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities provided by LLMs into their business activities. Thanks to LLMs’ broad utility in classifying, editing, summarizing, answering questions, and drafting new content, among other tasks they are being embedded into existing processes and used to create new applications and services.

Coupler.io: Your Business Data Analytics and Automation Solution

Companies no longer question the importance of data analytics for their business success. With the help of data, brands can predict business outcomes, detect purchasing patterns, track customer behavior, and improve overall decision-making. However, many organizations still struggle with implementing the needed steps for robust data analysis. They often lack the time and expertise to use data to its fullest potential.

Disney Parks Data Transformation Powered By Snowflake's Data Cloud

While companies have different motivations for modernizing their data strategy and platform, we all agree that investment in data is necessary and valuable. With the pace at which technologies are changing, it can be difficult to make the right decisions for your organization. By starting with a strong foundational data strategy, you can choose the right tools and architecture to transform your business. Listen in to learn how Disney Parks is leveraging Snowflake to implement a modern data strategy and lead a multifaceted transformation to disrupt not only the technology but also the culture of how engineering and business teams use and collaborate with data.

Exploring the Test Diamond Strategy and Its Use Cases | Monika Sharma | #softwaretesting #testing

In this insightful video, Monika Sharma, a highly knowledgeable software testing professional, delves into the Test Diamond strategy and its diverse use cases. Monika shares insights into this innovative approach to test prioritization and resource allocation. Whether you're a testing professional, a software developer, or someone interested in optimizing testing efforts, this video offers valuable insights and practical guidance.

What's new in ThoughtSpot Analytics Cloud 9.4.0

ThoughtSpot Analytics Cloud 9.4.0 let's you catch up on your notifications as content is shared with you, view data from multiple countries in a single viz, and live query your data in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS. Plus lots of new features and enhancements you’ve been waiting for. See what's new in ThoughtSpot today!

Testing for an Internet of Things (k6 Office Hours #97)

What do you do when you operate a platform needing to accommodate millions of IoT devices? This is precisely the scenario encountered by Daniel Mangum, Lead Cloud Engineer for IoT platform provider Golioth, when he created the newly open-sourced xk6-coap extension. In this k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh are joined by Daniel to discuss the nuances of working with varied sensors and devices using the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).

Streaming Pipelines to Data Warehouses - Use Case Implementation

Data pipelines do much of the heavy lifting in organizations for integrating, transforming, and preparing data for subsequent use in data warehouses for analytical use cases. Despite being critical to the data value stream, data pipelines fundamentally haven't evolved in the last few decades. These legacy pipelines are holding organizations back from really getting value out of their data as real-time streaming becomes essential.