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May 2024

Data Streaming Awards 2024: Nominations Are Now Open

The Data Streaming Awards is back for its third year! Designed to bring the data streaming community together, this one-of-a-kind industry award event recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of this revolutionary technology to drive business and customer experience transformation. If you know a company (even your own team) that is using data streaming technology to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers and communities, the time is now to submit a nomination.

Laying the Foundation for Modern Data Architecture

Behind every business decision, there’s underlying data that informs business leaders’ actions. As the market landscape across verticals from financial services to healthcare and manufacturing grows increasingly competitive, those decisions need to happen ever faster and to make them, businesses need to rely on data to reveal insights quickly, as near-real-time as possible.

NASA's 10 Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Laboratory for Reliable Software developed a set of code guidelines for developing safety-critical code. The NASA's 10 rules are intended to eliminate C coding practices that make it difficult to review or properly analyze with static analysis tools. Enforce NASA's 10 Rules With Klocwork.

Choosing the Right Test Management Tool for Your Team

Building quality software requires efficient and effective software testing processes. To achieve this, it’s important to make sure your test management tool has the capabilities to support your team’s current, and future, testing needs. By following this three-step approach, you can narrow down your choices and find your perfect fit. Break out your notepad and follow along to see if your team’s needs are best described by options A, B, or C.

A Conversation With ZoomInfo's Philip Zelichenko

In this "Data Cloud Podcast" episode, host Steve Hamm sits down with Philip Zelichenko, VP of Data and Analytics at ZoomInfo, to discuss the benefits the ZoomInfo business go-to-market platform provides to companies. During the conversation, he explains ZoomInfo's role as a data broker that maintains a database with profile information on 100 million companies, iinformation that clients can use to fuel sales and marketing growth.

Clean code with PHP namespaces

A widespread issue developers run into when building applications is grouping and organizing code correctly so that it is easier for other developers to understand and collaborate. Conflicting class names, functions, and other code blocks is an issue for developers, and PHP offers a way to tackle this problem by adding namespaces to the language in PHP 5.3. In this article, you will learn everything you need to know to start using namespaces to organize your code efficiently in PHP.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Data Streaming

How do you prevent hallucinations from large language models (LLMs) in GenAI applications? LLMs need real-time, contextualized, and trustworthy data to generate the most reliable outputs. Kai Waehner, Global Field CTO at Confluent, explains how RAG and a data streaming platform with Apache Kafka and Flink make that possible.

API Cost Calculator: How Much Does it Cost to Build an API?

You need to save money, deploy projects faster, and spend more time on developing application experiences that enthrall users. It is practically a certainty that APIs will play a critical role in your software development process, but how much does it cost to build an API? Learn more about DreamFactory’s API cost calculator in this blog article! Here’s the key things to know about our API Cost Calclator: Table of Contents.

What is a KPI Dashboard? 6 Key Benefits & Best Practice Examples

From business-wide objectives to long-term targets, every organization has specific metrics they need to track. One way to communicate those insights is a KPI dashboard. Key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards are a great way for executives to improve their management of strategic goals, and keep on top of changes, issues and trends in performance at a high-level, with many useful applications when used correctly, alongside other modern analytics tools.

Quality Engineering Meets AI: A Perfect Partnership

Artificial intelligence, or AI, can be seen as the intelligence powering many aspects of modern technology. It facilitates smart computer capabilities like autonomous decision-making and data-driven learning. However, with all this sophisticated technology, it is imperative to ensure that everything functions seamlessly and dependably. Quality engineering can help with that.