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Building a robust dev/artist collaboration pipeline for your Unity projects with Git and Codemagic

TL;DR: Collaboration between Unity developers and artists can be enhanced by adding some automation tools. For example, using automatic build triggering once a new asset is added allows the artist to see how it looks in the game without bothering the developer, which reduces waiting times and context switching.

Learn how BI Engine enhances BigQuery query performance

BigQuery BI Engine is a fast, in-memory analysis service that lets users analyze data stored in BigQuery with rapid response times and with high concurrency to accelerate certain BigQuery SQL queries. BI Engine caches data instead of query results, allowing different queries over the same data to be accelerated as you look at different aspects of the data.

Build a Bridge to Connect Shift Left & Shift Right

Two paradigms dominate the modern software testing landscape, shift left and shift right. These are fueled primarily by the need to accelerate software delivery to keep pace with a more dynamic and demanding digital engagement landscape. Shift left moves testing workloads earlier in the SDLC, leveraging test automation and practices like behavior-driven development (BDD) to foster developer accountability and more comprehensive testing.

The Financial Close Process

Fast and clean. These two words define the ideal financial close process. This standard is held up as a measure of a finance or accounting department’s effectiveness. Companies are expected to get the financial close process done within a standard business week. This demonstrates competence, resource efficiency, and good management. An efficient financial consolidation and close process does two vital things.

How to Use Data Integration to Your Advantage in Ecommerce

The key things to know about data integration in Ecommerce are: Selecting the right Ecommerce platform is a crucial decision for your online store. Whether you go with Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, or another Ecommerce solution entirely, your choice will determine the features and functionality that your Ecommerce business has access to. While Ecommerce software on its own might suffice for a small business, you’ll likely be looking to expand your IT environment as your company grows.

How To Get More Results Out Of Your Embedded Analytics Platform

Today, data drives everything from strategic business decisions to workout plans. As a result, analytics, visualization, and dashboards are becoming necessary in business software, online websites, and consumer apps. With people needing quick access to data for better insights and decisions, embedded analytics has become inevitable in our work.

Build a live multiplayer game in Unity with Ably

Here at Ably one of our most recent additions has been to introduce beta support for Unity within our.NET SDK. This has been exciting for us: multiplayer functionalities are at the core of so many games these days, and we’re keen to better support and enable developers in creating these amazing experiences.

Software Test Automation Frameworks | 6 Common Types

Software testing has evolved with time to detect and lessen errors in software and applications. The key software testing trends in 2022 suggest that 63% of QA teams consider test automation over manual testing for the agility required during the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while being cost-efficient. Manual testing still holds a fair share in testing processes, but enterprises have also heavily relied on automated testing to get over tedious, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks.