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Integration tests are slow and difficult to maintain because they have substantially more system touch points than unit tests and hence change more often. These elaborate or sophisticated tests provide a role that unit tests cannot replace, thus there is no way to avoid creating them while focusing solely on unit tests.

The KPIs that apply to each product are as different as products come. There are infinite variables that come into play when determining what exactly a KPI should be. Because these KPIs are centered around customer journeys, they are all user-based and purposely omit technical-based KPIs (such as crashes or errors). In a recent article in our Product Analytics Academy, we covered what makes a strategy a good one when understanding and choosing relevant metrics to form KPIs based on product analytics.

Developers test their code in chunks as it is written. Error monitoring during the development cycle alerts engineers when conflicts arise and helps them identify the root cause. So, you may wonder then, in the age of DevOps and continuous delivery, is end-to-end testing still needed? Not only is it viable, but it is also essential to validate requirements, configurations, and functionality.

The first step in most analytical workloads is to ingest the data that you need for your analysis into your data warehouse. For geospatial analysis involving point, line, or polygon data, ingesting data can be complex because geospatial data comes in myriad data formats. Two of the most popular geospatial formats are GeoJSON and GeoJSON-NL (newline-delimited geoJSON).

There are a wide variety of e-commerce software platforms out there—Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Ecwid, and more—each with its own e-commerce features and functionality. But beyond the question of the "best e-commerce platforms," how can you enhance these platforms with third-party integrations? As we all know, integrating your e-commerce store with other apps and services helps you run your business more efficiently and effectively.

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers.

A data pipeline is a series of actions that combine data from multiple sources for analysis or visualization.

You can spend hours scrolling down the rabbit hole of government IT horror stories, which makes the recent launch of the federal website for ordering free COVID tests that much more remarkable. The website worked, and it was surprisingly easy to use. But that success belies decades of underinvestment in digital transformation that has stifled public sector innovation and hardened the government's low-tech image. For example.

There are many excellent authorization libraries for Rails, but did you know it's not that hard to build this functionality yourself? In this article, Renata Marques shows us how to use the Policy Object Pattern to implement access control in our Rails apps.

This blog post is a quick guide to help you catch up on the latest fastlane enhancements, bug fixes, and changes. Read on to find out more!