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Every software application undergoes rigorous functional and non-functional testing to meet business requirements. When we talk about delivering top-tier software, performance is key. How fast does it run? How stable is it under pressure? Can it scale with growing demand? Does it remain reliable when pushed to its limits? These questions are at the core of performance testing, and that’s where benchmark testing steps into the spotlight.

Whether you agree with Elon's prediction or not, it's hard to ignore AI's far-ranging impact, especially on how we approach work. Over the last two years, we have seen AI progress rapidly, leaving many of us wondering, "Will AI replace my job?" It's a question that software engineers have also been grappling with. As ironic as it may seem, the people writing the code driving the technology revolution face the same uncertainty about whether AI might replace them in the future.

Keep users informed and engaged with Ably's expanded push notification support. We're thrilled to announce that Ably Pub/Sub now supports web push notifications, in addition to our existing support for iOS and Android devices. With just a few lines of code, developers can easily integrate web push into their applications, providing a seamless and unified experience across all major platforms.

Many vendors have started calling their platforms “low-code” or “no-code.” Competitors often pit the terms against each other. But what do low-code and no-code really mean? And what's the difference between the two? Both platforms offer improvements over traditional high-code approaches. The biggest differences are the target user groups.

In recent years, machine learning operations (MLOps) have become the standard practice for developing, deploying, and managing machine learning models. MLOps standardizes processes and workflows for faster, scalable, and risk-free model deployment, centralizing model management, automating CI/CD for deployment, providing continuous monitoring, and ensuring governance and release best practices.

Over the last decade, many IT leaders have felt confident they were ready for the API evolution. Afterall, they invested a lot into it. Traditional API management platforms promised to deliver on transformational challenges, and offer cornerstone capabilities – API cataloguing, specification support, authentication, authorization permissions, security, policy management, and even developer portals.

Organizations are generating more data than ever before, but accessing it and gaining insights from it can be challenging. Fivetran and Snowflake simplify and speed up the process.

Organizations generate vast amounts of data daily during various business operations. For example, whenever a customer checks out out at a retail outlet, data such as the customer identifier, retail outlet identifier, time of check out, list of purchased items, and the total sales value can be captured in the Point of Sales (PoS) system. Similarly, field sales staff may record possible sales opportunities in spreadsheets.

The problem with test data is that it can become stale very quickly. This is either through its use from testing or from the fact that it is naturally aging in the test environments. This is not just an issue for performance testing, although the volumes of data sometimes required for performance testing do make it harder. This also affects functional testing as well as batch testing and business acceptance testing amongst others.

Imagine being at the helm of a project, excited to launch an innovative software application, but then... the testing phase reveals critical flaws that could have been caught earlier. This experience is a stark reminder of how vital a cohesive test plan can be. Join me as we explore how a visual test plan builder can transform your approach to crafting robust test plans, ensuring quality at every step of the way!