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Having frequently worked with governments around the world over the course of my career, I’ve had all kinds of discussions about the global impact of generative AI. Today, I’m publicly wading into those waters to deliver my perspective, and my opinion is that … it’s incredibly hard to predict the future. Done. Wrapped up this entire post in a single sentence.

You can now unpack the Christmas present that was promised to you at the end of 2023! As you may have already read in the Flamegraph Feature Preview, this exciting new feature of the Profiler is now the focus of our first release in 2024. The Flamegraph complements the Timeline and Callgraph features and visualizes Aggregated Traces. The goal was to provide profiling information across many traces and thereby gaining new and deeper insights into performance.

Introducing new BigQuery SQL features for performing two of the most common time-series operations: windowing and gap filling.

REST, a.k.a. Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style commonly used in software development. Applications built via REST-style development tend to be excellent examples of distributed hypermedia applications. However, they don’t often have excellent innate security options. That’s where API keys and OAuth tokens come in. In this article, we’ll cover how to secure REST APIs with either API keys or OAuth.

The "Unsupported class file major version 61" error in Java means you're trying to run a Java program that's too advanced for the version of Java you have installed. To fix this, either update your Java to version 17 or newer, otherwise recompile the program with an older Java version that matches your runtime environment.

In today's fast-paced software development industry, it is highly critical to deliver high-quality web and mobile applications rapidly is paramount. This is where automation testing services come in, and WebdriverIO emerges as a powerful test automation solution. Designed for the modern web, WebdriverIO is a test automation framework that seamlessly interacts with both web applications and native mobile applications on iOS and android devices.

Gone are the glorious days of desktop apps. Back in the 90's, when the “web” was only in its infancy, downloading and installing applications to your local machines were the norm. However, over time, the web has matured into the giant it is today, and from it spawned the modern “web-based application” that we all know and love for the unmatched accessibility and ease of use. However, desktop applications are far from dead.

It is essential that developers keep track of their code changes, particularly when you have numerous developers making alterations to the same codebase. By incorporating a version control tool into your organization you can ensure that you follow and manage any changes to your source code and keep historic versions preserved.

One great feature that comes with modern web frameworks is the ability to manage database schema migrations. However, schema migrations are not 100% safe and remain a recurring cause of issues within projects I have encountered over the last 15 years. This article will review the issues surrounding poorly managed schema migrations and then look into Strong Migrations, a gem that can help you avoid most problems. Finally, we will discuss a few good practices around database management. Let's get started!

Data engineers and architects are being asked to do more with their enterprise data than ever before. Yet, the knowledge gap between what businesses want to do with data and how they can accomplish it is growing daily—especially considering today's AI hype cycle. With all that noise in the market, it's easy to see how organizations struggle to keep pace with innovation.