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As we close out 2024, developer productivity and happiness continue to be a focus for many organizations. Platform engineering can play a pivotal role in shaping the developer experience. With the growing complexity of distributed systems and the ever-pressing need for faster delivery cycles, platform engineers are uniquely positioned to enable developers to focus on what they do best: shipping high-quality code.

Organizations today face complex data challenges as they scale, with more distributed data architectures and a growing number of teams building streaming applications. They will need to implement Data Mesh principles for sharing data across business domains, ensure data sovereignty across different jurisdictions and clouds, and maintain real-time operations.

On a day-to-day basis, Snowflake teams identify opportunities and help customers implement recommended best practices that ease the migration process from on-premises to the cloud. They also monitor potential challenges and advise on proven patterns to help ensure a successful data migration. This article highlights nine key areas to watch out for and plan around in order to accelerate a smooth transition to the cloud.

We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint belief that the world of data streaming and the world of APIs are converging.

From AI to real-time insights, learn how Saks, Paylocity and Dropbox are using Fivetran to unlock efficiency and scale their data operations.

In today's data-driven world, staying ahead means acting on the most up-to-date information. That's where change data capture (CDC) comes in. CDC is a design pattern that tracks your database tables, capturing every row-level insert, update, and delete as it happens. This real-time monitoring allows downstream systems to react to changes instantly, without batch-based updates and resource-intensive full scans.

As Tricentis continues to lead the world of test automation, our latest release of Tosca’s cloud deployment option, available now, brings a wave of new capabilities designed to support the ever-evolving needs of modern enterprises.