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Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming. The developer-friendly, self-service UI provides an easy and curated way to find, understand, and enrich all of your data streams, enabling users across your organization to build and launch streaming applications faster.

Now officially supporting Appium 2.0 for easier and more streamlined mobile testing. Today, we are excited to announce the release of Katalon Studio 9.1. This release introduces a significant revamp of Studio’s core libraries, now supporting Appium 2.2.0. Here are the highlights of this release. Read on to check out all the updates below.

Too many legacy systems. It’s something we hear from government agencies all the time. And you’ve heard this complaint too, no doubt. But the risk-averse nature of government organizations combined with a fear of disruption makes them reluctant to take on a wholesale modernization effort. What if they don’t have to, though? What if there’s a better way?

This is the most fertile time for mobile app development since the launch of the App Store. Our industry is in the grip of several simultaneous revolutions, each of them bending, flexing and moulding to the others. 5G promises to make our apps 10 times faster; wearable technology lets them wrap themselves around our bodies; artificial intelligence enables them to learn from us and get smarter every day. But this torrent of innovation brings challenges, too.

In this post, we’ll see how ChatGPT can be used to reinvigorate APIs by creating an OpenAPI specification for an existing API that has existing documentation.

Data security will remain one of the biggest concerns for businesses this year. According to IBM, the average data breach in 2023 cost 4.45 million - and 82% of that involved data stored in the cloud. Damages from cybercrime, including the cost of data recovery, could total $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, causing more business owners to review their data security protocols. Which specific changes should you implement in the next 12 months?

Writing an effective bug report is essential for providing software developers with all the necessary information to understand, reproduce and resolve the issue. A well-documented bug report saves time and ensures a smoother debugging process. Writing a comprehensive bug report helps software developers quickly understand the issue and reduces back-and-forth communication. It's a key practice for effective bug tracking and issue resolution in software development.

Integrate YugabyteDB with BigQuery using CDC and why you would want to.

Recently we introduced one breaking change in how user information is exported from Countly, and we wanted to explain why such change was made and what to do to keep your plugins supported. But before we dive into why's, let's first reiterate the "what" part.

The misconception that product led growth implies a business neglects sales couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, product led growth (PLG) involves integrating sales later in the customer journey, placing the purchasing power back in the hands of your users. This self-service approach is highly effective, especially when paired with insightful user data to streamline and target growth. For AI-centric companies, this product-led strategy serves as a fundamental pillar for success.