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If you are a Kotlin developer, there is a high chance you already know that coroutines are the new way of composing your asynchronous, concurrent and parallel workflows. It is also the recommended solution by Google to use for asynchronous programming in Android. In this blog post I will discuss the importance of asynchronous architecture. I will also explain how I combined Ably and Kotlin coroutines to develop a multiplayer game room SDK.

Are you about to start your next mobile app project and can’t decide whether you should use Flutter or native languages? If yes, then this article is for you. Stefan Ionescu focuses in this article on the differences between Flutter vs native development from different perspectives.

Moving from a compliance-driven to value-driven mindset when making data governance decisions.

Today, Gartner has positioned ThoughtSpot as a Visionary in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, a recognition that we are so excited to continue living up to for our customers.

“Data-driven” is the latest buzzword in organizations in which data-based decision making is directly connected to business success. According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle, more than 77% of the C-suite now say data science is critical to their organization meeting strategic objectives. For top organizations looking to adopt a data-driven culture to stay competitive, what does that mean?

Most general guidelines for requirements management are an acceptable starting point for medical device developers. Basic instructions for requirements planning, defining, prioritizing, etc. applies to almost any industry. However, medical device requirements management has to include some extraordinarily important things that some other industries can get by without. Compliance, risk management, and traceability are central to medical device development.

Recently, I was fortunate to have an insightful conversation with Matt Klein, Lyft software engineer and creator of Envoy, the popular open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. Envoy was the third project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), following Kubernetes and Prometheus. Before Lyft, Matt held positions at Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter, and served on the oversight committee and board of the CNCF.

Go, often referred to as Golang, is a popular programming language built by Google. Its design and structure help you write efficient, reliable, and high-performing programs. Often used for web servers and rest APIs, Go offers the same performance as other low-level languages like C++ while also making sure the language itself is easy to understand with a good development experience.

A good business model is one that can easily generate revenue. Often, when developers build something it could easily be packaged and used by another organization. This is extremely true when it comes to APIs. If an API is solving a well-known problem, there is likely a market for it. Being able to expose an API for public consumption can be done in many ways, a popular option being using an API gateway. The real hurdle comes when you decide to start billing for usage.

At the DataOps Unleashed 2022 conference, Google Cloud’s Head of Product Management for Open Source Data Analytics Abhishek Kashyap discussed how businesses are using Google Cloud to build secure and scalable data platforms. This article summarizes key takeaways from his presentation, Building a Scalable Data Platform with Google Cloud. Data is the fuel that drives informed decision-making and digital transformation.