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As global maritime challenges intensify, the pressing need for the U.S. Department of Defense to modernize its maritime technology has never been more critical. At WEST 2025 in San Diego, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard leaders called for cutting-edge technologies to improve readiness and new capabilities to support multi-domain operations. And while IT modernization topped the DoD’s priorities, a new conversation about testing emerged.

The future of retail is now. Here is how key technology trends can help you build stronger customer relationships, boost revenue, and secure your operations.

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to turn raw data into actionable insights is no longer a nice to have—it’s a necessity to power exemplary citizen service. Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative is built on the idea that data, when utilized effectively, can transform public services and improve lives.

As real-time data processing becomes a cornerstone of modern applications, the ability to integrate machine learning model inference with Apache Flink offers developers a powerful tool for on-demand predictions in areas like fraud detection, customer personalization, predictive maintenance, and customer support. Flink enables developers to connect real-time data streams to external machine learning models through remote inference, where models are hosted on dedicated model servers and accessed via APIs.

Non-functional testing is the process of testing the non-functional aspects of a system, including its performance, security, accessibility, or usability. Its counterpart is functional testing. Functional testing checks the system's features, while non-functional testing checks how well it operates.

Software testing methodologies have evolved over time. In this article, we'll go through the most common methodologies that QA teams around the world follow.

What it means to be a fan is changing. Whether the fandom focuses on a sports team, a streaming drama series, or a musical artist, fans no longer want to be passive consumers. Instead, they’re looking to feel as though they are a part of the action through channels such as live chat, realtime stats, and behind the scenes insights. But there’s a tension in delivering those fan engagement experiences. Without the right strategy, technology costs can quickly make them economically unviable.

“Which MRR metric should I be looking at?” “What’s the best dashboard to track our sales performance?” “Where can I find our marketing goals?” Sound familiar? As we spoke with our customers to learn more about how they collaborate around data, we kept hearing the same challenges – growth creates a need for better data management. What starts as a few key dashboards and metrics quickly becomes hundreds, spread across different teams, projects, and platforms.

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Nowadays, Agile and DevOps practices demand rapid iterations and continuous testing to ensure software quality. Manual testing alone can’t keep up with this speed, making test automation important to continue delivering high-quality products at a rapid rate. Despite its advantages, test automation isn’t as simple as writing and running a few scripts.