Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

AI/ML without DataOps is just a pipe dream!

Let’s start with a real-world example from one of my past machine learning (ML) projects: We were building a customer churn model. “We urgently need an additional feature related to sentiment analysis of the customer support calls.” Creating the data pipeline to extract this dataset took about 4 months! Preparing, building, and scaling the Spark MLlib code took about 1.5-2 months!

Woopra: Your End-to-End Customer Journey Analytics Companion

Customers interact with your business multiple times before reaching any goal. These repeated digital interactions are what make up the customer journey. Your customers’ overall experience across the different channels as they engage with your organization (websites, social media, email, etc.) make up the customer experience. Customer journey analytics refers to the process of analyzing the experience of customers across multiple touchpoints in the customer journey.

Test Management with QADeputy & Ghost Inspector

Quality assurance is a broad initiative. Ghost Inspector strives to be an all-in-one tool when it comes to browser automation. However, QA teams often use a range of products to cover all their testing needs, like API testing and load testing. This can lead to testing-related data being scattered in various places. QADeputy is a service that aims to centralize your QA operations — and it integrates nicely with Ghost Inspector.

Lightweight Virtualization: the Container Ecosystem and Firecracker MicroVMs for Serverless

Virtualization is a core component of cloud computing and the key technology to optimize usage of hardware's resources. While it has been around for decades, new innovations continue to improve its efficiency and performance for modern workloads. In this blog post, we provide a brief overview of virtualization and its history as well as explain how Firecracker and lightweight virtualization are fueling modern deployments.

Taking open-source to the next level at Bitrise - Step by step

One of the reasons I joined Bitrise was the awesome community and the fact that most of the codebase here is actually open-sourced. If the Step Library is the brain of each and every build running on Bitrise, the open-source community must be the heart of it, playing a key role in the success of our product. That's why we have some plans to do more amazing things.

Semiconductor Design: Looking Ahead With Methodics & Perforce

Synergies in the semiconductor industry are an everyday occurrence and have become a part of the ever-changing landscape. One recent joint solution that made perfect sense was that of Perforce and Methodics, as the partnership existed before Perforce acquired Methodics in late 2020.

Automation: How to Thrive Amid Remote Work Stress

In grade school, Joe Kennedy taught himself how to code video games on his home computer. Today, Kennedy is a Partner and Technology Consulting Leader with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In the video call leading up to this week’s Digital Masters interview, Kennedy looked remarkably dapper in a navy blue blazer, dress shirt and slacks and a handlebar mustache curled to perfection.