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Last week, our team at Katalon collaborated with LambdaTest, presenting the webinar: Codeless Automation Testing with Katalon and LambdaTest.

If you are a developer who uses containers, chances are you and your team have heard about Kubernetes. At its core, Kubernetes is a container operating system for the web, but has grown to be much more. Sure, Kubernetes can manage your containers, network traffic, and bring up a crashed ad, but it has also become a widely adopted platform with a growing community.

A very important question is how long something takes and the answer to that is fairly straightforward in normal life: Check the current time, then perform the unit of work that should be measured, then check the time again. The end time minus the start time would equal the amount of time that the task took, the elapsed time or wallclock time.

AWS offers a variety of services to solve specific needs. There are some core services, like EC2 and VPC, that let you create an infrastructure for your applications that scales easily. But if you’re new to AWS and also new to infrastructure, you might need to invest some time reading before you deploy your application to AWS. I remember my first time using AWS; the sysadmin explained to me what systems we were using in AWS to run the company’s main application.

In the ideal world, when a developer builds a dashboard, they want that dashboard to be used to its fullest extent. Dashboards would engage users with their design, provide users with both information and the means to take immediate action (without leaving the dashboard), and become part of users’ everyday workflows.

Starting a software company today is very different than it was 15 years ago. The fundamental reason for this is that mega-vendors now exist across all product ranges. For any product you can think of there is already a mega-vendor in the space delivering it in the cloud. This means if you want to start a software business now you have to do it differently. If I was starting out today, there are three things I would do.

Unsure which metrics your B2B organization needs to keep an eye on? In this guide, experts from 42 B2B companies share the KPIs they track.

We’re excited to roll out our new integration between Katalon Studio and TestingBot. This integration plugin allows you to easily create and manage tests in Katalon Studio and extend your test coverage with more than 2,000 browsers and devices from TestingBot. This plugin is available for free download on Katalon Store. You can easily configure your credentials and choices of browsers and devices and take advantage of the TestingBot Selenium and Appium grid.

In today’s post, we’ll cover the significant differences and benefits of using structure.sql versus the default schema.rb schema formats in your Ruby on Rails application. In a data-driven world, knowing how to exploit all of your database’s rich features can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful enterprise.

After a bit of a hiatus, the Community Roundup is back! With the new year come many great new articles and some lovely mentions that we thought we would share. Let’s dive in and see what has been going on in the Bitrise community lately!