Last month, TestGuild’s Joe Colantonio sat down with two of SmartBear’s product wizards to discuss the world of developer observability and upcoming trends. Eran Grabiner is co-founder of distributed tracing tool Aspecto, which was acquired by SmartBear earlier this year. Right now, he works as Director of Product Management for Aspecto spearheading observability projects. Justin Collier is a longtime member of the SmartBear team and currently serves as Senior Director of Product Management.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the first Anthropic foundation model available in Snowflake Cortex AI. Customers can now access the most intelligent model in the Claude model family from Anthropic using familiar SQL, Python and REST API interfaces, within the Snowflake security perimeter.

The holiday rush can be a make-or-break moment for retailers and e-commerce businesses. But the real challenge? Keeping those seasonal shoppers coming back long after the decorations come down. Following plentiful December 2023 sales, many retailers were surprised to start the new year with a sales slump as consumer spending dwindled. The Commerce Department reported that in January 2024, U.S. retail sales dropped 0.8% – much farther than economists expected.

Software development requires a lot of things to be highly optimized due to the sheer number of parts and the interconnected nature of those parts. Making your service seamless, efficient, and scalable requires tooling that is itself seamless, efficient, and scalable. As organizations have moved to adopting microservices and distributed cloud-native solutions, being able to effectively scale resources and the systems which operate upon those resources has been made even more critical.

Ensuring secure access to applications and APIs is critical. As organizations increasingly adopt microservices architectures and cloud native solutions, the need for robust, fine-grained access control mechanisms becomes paramount. This is where the combination of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kong Gateway shines.

Looking for a managed PostgreSQL database with a free tier? We've got you covered. In this article, we'll explore the top PostgreSQL databases with free tiers to use for your applications in 2025. These free-tier options are perfect for side projects, MVPs, and learning how to use cloud databases. All these database solutions integrate with Koyeb, enabling you to seamlessly connect databases hosted by third-party providers to your applications running on the Koyeb platform.

Software Testing is the most important step in the software development process. This process helps in validating and verifying that a software application is Bug-free, and the software is improved in terms of efficiency, accuracy and usability. Black Box Testing and White Box Testing are two most useful testing techniques for Software Testing. In this blog, we will be covering more about their definitions, advantages, disadvantages, their types, limitations and tools used for testing.

Welcome to the final entry in Yellowfin Japan’s long-running ‘How to?’ blog series! This series of blogs has aimed to to provide your team with a step-by-step guide of how to create your own Yellowfin dashboard, starting from the design and data transformation flow, all the way to creating rich data visualizations and using the right report filters.

Background tasks are one of the core pillars when considering web applications for scale. The basic idea is simple: A client makes a request to your web application and in handling that request, your app performs several time-expensive tasks. To allow it to respond to the client faster, the app enqueues a background job to a background processing system. The background processing is then tasked with all the heavy lifting, like computations or I/O operations.