API Observability isn't exactly new, however it's popularity has seen rapid growth in the past few years in terms of popularity. API Observability using open source is different from regular API monitoring, as it allows you to get deeper and extract more valuable insights. Although it takes a bit more effort to set up, once you've got an observability infrastructure running it can be immensely helpful not only in catching errors and making debugging easier, but also in finding areas that can be optimized.
As Cloudera CMO David Moxey outlined in his blog, we live in a hybrid data world. Data is growing and continues to accelerate its growth. It is changing in makeup and appearing in ever more places. Driving insight and value from it all is as much of an opportunity as it is a challenge. As a result, it’s getting progressively more complex for businesses to access, use, and create value from it.
In software testing, regression tests are a series of tests run right before releasing a new feature or update to make sure the critical functionalities of your software are still working. Regression testing is done to make sure a new build didn’t introduce bugs into other, existing features of your software.