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Why Product Managers Should Care About Testing

A product manager’s job first and foremost is to deliver value to their customers with the products they oversee. In order to ensure quality, those products need to be tested. Testing before release in a well thought-out manner gives product managers the confidence to create and execute high quality products and user experiences.

Want Post-Pandemic Business Success? Embedded Analytics is the New Normal

With COVID-19, it has become clear that ideas and assumptions that worked in the past will no longer apply now and in the future. The region is expected to face its deepest economic slowdown since the 1970s due to COVID-19. Businesses might be wondering what to do next.

TM4J Is Now Zephyr Scale

When SmartBear added TM4J to our product portfolio earlier this spring, it brought us one more step towards our mission: help teams achieve quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), no matter where they’re starting from. The addition rounded out our test management portfolio, offering a solution to those customers who seek a SaaS test management solution within Jira. So why the name change?

How to Own That New State-of-the-Art Model Repo!

Deep learning has evolved in the past five years from an academic research domain, to being adopted, integrated and leveraged for new dimensions of productivity across multiple industries and use cases, such as medical imaging, surveillance, IoT, chatbots, robotic,s and many more. From NLP to computer vision, deep learning has been breaking the barriers of SOTA algorithms and providing results that were, otherwise, impossible to achieve.

Introducing CDE: Purpose Built Tooling For Accelerating Data Pipelines Demo Highlight

Spark has become the de-facto processing framework for ETL and ELT workflows for good reason, but for many enterprises working with Spark has been challenging and resource-intensive. Leveraging Kubernetes to fully containerize workloads, DE provides a built-in administration layer that enables one-click provisioning of autoscaling resources with guardrails, as well as a comprehensive job management interface for streamlining pipeline delivery. DE enables a single pane of glass for managing all aspects of your data pipelines.

Fivetran Receives ISV Partners Innovation Award From Databricks

We’re honored to win this prestigious award, and we’re doubling down on the Lakehouse architecture with Databricks SQL analytics plans. Fivetran is the proud recipient of the Databricks ISV Partners Innovation Award as announced at this week’s Data & AI Summit Europe event. The award recognizes how Fivetran has collaborated with Databricks to empower data professionals to accelerate time to insights with Delta Lake and the Lakehouse architecture for the modern data stack.

Selling Corona During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Snowflake Inc.

Ari Margalit, VP Architecture & Data Solutions of Anheuser Busch InBev, discusses how he transformed ABI into a technology organization by building a data ecosystem, BrewDat that incorporates advancing analytics that aid in decision making & creating project portfolios. Rise of the Data Cloud is brought to you by Snowflake.

Record JMeter Tests Chrome Extension

If you need to run a JMeter Load Test and it’s a burden to download Apache JMeter locally on your machine, open it and manually create your JMeter test file, now there is a much easier way to record browser interactions with JMeter. The LoadFocus | JMeter Load Testing in the Cloud Chrome Extension for recording JMeter test script files (.JMX files) from LoadFocus is a free tool to easily record and run load tests in the cloud.

Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements

Today is a big day for Kuma! Kuma 1.0 is now generally available with over 70 features and improvements ready to use and deploy in production to create modern distributed service meshes for every application running on multiple clusters, clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. Before we unpack this release, a big thank you to the community and to the users that have helped releasing this major version of Kuma with their contributions and feedback.

Kong Enterprise 2.2 Now Generally Available!

Today, we’re proud to announce the release of Kong Enterprise 2.2 GA! Kong Enterprise 2.2 is built on top of version 2.2 of our popular open source gateway and brings with it a slew of new features and some Enterprise-only features on top. Let’s dive in! For a long time, Kong has supported not only HTTP/HTTPS traffic with REST and gRPC APIs, but also raw TCP streams. In version 2.2, we now extend our support to include UDP-based protocols as well!