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ChaosSearch Named to DBTA 100 2022

ChaosSearch has been named to the 2022 DBTA (Database Trends and Applications) 100 list of “Companies that Matter Most in Data.” The DBTA 100 showcases forward-looking companies that are improving and expanding upon existing technologies and processes to help their customers use data more effectively. As data volumes grow and digital transformation initiatives take flight, many organizations are examining the right data architectures for them.

3 Examples of Successful Embedded Data Visualization Tools

Today, businesses are hyper focused on developing data-driven applications and experiences. Whether for customers or end-users, they want to offer software that contains interactive dashboards, personalized data visuals, infographics, and charts. The reason is simple: Better access to data in the same workflow means more people will be more data-driven in their decision-making. If you need your application to display data in charts, graphs or other data images, you need embedded data visualization tools.

How to write a user story with great UX in mind

If your typical user story looks like: “As a new user, I want to create an account to have an account,” then you might have a problem. As a recent viral Twitter thread from user evangelist and UX pro Laura Klein pointed out a big issue in the QA community: how to write a user story. Product owners are trying to create and execute as many user stories as possible to define requirements and establish acceptance criteria.

Kong Ingress Controller 2.4: Weighted Load Balancing, Support for TCP, UDP and HTTP Routes

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

Add Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper

Picture this scenario: you are a Rails developer and have spent the last couple of days developing that awesome feature that everyone is waiting for. It's big and complex, but it went through rigorous testing, so you are confident everything works as it should. There are deadlines to meet, so you deploy. Immediately, all hell breaks loose. Your feature straight up breaks the entire app for some of your users. It's hard to say why. No bugs showed up during testing.

Java: List of Checked & Unchecked Exceptions

Like most modern programming languages, Java includes the concept of exceptions to handle both errors and "exceptional events." When an exception occurs in your code, it disrupts the normal instruction logic and abnormally terminates the process. However, with a little foresight and code, you can often handle these exceptions gracefully, allowing your code to continue running and providing insight for tracking down the root cause of the unexpected result.

Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS

We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the correct backend application, running as one or more pods on GKE.

How to Use a Continual Learning Pipeline to Maintain High Performances of an AI Model in Production - Guest Blogpost

The algorithm team at WSC Sports faced a challenge. How could our computer vision model, that is working in a dynamic environment, maintain high quality results? Especially as in our case, new data may appear daily and be visually different from the already trained data. Bit of a head-scratcher right? Well, we’ve developed a system that is doing just that and showing exceptional results!

Continual's $14.5M Series A and General Availability

‍ Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Continual, the missing AI layer for the modern data stack. We’ve also raised a $14.5M Series A, led by Innovation Endeavors and joined by Amplify Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Inspired Capital, Data Community Fund, Activation, New Normal, GTMfund, and angels Tomer Shiran, the founder of Dremio, and Tristan Handy, the founder of dbt Labs.