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When you ask customers what key features they want in a software system, you’ll receive many answers. Most of them will be specific technical features like viewing, order history, or the ability to easily save favorites. Yet when given a system that contains everything they asked for, the customers’ first responses are often along the lines of “It feels a little slow.” Nowhere is the impact of poor performance felt so keenly than in the retail application space.

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.7.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes. See the Upgrading to 3.7.0 from any version 0.8.x through 3.6.x section in the documentation for the list of notable changes and detailed upgrade steps.

Since we launched the Open Preview of our serverless Apache Flink® service during last year’s Current, we’ve continued to add new capabilities to the product that make stream processing accessible and easy to use for everyone. In this blog post, we will highlight some of the key features added this year.

Today marks a monumental milestone: Autoscaling is now in public preview and available to all our users. Don't like to wake up in the middle of the night to scale up? Do you still have nightmares of the time you forgot to scale down your cloud infrastructure? Autoscaling is the answer: we adjust infrastructure to demand dynamically. We built our autoscaling feature to be: Autoscaling is powerful and raises some questions: It was the most requested feature on our feedback platform with new regions.

Everything you need to deploy high-performance serverless apps is available in Singapore: Singapore is our first Asia-Pacific region in GA, joining Washington, D.C. and Frankfurt, Germany, EU in the GA club with all our services available in these 3 regions. The new Eco instances are now available in Singapore and allow you to start for only $1.61/month, billed per second.

Discover how Microsoft’s suite, including Dynamics 365 and Business Central, revolutionises sales, marketing, customer service and supply chain management. Unveil CoPilot’s role in optimising operations and securing real-time insights for heightened productivity and customer satisfaction. Running a business is increasingly challenging, particularly with the need for continuous process enhancements to remain competitive.

High cardinality is a term that often surfaces in discussions about data management and analysis. It refers to a situation where a dataset contains an unusually high number of unique values, presenting challenges when it comes to processing and analyzing the data. In this blog, we will explore the concept of high cardinality data, its implications for data analysis, and strategies for managing and analyzing it effectively.

Introduced in 2023, SwiftData is the latest addition to the range of database framework options in Swift, Apple’s primary programming language for iOS. Built on top of Core Data, two levels above SQLite, it’s great for simplifying our persistent stores and it allows us to use declarative code, which is a really useful time-saver.

This blog explores the strategies and tools provided by App Store Connect and Google Play for managing mobile app releases, focusing on minimizing the impact of faulty releases through phased rollouts and staged releases.

File operations are fundamental when working with data in Node.js. Node.js provides a built-in fs module that allows us to perform various file operations. Whether it's reading from or writing to files, handling different file formats, or managing directories, Node.js offers versatile functionalities to interact with the file system.