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To our valued users and partners, Happy New Year from the Yellowfin team, and welcome to our 2023 recap! As we step into 2024, I want to take a moment to reflect on the past year and the remarkable journey Yellowfin has been embarking on and provide our followers with insight into how we have approached the ever-evolving market of business intelligence (BI) and embedded analytics.

Azure Functions is a powerful function as a service (FaaS) tool in the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service. Built to create event-driven, scalable, serverless computing services and applications, Azure Functions enable developers to focus on code logic without worrying about application infrastructure. The service also simplifies scaling apps and reduces costs, users only pay for resources consumed.

In the buildup to this week’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the talk of polycrisis becoming permacrisis painted a picture of impending doom. These terms have been used to describe the global condition today, citing the “cascading and connected crises” triggered by war and geopolitics, economic uncertainty, and environmental concerns, and their persistence.

Everyone knows that software defects should be avoided at all costs. Some errors cause glitches that frustrate users. Others compromise the safety and security of a critical system. No matter what type of program you’re developing, avoiding these defects is important. That’s why many development teams rely on linting. Read along or jump ahead to the section that interests you the most.

The convergent evolution of BigQuery, Snowflake and Databricks demonstrates a broader tendency in the development of cloud platforms.

This is the last in a series of posts on adding an in-game chat room with React. In the first, we added a chat room to a game of tic-tac-toe. In the second, we used Presence to add a typing indicator. And in the third we used Presence to show whether or not an opponent has left the game. Now, let's look at how to add the last feature - reaction emojis on our opponent's messages.

Exploratory testing, the backbone of agile development, allows for both a confirmation of what we’ve built being good enough and for a critique of what we’re building. But good exploration takes time, possibly more time than a single tester has within the team. So what can we do? We can ask our colleagues to support us and run some exploratory testing with us.

In-app purchases, or IAPs, allow users to access certain features within our apps beyond the basic free tiers, while enabling us to monetize our products. Via the Google Play Store, we can sell a single product in all currencies, without creating a new one for each country. Up until now, app-builders looking to revenue have tended to favor in-app ads (IAAs) over IAPs, because ad functionality is easier to implement.

The emergence of data products has brought about a momentous change in how organizations are leveraging information for making strategic decisions. Data products encompass a broad scope of tools and solutions to reshape how businesses and industries operate. These innovations transform raw data sources into actionable insights. They offer dynamic reports, interactive dashboards, and sophisticated data-as-a-service offerings.

Appium is widely loved by the software testing community, especially for web and mobile applications. It offers strong cross-platform support along with language flexibility, and most importantly, Appium does not require embedding a testing agent inside the app’s code, maintaining its integrity during the testing process. However, Appium does have several disadvantages: This is when we need Appium alternatives. They are usually low-code or no-code platforms to help you do mobile testing faster.