The holiday rush can be a make-or-break moment for retailers and e-commerce businesses. But the real challenge? Keeping those seasonal shoppers coming back long after the decorations come down. Following plentiful December 2023 sales, many retailers were surprised to start the new year with a sales slump as consumer spending dwindled. The Commerce Department reported that in January 2024, U.S. retail sales dropped 0.8% – much farther than economists expected.

Since Adobe introduced the PDF in 1993, this versatile file format has played a key role in the digital revolution. PDFs give us a universal languages across different devices, they support interactive and multimedia elements, and they provide robust encryption. Today, Adobe estimates there are over 2.5 trillion PDFs in existence around the world. It’s fairly self-evident, then, that PDF functionalities are now a crucial part of web application development.

Chaos testing, also known as chaos engineering, is one of the most-used methodology to test the resilience and reliability of systems by intentionally introducing controlled failures. Simply put, the goal is to identify weaknesses and improve a system’s ability to handle unexpected scenarios. Originating from Netflix’s famous Chaos Monkey tool, chaos testing has become a key practice in building robust distributed systems.

Software development is a dynamic field that needs reliable and effective testing practices. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize software testing services in this dynamic environment. As 2025 draws near, AI is set to transform quality assurance (QA) by automating processes, increasing accuracy, and boosting software quality in general. In this blog article, the leading AI developments in software testing for 2025 are examined.

For years, Cloudera’s platform has helped the world’s most innovative organizations turn data into action. As the AI landscape evolves from experiments into strategic, enterprise-wide initiatives, it’s clear that our naming should reflect that shift. That’s why we’re moving from Cloudera Machine Learning to Cloudera AI.

Welcome to the final entry in Yellowfin Japan’s long-running ‘How to?’ blog series! This series of blogs has aimed to to provide your team with a step-by-step guide of how to create your own Yellowfin dashboard, starting from the design and data transformation flow, all the way to creating rich data visualizations and using the right report filters.