This is a recording of a presentation given by k6 Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven during Cambridge University Press's QA Week 2021, and it talks about why load tests as code is a superior approach in many cases and why k6 is a great tool to implement it.

Jesscia Lam was the Chief Architect and VP Engineering at LoungeBuddy, which was acquired by American Express. At LoungeBuddy she designed their APIs, many of which continue to be in use today. As a CTO, architect and engineering lead at multiple companies, Jessica shares her experience on how to build products to be more resilient, why error handling is so important and how to treat internal APIs vs. external APIs.

Kafka & Spark data pipelines are ubiquitous in any modern data stack. Developing Spark and Kafka applications have become simpler over the years but operating them in production environments still remains challenging to say the least.

Dynamics 365 Quality Assurance | A Testhouse Discussion Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) is a suite of enterprise applications for any business function. D365 is relatively complex with frequent application updates requiring verification of thousands of business-critical processes. Businesses must ensure the highest quality implementation to extract maximum return on investment. In the 5 part series, we discuss aspects that are critical to Dynamics 365 implementation success.

Learn how to add OAuth 2.0 authorization and authentication to your service by integrating Kong Gateway and its OAuth 2.0 plugin. What Does the Kong Gateway OAuth2 Plugin Do? As Kong Gateway sits in front of a resource server, the OAuth 2.0 plugin adds authorization server functionality to that resource server — handling authorization requests, inspecting and refreshing tokens, and permitting or forbidding access to resources.

Join Chris Santiago, Solutions Engineer Director at Unravel Data, as he takes you through Unravel’s approach to getting better and finer grain visibility with Spark applications and how to tune and optimize them for resource efficiency. An overview of out of the box tools like Ganglia and their overall lack of visibility on Databricks jobs How Unravel helps you gain finer grain visibility, observability, monitoring into Spark data pipelines How Unravel can recommend better configurations and tuning of Spark applications.

In Episode 1 of our "Overcoming API Development Challenges" series, we will look at how software development teams can use tooling to standardize their APIs and create enforceable governance practices. We will be highlighting the role that a tool like SwaggerHub can play in an organization's API design.

Kuma is an open source service mesh built on top of Envoy that supports every environment, including Kubernetes and virtual machines. In this Kuma service mesh tutorial, Marco Palladino shows how easy it is to get started.