The human resources function plays a critical role in ensuring federal government agencies have the right talent and resources in place to meet their missions and serve the public effectively. As workforce needs become more dynamic, HR is expected to drive organizational change, streamline processes, and promote a culture of innovation and accountability, ultimately helping agencies succeed in their broader objectives.

Historically, finance teams largely operated in the background, focusing on record-keeping, compliance, and ensuring that financial operations ran smoothly. Their primary responsibilities revolved around managing costs, balancing the books, and maintaining operational efficiency. In recent years, that has changed.

In today’s data-driven landscape, businesses must continuously optimize their billing systems to stay competitive. Prepaid billing, where customers pay for services upfront before use, offers a flexible solution that benefits both companies and users. By ensuring immediate revenue and minimizing unpaid invoices, prepaid billing empowers businesses, while users enjoy greater control over their spending.

Imagine you’re running a complex, distributed system—everything seems smooth until, without warning, a sudden failure brings the entire operation to a halt. What caused it? How can you prevent it from happening again? This is where chaos testing comes in. Chaos testing, or chaos engineering, is a proactive approach to discovering system weaknesses before they turn into catastrophic failures.

Whether you’re looking to jump-start a new use case, or accelerate your migration journey, collaborating closely with Confluent and our partners enables you to fulfill the increasing need for real-time customer experiences and applications, opening doors to new growth and success opportunities.

Have you ever struggled to make the value of your data clear to your audience? Numbers and charts are great, but on their own, they often lack the power to inspire your audience to care and act. People also find it hard to understand the results from metrics alone. Conveying the importance of your data, and translating what it means (and why your audience should care) thus requires more context. That's where Stories comes in.

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework for building web applications and is loved for its elegance, simplicity, and scalability. However, like any other framework for web development, Laravel can experience performance issues if it’s not optimized for high performance. Laravel performance problems aren't usually due to the framework itself, but rather some suboptimal choices in the application.

Fivetran's newest innovation, Hybrid Deployment, allows customers to run security-restricted pipelines within their own secure network or VPC, at no additional cost.

Today is Day 3 of Launch Week, and we are excited to announce not just one, but two new regions are generally available to deploy your low-latency AI workloads, full stack applications, APIs, and databases globally! Join us in welcoming Paris and Tokyo to the Koyeb platform and to a growing list of global locations where you can deploy your applications! As of today GA locations now include: Paris , Tokyo , Washington, D.C. , Singapore , and Frankfurt.