Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Kong and Okta Deliver Best-in-Class Identity for API Management

As organizations look to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, a couple of key trends are prevalent. First, there is a movement from monolithic to smaller cloud native microservices. Second, there is more pressure to innovate, resulting in an explosion of APIs and connections to secure. To help organizations address these trends, Kong is joining forces with Okta to deliver the best-in-class identity for API management.

Ably at GopherCon UK

Ably was the delegate sponsor at GopherCon UK this year and we had a great time. The conference was held in The Brewery, London. For many of our team members it was the first physical developer event they had been to in almost two years. Whilst I am thrilled to be returning to face-to-face interaction and the depth of conversation they enable, I certainly forgot how early a start physical events are.

Generating Google Slides with BigQuery and Apps Script

Have you ever been asked to prepare a slide deck containing many data points? Maybe you sifted through the data yourself along with copying and pasting the data over and over again—talk about a huge time commitment. In this video, Leigha Jarett discusses how you can use Google Apps Scripts to automate data-driven slide development and save yourself a lot of time.

How to implement shoulder-checks and improve quality as a team

The software Quality Assurance role (QA) has traditionally been seen as a person who finds bugs and tries to break things. While these tasks still remain a big part of the QA’s role, the industry has seen a shift towards a more holistic approach where the QA role advocates for the overall quality of delivery — both product and process. Incorporating the exercise of “shoulder checks” into the agile software development lifecycle increases quality output.

Managing Costs for Spark on Amazon EMR

Are you looking to optimize costs and resource usage for your Spark jobs on Amazon EMR? Then this is the webinar for you. Overallocating resources, such as memory, is a common fault when setting up Spark jobs. And for Spark jobs running on EMR, adding resources is a click away - but it’s an expensive click, so cost management is critical. Unravel Data is our AI-enabled observability platform for Spark jobs on Amazon EMR and other Big Data technologies. Unravel helps you right-size memory allocations, choose the right number of workers, and map your cluster needs to available instance types.