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Delivering Oracle quality at scale with the pod model

The pod model is an innovative approach that many enterprises, both small and large, are adopting to enhance their software development and quality assurance processes. This model involves creating small, cross-functional teams known as pods. Similar to an Agile or scrum team, each pod typically consists of five to ten members, including developers, testers, and a quality engineer (QE) or quality assurance engineer (QAE).

AI in performance testing: beyond traditional load testing

Before diving in, it's important to define three key concepts: However, traditional methods often have limitations. Fixed scenarios can miss unpredictable behaviors and identifying specific bottlenecks can be challenging without real-time insights. This is where AI comes in. In the following sections, you’ll understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) might enhance performance testing, from creating adaptive test scenarios to optimizing resources.

Chatbot Development Cost in 2025

In the tech-friendly era of customer service and business operations, one technological revolution has swept through like wildfire- It’s the era of ‘Mighty Chatbots’! We know that your mind must be brimming with several questions like- Before talking about the cost, let us clarify the fact about why chatbots have swiftly become an indispensable tool for every business out there and are clamoring to integrate.

Advanced, Built-In Data Governance and Data Discovery with Snowflake Horizon Catalog

With the advent of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), enterprises are racing to unlock as much business value as possible from their data assets, including apps and models. Unfortunately, these data assets are often locked away in silos across multiple cloud service providers and solutions, as well as across different partner, customer and vendor ecosystems.

New in Reports: Make Better Decisions, Together

It helps you make better decisions. Don’t get me wrong, saving 12~ hours every month is great. But the biggest value is the ability to gather stakeholders around the data, to help them see what performance was, what changed, and what to do next. That’s where the magic happens. You’re not just saving time. You’re focusing on improving key metrics together. Great reports help you find opportunities to improve, or address downward trends before they get worse.

Google Cloud & Confluent Marketplace Marvels Series

In this episode of the Google Cloud Marketplace Marvels series, theCUBE Research’s John Furrier talks to Shaun Clowes, CPO of Confluent, and Stephen Orban, VP of migrations, ISVs, and marketplace, Google Cloud at Google. Clowes highlights the strategic partnership with Google Cloud, emphasizing seamless integration, scalable solutions and flexibility in marketplace consumption models. Together, they explore the platform’s impact on AI initiatives, enterprise analytics and rapid IT modernization, demonstrating how businesses can build next-generation data infrastructures one step at a time.

Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.