Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Data-Driven Testing: A Tutorial for QA Testers

Picture this: you’re testing online registration forms, and you need to ensure that every input field in the form is working as expected. To do this, you build a manual test for one input field. And then another for a second. And then another for a third…and so on. Thankfully, this scenario isn’t likely to come true, and it’s all thanks to data-driven testing.

What Is Data Governance and Why It Matters?

Data governance refers to the strategic management of data within an organization. It involves developing and enforcing policies, procedures, and standards to ensure data is consistently available, accurate, secure, and compliant throughout its lifecycle. At its core, data governance aims to answer questions such as.

Mastering API Gateway Auth: Proven Methods for Secure Connectivity

Securing your API gateway is critical to protect your services from unauthorized access and ensure safe data transmission. In this article, we’ll explore the essentials of API gateway auth, discuss the major authentication methods, and offer guidance for implementing and overcoming challenges in API gateway authentication—providing you with the knowledge to keep your digital assets secure.

How to Prepare for Technical Interviews | Ben Dowen | #technicalinterview #interviewpreparation

In this video, Ben Dowen shares insights on mastering technical interviews. Discover strategies for overcoming challenges and understanding technical expectations, including the importance of writing code that is clear and readable. Learn how practice can help you save time and build confidence during interviews. Plus, explore the value of comments and documentation in effectively communicating your solutions. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to technical interviews, this video offers valuable tips to help you navigate and excel in your next interview.

Achieve faster time to value with data observability and FinOps for BigQuery

Right now, 88% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve optimal price/performance for their analytics workloads. Why? They don’t have the staff, their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work, and optimizing data workloads for performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a virtual event to help you leverage Unravel to achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with BigQuery.

Confluent announces general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, simplifying stream processing to power next-gen apps

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, a leading cloud-native, serverless Flink service is now available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Confluent's fully managed, cloud-native service for Flink helps customers build high-quality data streams for data pipelines, real-time applications, and analytics.

Snapshot Testing in the Backend

The first time I learned about snapshot testing was in the context of front-end testing. It made a lot of sense. Writing an assertion-based test to check if a component was correctly rendered as HTML is tricky. And difficulty grows with the complexity of the output. Snapshot testing seemed a reasonable technique to get the job done, even with some caveats.