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How to write a user story with great UX in mind

If your typical user story looks like: “As a new user, I want to create an account to have an account,” then you might have a problem. As a recent viral Twitter thread from user evangelist and UX pro Laura Klein pointed out a big issue in the QA community: how to write a user story. Product owners are trying to create and execute as many user stories as possible to define requirements and establish acceptance criteria.

We all come from data - Michael Dortch

On this episode Lauren is joined by Michael Dortch; who now writes at DortchOnIt.com. Lauren and Michael discuss the importance of data and how it is all around. They also dive into how a data-oriented person is someone who is interested in how the facts line up, and figuring out how to make better decisions based on that information. Key Takeaways Quotes

Hunters Brings Data Integration to Security Operations

In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” Daniel Myers chats with Uri May, Co-founder and CEO of Hunters, a three-year old company that is bringing new levels of data integration to the world of network security operations. “Our differentiator,” May explains, “is that we want to seamlessly integrate as much data as possible. And that is something Snowflake facilitates very well because of its ability to scale, its performance, and even its business model of paying for storage and compute with different credits. We believe that more data means better efficacy, more accuracy, and faster detection times.”

Kong Ingress Controller 2.4: Weighted Load Balancing, Support for TCP, UDP and HTTP Routes

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

[Webinar] Test Execution at Scale Using Katalon Platform

Teams with heavy testing workloads have to run thousands of test scripts in a short timeline. On top of that, they have to execute various types of tests, including web, mobile, API, and desktop, all on one CI/CD pipeline. Optimizing this testing workload is not easy, but it can be achieved and sustainably managed with the right platform. Get ready to learn.

Add Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper

Picture this scenario: you are a Rails developer and have spent the last couple of days developing that awesome feature that everyone is waiting for. It's big and complex, but it went through rigorous testing, so you are confident everything works as it should. There are deadlines to meet, so you deploy. Immediately, all hell breaks loose. Your feature straight up breaks the entire app for some of your users. It's hard to say why. No bugs showed up during testing.

Java: List of Checked & Unchecked Exceptions

Like most modern programming languages, Java includes the concept of exceptions to handle both errors and "exceptional events." When an exception occurs in your code, it disrupts the normal instruction logic and abnormally terminates the process. However, with a little foresight and code, you can often handle these exceptions gracefully, allowing your code to continue running and providing insight for tracking down the root cause of the unexpected result.

Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS

We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the correct backend application, running as one or more pods on GKE.