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Announcing N|Solid 4.3.0 - Import/Export Settings

We are excited to announce N|Solid v4.3.0, which delivers Import/Export functionality allowing users to easily match configuration settings across and covers the security patch to coincide with Node.js v15.2.1, v14.15.1, and v12.19.1. N|Solid Console users can now export configuration settings using either NSolid Console or the CLI, the result is a JSON format file which can be used to import settings across different setups.

Autumn Launch: PHP 8, Autoloading Performance, Deprecation Tracking, Alerting Improvements

This autumn launch for Tideways includes new features and improvements that we worked on the last three months. These are (in no particular order): Aside from this blog post explaining the new features in detail and the documentation, we also invite you to sign up for our 30 minute webinar "New Features and Improvements launched in autumn 2020" scheduled for 25th November 2020, 15:00 Europe/Berlin.

How a modern data platform supports government fraud detection

November 15-21 marks International Fraud Awareness Week – but for many in government, that’s every week. From bogus benefits claims to fraudulent network activity, fraud in all its forms represents a significant threat to government at all levels. Some experts estimate the U.S. government loses nearly 150 billion dollars due to potential fraud each year, McKinsey & Company reports.

How to Get Started Testing: Best Test Cases to Automate

Testing is a critical step if you want to ensure quality in your products. It’s crucial to test your applications to make sure they work properly – otherwise, customers are less likely to buy or continue to use them. While important, software testing can be a repetitive process that takes time and resources you’d probably rather use for tasks that deliver innovation to the functionality or performance. This is where test automation comes in.

How APIs expand reach and drive ROI for content producers

Over the course of just a few years, the ways in which we consume content have changed dramatically. In order to compete in this new landscape and to adapt to the technological change that underpins it, media studios and other content producers should consider providing relatively open access to their proprietary content. This necessitates a cultural change across the industry.

Cost Optimization on Microsoft Azure

Do you use big data and streaming services - such as Azure HDInsight, Databricks, and Kafka/EventHubs? Do you have on-premises big data that you want to move to Azure? Keeping costs down in Microsoft Azure is difficult, but vital. Join Chris Santiago of Unravel Data and explore how to to reduce, manage, and allocate streaming data and big data costs in Azure.

Cost-Effective, High-Performance Move to Cloud

The move to cloud may be the biggest challenge, and opportunity, facing IT departments today. In this 45-minute webinar, Unravel Data product marketer Floyd Smith and Solutions Engineering Director Chris Santiago describe how to move workloads to the cloud quickly, cost-effectively, and with high performance for the newly cloud-based workloads. Tune in to find out the best way to de-risk your cloud migration projects with data driven insights.

Rainforest Automation - An End-to-End Signup Test

Testing a sign up flow using Rainforest Automation, which is a no code testing platform for automated and manual QA testing. This shows a few advanced features useful in testing sign up flows, including data generation, email workflows and encapsulating common actions in embedded tests. This kind of automated end-to-end test is impossible with traditional test automation.