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S1.E8: AI & Machine Learning in Testing | QA Therapy Podcast

Feeling like your team is pinning all their hopes on AI and ML to solve every challenge? In this episode of QA Therapy, we're thrilled to have Tariq King, QA Therapist, join us to explore how AI and ML will shape the future of testing. Tariq, currently serving as the Vice President of Product-Service Systems at EPAM, with over 40 research articles under his belt.

Microservice Pitfalls: Solving the Dual-Write Problem | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

When building a distributed system, developers are often faced with something known as the dual-write problem. It occurs whenever the system needs to perform individual writes to separate systems that can't be transactionally linked. This situation creates the potential for data loss if the developer isn't careful. However, techniques such as the Transactional Outbox Pattern and Event Sourcing can be used to guard against the potential for data loss while also providing added resilience to the system.

TruLens Snowflake OSS

When Snowflake acquired the TruEra AI Observability platform, we committed to keeping TruLens open source. We’re not only keeping that promise; we’re emphasizing it. Our goal remains to support LLM app developers in creating trustworthy generative AI applications. In the weeks since the acquisition, we have already added ecosystem-friendly enhancements including: We plan to continue making enhancements and improvements that benefit the community at large, whether on Snowflake or not.

Build a scalable and up-to-date generative AI chatbot with Amazon Bedrock and Confluent Cloud for business loan specialists

In this post, we demonstrate how a robust and scalable generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot is built using Amazon Bedrock and Confluent Cloud. We walk through the architecture and implementation of this generative AI chatbot, and see how it uses Confluent's real-time event streaming capabilities along with Amazon's infrastructure to continually stay up to date with the latest advances from the AI landscape.

Tabs or spaces? Merge vs. rebase? Let's settle it with confluent-kafka-javascript

Tabs or spaces? Merge vs. rebase? Flink SQL vs. KStreams? Let’s Settle This is powered by a new Kafka JavaScript client from Confluent: confluent-kafka-javascript (early access). Find out how Lucia used it to make the website in the video above.

Workflow Orchestration: Key Facts and 5 Best Practices

If you think workflow orchestration sounds like tech jargon, check out this simple explanation and consider practical advice for how to apply it to your business processes. Let’s start with the basics: what is workflow orchestration? Put simply, workflow orchestration is the end-to-end management of people, digital workers, systems, and data in a process.

Transforming Enterprise Operations with Gen AI

Enterprises are beginning to implement gen AI across use cases, realizing its enormous potential to deliver value. Since we are all charting new technological waters, being mindful of recommended strategies, pitfalls to avoid and lessons learned can assist with the process and help drive business impact and productivity. In this blog post, we provide a number of frameworks that can help enterprises effectively implement and scale gen AI while avoiding risk.

2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant: ThoughtSpot leads with GenAI

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms just dropped, and we’re thrilled to announce that ThoughtSpot was recognized as a Leader in the report. But, we aren’t the only ones finding ourselves in a new position this year. The analytics and BI space has undergone some of the most significant shifts in over a decade, an aftershock of generative AI.

What's new in Xcode 16 and the App Store Connect

A few weeks ago, Apple hosted its annual developer conference WWDC 2024, and made many announcements that will impact the mobile developer ecosystem. ‍ In a previous blog, we outlined the three top high-level announcements. In this post, we are diving into what’s new for two very important components of iOS- Xcode 16 and the App Store Connect.

Zoom Builds Enterprise AI Applications In The AI Data Cloud

Learn how Zoom built an internal enterprise AI tool that enables sales and marketing teams to directly ask questions to data through natural language. The security and governance of the AI Data Cloud enabled data scientists to confidently leverage its Cortex AI and Streamlit features to build the enterprise AI app.