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How Trigo Built a Scalable AI Development & Deployment Pipeline for Frictionless Retail

Trigo is a provider of AI & computer vision based checkout-free systems for the retail market, enabling frictionless checkout and a range of other in-store operational and marketing solutions such as predictive inventory management, security and fraud prevention, pricing optimization and event-driven marketing.

A perfect environment to learn & develop on Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka has gained traction as one of the most widely adopted technologies for building streaming applications - but introducing it (and scaling it) into your business can be a struggle. The problem isn’t with Kafka itself so much as the different components you need to learn and different tools required to operate it. For those motivated enough, you can invest money, effort and long Friday nights into learning, fixing and streamlining Kafka - and you’ll get there.

Bug Forensics - How to debug an app that communicates with the server

When something crashes in an app, fixing the bug is usually quite straightforward. But apps can also be blighted by bugs that don’t result in crashes, and this is where things start to get interesting. To find and fix these bugs, you will require as much information as possible and probably a combination of tools. Let me explain a process we know as ‘bug forensics’, based on a real bug that has impacted one of Bugfender’s customers.

Comparison of Open Source API Analytics and Monitoring Tools

For any API-first company, implementing the right API analytics platform is critical for tracking the utilization of your APIs and to discover any performance or functional issues that may be impacting customers. There are a variety of open-source projects you can leverage to build a complete API analytics platform. Before jumping into building an API analytics solution yourself, you should first list out your requirements and use cases.

Deep Dive: Introducing Trace by Bitrise

We will take a deep dive on Trace, the new application performance monitoring (APM) solution we are building here at Bitrise. Trace is monitoring made for mobile, helping you catch bugs before they reach your users. We aim to give you the full context of any problems so that you can assess, reproduce, and fix them as quickly as possible. Colin Hemmings is a Product Manager at Bitrise, with nearly a decade of experience building monitoring solutions for mobile and server applications.

Data engineering in 2020

Data Engineers are forever flying the flag for open-source technology. But now that we’re safely locked away in our homes - potentially for the rest of the year - a new danger looms: That we get distracted by our new data tools and lose touch with delivering value to the business. Today most Data Engineers around the world are working from home, and at first glance it may seem like this works. After all, a solid internet connection is all we need to carry on doing what we were doing...