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Creating your managed Kafka shortlist

You’ve been handed the not-so-easy task of scoping a managed Kafka for your team. How do you start the shortlist? Post something on Reddit? Skim read a gazillion review blogs? Crash Google Chrome opening a thousand tabs to compare feature lists? If you’re going to run a Kafka POC with two or three vendors, or you’re trying to find the best Kafka for your business, how can you narrow down your selection? Let’s get to it.

Multi-layer API security with Apigee and Google Cloud Armor

Information security has become headline news on a daily basis. You have probably heard of security risks ranging from malicious bots used in schemes both big and small, to all-out "software supply chain attacks" that involve large-name enterprises and their customers, and that ultimately affect numerous governments, organizations, and people.

Migrating to Atlassian Cloud with Zephyr Test Management

As you may or may not know, Atlassian is accelerating their journey to Cloud. This has some important implications to anyone who uses Atlassian Server based products, including apps. Read on to learn how we support customers of Zephyr for Jira and Zephyr Scale as they transition to Cloud. As of February 2, 2021, Atlassian customers can no longer purchase or request a quote for new Server licenses. Existing customers can continue purchase Server apps on Marketplace until February 2, 2023.

Introduction to Synchronous and Asynchronous Processing

Synchronous and asynchronous, also known as sync and async, are two types of programming models. At an abstract level, programming models define how software is designed and executed. The basic programming models are synchronous, but asynchronous models are critical for performance reasons and to more efficiently use computing resources. Programming languages usually have built-in primitives to deal with asynchronous programming.