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Gherkin Software Testing: Syntax, Best Practices, and Pitfalls
Gherkin software testing turns plain-English specifications into executable tests your whole team can read, but only when you stop treating it like a scripting language. If your feature files read like step-by-step UI scripts, you're doing BDD testing backward. Here's how to fix that.
Arvix AI
Introducing Arvix AI by Unravel Data An operator. Not an advisor. runarvix.ai About Unravel Data Agentic data platform optimization, powered by an AI engine that continuously optimizes performance, cost, and reliability across Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery.
Top Game Optimization Tools and Techniques
A 3D mesh for an elevator button with millions of triangles was added to a AAA game. No one flagged it. Nothing caught it. By the time anyone noticed the effect on performance, the artist had moved on, the asset was buried under dependencies, and the team was three months from shipping.
See it in action: A morning with Snowflake CoWork
Watch how a VP of Sales could start the day with their AI work agent: a shared dashboard, Deep Research, a Slack to the field and a meeting-prep Skill turned into a weekly Automation.
Testlio Launches Human-in-the-Loop Testing for AI Agents
New offering enables enterprise customers to validate agentic workflows against a global network of skilled, real world testers before failures become customer, compliance, or brand crises.
Before Moving Your Data, Ask If You Have To
If you’re a data engineer or architect who’s been handed a database modernization mandate, the conversation usually arrives pre-loaded with a conclusion. For example, if the legacy system needs to go or the data needs to move. When thinking about data migration, it’s important to ask yourself whether data migration is the right approach at all.
The Bug Hiding in Your Production Traffic
Your logs showed 500 errors. The traces showed the dependency graph. Neither showed the actual bug, a DEL control character getting appended to the query string. This is how I found it. In this video I walk through Speedscale BYOC (bring your own cloud): capture real production traffic, store it in your own Elasticsearch cluster inside your VPC, pull it down locally with a single script, and reproduce the exact bug using proxymock. The data never leaves your environment.
Tideways 2026.2 Release
Understanding complex request traces is one of the hardest parts of performance analysis. In this Release, we focused on making this significantly easier in Tideways. The Timeline has been redesigned to provide a clearer view of how requests are executed, with new layout modes, improved navigation, and a more consistent span model. These changes help you follow execution order, understand dependencies, and identify performance bottlenecks faster, even in complex applications.
The most reliable Mac fleet for GitHub Actions: M4 Pro available now
Apple didn't announce the M5 Pro at WWDC, and the M4 Pro Mac Mini industry shortage isn't going anywhere either. Neither should affect your CI. Apple pulled the base model from its store and discontinued the 32GB config. What's still available ships in weeks with some configs months out. Resellers are asking $979 for $599 machines and Tim Cook confirmed the constraints will last several more months.
Ep 76 | The Space-AI-Quantum Nexus Challenging Governance
AI governance is already struggling to keep pace. Add quantum computing and space infrastructure, and the challenge becomes exponentially harder. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with technology governance specialist and researcher Preetha Bedi to explore the growing convergence between AI, space, and quantum technologies—and why this nexus is creating entirely new categories of systemic risk.