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Learn about recent enhancements to the BigQuery Data Transfer Service connector ecosystem, security and compliance features, and the user experience.

The new BigQuery Agent Analytics ADK plugin exports agent interaction data directly into BigQuery to capture, analyze, and visualize agent metrics.

Most modern software systems are distributed systems, but designing a distributed system isn’t easy. Here are six best practices to get you started. Most modern software systems are distributed systems. Designing and maintaining a distributed system, however, isn't easy. There are so many areas to master: communication, security, reliability, concurrency, and, crucially, observability and debugging.

In today’s environment of distributed applications and microservices, unified identity and access management are essential. If you’re working with DreamFactory as your API-platform and want to leverage Okta for Single-Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, you’re in the right place. This post walks you through setting up Okta as your Identity Provider (IdP) and DreamFactory as your Service Provider (SP) for SAML 2.0-based login.

PDF documents play a critical role in various industries, serving as the final output for customer-facing documents such as invoices, contracts, and compliance reports. However, testing these documents poses significant challenges due to their complex nature, which includes mixed content, dynamic data, and strict formatting requirements. Manual testing of PDFs is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error, making automation an essential component of a robust testing strategy.

AI has rewritten the rules of software development. Developers can now generate, fix, and ship code in seconds. This is transformative, but as shared by SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner, “The tools that help us build software are advancing much faster than the tools that ensure we can trust it.” For software quality to keep up with AI coding, today’s tools must evolve to remain effective. SmartBear is answering this call.

Using Subversion (SVN) for version control? With SVN commands, you can work in SVN more efficiently. Here we list out some of the most popular Subversion commands along with an SVN cheat sheet. —

In the world of early-stage startups, the real enemies aren’t competitors. It’s time, focus, and credibility. You’re racing to ship fast, protect runway, and look enterprise-ready long before you actually are. And in 2025, every serious buyer expects your product to have native, AI-powered analytics built in. Not basic dashboards, but a polished, conversational, ask-anything, data experience that delivers trusted answers.

In contemporary software engineering, it is not sufficient to simply confirm that software applications function perfectly across all features – they also need to behave correctly with real users in real worlds. In this context, scenario testing has a significant role to play. Scenario testing fills the gap between functional testing and real user experience based on validating software by simulating end-to-end user journeys.