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Rainforest Automation - An End-to-End Signup Test

Testing a sign up flow using Rainforest Automation, which is a no code testing platform for automated and manual QA testing. This shows a few advanced features useful in testing sign up flows, including data generation, email workflows and encapsulating common actions in embedded tests. This kind of automated end-to-end test is impossible with traditional test automation.

Automating the Development Pipeline to Rapidly Design, Publish and Consume Services

Teams are looking for every opportunity to do more with less. Companies want to get to market faster, while reducing costs with automation. To accomplish these goals, it is critical to allow the developers to use DevOps processes and re-use existing Services to drive speed and innovation. In this Workshop, we'll discuss how Kong enables spec-based development to provide consistent APIs, documentation and automate deployments with Kong, using GitOps.

React Hooks Common Mistakes

React Hooks is a new addition to React which enables you to use state and other features of the library without having to create a class. By ‘hooking into’ React’s existing features, you can significantly reduce the number of concepts you have to grapple with, and you can create custom hooks to share all kinds of non-visual logic, making your code much more reusable.

New Apache Kafka to AWS S3 Connector

Many in the community have been asking us to develop a new Kafka to S3 connector for some time. So we’re pleased to announce it's now available. It’s been designed to deliver a number of benefits over existing S3 connectors. Like our other Stream Reactors, the connector extends the standard connect config adding a parameter for a SQL command (Lenses Kafka Connect Query Language or “KCQL”). This defines how to map data from the source (in this case Kafka) to the target (S3).

Anodot the business monitoring platform

Business metrics are notoriously hard to monitor because of their unique context and volatile nature. Anodot’s Business Monitoring platform uses machine learning to constantly analyze and correlate every business parameter, providing real-time alerts and forecasts in their context. This is machine learning packaged in a turn-key solution – no data science experience needed.

Tips for Successful Data Analysis & Benefits

This short guide for conducting successful big data analysis will take you through a couple of the most essential tips to help you learn how to analyse data & become a better data analyst by avoiding rookie mistakes and embracing the correct mindset to get the most from your data. We’ll also cover some of ways that conducting effective data analysis can help your organisation.

Election Reporting at Scale - DreamFactory and Decision Desk HQ

Over the years the DreamFactory team has collaborated on a lot of really interesting API-oriented projects. Many of these projects involve integrating the DreamFactory platform into a much larger technology ecosystem. To put this into perspective, although our client base ranges widely in terms of both industry and company size, we often work with organizations tending towards the larger end of the scale.