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Apache Iceberg is transforming how organizations hanle data by solving key challenges in traditional data warehousing. It offers schema evolution without downtime, automated partitioning, ACID compliance, and time travel for historical data access. Its open table format separates storage and compute, enabling scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency.

Last month, TestGuild’s Joe Colantonio sat down with two of SmartBear’s product wizards to discuss the world of developer observability and upcoming trends. Eran Grabiner is co-founder of distributed tracing tool Aspecto, which was acquired by SmartBear earlier this year. Right now, he works as Director of Product Management for Aspecto spearheading observability projects. Justin Collier is a longtime member of the SmartBear team and currently serves as Senior Director of Product Management.

Hello, and welcome to part two of the BugSnag Beginners Series! We will cover the error details page and how it can be used to maximize error debugging in your BugSnag Dashboard. We’ll start by going over how error details heading information is organized, followed by what different pivots mean, how the status box works, where to find diagnostic data, and lastly how to create custom filters using your error’s metadata.

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a type of application performance monitoring that provides insights on how people interact with your app. With RUM, you can see what your users see by monitoring key elements of their experience within your application. There’s lots of industry buzz about observability, but for good reason. RUM is a critical part of digital experience monitoring because it’s incredibly valuable to understand user behavior and preferences.

The holiday rush can be a make-or-break moment for retailers and e-commerce businesses. But the real challenge? Keeping those seasonal shoppers coming back long after the decorations come down. Following plentiful December 2023 sales, many retailers were surprised to start the new year with a sales slump as consumer spending dwindled. The Commerce Department reported that in January 2024, U.S. retail sales dropped 0.8% – much farther than economists expected.

Since Adobe introduced the PDF in 1993, this versatile file format has played a key role in the digital revolution. PDFs give us a universal languages across different devices, they support interactive and multimedia elements, and they provide robust encryption. Today, Adobe estimates there are over 2.5 trillion PDFs in existence around the world. It’s fairly self-evident, then, that PDF functionalities are now a crucial part of web application development.

Chaos testing, also known as chaos engineering, is one of the most-used methodology to test the resilience and reliability of systems by intentionally introducing controlled failures. Simply put, the goal is to identify weaknesses and improve a system’s ability to handle unexpected scenarios. Originating from Netflix’s famous Chaos Monkey tool, chaos testing has become a key practice in building robust distributed systems.