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Learn what observability is and why it matters to Site Reliability Engineers.

The value of embedded analytics is unmistakable. Application teams that embed dashboards and reports drive revenue, reduce customer churn, and differentiate their software from the competition. While embedded dashboards create real value, they can also come with real costs. These costs are not always visible when companies plan for their analytics offering but can significantly impact production, scale, and the speed of bringing analytics to market.

This is Part 2 of the Requirement Gathering Blog series by Rahul Parwal. We’d like to thank him for sharing his expertise with the community through this information-packed piece. In the Agile methodology, the requirement-gathering “phase” is not as rigid and formal as in the traditional Waterfall method.

Why and how Fivetran’s usage-based pricing model ties cost to value for our customers.

There are several types of errors that can occur in Python. Each type indicates a different kind of problem in the code, and comprehending these error types is crucial in creating effective Python applications. The most common types of errors you'll encounter in Python are syntax errors, runtime errors, logical errors, name errors, type errors, index errors, and attribute errors. Let's go through each with examples.

Kong is proud to announce our first-ever Long Term Support (LTS) version of Kong Enterprise. Kong Enterprise 2.8 LTS will be supported up to March 25, 2025. LTS is an industry term for a software release that is supported for a longer period of time than other releases. LTS versions are popular because once users are on an LTS version, they can rest assured that this version will continue to receive technical support and security updates during the LTS period.

In the first part of this series, we explored the ins and outs of Elixir test factories and fixtures. However, test factories bypass the rules of your Elixir application. Let's turn our attention to how we can avoid this by using data generation functions. Let's dive straight in!

Superapps take the features and functions of several apps to create a single powerful app that allows users to accomplish multiple tasks in one place. With mobile app users spending more time on apps each day, what are the benefits of creating a superapp for companies?

Today, we are very excited to announce the acquisition of Aspecto, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) pioneer whose capabilities will further extend SmartBear’s modern, developer-focused observability capabilities. Aspecto’s solution discovers modern microservice based architectures and visualizes all the real-time interactions between services and APIs through advanced distributed tracing capabilities.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important as organizations use it to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, improve decision making, and boost digital transformation efforts. But ensuring success requires significant, ongoing efforts. Consider setting up an AI center of excellence (CoE) to boost the success of your AI initiatives.