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What do 82% of global executives say is crucial for AI success? MIT's latest findings highlight the importance of effective data integration.

In Part 1 of “Retail Media’s Business Case for Data Clean Rooms,” we discussed how to (1) assess your data assets and (2) define your data structures and permissions. Once you have a plan on paper, you can begin sizing the data clean room opportunity for your business.

More easily manage AI spend, build AI agents and chatbots, get real-time AI responses, and ensure content safety We're introducing several new Kong AI Gateway capabilities in Kong Gateway 3.7 and Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.7, including enterprise-only and OSS improvements. Read on for a full rundown of the new AI-focused features.

The dual-write problem occurs when two external systems must be updated in an atomic fashion. A classic example is updating an application’s database while pushing an event into a messaging system like Apache Kafka. If the database update succeeds but the write to Kafka fails, the system ends up in an inconsistent state. However, the dual-write problem isn’t unique to event-driven systems or Kafka. It occurs in many situations involving different technologies and architectures.

In our previous articles about exploratory testing, we focused on session-based test management (SBTM), one of the more popular approaches. SBTM aligns clearly with the Xray Exploratory App workflow and terminology. As a quick refresher, SBTM is a more structured technique for performing exploratory testing. The key idea is to organize delimited sessions which are uninterrupted blocks of reviewable, chartered test effort.

Kevin McGahey - May 28, 2024 It’s been a while since our last update, but while we’ve been AWOL, we most certainly haven’t been AFK. Here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to since the last update.

In Kotlin, an enum (short for enumerator) is a special kind of predefined Kotlin data type used to store and represent a fixed set of named constant values, often simply referred to as constants. Each constant is an object, meaning they can have properties and methods, these are enums and are useful for representing elements that are fixed (for example days of the week) and don’t change.

Managing Confluent Cloud infrastructure efficiently poses challenges due to the complexities involved in deploying and maintaining various components like environments, clusters, topics, and authorizations. Without proper tooling and practices, teams struggle with manual configuration errors, lack of consistency, and potential security risks. The Confluent Terraform.

The Data Streaming Awards is back for its third year! Designed to bring the data streaming community together, this one-of-a-kind industry award event recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of this revolutionary technology to drive business and customer experience transformation. If you know a company (even your own team) that is using data streaming technology to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers and communities, the time is now to submit a nomination.

Behind every business decision, there’s underlying data that informs business leaders’ actions. As the market landscape across verticals from financial services to healthcare and manufacturing grows increasingly competitive, those decisions need to happen ever faster and to make them, businesses need to rely on data to reveal insights quickly, as near-real-time as possible.