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Predictive Analytics: How Generative AI and Data Streaming Work Together to Forecast the Future

Predictive analytics is changing how businesses make decisions. Companies can use data, machine learning, and statistical modeling to forecast outcomes with better accuracy. So, how can predictive analytics techniques transform your business? Predictive analytics uses historical data to predict future events. It involves understanding the relationships within your data to predict what's next, impacting industries from retail and healthcare to finance and manufacturing.

Kong Gateway 3.9: Extended AI Support and Enhanced Security

Today we're excited to announce Kong Gateway 3.9! Since unveiling Kong Gateway 3.8 at API Summit 2024 just a few months ago, we’ve been busy making important updates and improvements to Kong Gateway. This release introduces new functionality around LLM support for AI governance and security and threat protection. Keep reading to learn more!

LLM Testing in 2025: Methods and Strategies

Large Language Models, or LLMs, have become a near-ubiquitous technology in recent years. Promising the ability to generate human-like content with simple and direct prompts, LLMs have been integrated across a diverse array of systems, purposes, and functions, including content generation, image identification and curation, and even heuristics-based performance testing for APIs and other software components.

Queues in Apache Kafka: Enhancing Message Processing and Scalability

In the world of data processing and messaging systems, terms like "queue" and "streaming" often pop up. While they might sound similar, they serve different purposes, and can significantly impact how your system handles data. Let’s break down the differences in a straightforward way.

December Recap: Scale to Zero, Serverless GPU Price Drop, and more

This December has been full of pivotal serverless milestones. We've rolled out a series of major features designed to make your deployments experience smoother, faster, and more cost-effective: Let’s dive into this recap to cover everything that is new and share the resources you need to run and scale your workloads.

How to choose a test framework for mobile automation

Still relying on Selenium for your automation? It’s time to explore new options. @Diego Molina, Staff Software Engineer from @Sauce Labs explains why your choice of test framework can make or break your testing strategy: Ready to rethink your automation toolkit? Catch the latest episode of Test Case Scenario to learn how modern frameworks save time, reduce costs, and improve quality.

Cucumber's Next Chapter: A Community-Driven Future

At SmartBear, we’ve always believed in the power of open source software to drive innovation, transparency, and collaboration. Open source is part of our DNA through Swagger, Pact, and Cucumber, which have become foundational tools for developers worldwide. Today, we’re announcing an important milestone in Cucumber’s journey: SmartBear is transitioning stewardship of the Cucumber project to the Open Source Collective.

Language Capabilities Of Chatgpt 4.0 Vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Language capabilities have virtually changed from what it once was, thanks to the newest AI advancements that made huge leaps in language-based tasks. Fittingly enough, today, two so highly spoken-of models that usher content development, interaction, and debugging are ChatGPT 4.0 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Creating possibilities or tasks for the user has deservedly led to the necessity of being able to weigh up the opponents, so as to make the right decision for themselves.

Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent is one of my favorite trade shows. It is one of the biggest technology conferences of the year and is an opportunity to have hundreds of conversations with customers and prospects, listen to their priorities and challenges, hopes, and give them a Cloudera tote bag or a pair of orange sunglasses. What follows is a collection of just a few things I learned and observed during my week in Las Vegas.