Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Microsoft Fabric combines data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics, and BI into a single environment to help organizations streamline data workflows and derive insights from large, diverse datasets. For teams leveraging Fabric, data masking is an essential method for safeguarding sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and maintaining data quality throughout analytics pipelines.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, QA teams never stop searching for means to optimize testing efficiency without losing precision. Playwright Model Context Protocol (MCP) has a new paradigm that is revolutionizing automated testing. Playwright MCP fills the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs) and test environments, naturalizing and simplifying QA automation. It is a paradigm shift in how testing is understood within the context of contemporary software development.

Software has become a core component of modern vehicles, so much that software defined vehicles (SDVs) are transforming the automotive market, bringing key features to the software rather than the hardware of the vehicle. But developing high-quality code for software defined vehicle architecture is challenging.

Last week, industry leaders gathered at the Game Technology Summit during GDC 2025 to explore emerging trends and challenges in game development. The panel discussion, moderated by Jase Lindgren (Sr. Solutions Engineer and P4 Evangelist, Perforce), featured insights from Colin Walder (Engineering Director, CD PROJEKT RED), Joshua Orellana (Head of Animation and Games, Halon Entertainment), and Matt Ellis (Game Dev Advocate, JetBrains).

Playwright is a Microsoft-created NodeJS package with capabilities that are quite similar to Puppeteer. Both libraries enable you to automate browser-based tasks. With Playwright, you can launch or connect to a Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox browser and exchange instructions. The DevTools protocol (for Chrome browsers) and a bespoke protocol (for Firefox and WebKit browsers) are used for these messages.

When running tests in a CI/CD pipeline, relying on external APIs can introduce instability, slow down execution, and even lead to failed builds due to rate limits or API downtime. Fortunately proxymock provides a solution by capturing API interactions and running a local mock server, enabling fully isolated and repeatable tests. In this blog, we’ll demonstrate how to integrate proxymock into a GitHub Actions CI pipeline using a demo app called outerspace-go.

If you’re looking for an alternative to Microsoft App Center, this article will cover the top considerations, and how Sauce Labs handles these in its Mobile App Distribution offering.

APIs power everything—from your favorite apps to critical business systems. But what happens when your API is subjected to large or unexpected traffic, security threats, or plunges under load? One weak link can destroy UX, destroy data or take down your service. API testing serves as your safety system beyond being a mandatory requirement. Faster development schedules and increased user demands during 2025 require organizations to make essential testing tool choices.