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Leveraging OpenTelemetry to Fix Flaky Integration Tests

At Lumigo, we heavily depend on a set of tests to deploy code changes fast. For every pull request opened, we bootstrap our whole application backend and run a set of async parallel checks mimicking users’ use cases. We call them integration tests. These integration tests are how we ensure: Recently, we changed our old “traditional log traversing” of integration tests into *amazing* OpenTelemetry traces graphs.

Tidal Accelerator's Update Improves Application Interviews

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to Tidal Accelerator, which focuses on optimizing one of our most popular features: Application interviews. This update was designed to make the interview process faster, more intuitive, and easier to use. The latest update of Tidal Accelerator includes pre-filled interviews, which save time for users who are completing interviews for similar applications.

Understanding Azure Blob Storage Soft Delete: A Comprehensive Guide

Azure Blob Storage is a scalable, cost-effective, and durable cloud storage solution provided by Microsoft Azure. Serving as the backbone for many Azure services, it enables businesses to store a colossal amount of unstructured data ranging from documents, images, backup data, to log files, etc. Azure Blob Storage can handle all your static data that’s stored and read but not changed frequently, making it an indispensable part of any cloud data management strategy.

Why Traditional Cloud Cost Optimization Isn't Enough

The cloud holds such promise. It’s the promise of near-infinite scalability, power, and growth potential. Companies switching to the cloud, especially in the early days of the 2010s, were seduced by the possibilities of what could happen if they just spent a little more, raced against their competitors a little faster, or achieved just a bit more product functionality. Could they be the next Twitter? The next Uber? Or something even bigger and better than what had come before?

Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #28 How to check if a string is Null or Empty

Today I will speak about another useful Best practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How to check if a parameter or a string is Null or Empty.

Guide to Azure Blob REST API: Upload, Download, Manage, Secure

Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based storage solution provided by Microsoft as part of its Azure platform. It enables users to store and manage unstructured data such as text, images, videos, and binary data in the cloud. This makes it a highly scalable and cost-effective way to store large amounts of data without having to worry about hardware maintenance or infrastructure management.

Enable monitoring for enterprise-scale Azure environments in minutes with Datadog

As enterprises build and scale business-critical applications on Azure, they need continuous visibility to understand the health and performance of their services. This can be a challenge, especially for enterprises with large-scale deployments that include an ever-increasing number of subscriptions, resources, and teams.

Mastering Azure Blob Storage Backups: Essential Guide to Data Protection

Have you ever heard of Azure Blob Storage? If you work with data storage, then chances are you’ve at least heard the name. But what exactly is it? In simple terms, Azure Blob Storage is a cloud-based storage solution provided by Microsoft. It’s used to store and manage unstructured data such as text and binary data, including documents, images, videos, and more.