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We’ve all had that moment where it seems like you've solved your company's biggest engineering challenges after a weekend of hacking something together. Your prototype is so good, you feel, that the obvious next steps are to build a slide deck, rally the team around your work, and prepare the ticker tape parade for your hero's welcome. Jeff Schnitter, a Solution Architect at Cortex, knows this roller coaster of experience all too well after his time at Workday.

For many software teams, documentation is written after features are built and design decisions have already been made. When that happens, questions about how a feature is understood or used often don’t surface until much later. A little over one year ago, our team began to recognize this pattern in our own work. Features generally functioned as intended but were difficult to use or explain. Documentation lagged behind releases.

In software development, load testing plays a critical role in ensuring that applications perform optimally under any imaginable load condition. To do this, developers subject applications to several types of load tests, including scalability, spike, endurance, and stress testing. The ultimate goal of these performance tests is to pinpoint potential bottlenecks and ensure the reliability of the overall system where the software application runs before reaching production.

Secure cloud traffic at line rate, without slowing your workloads down, thanks to Megaport’s new encryption solution. Securing data in motion is often a trade-off between performance and privacy, but most traditional encryption models struggle to find this balance – especially when you’re moving large volumes of data between clouds or across regions.

This is a guest post from Stephanie Herr. One of Flyway’s biggest strengths is its ability to track your database schema as individual SQL DDL scripts on disk. This gives you full version control over every object, along with a complete audit trail of what changed, who changed it, when it changed, and why. For teams working with Oracle and/or SQL Server, this level of transparency is essential and this latest release provides even more support for how you handle changes across dependent objects.

This is a guest post from James Hemson. The January release of Redgate Test Data Manager brings the launch of our free trial, a completely redesigned installation experience, and powerful new workflow capabilities. These updates make it faster to get started and easier to automate your data provisioning pipelines.

This is a guest post from Saskia Parks. If you're exploring test data management (TDM) solutions, you probably know your current practices aren't ideal, but you're skeptical investing in a solution is worth the budget and effort. We hear the same concerns. The perception is that proper TDM is expensive, complicated, and takes months of painful implementation.

Imagine you want to launch an application without first building and managing the servers that run it. You write the code, pick how it should run, and then let a platform take care of the rest. That’s the core promise of AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In this snackable guide, you’ll understand AWS Elastic Beanstalk well enough to decide if it belongs in your AWS architecture.