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Aiven workshop: Data Persistence 101: Spring Boot and MySQL Edition

✨What's Cooking in Our Workshop✨ Persisting data is a crucial part of any application that you build. It’s not always easy to map your business objects with your relational database. One of the tools that can help you with this is called Hibernate ORM (for Object Relational Mapping). Join us in this workshop where we will learn the basics of Hibernate combined with the most popular Java App framework : Spring Boot and MySQL as a database.

How to securely query AWS S3 from ClickHouse

ClickHouse is a powerful analytical database, loading data from an AWS S3 bucket allows you to quickly start analyzing the data without having to download and upload them manually in the database. Writing data to S3 allows you to offload some cold data, while keeping all the hot data in ClickHouse and, with the usage of federated queries, being able to query both hot and cold data at the same time.

How to test non-deterministic user flows with Playwright

End-to-end testing and synthetic monitoring of interactive apps and sites is challenging. It's especially tough when non-deterministic flows such as cookie banners or promotion popups interrupt your test automation. This video teaches how to write Playwright tests that handle optional and surprising UI interactions. Note: Stefan decreased the default action timeout in this video to avoid spending time waiting for `click()` to timeout.

The Advent of Monitoring, Day 6: How We Use Checkly to Monitor Checkly: A Backender's Perspective

Table of contents As a golden rule of building a developer tool, you should always dog-food your own product. But, how does this work with a monitoring solution 🤔? Doesn’t it create a chicken and egg problem? Checkly uses multiple tools to monitor the platform, and tools from our competitors as well. However, we still dogfood our platform heavily. I believe this is mainly due to our engineers also liking the product and finding it quite easy to monitor their features.