React is a JavaScript-based library for using component-based architecture to create applications that share user interface content. It allows you to define the function or class-based component that provides a specific feature for an application; hence, each component in React application contains the set of lifecycle hooks. There are several lifecycle methods such as mounting the component, updating the state of a component, or unmounting the component.

Cloud deployments have gotten more complicated over the years. That’s on them, but it’s not necessarily to a fault – there’s just so much more you can do now than in the past. That blossoming in capabilities really owes itself to each new service getting easier over time. AWS, Google, and Azure started offering to relieve the burden of on-premises computing infrastructure.

Ever since the pandemic hit, supply chain issues have abounded. Retailers bore the brunt of the news coverage, as shelves went barren for a host of reasons—not least demand shifts, panic buying, container shortages, and geopolitical concerns. These supply chain issues are estimated to have caused revenue losses of 5%–20% for some retailers. Often, once loyal customers switch brands or retailers rather than waiting months for products to come back in stock.

To remain competitive, insurers need to look for ways to modernize the underwriting process. However, too often disconnected systems and siloed data get in the way, resulting in inefficiencies and a poor customer experience. We recently had the chance to sit down with Kathleen Ellis, SVP of International Solutions at CNA, during Digital Insurance’s annual conference to discuss how to accelerate connected underwriting on a global scale and their success with their CNA ComPassTM solution.

This is Part 1 of a three-part blog series that will dive into industry insights from technology leaders who are facing the next wave of digital innovation head-on. Today, we meet again at the cusp of the next frontier. This time, it’s Web3, the metaverse and boundless connectivity. Businesses everywhere are bracing for what’s next while preparing for the onslaught of new-wave digital experiences.

Data integrity problems are among the most common database issues Rails developers face. Besides allowing for proper validation, correctly designed transaction blocks ensure that your data isn't partially created or updated. However, transactions can also harm your application — or even take down your whole database — when not properly designed. This article offers a set of good practices for working with transactions.

From our website and beyond, these resources spanning multiple facets of automated mobile testing will transform you into an expert in no time.

The capacity to reuse and build upon the foundations of other people is one of the most powerful aspects of software development. The code-sharing has helped in the rapid advancement of software. This process of code sharing in Node.js is eased via module.exports or exports, which can be used both within individual projects and in external npm dependencies. Modules are code structure building elements that help Node.js developers better structure, reuse, and distribute code.

Once you decide to monetize your app or APIs, the journey begins to find a simple and robust solution for billing. At Moesif, we know that a billing solution is actually really tough to implement. Getting your product from “0-to-monetization” is not always a straightforward path, even if it should be. Our no-code approach to billing is a simple and elegant way to very rapidly gain the capability to bill customers for usage.

Thanks to HEEx and function components, LiveView provides developers with a sleek, ergonomic syntax for building and maintaining sophisticated interactive UIs. LiveView's form/1 function component is a great example of this, making it easier than ever before to render complex forms within LiveView. However, the form/1 function component can feel a little mysterious to anyone unfamiliar with LiveView's function components.

In our previous blog posts, we’ve covered the core components, orchestration capabilities and automated analysis and ChatOps features in our in-house Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) application. In this final blog post, we will briefly cover one of the system’s automated response capabilities that allow it to take action and respond to alerts without human intervention, and close out the blog series with two important lessons learned from implementing SOAR at Appian.

If you’ve had your tent pitched in the tech space for a while, you should know that everyone talks about “the cloud.” About a decade ago, it was sort of an IT buzzword. Now? Cloud software development is the next step in the business software evolution, and the numbers do not lie. Eighty-nine percent of enterprises already use a multi-cloud strategy, with 80 percent leveraging a hybrid approach, combining private and public clouds. But here’s where it gets interesting.

Not to get all gloomy about it, but the pandemic accelerated the largest declines in college enrollment in more than 50 years and slammed colleges and universities with $24 billion in COVID-related debt. In other words, COVID was a wake up call for higher education.

While the year 2021 was a huge success, we've re-energized ourselves for 2022. By launching new cloud platforms, we began our path to radically simplify the production of digital experiences for our clients. This allows us to offer products and solutions as software as a service (SaaS), private cloud, or on-premises, with the ability to seamlessly move between the three alternatives in the future.

As Apple leaps forward from Macs built with Intel-based chips to Macs with ARM-based chips, this transition means both Bitrise and our customers, need to update tooling and software in preparation for this transition in order to take full advantage of the Apple Silicon for the development work.

This Bitrise CLI tutorial will show you how to build, test, optimize and run your workflows while saving credits from your terminal. Read on to learn more!

The EmptyStackException is a runtime exception in Java that is thrown by methods in the Stack class to indicate that the stack is empty. Since the EmptyStackException is an unchecked exception, it does not need to be declared in the throws clause of a method or constructor.

The ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is a runtime exception in Java that occurs when an array is accessed with an illegal index. The index is either negative or greater than or equal to the size of the array. Since the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is an unchecked exception, it does not need to be declared in the throws clause of a method or constructor.

A good business model is one that can easily generate revenue. Often, when developers build something it could easily be packaged and used by another organization. This is extremely true when it comes to APIs. If an API is solving a well-known problem, there is likely a market for it. Being able to expose an API for public consumption can be done in many ways, a popular option being using an API gateway. The real hurdle comes when you decide to start billing for usage.

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages because of its principle of “compile once, run anywhere.” Its many syntax constraints, though, mean that writing code in a basic text editor can become tedious. You can use an integrated development environment (IDE) like IntelliJ IDEA to improve your output, with features like compile-time error suggestions and intelligent code completion. One of the most helpful functions of IntelliJ is its debugging capacity.

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) has become indispensable for organizations. According to an article by the Business Research Company, the CIAM market is expected to reach $45.56 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate of 18.6%. The research firm adds that the increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices — such as smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes and medical sensors — will be the primary driving factor for this growth.

Last year, my friends at Appian commissioned some research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Financiers ridden with technical debt. The results were interesting: Research from The Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Appian, finds that just over a third (34%) of IT decision makers believe that the reduction or elimination of legacy IT would do most to help their organisation achieve its automation objectives.

In this Kongcast episode, Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes.

This is the last part of the Google Chrome Developer tools article. In this post we will share show you more of the new Developers Tools that Google has added to Chrome. Remember that Google Chrome Dev Tools is a set of powerful tools that help developers to build better webs. If you haven’t done it yet, you can read the first article of the series and the second one.

We are thrilled to welcome Tuist on our list of Verified Steps. Read how you can incorporate the new Step into your Bitrise Workflow to create, mantain and interact with your Xcode projects a lot more effectively.

AWS Lambda has been around for a few years now, and it remains the most popular way to experiment with serverless technology. If you're not familiar with serverless, it's a model of development in which managing, provisioning, and scaling servers is abstracted away from application development. Servers do exist in a serverless world, but they are completely managed by the cloud provider, allowing developers to focus on packaging their code for deployment.

As a part of the research for our latest report about mobile product success in finance and banking, we talked to leads of mobile teams and asked three crucial questions. Check out the results!

The financial services industry, like so many others, has undergone long-lasting changes in recent years. With the emergence of new technologies, new regulations, and unprecedented market changes, institutions have had to contend with unpredictability and rising consumer expectations. To effectively manage constant change, financial firms have to find a way to balance innovation and efficient process execution with risk.

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers.

You can spend hours scrolling down the rabbit hole of government IT horror stories, which makes the recent launch of the federal website for ordering free COVID tests that much more remarkable. The website worked, and it was surprisingly easy to use. But that success belies decades of underinvestment in digital transformation that has stifled public sector innovation and hardened the government's low-tech image. For example.

There are many excellent authorization libraries for Rails, but did you know it's not that hard to build this functionality yourself? In this article, Renata Marques shows us how to use the Policy Object Pattern to implement access control in our Rails apps.

This blog post is a quick guide to help you catch up on the latest fastlane enhancements, bug fixes, and changes. Read on to find out more!

It’s always great to build something that makes money. The most successful businesses often find the easiest and most efficient ways to make money, while keeping costs and support to a minimum. After all, the best businesses and products are simply the ones that know how to build revenue. Many companies now look to monetizing their APIs as part of their overall monetization strategy. API monetization isn’t always easy though.

Building great apps and APIs is not an easy task. Even harder, is trying to monetize and create a sustainable business with them. As part of our mission to help companies create better products, we decided to put a bunch of effort towards helping businesses more easily monetize. Our no-code approach to billing is a simple and elegant way to very rapidly gain the capability to bill customers for usage. Easy monetization is the premise for our latest feature for generating revenue from your APIs.

You can expect improved user experience and performance reflected in numerous enhancements on Bitrise in the upcoming months, and this is the first round of our updates — including the revamped Build Details page. Find out what has changed!

Savannah Whitman When your platform runs on APIs, all of those APIs need to run perfectly. Quickly resolving issues in your API isn’t just helpful, it’s mandatory. Latency and error monitoring are only the beginning: a healthy server isn’t the same thing as a healthy product. Resolving error cases and API abuse is easiest with full visibility into your API, which is where API analytics come in.

This article helps you learn more about the Bitrise API and how to make the most out of it — with real examples from members of the Bitrise community.

When COVID-19 hit, college students freaked out, universities went remote, and millions of students struggled with the impersonal functionality of Zoom—even with tropical backgrounds. But more than that, the pandemic exposed the shortcomings of legacy student information systems (SIS) that stymied university efforts to limit virus spread and help anxious students cope with pandemic stress. But sometimes it takes a crisis to start a revolution.

Have you ever heard someone complain about their tests being too fast? Me neither. Fast tests mean fast feedback. Whether you run them locally or in a continuous integration pipeline, the earlier your tests finish, the earlier you can react to failures and improve your code. Besides the productivity gains, it is well known that slow tests make developers grumpy. Nobody likes their developers grumpy. With all that said, creating a lightning-fast test suite isn't always as easy as you'd hope.

From April 25, 2022 on, Apple will start requiring all apps being built for Apple’s platforms, including iPhone (iOS), iPad (iPadOS), and Watch (WatchOS), to be built with Xcode 13, which already includes SDKs for iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and watchOS 8.

A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources are in high demand, there is often a lot of waste coming from inefficient cloud usage, unnecessary SaaS tooling, endless logs, and more.

We launched N|Solid SaaS into beta last year to make available our enterprise-grade Node.js tools more accessible, especially for smaller teams and individual developers. N|Solid is the best observability and insights tool to manage Node performance and security, trusted by developers and enterprise organizations across the globe, built by Node Experts.

If you're using PHP or adopting a PHP application, you need to know how to debug in PHP. Debugging PHP errors in a production environment is one of the most frustrating things a developer can go through. Identifying the underlying cause is challenging when error reports are ambiguous. Nobody enjoys debugging their code. However, if you want to create great web applications, you must fully complete the process.

E-commerce has been trending these days and everyone is engaged in or wants to start some online business. Developers are creating different software and extensions to help people in managing and running their online stores. One of the most used Plugins by the online business is WooCommerce as it will turn your WordPress website into a proper online store. WooCommerce has quickly gained popularity because of its easy user interference and customization features.

Keeping your dependencies up-to-date is essential to ensure that your applications stay healthy, secure, and performant. Thankfully, the BEAM ecosystem has its own package manager, Hex, which is fast, mature, and simple to use. This article explores the available tools and commands to manage Hex dependencies and some tips to make the process more enjoyable. Let's dive in!

Golang is an open source programming language used largely for server-side programming and is developed by Google. With it static typing, it is a very simple and versatile programming language that is an excellent choice for beginners. Golang is a type-safe language and has a flexible and powerful type system. In addition, its syntax is very simple, making your code easier to read.

Job queues and workers are an essential part of any web application - allowing slower work to be done in the background without compromising end-user experience. In this post, Darius introduces us to Laravel's job processing capabilities.

The TypeScript team announced a collaboration to a new proposal for the JavaScript language, written by Gil Tayar, that I was amazed by. In Gil's words: "It seems that people love types based" according to the StateOfJS 2021 survey.

More than 70% of time spent on digital media is spent using mobile apps, and we have to prepare for more frequent hacker attacks. With the partnership of Bitrise and NowSecure, you can be assured that your apps are safe and supported by a fully automated security and privacy testing software.

Development time is precious. Developers are highly-skilled and highly-paid, and so naturally you want to make sure that they are as productive as possible. Many organizations are starting to hire Developer Experience Engineers to make sure that their developers are using the best tools and processes possible. To make developers more productive, the first step is to figure out exactly what developers are actually doing. Then, we need to figure out what we want them to do.

In this article, you will learn how to release better and more secure finance apps rapidly, by applying security measures and moving to shift-left testing in the DevOps cycles.

It’s prudent business practice to only focus on your core features when getting to Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Microservices architectures allow you to outsource non-differentiated pieces of your solution to third-party providers; Use someone else for user management, billing and account management. At first blush, it might seem attractive to develop your own API analytics solution, perhaps by building on top of a web analytics tool like Amplitude, MixPanel or Segment.

New technologies always require some planning, changes, and experimentation before they merge into an enterprise stack. GraphQL adoption has been no exception to this. Companies like Airbnb, Netflix, Shopify, and other industry giants have all taken the leap to use this promising technology. In this blog, I will outline a few key considerations for creating your new service, deploying it, and monitoring the service.

There’s a reason for this. Low-code allows developers to visually build impressive UX, create interactive diagrams, and leverage pre-built templates to make their work easier and their lives happier. And with every release of Appian, we bring more features that make low-code a joy for developers. Read on for our developers’ top 5 highlights from the Appian 22.1 release. Try the latest Appian release for free.

The way we interact with organizations has changed. Experiences have gone remote, mobile, and virtual over the past few years and there is no going back. According to Gartner, organizations providing a Total Experience in this new era will outperform competitors by 25% across key satisfaction metrics. But what is Total Experience? It is the combination of customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), user experience (UX), and multi-experience (MX) to transform business outcomes.

Codeless automation testing tools simplify the process of test automation. Using a visual approach, engineers and manual testers alike can easily create, maintain, and execute automation tests with no or minimal test scripts. Here's everything you need to know to get a clear picture of what all the hype is about with codeless automation testing tools!

The front door to your organization. Connection is key. No matter what industry you are part of, you need—you want—to communicate and interact with your most important audiences: customers, partners, citizens, suppliers, and more. And you don’t necessarily want to ask loads of questions or require users to provide login credentials for every interaction. This could result in unhappy users who abandon the process and look to one of your competitors for what they need.

In this article, we will take a high-level look at the differences between an API proxy and an API gateway. When a developer publishes a public API, it’s necessary for that API to have security policies and a way to hide backend logic from API consumers. Decoupling your API from your backend services allows you to shield your apps from backend code changes, and allows users to call your API without worrying about availability.

This is how we set up Bitrise's internal platform’s GCP environment for teams to host their infrastructure resources.

Every five years, LIUNA, the Laborers' International Union of North America, hosts a convention attracting over 1,400 delegates. The labor union needed a way to quickly build a public portal using the Appian Low-Code Platform to reach these delegates without requiring them to create an account or log in. They chose to join the Appian Portals beta program to meet their needs. Appian Portals securely connects external users to apps without authentication.

Turning organic visitors to your website into loyal customers is the goal of every company that has an eye on growth. B2B traffic that finds your website through Google search brings the best new customers since those visits are organically searching for what you write about. Converting these organic visitors of your website into customers who will return and order should be the focus of business marketing efforts.

Streams are one of the oldest and most misunderstood concepts in Node.js, and that's not a developer's issue. The streams API in Node.js could be kind of hard to understand, which could lead to misunderstandings, wrong usages, and in worst scenarios, memory leaks, performance issues, or weird behavior in your application.

In this blog post we are going to cover writing a bare-bones API in ASP.NET that can read, write, and delete data from a test database.

By incorporating AI and machine learning into mobile testing tools, teams can become more efficient in test automation. In this article, we'll look at how the adoption of AI and machine learning will improve these tools and what the future of testing might look like.

Insight is a funny thing - everyone wants more of it, but sometimes, when we get it, we realize what we truly don’t understand. I got a major dose of insight recently when I used Appian Process Mining to take a look at how we could optimize some of our workflows, specifically content creation. At Appian, we have an AMAZING Creative team - and I’m not just saying that because we work together. I’m saying that because if they didn’t work here, I would hire them, without question.

This new release of Tideways includes tracking exceptions with codes, improved notifications, improved trace filtering and sorting, several new features for the Callgraph Profiler and changes to the PHP extension.

Import maps is the new feature in Rails 7 that allows us to say goodbye to Node.js and tools like Webpack. There's no need for bundling anymore. With this new mechanism, you can still manage your JavaScript libraries with a specific version. Instead of one big file, though, your application serves many small JavaScript files. It’s essential you know how import maps work to benefit from the newest version of Rails (but don’t worry, you can still use tools like Webpack instead).

The insurance industry is undergoing massive modernization to improve outdated processes and enhance policyholder experiences. Delivering a connected insurance experience has become critical for insurers to stay competitive as the marketplace digitizes and insurtechs emerge, bringing new challenges to more established providers. Core to an insurer’s overall connected insurance experience are workflows that ensure a seamless, accelerated digital underwriting process for potential policyholders.

I have a bit of a confession to make, I’ve never really bothered to learn Python. The last time I briefly used it, Python 3 had just been released and was being ignored by almost everyone due to all to breaking changes people had porting over to it from Python 2. This is crazy, as in my opinion, Python is only behind JavaScript in terms of the most used language in the world. I have no excuse not to learn it and see what the fuss is all about!

This is the second part of the Google Chrome Developer tools article. In this post we will share show you more of the new Developers Tools that Google has added to Chrome. Remember that Google Chrome Dev Tools is a set of powerful tools that help developers to build better webs. If you haven’t done it yet, you can read the first article of the series.

WSO2 Identity Server is the most popular open-source CIAM system on the market, and it is widely used by educational institutions and government agencies as an on-premise CIAM solution. Single sign-on/sign-out (SSO), identity federation, strong authentication, identity administration, account management, identity provisioning, fine-grained access control, API security, monitoring, reporting, and auditing are all possible with WSO2 Identity Server's seamless integration capabilities.

Writing UI tests is always challenging. Many developers leave views without testing or devoting much effort to the development of tests. This article is a quick guide to help you automate your iOS Snapshot testing process!

We should be skeptical of doomsday commentary about worker burnout and the “great resignation”, but also keenly aware that things have changed, that worker engagement is on life support, and that fed up workers are costing the global economy a staggering $8.1 trillion a year. So, what the heck happened to work since the pandemic began? Turns out just 20% of global workers are engaged with their work, including 36% of workers in the U.S. followed by 11% in the U.K. and Western Europe.