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March 2023

Business Process Monitoring: Definition, Examples, and 3 Secrets to Success

Imagine your business is an ocean. Under the surface, a rich ecosystem of processes, people, and technology needs to work together to create a healthy environment. Above the surface, constant waves can make or break your business, either propelling you to new opportunities or sinking you under pressure.

Data Fabric Architecture: 3 Essential Facts on What's Unique

Data fabric might seem like yet another data management technological innovation you have to learn about—but this one is different from the rest. While technology continues to evolve, the data problems that enterprises face are in many cases getting worse over time: data, data, and more data is permeating the business.

Best Practices For Secure Software Development

Secure software development best practices are necessary because security risks are everywhere. In an era of cyberattacks, they can affect everyone — including individuals, corporations, and governments. For that reason, ensuring security in software development is essential. Here we explain what is secure software, how to ensure security, and provide best practices for secure software development.

What is a VCS? Overview of Version Control Software

What is version control? At a basic level, version control is the process of tracking and managing changes to files over time, and version control software helps automate this process. But that is only the beginning of what it does and why it’s important. Version control is essential for development teams across all industries. It not only enables them to manage changes to code and files over time, but also allows them to work on the same project simultaneously.

AI Process Optimization: 5 Ways to Supercharge Business Efficiency

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises outsized gains in business efficiency. And since organizations live or die by their processes, integrating AI into the picture through AI process optimization can help boost ROI with end-to-end process automation and enhancements. This blog will explore five ways AI can be used to improve and optimize process efficiency. But first, let’s explain what AI process optimization means.

Revenue Generation from APIs with Kong, Stripe, and Moesif

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to unlock revenue from their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable while others are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created the Billing Meters feature which allows for massive customization with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

5 Best UX Courses for Improving your Design Skills

The UX design career is one of the most sought-after at the moment, and with good reason – the role of the UX designer has become more important. According to Econsultancy, businesses are now realizing that 74% of users will return to their websites if they have good UX. Conversely, companies lose visitors if their websites have bad UX. With the popularity of the UX designer comes decent remuneration, and understandably, many people are starting careers in UX design.

Self-Hosted, On-Premises, or Cloud - Which Deployment Model Is Best?

Deciding where to run your enterprise workloads is one of the biggest business decisions you’ll make. That’s because your chosen deployment model influences how you access software and systems, scale your business, and safeguard sensitive data. There are three main deployment methods you need to know about: Self-hosted, on-premises, and cloud. All three models have pros and cons, so it’s important to do your research before investing in new infrastructure and/or services.

KuppingerCole Videocast: What's a Digital Double

The concept of the "digital double" isn’t new, but it’s gaining importance as more and more of our lives are lived in the digital world. Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2's chief technology officer and the creator of this concept, was a guest on a recent KuppingerCole videocast hosted by Martin Kuppinger, founder and principal analyst at KuppingerCole. During the discussion, Asanka spoke about this unique concept, its benefits, and how it relates to customer identity and access management (CIAM).

Diving into Custom Exceptions in Ruby

Customizing exceptions is usually not a common concern during software development. But if you catch an error in an observability tool and can't correctly and quickly identify the problem, you may need more information and details about an exception. This article will show you how to customize exceptions in Ruby and mitigate potential future problems due to a lack of error information. Let's dive straight in!

Using Business Needs to Invest in Bank Technology

I’m a firm believer that banks rarely invest to drive revenue and elevate customer service. But I recently hosted a roundtable discussion in London with Appian, a process automation platform company, where leaders from mainstream and challenger banks in the UK gathered to discuss the challenges facing financial institutions when adopting new technology.

When To Use Data Fabric: 4 Questions to Ask

Data management in the modern enterprise requires skill and stamina. With the mountainous rise in data volume and the complexity of managing disparate data sources across a wide variety of legacy systems and hybrid cloud environments, it can seem virtually impossible to successfully climb past enterprise data obstacles to success. However, data fabric technology eliminates some of those obstacles. Is it the answer for your data strategy?

Best Practices For Leading A High-Performing Developer Team In 2023

Every engineering leader wants to build a high-performance team that can set the standard for velocity, quality, and innovation. Yet, to do that, you need to focus on creating a culture of continuous improvement where everyone in the team is committed to learning and growing.

Process Automation Tools: 4 Questions to Ask

Process automation tools automate manual and repetitive tasks inside a business process. But what distinguishes process automation tools, which may also be called business process automation (BPA) tools or hyperautomation tools, from other automation solutions is that they automate an entire business process, end to end. Some process automation examples can be found in banking customer onboarding processes and automated insurance underwriting.

Hyperautomation vs. Automation: The Difference, Explained

Automation has been a linchpin for businesses for decades. Automation tools pave the way for greater efficiency, enhanced productivity, improved customer experience, and many other benefits. Yet, in some cases, businesses have only seen small gains from their automation efforts. When this happens, it could be because organizations were focused only on automation rather than the wider concept of hyperautomation.

What is Product Design? Everything you need to know!

Over the span of a couple of decades, product design has transformed massively. Yet, until lately, it was thought of as a physical and materialistic design, necessitating an experienced individual to work with conventional tools to make something substantial. That era, however, is light years away from how it has evolved in our present-day digital age.

Most Popular Java Backend Frameworks for 2023

An intuitive user interface is a hallmark of any decent business. But in order for the frontend of applications to work smoothly, you must also consider the backend. Backend development, also called server-side development, handles the behind-the-scenes functions of web development – things like interactions with databases, authorizing users and routing URLs.

Performance Testing: Everything You Need to Know!

The main goal of performance testing is to measure the application's response time, throughput, resource utilization, and other relevant metrics under different loads and stress levels. It can be regarded as a kind of software testing that varies between different user loads. Performance testing can be used to identify and isolate performance bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and ensure that an application or system meets its performance requirements.

Multi-Tenant vs. Single-Tenant Systems: Which Is the Optimal Choice?

Digital transformation is accelerating rapidly, yet many businesses are still wondering how to proceed. For most, it will require a shift in thinking and operational activities. Succeeding in this transformation will require you to make critical choices surrounding more efficient workflows, data security, and profitability. One of the four pillars of digital transformation is IT uplift, which focuses on improving the IT infrastructure.

Mastering ADB: The Ultimate Guide to Debugging Your Android Applications

Once, your users may have forgiven a bug in your app. Today, they likely won’t. Today’s consumers, many of them Gen-Zers who’ve been using gadgets since they learned their hands, expect a mobile experience that’s swift, seamless and secure. And with page speeds increasing all the time, lags and snags are no longer acceptable. Which means our apps need to glitch-free right out of the gate.

.NET Core vs .NET Framework: How to Pick a .NET Runtime for an Application

A while back we predicted that.NET Core would be the next big thing, offering developers many options in application development. Indeed, there is huge demand for developers that know this technology. But how does it differ from the.NET Framework, and what do you need to know to use them both effectively? Today, we’ll contrast.NET Core vs. .NET Framework to help you choose which one to use for your next project.

Hyperautomation Tools and Technology: 3 Key Facts

How can you find time to drive efficiency across your organization when there is so much digital work to be done? This is one area where hyperautomation and digital transformation initiatives intersect. Yet, just like other technology trends, our understanding of hyperautomation and its value has become convoluted. Let’s demystify some of the gray areas surrounding what hyperautomation technologies and tools can help you accomplish as you shape automation strategy and select tools.

Enterprise Data Integration Projects: 5 Pillars For Success

The importance of an organization’s data strategy cannot be understated in today’s world. With the speed at which data is created across the digital landscape, organizations need to be able to harness information from a wide variety of disparate sources at a rapid pace to drive business intelligence and competitive advantage.

What are Non Functional Requirements - With Examples

Developing high quality products involves careful definition and tracking of both functional and non-functional requirements. But what exactly are non-functional requirements, and what's the best way to keep track of them? Continue reading, or skip ahead to the section that interests you most.

Perforce Cloud Deployment + Hosting Options

Helix Core, the industry-standard version control system, empowers teams to accelerate innovation and collaboration at scale. Deployment of Helix Core in the cloud is simple, easy, and customizable. Perforce provides several deployment options to better meet your team’s unique needs. Read along or jump to the section that interests you the most. ➡️ easily deploy Helix Core in the Cloud.

Process Automation Technology: 3 Things to Know

If you’re evaluating enterprise business process automation technologies, it’s important to understand what complete process automation technology can do compared to today’s many automation point solutions. Process automation technologies automate repetitive and manual tasks inside a business process.

The future of mobile shopping apps: 12 key trends to stay ahead in a world of Super Apps

Despite the prevalence of Super Apps, staying competitive is still possible. By understanding and adapting to the latest trends in e-commerce and m-commerce, you can ensure that your shopping app stays ahead of the game in a competitive market.

ELK Based On analytics with WSO2 Micro Integrator

Analytics is a main part of any deployment which enables the Monitoring of the availability, performance and usage of it’s components. WSO2 Micro Integrator has introduced operational analytics on top of ELK stack which is one of the leading analytics solution in the market. With this solution, a user can monitor the usage of each synapse component individually and identify issues, bottlenecks and improve the reliability and performance of the integration flow.

OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 API Manager

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing an API call in WSO2 API Manager is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in an API invocation path, and debug them. WSO2 API Manager facilitates tracing API invocation paths and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This demo outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 API Manager, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to Elastic APM, when invoking a sample API.

API policies export and import support for WSO2 API Manager

WSO2 APICTL allows users to perform API related tasks without any UI navigations. As an improvement, now WSO2 APICTL allows users to do common API Policy and Rate Limiting Policy related operations without any UI accesses and accelerates the CI/CD tasks related to the Policy Management. From this feature, it now allows to list, export, import and delete operations on both the common API Policies and Rate Limiting policies in multiple ways in accordance with the commands & their flags introduced.

OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 Micro Integrator

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing artifacts of WSO2 Micro Integrator is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in a message flow, and debug them. WSO2 Micro Integrator facilitates tracing message flows and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This screencast outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 Micro Integrator, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to New Relic APM, when invoking a simple API.

Iccrea Cooperative Banking Group: 13 Banking Applications in 1 Year with Low-Code

Iccrea Cooperative Banking Group, the fourth largest Italian Banking Institution, has adopted the Appian Low-code Automation Platform to streamline their business processes, from Fraud Management to New Product Oversight and Governance to Anti-Money Laundering. The IT and Business departments collaborated with agile methodologies, delivering 13 applications in one year. Watch their story to see how they reduced fraud management processing time by 75% and how they are now able to deliver new products faster to their affiliated banks in Italy.

Agriculture App Development in 2023 - A talk of a new era!

From ancient times to infinity, there is that one industry among many others, that has not lost its significance and never will- which industry we’re talking about? Well, it’s the Agriculture Industry. Yes, the Agriculture sector, like farming, which has existed since the dawn of humanity, is no longer considered as traditional and conservative as it used to be. Now it has become more inclined towards being tech-oriented. How? Let’s figure it out in detail!

Authorization Gems in Ruby: Pundit and CanCanCan

Today, many web applications will feature pages that are publicly available — like a homepage — and more secure ones where a user has to log in to get access. The process of user registration, logging in, and tracking user session state is called "authentication". At the same time, when dealing with logged-in users, it's necessary to separate actions and resources that are available to them depending on their user roles. For example, "admins" generally have more access than normal users.

Simplifying Code with PHP Shorthand Techniques

Are you tired of typing out long lines of code? Do you wish there was a faster way to write code without sacrificing readability? Look no further than shorthand programming! Shorthand allows you to write code in a more abbreviated syntax, saving your time and effort. But what exactly is shorthand programming and how can you use it to your advantage? In programming, shorthand refers to a way of writing code using abbreviated syntax.

MongoDB vs. Cassandra vs. HBase: A Comparison

Databases are organized collections of data stored in a server or a system elsewhere and can be retrieved upon need. They can be managed and even updated as and when the need arises. This data can be in the form of texts, images, integers, or multimedia files. SQL uses a standard query language to manage relational databases. You must have heard of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL servers.

Customer Experience in Banking: 5 Keys to Transformation

The banking and financial services industry is evolving rapidly with the advent of new technologies and digital platforms. To stay competitive, banks need to focus on providing superior customer experience to their institutional and retail customers. This should start with the initial Know Your Customer (KYC) process and continue through the entire customer lifecycle. Here are five keys to transforming practices for heightened customer experience in banking and finance.

API linting based on custom rules

At present, API definitions are validated against the default OpenAPI schema upon import and when being edited in the publisher portal. In certain scenarios, such as the validation of fields like email or name, a custom validation approach may be required. This implementation allows administrators to enforce custom rules for API validation, helping to standardize and keep API definitions clean by validating against a specified set of custom rules inside WSO2 API Manager.

What Are the Different Types of Python Errors? - and How to Handle Them

There are several types of errors that can occur in Python. Each type indicates a different kind of problem in the code, and comprehending these error types is crucial in creating effective Python applications. The most common types of errors you'll encounter in Python are syntax errors, runtime errors, logical errors, name errors, type errors, index errors, and attribute errors. Let's go through each with examples.

The Power of Superapps: How Composable Apps Are Transforming Mobile App Development

Superapps take the features and functions of several apps to create a single powerful app that allows users to accomplish multiple tasks in one place. With mobile app users spending more time on apps each day, what are the benefits of creating a superapp for companies?

AI Center of Excellence: 6 Tips for Success

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly important as organizations use it to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, improve decision making, and boost digital transformation efforts. But ensuring success requires significant, ongoing efforts. Consider setting up an AI center of excellence (CoE) to boost the success of your AI initiatives.

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It's time to consider the business impact of APIs

APIs need to be discussed in terms of business impact. For too long, the API (application programming interface) has been considered a pure technology topic. But with the need to digitise core business operations and deal with rising security threats, business and technology leaders must elevate API strategic discussions. Meanwhile, organisations need to end the hotchpotch of APIs that act as point solutions and adopt a modern integrated platform approach to APIs that will deliver business optimisation and improve the customer experience.

9 Web Design Tools for Non-Designers

If you don’t have any design experience it doesn’t mean that you can’t learn a few easy ways to tweak your website if something changes or you want a slight revision. For major companies or a company you’re expecting to grow over the next few years, hiring a designer is one of the most important things you can do for your website, but a little bit of design knowledge on your end can go a long way.

How to Write a Product Requirements Document (PRD) - With Examples

While lengthy, highly detailed product requirements documents are not as common in today's Agile world as they once were, they are still valuable for getting all stakeholders on your team aligned on the product you're going to build. For some businesses, such as those building extremely complex products and those in highly regulated industries who need extensive documentation, a comprehensive PRD is essential.

Agile Testing Methodology: 5 Examples for the Agile Tester

Agile development takes an incremental approach to development. Similarly, Agile testing includes an incremental approach to testing. In this type of software testing, features are tested as they are developed. While the Agile methodology is fairly common at this point, many organizations – particularly organizations in regulated industries that require more formal documentation and traceability – still use waterfall or hybrid development frameworks.

Secure APIs Hosted in Amazon Gateway With Asgardeo

Amazon API Gateway is a service offered by AWS that enables users to create, publish, and maintain secure APIs on any scale. It supports both RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs. However, It's crucial to secure these APIs before allowing applications to access them. The use of OAuth2 tokens and JWTs is the standard method of securing APIs.

Process Mining vs. Task Mining: 3 Key Differences

Do you know how many steps it takes you to complete a simple task like adding data to a record? What about how long it takes to send a follow-up email? For most of us, efficiency in our work is something we strive toward but not something we track. That’s where task mining and process mining can help. These tools enable you to see how work can be improved and where to optimize the larger process in which it’s involved. The more complex the process, the more the benefits add up.

How to Deploy ASP.NET Core to IIS & How ASP.NET Core Hosting Works

Previously, we discussed the differences between Kestrel vs IIS. In this article, we will review how to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to IIS. Deploying an ASP.NET Core app to IIS isn’t complicated. However, ASP.NET Core hosting is different compared to hosting with ASP.NET, because ASP.NET Core uses different configurations. You may read more about ASP.NET Core in this entry. On the other hand, IIS is a web server that runs on the ASP.NET platform within the Windows OS.

The Perforce Enhanced Studio Pack: Everything You Need For the Cloud

We talked to users, discussed workflows, simplified onboarding, and learned how companies from indie developers to enterprise game studios deploy version control at scale to create a new way to easily deploy Helix Core into the cloud. The Perforce Enhanced Studio Pack (ESP) contains all the tools needed for world-class development in a single, pre-configured environment. It offers a production-ready, turn-key bundle of Perforce software that teams can deploy on AWS and Azure.

VPCs: An Introduction to Secure Business Networking

You’ve heard of cloud computing and how businesses use it, but do you know about virtual public clouds? VPCs are designed to give users a private cloud experience on a public cloud. For many, this is the best of both worlds when it comes to cloud storage: you get the benefits of a private cloud with the resources available on the public cloud.

Process Discovery Tools: Overview and Evaluation Guidelines

Process discovery is a method for creating visual representations of business processes using data. It takes the guesswork out of business process improvement projects and makes it easier for business and IT leaders to spot inefficiencies. But to get there, you need to select the right set of process discovery tools.

A Software Development Manager's Guide To Beginner Mistakes

R&D managers, when first stepping into the role, tend to make the mistake of choosing one of two extreme management approaches. Each of these comes with its own set of challenges – and its own set of organizational waste. And that’s the last thing you want to create as a manager.

Understanding Go Channels: An Overview for Beginners

On a server infrastructure, Go code can be quickly deployed and updated across different installations as needed. It also supports a variety of operating systems and processor designs, which is a significant advantage. Some of the biggest and most well-known projects have been written completely in Go, which has emerged as the preferred language for open-source infrastructure software. For instance, Docker was created completely in Go.

A Generalized User-local Container for UI State in Kredis

In our last post, we persisted and restored a collapsed/expanded UI state with Kredis. However, the great pain point with this is that we have to invent a lot of Kredis keys. This time, we'll see how we can avoid this by developing a generalized solution for any DOM node whose attribute states we want to track on the server side. Let's dive straight in!

Appian Protect: Security Monitoring, End-to-End Encryption, and More

Data is the heart of business operations. And much of that data is sensitive or regulated. Cyber threat actors know they can benefit financially from your data by holding it for ransom or selling it on the dark web. The most recent Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022 from Ponemon Institute and IBM clocks the average data breach cost at $4.35 million USD (that’s $164 USD per data record). The stakes are high. Your security must be too.

7 AI/ML Use Cases to Watch

2023 is looking likely to be a breakout year for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Some industry-watchers predict that recent breakthroughs in AI might lead to a new revolution in society akin to the industrial revolution, the invention of the internet, or the advent of the smartphone. Yet, 2023 doesn’t mark the invention of AI—just the year it went viral thanks to OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology.

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Continuous Load Testing | A Developer's Guide

Continuous load testing is a powerful way of preparing for surges in traffic, without needing real users. Imagine you're a software engineer working on a website that's seen a recent surge in traffic. Despite initial testing indicating that the website should be capable of handling the increased load, the website crashes during peak hours. Load Testing is the process of simulating real-world usage of a website or application. The continuous version is when you integrate it into your development process as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

App Store Connect Guide: How to release apps to the App Store, test with TestFlight, and more

Using App Store Connect is not always a straightforward process. In this App Store Connect Guide, you'll learn how to efficiently upload and release iOS apps to Apple’s App Store. You’ll also learn how to test with TestFlight, automate with Bitrise, and more.

How to Debug Code Using ChatGPT

Unlike traditional debugging tools, which can be complex and require specific knowledge of the programming language, ChatGPT is accessible to programmers of all levels and works in any language. Simply ask ChatGPT specific questions about error messages or unexpected behavior and you’ll get a reply with relevant information that can help you identify and fix the issue.

A Complete Guide To React Fragments

React is one of the development languages that’s rising in popularity exponentially amongst front-end developers. However, the language comes with its own set of challenges and can make common tasks such as returning multiple HTML components a space-consuming task when handled using generic methods. This makes it essential for developers to learn about react functions such as React Fragments in order to create an effectively readable and easy-to-execute codebase.

An in-depth overview of Java Ternary Operators

Java is a widely used programming language that has several unique features that make coding efficient and organized. One such feature is the Java ternary operator. This operator is a shorthand way of writing an if-else statement in Java, making code more concise and readable. With the increasing demand for speedy coding and reduced lines of code, the Java ternary operator is gradually becoming a popular choice among developers.

Python: Converting Lists to Dictionaries

The list and dictionary are the data structures that captivates data. In Dictionary, data is stored as key-value pairs, while in List, heterogeneous data types are stored. Python lists are converted into dictionaries here. As lists are ordered, and dictionaries are unordered, results can differ based on the order of inputs. Python collections encompass objects like lists and dictionaries. They enable you to hold numerous values equivalent to a specific data structure.

Platform Analytics

You don’t need to be a data science expert to make use of platform analytics to gain better insights into your business. From Google Analytics to deep-dive data analytics for your APIs, big data is your friend when it comes to understanding your company. The right analytics platform can open up your data in a user-friendly way that empowers you to fuel better-informed business decisions based on your performance, customer data and analytics.

Git Log for Beginners

Have you ever found yourself lost in a maze of code changes, unsure of who made what change and when? Or spent hours tracking down a bug, only to realize that it was caused by a single line of code that was changed months ago? If so, then Git Log is the tool you need, to streamline your development process and keep your codebase organized. With Git Log, you can easily track changes to your codebase, identify issues, and collaborate effectively with your team.

Learn Python: Tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced Programmers

As you know, computers totally depend on program code to function properly. There are so many programming languages available that helps developers create applications. Python is one of the high-level, interpreted and general-purpose programming languages that is easy to use, comprehensive and powerful. In 1991, Guido van Rossum (referred to its father) developed the Python programming language.

Learn Java: Tutorials for Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced Programmers

If you want to be a developer, create applications, or learn how to code, then Java is the best programming language to work with. In this article, we will introduce some of the best Java tutorials for beginners as well as advanced programmers. These tutorials will help you to learn and nourish your programming skills in Java. But first, we’ll provide some background on Java.

Developer Visibility and the Genesis of an Immune System for Software

Two things development teams always need: software quality and testing. It improves the output teams need throughout the software development lifecycle, and what they deliver for their users. It’s why SmartBear has been synonymous with quality for over a decade. Earlier this year, SmartBear began to roll out its vision for the next stage in the evolution of its software portfolio.

Shift Left with Multibranch Pipeline Using Argo Workflows

This blog is a follow-up to our earlier discussion of multibranch pipelines and how they can help streamline software development processes. There we explored the benefits of managing pipelines in the same repository as code and how that gives developers the ability to version their pipelines alongside their code, ensuring they remain in sync.

Streamlining your iOS release process with Bitrise's automated Release Management: Stay informed with automated notifications

With Release Management’s new features, you can streamline your release process with automated notifications. These include TestFlight upload post-processing notifications and App Store review updates. What’s more, integrate it with Slack and keep everyone on the team up-to-date.

Test Failure Rate: Why and how to find your frequently failing tests? | What, why and how to track

This article explains test failure rate; why tracking frequently failing mobile tests is important, and how Bitrise Insights can help teams track and analyze their mobile app’s test failure rate. By identifying the most frequently failing tests, teams can improve their testing process, minimize time spent on resolving test failures, and increase their overall efficiency and productivity.

What Is Data Democratization? Explanation, Benefits, and Best Practices

When was the last time you had all the data you needed to make a business decision? Hopefully, it was today. But if it wasn’t, you’re not alone. It’s increasingly difficult for people inside enterprise organizations to harness the power of their data. Even though good decisions are nearly impossible without good data, getting data into the right hands at the right time is easier said than done.

An Introduction to Virtual Machines: A Technical Overview

Today’s businesses need flexible technologies that let them adapt to emerging trends as quickly as possible. Many have embraced digital transformation as an adaptive strategy that can improve everything from DevOps to security. Virtual machines can also play critical roles in digital transformation and in making your organization’s technology more nimble.

Test Failure Rate: What, Why and How to track | Bitrise Insights

Test Failure Rate ⟣- ABOUT THIS VIDEO -⟢- In this video, Co-founder and CTO Viktor Benei, explains test failure rate and why tracking frequently failing mobile tests is crucial for identifying areas of improvement. Bitrise Insights can help teams track and analyze their mobile app's test failure rate and identify the most frequently failing tests. By doing so, teams can improve their testing process, minimize time spent on resolving test failures, and increase overall efficiency and productivity.

Introducing nsuv

Here at NodeSource we are focused on fixing issues for the enterprise. This includes adding functionality and features to Node.js that are useful for enterprise-level deployments but would be difficult to upstream. One is the ability to execute commands remotely on Worker threads without the addition of running the inspector, such as capturing CPU profiles or heap snapshots.

Moesif Awarded Best B2B Tech Product by Products That Count

Moesif has been named the Top B2B Tech Product in the 2023 Product Awards; Moesif won the Award as one of the Best Products for Product Managers. The Product Awards, presented by Products That Count in partnership with Mighty Capital and Capgemini, is the only awards show designed to celebrate the tools that help Product Managers build great products.

Web Scraping in Node.js using Puppeteer

In this digital era, data plays a vital role in every process. From sales to machine learning, the functionality of every process is data-centric. Various types of data namely text, image, audio, and video are used depending on the process. Collecting these types of data from various resources for a particular process is called data collection. Nowadays data collection is done via the internet manually or programmatically depending upon the process.

From Server to Serverless Clients A Debugger's Point of View

The transition from a server to a serverless architecture can be tricky for any application, particularly if your application needs to instrument other people’s code. In this talk, I will go over some of the different challenges and hurdles we faced when adding support for serverless applications in our debugger. We will also discuss several struggles that affect serverless applications, and dive into what needs to be considered when making sure that a new tool’s SDK has minimal impact on the performance of your application.

Appian 23.1: Design Total Experiences and Unify Processes for End-to-End Process Automation

In today's fast-paced and increasingly unpredictable business environment, it's more important than ever for you to deliver value with fewer resources. Modern enterprise process automation platforms are the key to connecting your people, processes, and data and unlocking operational efficiencies.

Build failure rate: Why and how to find your frequently failing builds? | What, why and how to track

In this article, Co-founder and CTO Viktor Benei, explains why you should care about your build failure rate, and how you can monitor and debug builds that are failing frequently using Bitrise Insights.

Build Failure Rate: What, Why and How to track | Bitrise Insights

In this video, Co-founder and CTO Viktor Benei, explains why you should care about your build failure rate, and how you can monitor and debug builds that are failing frequently using Bitrise Insights. By using Bitrise Insights, mobile developers can quickly identify and fix the root cause of build failures, reducing the time and effort spent on resolving them.

What is Agile Methodology? How It Works, Best Practices, Tools

Agile Methodology is a people-focused, results-focused approach to software development that respects our rapidly changing world. It’s centered around adaptive planning, self-organization, and short delivery times. It’s flexible, fast, and aims for continuous improvements in quality, using tools like Scrum and eXtreme Programming.

How to build and launch realtime features faster

An innovative new product idea can be genuinely exciting but it’s the execution that delivers value. How fast you can get a product or feature to market can be the difference between a solid return on investment or missing the moment because someone else got there first. With realtime experiences as a core part of almost every web and mobile based app, how well and how quickly you can deliver realtime infrastructure is a core factor in your time to market.

Self Host Your REST APIs with DreamFactory in Minutes

DreamFactory is a leading on-prem API generation and management platform built for data teams and backend developers to securely connect self-hosted and legacy systems and make them universally accessible. With DreamFactory, developers can connect nearly any database or data source with secure, compliant REST APIs in minutes instead of days.

What Is a Continuous Improvement Process and How Is It Implemented?

The philosophy behind continuous improvement is simple: incremental and ongoing changes to your organization result in more efficient business processes, better products, and superior customer experiences. The pursuit of excellence is familiar to many of us in our daily work, and your organization may already have a culture, goal, or process management method designed to improve performance and facilitate operational excellence.

Data Fabric Technology: Top 4 Reasons to Use It

Today, data is the lifeblood of every organization. Without it, you’re left without key insights into business processes, consumers, employees, and the overall health of your entire organization. And here’s the scariest part: most organizations are on life support due to their inability to properly manage their data and turn it into actionable insights. Data fabric technology can help in a significant way, which is why it’s been getting so much buzz recently.

5 Key Benefits of Using a Data Fabric

Data fabrics are getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. But, for any topic with a lot of hype, there also tends to be a lot of confusion. If you are still trying to fully grasp where the concept of a data fabric architecture fits amongst all of the warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and meshes of the data engineering world, let's set the record straight. What is a data fabric? A data fabric is a toolset that connects data across disparate sources to create a unified data model.

Python Functions: How to Use Them Effectively?

Python is a versatile and powerful programming language that has become increasingly popular over the years. One of its most important features is the ability to define and use functions. Functions are a fundamental building block of any program, allowing us to encapsulate a piece of code that can be called and reused multiple times. In other words, functions are like mini-programs that can be called from within our main program.

Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails

Most people only realize the necessity of logs when they need them the most. But when your application breaks, user complaints start flooding in, and you have no clue how to fix it, it's too late to add some log messages that might have helped. Good logs pay for themselves tenfold. They make it a breeze to diagnose those tricky bugs, and if you do logs right, they can alert you of issues even before your users notice. But what does it mean to 'do logging right'?

How AI Document Processing Works: 4 Key Steps

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) bring significant efficiency gains to organizations and should play critical roles in any digital transformation efforts. One major use case for these technologies is AI document processing, also known as intelligent document processing (IDP). Organizations amass a large number of business documents—from invoices in billing departments to medical coding documents at hospitals.

Appian Portals Unifies Customers and Employees, Enabling Experiences that Make a Difference in Appian 23.1

Why do experiences matter? In turbulent economic times, organizations that can't offer high-quality digital products and services with excellent experiences cannot attract and retain customers and employees. Customers today are seeking more than just products or services. They are looking for memorable experiences that create a lasting impact and emotional connection with the organizations they interact with. And they are more than willing to pay more to have those experiences.

6 Digital Transformation Trends for 2023

Digital transformation has been a buzzword for quite some time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations to adopt digital solutions. As we enter a new year, it’s worth taking a closer look at the top digital transformation trends that will shape business strategies in 2023. We’ll explore six key trends that will help organizations stay ahead of the curve and achieve digital transformation success.

Docker Logging

As more organizations are moving to a cloud-native architecture, there is an ever-increasing need to monitor applications and services. Logging is a crucial part of this process, as it provides the insights and visibility to identify potential issues and track application performance. When it comes to managing and monitoring applications, Docker logging is an essential part of the process.