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Everything Businesses Need To Know About the Digital Economy

Enterprises are spending more and more of their budgets on technologies and IT infrastructure as they invest in digital transformation. As a result, the “digital economy” — a term used to describe all the economic activity that results from digital technology spending — accounts for 9.6 percent of U.S. GDP, according to the latest statistics. But what is the digital economy, and what are the processes underpinning it?

4 Tools For Improving Developer Experience

Developers spend a lot of time worrying about UX (user experience). After all, UX is a major factor in why clients choose you to develop applications. However, DX (developer experience) is a lesser-known and incredibly important aspect of software development. Here are four ways that you as a business owner or as a developer can start improving the developer experience.

Don't Shove Your API Data Into Amplitude

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.

GraphQL in Enterprise: What It Takes to Build, Deploy, and Monitor a New Enterprise GraphQL Service

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.

Building a Digital Transformation Blueprint

Are you looking to make your business more efficient and competitive in the digital age? If so, you need to implement a digital transformation strategy. A solid digital transformation blueprint can help your business stay ahead of the curve and keep up with the latest trends. This article will discuss what a digital transformation is and how you can implement one for your business.

Learn how to stream JSON data into BigQuery using the new BigQuery Storage Write API

The Google BigQuery Write API offers high-performance batching and streaming in one unified API. The previous post in this series introduced the BigQuery Write API. In this post, we'll show how to stream JSON data to BigQuery by using the Java client library.

What Are the Steps to Productive Complexity in Your Organization?

Can complexity be a good thing? It can be when organizations use it to their advantage. Those are the thoughts of one data integration platform, which came up with the term ‘productive complexity.’ It means organizations like yours can generate value from the complexity of your business processes, especially when it comes to data management. However, to get value from these complex processes, you need to streamline your workflows. Here are some steps to productive complexity.

Kong vs. Apigee: Flexible Is the New Strong

The API management space is changing – fast. In the past couple of years alone, we’ve seen huge changes in the deployment patterns that our customers are adopting. In the past, when the use cases were fairly simple, organizations would deploy an API gateway as a SaaS monolith in the cloud, sitting at the edge of the network. They did this because it was the best option available at the time, and the first wave of API management vendors like Apigee had a solution that could support it.