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Automate Pact Test Code Reviews with AI | SmartBear MCP Server

Discover how to perform expert-level Pact contract testing reviews in seconds using SmartBear MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools directly in your IDE with GitHub Copilot (or any generative AI that supports MCP)! You’ll learn how to automatically identify and fix common issues in your Pact tests, including: Over-specified test contracts Incorrect HTTP client usage Missing provider states Overuse of matchers Tests not reflecting real API behavior.

What is Apache Kafka? Guide for Beginners

Apache Kafka powers real-time data at companies processing substantial event volumes daily. The new KRaft architecture makes getting started easier than ever. The platform handles massive data flows for more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies (Apache Kafka), according to the Apache Software Foundation. Event streaming represents a fundamental shift in data processing. Traditional databases save snapshots. Event streaming captures data in motion. It's the difference between a photo and live video.

Open Banking API Development: A Complete Guide

In 2025, open banking APIs are changing how money moves. They act as secure digital connectors, allowing banks, fintech startups, and third-party providers to share financial data in real-time. What began as a regulatory push has now evolved into a full-blown market revolution. According to Grand View Research, the global open banking market reached nearly USD 31.6 billion in 2024 and is projected to cross USD 135 billion by 2030.

Shopify Outage 2025: Rise of the Commerce Kaiju

It was a normal day in the land of eCommerce. Birds were singing, dashboards were loading, and merchants everywhere felt cautiously optimistic. Then the ground trembled. A tiny glitch. A flicker. A warning log no one read. And suddenly— BOOM! Shopify burst out of the digital ocean like a gigantic scaly beast that woke up on the wrong side of the server rack. Checkouts froze mid-purchase. Product pages stopped producting. Merchants stared blankly at blank screens. The Commerce Kaiju had arrived.

Introducing Choreo Navigation Assistant

AI has become an integral part of how we work today. From writing code to managing workflows, AI assistants help us complete tasks faster and with greater precision. In modern software products, AI copilots are no longer a luxury, they’re a necessity. They reduce cognitive load, simplify complex workflows, and allow users to focus on what truly matters.

Introducing Automation Pipelines in Choreo

Choreo already provides application developers with powerful CI/CD pipelines, enabling them to automate, customize, and streamline build and deployment processes. However, until now, external resource integration was limited strictly to APIs—lacking a native mechanism to create or register other external dependencies like databases, message queues, or storage services directly within the platform.

Rest API Testing: Strategy, Automation & Best Practices

In the digital-first world of today, many applications depend on RESTful APIs as the connectivity placeholder: whether between microservices, mobile applications, third-party integrations or SaaS platforms, it is important for ensuring these APIs are reliable, secure and performant. This is where you can utilize REST API testing.

Generate Full Pact Tests Automatically | SmartBear MCP Server

Did you know you can automatically generate complete Pact test suites directly inside your IDE? No more writing boilerplate test code manually! In this video, we show how SmartBear MCP tools work with GitHub Copilot (or any MCP-compatible agent) to automatically create best-practice consumer contract tests tailored to your project.

Replace FTP with Secure APIs: Modernizing Customer Data Delivery with DreamFactory

If your company is still delivering data to customers via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or SFTP, you are trapped in a legacy workflow. While FTP was the standard for decades, today's digital landscape requires speed, security, and automation. Relying on manual file uploads, batch scripts, and static CSVs is no longer just "old school"—it is a liability. It leads to data latency, security risks, and poor customer satisfaction. Modern businesses are moving from "file drops" to using modern API's.

Agile Vs Waterfall: Choosing The Right Approach For Your Project

Choosing the best project methodology for a software project can help or hinder it greatly. Teams frequently evaluate Agile vs Waterfall. When teams choose an approach, they often have to consider the schedule and the manner in which they want to deliver the software. This choice becomes especially important when engineering teams and QA teams work together. Rapid changes during development along with rapid product releases and QA testing are common.