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Reduce bandwidth and processing overhead with conflated subscriptions

For some realtime applications, the latest state matters more than the full stream of updates. If you’re tracking stock prices, monitoring live sports scores, or displaying GPS locations, you don’t need to process and transmit every intermediate update—just the most recent one. To help you minimize bandwidth usage, processing costs, and system load, we’ve introduced conflated subscriptions to Ably Pub/Sub.

Efficient AI Management: Token Rate-Limiting & Tiering in Kong

Don't let runaway AI token usage drain your resources! In this practical demo, learn how Kong Inc.'s innovative AI Gateway and API Management platform can help your organization efficiently manage token consumption across multiple AI models. See firsthand how to: Implement user-specific rate limits based on token usage Optimize AI costs by easily configuring access tiers Ensure your AI solutions scale seamlessly while maintaining high performance.

Shopify chooses mobile DevOps platform Bitrise to streamline development and achieve up to 50% faster build times

Bitrise, the leading mobile DevOps platform, is now powering Shopify’s mobile app development, enabling the global commerce giant to streamline workflows, reduce complexity, and accelerate app builds by up to 50%. With over 875 million unique shoppers purchasing from Shopify merchants in 2024, the company’s adoption of Bitrise allows it to expand its app capabilities and better serve its growing merchant base.

SwiftUI Navigation Explained: Best Practices for Seamless App Flow

Navigation is one of the most basic functionalities of any app, and among the most crucial aspects of our work as developers. From replacing a login screen with our actual logged-in state app, to showing a modal with details of any item inside our app, all of these are navigational challenges we need to tackle in our day-to-day. SwiftUI has introduced a modern approach to navigation in Apple-based platforms.

Develop an EV Charging Station Finder App like Plugshare

The era of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles is gradually fading, and for a good reason. These fuel-powered engines emit an alarming amount of harmful gases, significantly contributing to air pollution. According to the UNEP, air pollution is responsible for nearly 6.7 million premature deaths every year, with respiratory diseases like lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular issues on the rise. But humans aren’t the only ones suffering!

Generating Tests from Recorded Data in Node.js

Testing is necessary to produce working code, but it can be difficult and takes a lot of time! By reducing the time and cost of testing, we can increase the pace at which we can ship reliable and working features to customers. In this article, we'll explore easy and quick ways to collect and generate data and create schemas for testing.

Going deep on UUIDs and ULIDs

Not too long ago the Honeybadger team was debating between ULID vs UUID choice for primary keys. Ben, our dev-ops master, mentioned that he wished he'd used ULIDs instead of UUIDs for a particular system we built. Like any seasoned engineer in software development, my initial reaction was to mumble something non-committal and then sneak over to Google to try to figure out what the hell a ULID is. UUIDs are a bit more common, but I hadn't even heard of ULIDs.

How to Use Perforce P4 & Unity

Learn how to use Unity and Perforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) version control with this step-by-step tutorial by Jase Lindgren, Senior Solutions Engineer at Perforce. Jase will walk you through getting started with Unity and P4—from configuring your server for game engine files to setting up your depot, streams, and workspaces to use with Unity's Perforce Integration. This tutorial is part of our "How to Build Games with Unity + P4" playlist. Watch the rest of the videos to start your version control journey in Unity today.