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Rails 8 is finally here, and it's shaking things up in a pretty exciting way. If you're already active in the Rails community, you might have heard the tagline: "No PaaS Required." This is an unusual (but not surprising) mission—the release is all about making it easier to deploy your Rails apps without needing a fully-featured platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

Kong Konnect is Kong’s infrastructural SaaS solution. We run the control planes and API management applications for the data planes (API gateway and mesh) that are run by our customers to power their APIs. Some of the most critical traffic in the world goes through these data planes. The criticality of Konnect and therefore our customer’s uptime expectations of Konnect are very high.

The reason to adopt a continuous improvement process methodology is simple: incremental and ongoing changes to business processes result in better business outcomes. Many organizations think they need to make big, broad changes to have a meaningful impact. But this kind of change is time consuming and difficult to measure. Continuous improvement efforts are about doing the opposite—small, gradual changes that lead to a sweeping sea change over time.

One of the most well-known design patterns, singleton ensures the existence of a single instance of a given class during the life of an application. What makes this pattern important and useful? Moreover, what is a design pattern? How do they work? How and when should I use singleton? These questions, plus use cases and examples are covered in detail in this detailed guide.

For the pharmaceutical industry, effective regulatory intelligence management is no longer optional—it’s a strategic imperative. But a lack of transparency and siloed data hinders compliance efforts, slowing down clinical trials and ultimately the entire product lifecycle. Key hurdles include: Pharma companies need a better way to navigate complex regulatory requirements.

The year 2024 was special for us in several respects. It’s been a decade since the unveiling of Tideways’ predecessor, and we’ve come a long way since then. We would like to express gratitude to our customers, partners, colleagues, friends, and family for their ongoing support and dedication. Without you, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We are particularly pleased to be able to welcome many new partners this year.