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When building APIs, developers face a crucial challenge: how to ensure they are structured for both ease of use and long-term scalability. API design patterns offer solutions to this challenge, serving as a roadmap for creating efficient, reliable, and adaptable web services. This guide unpacks these patterns, equipping you with the approaches needed to turn your API into an exemplary model of good design.

Kong Ingress Controller 3.1 provides brand-new capabilities for keeping your secrets secure. We’ve introduced new KongVault and KongLicense CRDs, and added a way to keep sensitive information in your cluster when using KIC in Konnect. Finally, there’s a quality-of-life improvement that allows you to use a Kubernetes secret to populate a single field in a KongPlugin configuration.

Effective quality management in the life sciences industry is essential for ensuring patient safety, regulatory compliance, and the delivery of high-quality, efficacious treatments and medical devices. And good quality management is about more than just checking a regulatory box. Ensuring the safety and efficacy of your products can prove challenging, but the right technology can help.

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud and search for ways to reduce costs, Perforce has released Helix Core 2023.2 – giving users the ability to connect their archive depots to S3-backed (or S3-compatible) cloud object storage. S3 storage support offers users a durable and convenient solution that grows automatically and indefinitely. In the following article I explain S3 storage, diving into the benefits of using S3 storage, and how to get started using S3 Storage within Helix Core.

In a world drowning in documents, intelligent document processing (IDP) is a lifeboat. Imagine freeing yourself and your teams from the frustration of manual data entry (and the human error that always comes with it). This is the promise of IDP—a transformative force for any kind of document processing work.

REST APIs are emerging as a simple and secure way to access sensitive government data, serving as conduits that enable seamless access and manipulation of data across various government systems. Government agencies face the pressing need to modernize their IT infrastructure to improve service delivery, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure the security of data exchanges.

Automating a process can be complex, especially when it’s a long-running process with many steps and complex business rules, cross-cutting multiple departments and systems in an enterprise. To automate a process like this from end to end, you’ll need a process automation strategy and software. Assuming you’ve ticked both of those boxes, the next step is putting those things to work, which is the focus of this post.

Wondering which is the best way to host your business applications and IT infrastructure? Many enterprises are transitioning from on-premises software to cloud computing. On the other hand, several established companies are investing their capital in on-premises software. Both of these deployment models have advantages and drawbacks, and you can zero in on the right option by considering your specific requirements.

In our last post, we looked at the basics of RSpec and explored how well it works with Behavior Driven Development in Ruby. Now, we will look at specific types of RSpec tests for different parts of a Ruby on Rails application. Let's dive straight in!

For years, we've witnessed how applications have shifted to the cloud, driven by cost savings, flexibility, on-demand access, scalability, and faster deployment times. During that time, new architectural best practices for building cloud native applications have emerged. (For more insights, refer to this whitepaper.) Yet despite these advances, it remains difficult to build cloud native applications that fully take advantage of Kubernetes, the platform of choice for most cloud deployments.