System administrators, DBAs, and application developers all know about the need for data integration. That’s when you have to pull data from one database, application, or web service to another. Fortunately, this task is a lot less challenging than it used to be because APIs (application programming interfaces) are so popular today. APIs provide a standard way to share the data and services of one system with another, even if the two systems are otherwise incompatible.

When you build an app, you'll often find that certain tasks do not require user interaction and are better performed in the background. Elixir provides excellent primitives, such as Task.async, to offload these tasks from the main user pipeline. Additionally, libraries like Oban offer more control over background tasks when needed. There's also FLAME, which the core Phoenix team is developing to offer a scalable solution for offloading intensive tasks to remote machines.

According to Gartner, 87% of organizations are classified as having low business intelligence and analytics maturity, meaning they struggle to extract value from their data. This alarming statistic highlights a common struggle—turning raw data into actionable insights. Product teams often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information they collect. Extracting meaningful patterns, deciphering user behavior, and predicting market trends from this sea of customer data can seem daunting.

Spring Boot is an open-source micro framework maintained by a company called Pivotal. It provides Java developers with a platform to get started with an auto configurable production-grade Spring application. With it, developers can get started quickly without losing time on preparing and configuring their Spring application. This post will guide you through understanding what the micro framework is and what it’s used for.

Large Language Models (LLM) are changing the way developers and QA engineers solve problems. They allow for quicker code generation, debugging, and automated testing, reducing development time by up to 40%. This shift has prompted 67% of senior IT leaders to focus on generative AI, with 33% planning to make it a top priority within the next 18 months. However, while LLM models offer immense potential, understanding how to get the most out of them while maintaining quality is important.

In our latest update to the WSO2 support portal, we’ve introduced two important new features: Service Requests and Change Requests. These are designed specifically for Managed Deployment based accounts and replace the previous Hosting tasks and Hosting query type cases, offering a more streamlined and efficient way to manage your support needs.

Kotlin was built to replace Java. Or at least, supersede it for a wide range of Android development tasks. Released by JetBrains in 2016, it is designed to address some of Java’s drawbacks and provide a smoother, faster alternative for devs everywhere. So really the question in the title is redundant, right? Kotlin is just better, surely? Well, actually it’s much more nuanced than that.

Bringing your futuristic vision for a new product to life is one of the biggest hurdles for aspiring entrepreneurs. The new product development process may seem mysterious in the beginning, however, when cracked, this journey to a final product can easily become a straight line. The majority of customers shopping online regularly are usually clueless about the rigorous and time-consuming process that every product goes through before they enter the digital realm.

Laravel is a web application framework built with PHP. It’s a framework that uses providers and dependency injections for code organization. It follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Laravel reuses the existing components of different frameworks, which helps in creating a web application. Thus, the application is designed to be more structured and pragmatic.

In today’s startup era, having a robust online presence is essential for attracting better visibility and staying ahead of the competition. Whether your startup is product-based or service-based, leveraging every opportunity to showcase your business through a company website and following a thorough mobile app development process is crucial. And, according to statistics, every 1 out of the 3 youngsters is planning a new startup idea. That’s interesting! But we can take it even further.