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Direct database connectors or connections act as a middleperson between an app and a database, allowing the app to read, write, and alter data in the database without an API or other intermediary layer. While these connectors might be simpler to set up than creating and automating an API, making them valuable for database management, they pose several cybersecurity risks that could put your business at risk. Below, learn about these threats and how to mitigate them with an API management platform.

Get up and running with automated testing and deployment of your Flask app using GitHub Actions and Heroku.

We launched the Mobile DevOps Assessment, then shared the results. Now it’s time to look at 5 apps, like Reddit and Wise, that reached Mobile DevOps maturity and the metrics that helped them get there.

An audit log is a documented record of events and activity within an information technology system. Audit logging is critical for application owners and administrators to track activity within their systems. In this post, we'll first dive into what auditing entails and what to consider when audit logging. We'll then explore some options for implementing audit logs, including PaperTrail, Audited, AuditLog, AppSignal, and a custom implementation. Let's get started!

There are various approaches to hosting and managing your IT infrastructure, but it ultimately comes down to control. While on-premise setups involve keeping physical hardware and other infrastructure elements on-site, cloud computing provides computing resources in a virtualized environment, reducing maintenance tasks for your IT team. A third approach to IT hosting and management has increased in popularity in recent years.

If you’re new in the world of React development, you might have encountered instances where you need to have state variables in functional components. In such a scenario using the useState() hook can be of great aid for efficient project completion. With useState you can easily store state variables in functional components of your React project for enhanced performance.

Java is an object-oriented programming language that offers a range of powerful features for building robust and scalable applications. One of the fundamental concepts in Java is methods, which allow you to organize and encapsulate reusable code in a program. A method in Java is a block of code that performs a specific task and can be called multiple times from within a program. It can accept input parameters and return a result, making it a versatile tool for building complex applications.

Using Rollbar is great for Exceptions both handled and unhandled. But there is so much more you can get out of a solution like Rollbar. We often hear users asking us to log structured log data to Rollbar or that they have a custom JSon object that they would like to store in Rollbar. If you just send in the Json object using Rollbar.Info(YOUROBJECT) you will find that it is placed in the message body as a string. This is fine but we can do a lot better.

Business process automation (BPA) refers to the use of computer systems and software to automate business processes or tasks. These days, many people simply refer to BPA as process automation: a set of tools that automates entire business processes, end to end. Robotic process automation (RPA), on the other hand, is a single part of a process automation toolset. RPA fits into a process automation strategy by automating repetitive tasks within a process.