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It began with the pandemic. Consumer spending shifted from experiences to goods, spiking demand. Ports clogged due to shutdowns. Factories operated at reduced capacities from sickness, lockdowns, or even infrastructure issues like rolling blackouts. But it didn’t end there. The ripple effects have continued. Supply chains continue facing upheavals, particularly with respect to inflated prices and global conflict like the war in Ukraine. This leaves supply chain professionals on shaky ground.

PHP is a powerful backend developer language. In fact, it is the most used server-side scripting language today. There is a lot of coding that goes behind building a successful website. And all these work on data. The I/O commands written on a disk forms the data, and the resource material you’ve already embedded becomes data. Data can be written in any format - as a string, object, or array.

cURL is a PHP library and a command-line tool that enables us to receive and transmit data utilizing URL syntax. It can transmit data in a wide range of forms, including HTTP posts, HTTP gets, FTP uploads and downloads, cookies, SOAP requests and responses, and so forth. Engaging a web server with this PHP extension may entail the most appropriate data which can be retrieved in the webpage database.

The Math.random() method in Java is a built-in function which is a part of the java.Math class. One of the main benefits of the Math.random() method is its ease of use. It can be used to quickly generate random numbers within a specified range, making it a popular choice. Another advantage of Math.random() is its performance. It is optimized to generate random numbers quickly, making it an ideal choice for high-performance applications where speed is a concern.

Build vs buy conversations often start with cost. Specifically, “Can we build and maintain this in-house for less than a vendor wants to charge?” And that’s a pretty good opener. In fact, we’ll tackle that in the next post in this series. But as we saw in our previous installment, building your own realtime experience infrastructure is complex. Comparing costs makes little sense if you haven’t already considered the risk that this complexity brings.

Build Pipelines, beta, is now available on all plans for Bitrise users. Organize your CI/CD process, set up advanced configurations with multiple tasks, and run them in parallel—today.

You can now generate HTML test reports and display them in the Artifacts tabs with Bitrise builds.

Viktor Gamov also contributed to this post. In recent decades it’s become common for communication between backend services to employ HTTP APIs with JSON payloads. Many HTTP APIs adhere (or at least aspire) to REST Principles, though many fall into a category we’ll call "REST-like".

Views in Rails don't do much besides showcasing what we want. Sure, they might render slightly different results depending on who's watching (an admin or a logged-in user has a different experience than a guest user, for example), but they don't do much processing on what they're given. Or at least they shouldn't. Often though, Rails projects wind up with a lot of logic in their views. In this post, we'll explore how to use Rails helpers to keep our views clean and readable.

The Node ecosystem comes with a wide variety of tools that have continued to evolve over the years. These tools are delivered via NPM packages and run in the command line, making them accessible to any developer (you do not need a fancy IDE to get the job done). In this take, we will explore 5 Node tools to learn this year: TypeScript, ES modules, ESLint, the ESLint SpellCheck plugin, and Mocha. These all run via the command line and can help boost your productivity when working on Node projects.