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How to Roll Out a Successful Software Project in Government: Insights from the DoD and Texas Department of Public Safety

Government agencies and industry leaders convened this month in Washington, DC, to attend the 5th annual Appian Government conference. Sessions addressed how to accelerate digital transformation, reimagine the citizen experience, and optimize case management through intelligent process automation (a.k.a., hyperautomation) using low-code software development.

Pros of Using a Virtual Private Server

When you are running a successful business, you need to make sure every aspect is performing at the highest level possible. One of the things you need to make sure is performing well is the web servers. Slow servers can easily turn off your customers, which can mean losing revenue. This is why more and more businesses are opting for virtual private servers (VPS) when hosting their websites.

From Data Lake to Data Mesh: How Data Mesh Benefits Businesses

Current data architecture is going through a revolution. Enterprises are starting to shift away from the monolithic data lake towards something less centralized: data mesh. It’s a relatively new concept, first coined in 2019, that addresses potential issues with data warehouses and data lakes that can cause businesses to be slow, unresponsive, or even suffer from data silos. What is a data mesh, and how could it benefit your business?

Getting Started with Linux Containers: A Beginner's Guide

A container comprises no operating system images in contrast to a server or virtualized machine. Due to this, they are lighter, more portable, and have less overhead. By using containers, operating systems can be virtualized. Microservices, software processes, and applications may all be run in one container. Among the files in a container are executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files.

Exception Handling in Java

Let's say you were going for an interview; you are thoroughly prepared and confident that you will land this job. So you get in your car at the right time and drive to the company. You avoid the road that is usually congested and opt for a narrower but faster lane that day. But to your dismay, you find a big truck blocking that road! You see, exceptions are inevitable. Similarly, Exceptions in Java are neither uncommon.

How to Cache Locally in Elixir with Nebulex

In an Elixir application, you might need to access certain data frequently, which can be costly. The access time involved in retrieving data at every step can cause high latency, or even make the application crash (due to an increased workload on the database). Caching is the best technique to store the most frequently accessed data and minimize database data retrieval, improving the overall performance of the application.

A Complete Process Automation Solution to Let Financial RegTechs Work Faster, Together

The financial services industry is vast, complex, and almost infinite in its diversity. So, too, are the regulatory agencies overseeing this industry. For example, the US market's regulatory framework is incredibly complex: More than 50 state or local and more than a dozen federal agencies coexist to keep the financial services marketplace healthy, competitive, and safe for consumers. The missions of the agencies overseeing the financial services industry vary as widely as the sector itself.

HTTP Status Code to Use for CRUD Operation

When responding to our clients, we can utilize various status codes defined by the HTTP protocol. Others wish to fully utilize HTTP's library of codes to inform their clients of any issues; some APIs simply use the most fundamental codes and develop their own error-signaling systems on top of them. This tutorial explains the CRUD actions and the status codes you should employ for a clean API design.