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Every five years, LIUNA, the Laborers' International Union of North America, hosts a convention attracting over 1,400 delegates. The labor union needed a way to quickly build a public portal using the Appian Low-Code Platform to reach these delegates without requiring them to create an account or log in. They chose to join the Appian Portals beta program to meet their needs. Appian Portals securely connects external users to apps without authentication.

Turning organic visitors to your website into loyal customers is the goal of every company that has an eye on growth. B2B traffic that finds your website through Google search brings the best new customers since those visits are organically searching for what you write about. Converting these organic visitors of your website into customers who will return and order should be the focus of business marketing efforts.

Insight is a funny thing - everyone wants more of it, but sometimes, when we get it, we realize what we truly don’t understand. I got a major dose of insight recently when I used Appian Process Mining to take a look at how we could optimize some of our workflows, specifically content creation. At Appian, we have an AMAZING Creative team - and I’m not just saying that because we work together. I’m saying that because if they didn’t work here, I would hire them, without question.

Streams are one of the oldest and most misunderstood concepts in Node.js, and that's not a developer's issue. The streams API in Node.js could be kind of hard to understand, which could lead to misunderstandings, wrong usages, and in worst scenarios, memory leaks, performance issues, or weird behavior in your application.

In this blog post we are going to cover writing a bare-bones API in ASP.NET that can read, write, and delete data from a test database.

Many companies find that it is not enough to simply keep up with the competition in their industry. Such well-known organizations as Amazon and Microsoft continually expand their service offerings, making it hard to compete. Innovation continues to be a huge buzzword in the software industry. Tech companies need a reliable way to provide clients with what they need most, which is service wherever and whenever they need it. One industry that does this best is the SaaS (Software as a Service) space.

By incorporating AI and machine learning into mobile testing tools, teams can become more efficient in test automation. In this article, we'll look at how the adoption of AI and machine learning will improve these tools and what the future of testing might look like.

This new release of Tideways includes tracking exceptions with codes, improved notifications, improved trace filtering and sorting, several new features for the Callgraph Profiler and changes to the PHP extension.

Import maps is the new feature in Rails 7 that allows us to say goodbye to Node.js and tools like Webpack. There's no need for bundling anymore. With this new mechanism, you can still manage your JavaScript libraries with a specific version. Instead of one big file, though, your application serves many small JavaScript files. It’s essential you know how import maps work to benefit from the newest version of Rails (but don’t worry, you can still use tools like Webpack instead).

The insurance industry is undergoing massive modernization to improve outdated processes and enhance policyholder experiences. Delivering a connected insurance experience has become critical for insurers to stay competitive as the marketplace digitizes and insurtechs emerge, bringing new challenges to more established providers. Core to an insurer’s overall connected insurance experience are workflows that ensure a seamless, accelerated digital underwriting process for potential policyholders.