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According to a recent report by Appian, 84% of companies surveyed have turned to low-code tools to reduce the strain on their IT departments. In the same report, 43% of organizations surveyed reported greater agility and 43% reported reduced cost. Given these numbers combined with rapidly changing market conditions, companies must embrace digital transformation. Below, we’ll discuss the benefits of low-code development platforms and how it enables companies to remain agile.

Once you find a platform that makes it easy for you to execute an effective API strategy, it becomes obvious why your business needs a standardized, secure and documented APIs. If you’ve had negative experiences with APIs that can take a long time to build or don’t offer the functionality you want, it’s time to take a pause and learn more about how you can benefit when you have an advanced API management platform working for you.

Kubernetes has become very popular in recent years as a way to deploy applications using containers. In this article, Geshan shows us how to get a Rails app up and running inside a local K8s cluster.

The need to show data as a chart or table has become more critical for every organization as data gathering has increased. To produce a dashboard and charts that everyone can understand, developers must mix many database records. However, since the introduction of chart libraries, data visualization has improved. Interactive charts are now available through libraries and plugins.

Serverless Java applications use modern cloud computing to let developers focus on business logic rather than infrastructure. In a serverless environment, the infrastructure provider takes care of scaling, runtimes, resource management, security and other specifics. Concerns such as number of instances to run and which OS to use are managed by Function as a Service (FaaS) platforms, allowing developers to focus on application code.

Financial services industry leaders overwhelmingly choose low-code platforms to manage their automation—81% of industry-leading companies say they are ahead or far ahead of competitors in adopting low-code platforms. What makes platforms so appealing to these companies? Well, many things, but not least the way they enable non-technical employees to design and manage applications and automation workflows with little to no developer support. In other words, their ability to democratize automation.

This quarterly release of Tideways includes Distributed Tracing and Profiling, Traces in the History, and many more features. In this blog post, we will provide a detailed overview of all the changes.

The ELK Stack has millions of users globally due to its effectiveness for log management, SIEM, alerting, data analytics, e-commerce site search and data visualisation. In this extensive guide (updated for 2021) we cover all of the essential basics you need to know to get started with installing ELK, exploring its most popular use cases and the leading integrations you’ll want to start ingesting your logs and metrics data from.

Since the time we are born, we are told not to judge a book by its cover. Naturally, this principle has never been meant to apply solely to books. The phrase is a way of reminding people that the appearance of anything, whether it be a book, app, or even a person, doesn’t necessarily indicate whether it’s valuable or not. To some degree, this can be an important lesson to remember. However, there are instances when physical appearance can tell us something about a business or individual.