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Top 7 IoT Tools & Platforms for App Development

The connected reality of gadgets presented by the Internet of Things (IoT) can no longer be considered as just a buzz as it has already transformed our living to a great extent. The connected things made our homes, workplaces, and transportation smarter. No wonder IoT apps are now one of the most popular app categories. As the latest statistics reveal, the global market share of IoT apps is expected to touch a whopping 520 billion USD by the end of 2021.

Web Performance Monitoring: A How to Guide for Developers

As developers, we would rather be writing code all day than doing anything else. Especially meetings or fighting production problems. Unfortunately, both are part of the job. All developers need to understand the basics of web performance monitoring. It won’t help you get out of meetings, but it will help prevent production fires and put them out faster. Although, I guess it might also help you avoid meetings about production problems.

How to Visualize & Accelerate Digital Twins IoT Development

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we physically and digitally interact in the world. With the global IoT market projected to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2028, developers are looking for ways to take advantage of the increasing demand and gain a cutting edge. For many teams, IoT development combined with using digital twins for verification allows them to make better decisions during development and visually market their devices after launch. How?

Updates from Bugfender Q2, 2021

Welcome to the summer Bugfender newsletter! This quarter we’re planning a roadmap of new features and improvements to come we hope you’ll love. Crash aggregation is one of these features that will come soon to Bugfender, providing a bigger picture of your app’s crashes. Also, we’ll be doing some major UI/UX improvements to the app, since Bugfender has grown to a more mature state, and we want to keep improving the app’s usability.

Tideways 2021.2 Release

This quarterly release of Tideways includes External HTTP Monitoring, Observations about PHP Metrics and Application Configuration, a redesigned Callgraph Compare screen, the ability to name traces, a new GitHub app to synchronize users into an organization and many other features. Update to PHP Extension 5.4 and Daemon 1.7 to access all new features of this release. In this blog post we will provide a detailed overview of all the changes.

Backtrace Introduction and Demo Video

In this 10 minute video, you’ll receive a 2.5 minute introduction to the Backtrace platform, and a 7 minute demo highlighting key capabilities of the system. We open with a discussion on what types of errors can be submitted to Backtrace, and then dig deep on the Debug and Explore views. We highlight Triage briefly, and show how engineers can use Slack to be notified of new issues and immediately be brought into a Debug view.

How to Perform HTTP Requests with Axios - A Complete Guide

One of the most typical things a developer does is make an HTTP call to an API. An API request can be sent in a variety of ways. We can use a command-line tool like cURL, the browser's native Fetch API, or a package like Axios to accomplish this. Sending HTTP requests to your API with Axios is a fantastic tool. Axios is supported by all major browsers. The package can be used for your backend server, loaded via a CDN, or required in your frontend application.