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My grandmother used to say, ‘There’s more than one way to bake a cake.’ It’s a softer version of the more famous idiom involving feline taxidermy, but for our purposes, it’s a better metaphor. You can bake a cake without some of the key ingredients like sugar or eggs and it is still technically a cake. It just won’t taste as good as my grandmother’s cake did.

I have written many a post about the importance of keeping your data moving. As Mathew Wilder sang in “Break My Stride,” it’s “got to keep on moving” to enable you to act within the business moment. Real-time data analytic pipelines are the solid foundation to achieving the state of Active Intelligence, and you can only start that when you work on the freshest data available to you.

OWASP and OWASP Top 10 help to safeguard your code against software security vulnerabilities. Here, we explain what is OWASP and what are the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Read along or jump to the section that interests you the most: ➡️ use Klocwork for easy owasp compliance.

A while back, you were probably looking for a great solution to create your blog, and Gatsby was the most popular solution floating around at the time. Now that some time has passed, a new player has risen to fame on the scene: Next.js has taken developer blogs by storm. Whatever your reasons for switching, we will explain how to switch from the Gatsby stack over to Next.js in this post.

Want a detailed guide for crafting better business progress reports? This article covers all the steps and has examples that will help you do just that.

The Two Generals’ Problem is a well-known thought experiment about how asynchronous – and potentially unreliable – communications can cause, shall we say, issues. These great generals from history are facing a cunning and capable enemy. Think of someone like Khalid ibn al-Walid, Napoleon, Erwin Rommel or Sun Tzu. If the generals attack together, they will win. If they attack separately, they will lose. The problem is that they are communicating over an unreliable and slow medium.

Moesif and Datadog are both platforms that provide monitoring and the ability to view metrics. At their core, though, both platforms do very different things for your organization and the teams that use them. Both can complement each other very well and contain features that can aid in making better products that scale seamlessly.

For the next interview in our series speaking to technology and IT leaders around the world, we’ve welcomed Patrick Gleeson, CTO at Basubu to share his insights on being a CTO at a fast-paced startup.

When machines need to communicate with one another and exchange data, they require certain formatting for specific data types. That's where SOAP API and REST API come into play. They allow for communication and transfer of data, but each is different in several ways. From implementation to their required resources, various attributes separate one from the other.

Talk of what to do with legacy systems often causes angst among leaders. Retiring the system means lost functionality that might be too difficult to replace. Keeping it means more time spent on maintenance rather than value-added tasks. Replacing it can be a financial and logistical nightmare. The result of these talks is often to simply keep it and make do as best as possible.