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Our previous article in this series established that Solid Queue is an excellent choice if you need a system for processing background jobs. It minimizes external dependencies — no need for Redis! — by storing all jobs in your database. Despite that, it is incredibly performant. But just being performant is not enough for a production-ready background job system. Rails developers have come to expect a lot over the years. We don't just want to enqueue jobs to run in the background.

Confluent recently released its 2025 Data Streaming Report: Moving the Needle on AI Adoption, Speed to Market, and ROI. The report found that data streaming is delivering business value with 44% of IT leaders, driving up to 5x or more return on their data streaming investments. Explore the 2025 Data Streaming Report That said, as companies continue to expand their data streaming use cases, many struggle with nontechnical hurdles around scaling, setting up operations, and hitting organizational silos.

If you’re looking for a better way to handle reporting in Power BI, especially when working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 data, you’re not alone. Many businesses struggle with the complexity of Dynamics data and the technical overhead of building reports in Power BI from scratch. In this guide, we’ll show you how to simplify Power BI reporting by using Jet Reports, a powerful reporting tool that integrates seamlessly with Dynamics 365 and Excel.

Do you ever feel like you need a superpower to get the information you need? Especially when you’re really into Python? APIs are pretty much that superpower! APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) let your code "talk" to other systems and get exactly what you need. They can help you come up with a new app, find the next big market trend, or even automate your morning weather report. This guide?

Struggling with data consistency in sharded APIs? Here's what you need to know upfront: Data sharing improves performance by dividing data across multiple databases, but it introduces challenges in maintaining consistency. Consistency models matter: Choose between strong consistency (immediate accuracy, higher latency) and eventual consistency (temporary inaccuracies, higher performance).

AI is a groundbreaking technology that is ready to modernize the way federal government agencies operate. By automating tasks and optimizing workflows, artificial intelligence (AI) promises to enhance efficiency, minimize errors, and boost productivity without adding resources. But as with any change—and especially one as transformative as AI—leaders need to take deliberate and cautious steps to ensure a smooth integration of these innovations and to gain the buy-in of government employees.

To be good stewards of taxpayer dollars, state and local governments conduct market research and perform due diligence before purchasing a software solution. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are often positioned as offering the best price tag and the fastest deployment. However, the promise of a speedy installation often goes unmet.

In this episode, Emmanuel Paraskakis, CEO Level 250 breaks down the core responsibilities of an API product manager. Speaking from his experience in product management for over fifteen years, Emmanuel distinguishes an API product manager’s focus from conventional product roles, underscoring their critical importance in building scalable digital platforms.

NGINX One provides a modern solution for enterprises to manage infrastructure at scale across globally distributed systems. The platform has built-in tools for essential performance and uptime metrics, giving DevOps teams visibility into the health of their NGINX instances. But for effective API observability and analytics, you have to go beyond infrastructure metrics.

To be honest, most Python developers are not using list comprehensions. Even I, who is writing this blog, never used list comprehensions before. But when I saw some examples, I felt I had to try and use them in my Python code. The reason for this change of mind is that there are a few advantages we get if we implement list comprehensions. Let’s see what these are in this blog today.