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The pace of change in the world is rapidly accelerating. Technology companies must prioritize speed to market to stay ahead of this curve, but speed can sometimes come at the expense of risk. The recent CrowdStrike incident is a sobering reminder that even the largest and most capable organizations are not immune to errors that can lead to significant downstream impacts.

API governance sets the rules and practices to manage APIs efficiently, ensuring they remain discoverable, consistent, and secure. It’s crucial for businesses aiming to control API sprawl and enhance collaboration. This guide explores API governance, its role in effective API management, its benefits, and best practices for successful implementation.

An API model acts as a blueprint for building scalable and maintainable software interfaces. In this article, you’ll discover how to design, implement, and validate a robust API model, including the use of AI models. We’ll cover key concepts like API modeling, essential components, user identification, and best practices.

History is full of dynamic duos like peanut butter and jelly or Batman and Robin—but is it time to add APIs and ERPs to the mix? According to a 2019 study by Cloud Elements, APIs and ERPs are essential to modern business strategy. 55 percent of respondents believe that API integrations are “critical” to their operations. What’s more, the survey’s participants say that ERPs are one of their top three business use cases for API integrations.

Idempotent operations produce the same result even when the operation is repeated many times. The result of the 2nd, 3rd, and 1,000th repeat of the operation will return exactly the same result as the 1st time. In this post, we will demystify the concept of idempotency—a fundamental property that ensures consistency, predictability, and reliability in APIs and distributed systems.

Cloudera’s data-in-motion architecture is a comprehensive set of scalable, modular, re-composable capabilities that help organizations deliver smart automation and real-time data products with maximum efficiency while remaining agile to meet changing business needs. In this blog, we will examine the “why” behind streaming data and review some high-level guidelines for how organizations should build their data-in-motion architecture of the future.

Modern data platforms enable enterprises to extract valuable business insights from data, sourced from various origins. Data engineers, data scientists, and other data practitioners utilize both data streaming and batch processing frameworks as a means to provide these insights. While batch processes work on historical data, stream processing extracts insights in real time, enabling businesses to react faster with respect to changing events.

With practically everything moving online now and consumers making snap decisions about what to buy and what not- can you really afford to not have an ecommerce website for your business? Well, we don’t think so! According to Tech Jury, 90% of online experiences begin with a search engine. Yes, that’s true! This basically means that if your business doesn’t have a website, you’re losing out on a lot of potential consumers.

At Ably, we provide a realtime messaging service that aims to deliver messages between globally-distributed participants with the lowest latency possible. When powering apps that enable realtime collaboration, or require time-critical updates, low and consistent latency is essential.

Test automation is no longer a cutting-edge technology. It is now a standard for any QA team looking to bring product quality to the next level. However, some testers are hesitant. They pose questions: does test automation actually bring ROI? Or perhaps they’re wary of the struggle with maintaining automation test scripts that break every time a new update is rolled out. It is those questions that deter business leaders from making the final decision, but they have a reason to be wary.