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Salesforce is among the leading CRM software platforms for collecting and leveraging user data to make smart sales, marketing, and customer support decisions. However, other software in your tech stack can benefit from such data. With the right Salesforce middleware, you can exchange data easily with your other critical tools.

Exceptions are a core aspect of programming, and a way to signal when something goes wrong with a program. An exception could result from a simple error, or your program might crash because of underlying constraints. Exceptions are not necessarily bad, though — they are fundamental to any working application. Let’s see what our options are for handling exceptions in Elixir.

Discover where your company stands with its SEO performance in comparison to the most relevant industry benchmarks.

Smartphones literally dominate the world. There are 6.92 billion smartphone users in the world today, which is 85.88% of the world population. That figure is only 49.40% in 2016. Such ubiquity of smartphones demands mobile app developers to deliver high-quality applications at all times to remain competitive and relevant through effective mobile application testing.

Generative AI has recently emerged as a groundbreaking technology and businesses have been quick to respond. Recognizing its potential to drive innovation, deliver significant ROI and add economic value, business adoption is rapid and widespread. They are not wrong. A research report by Quantum Black, AI by McKinsey, titled "The Economic Potential of Generative AI”, estimates that generative AI could unlock up to $4.4 trillion in annual global productivity.

Unlocking the full potential of your SAP solution requires the complete trust of your data. Without trust, users will second guess any insights, stalling business progress. Research has pinpointed three key pain points that companies encounter with their SAP data: a prevailing sense of data distrust, a lack of maintenance and data cleansing, and a shortage of skilled users. These pain points not only impede progress but also pose significant roadblocks to migrating to S/4HANA, the future of SAP.

WordPress Accessibility Day 2023 is a free 24-hour global event that aims to raise awareness and increase general understanding of website accessibility in WordPress — it will take place on September 27 and run through the 28th.

The growth of APIs continues to drive our digital economy, and API management underpins the success of every modern application and the businesses that depend on their success. Today, we are very excited to announce the release of an essential guide to building and managing next-generation API platforms with GraphQL. Kong and Apollo, as leaders in the respective areas of API management and GraphQL, have partnered to author a thorough technical examination of next-generation API platforms.

In the first three parts of our Inside Flink blog series, we discussed the benefits of stream processing, explored why developers are choosing Apache Flink® for a variety of stream processing use cases, and took a deep dive into Flink's SQL API. In this post, we'll focus on how we’ve re-architected Flink as a cloud-native service on Confluent Cloud. However, before we get into the specifics, there is exciting news to share.

The Q3 Confluent Cloud Launch comes to you from Current 2023, where data streaming industry experts have come together to share insights into the future of data streaming and new areas of innovation. This year, we’re introducing Confluent Cloud’s fully managed service for Apache Flink®, improvements to Kora Engine, how AI and streaming work together, and much more.