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Scaling realtime messaging for live chat experiences: Challenges and best practices

Live chat is the most common type of realtime web experience. Embedded in our everyday lives, we use messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Slack daily to keep in touch with friends and family, and to communicate and collaborate at work. With live chat functionality also prominent across e-commerce, live streaming, and e-learning experiences, end users have come to expect (near) instant message receipt and delivery.

Back-end application hosting made easy

For the day-to-day developer, deployment and hosting, plus the subsequent management of solutions in production, is a considerable challenge, especially if it’s outside their immediate skill set. Hosting applications can be complex. Besides the obvious challenges of scalability, security, and reliability (up-time), you must consider where your application will be hosted, how you plan to deploy it, how to monitor it, and more.

End-to-end gRPC and HTTP/2 support: a story about ALPN, Edge, and Kuma/Envoy

Need to deploy APIs and full-stack apps with gRPC and HTTP/2 support? Sign up now to deploy with our free tier and choose your preferred protocol in the control panel or via the CLI. Our thing is to let you deploy your apps globally in less than 5 minutes - and with high-end performance. Not only does this require us to be meticulous about everything composing our infrastructure layer, but also we have to support high-level protocols like WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC.

How to Make a Prototype of an App: A Comprehensive Guide

Usually, when clients come to us with an idea for developing a feature-rich mobile app, they might find it a little difficult to comprehend the workflow and the importance of specific stages. Therefore, one frequently asked question we usually face is, ‘Is it necessary to work on a prototype?’ Well, the answer to this frequently asked question is an ABSOLUTE YES and cannot be overlooked in any part of the development phase.

Performance Testing in a Waterfall Model

Everywhere you look on social media its DevOps, Agile Methodologies, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery. You could be forgiven for believing that most organisations and programmes follow these principles. This is not true. Many companies use a Waterfall model which is also known as a linear-sequential life cycle model. In a waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the next phase can begin and there is no overlapping in the phases.

Data Lake Architecture & The Future of Log Analytics

Organizations are leveraging log analytics in the cloud for a variety of use cases, including application performance monitoring, troubleshooting cloud services, user behavior analysis, security operations and threat hunting, forensic network investigation, and supporting regulatory compliance initiatives. But with enterprise data growing at astronomical rates, organizations are finding it increasingly costly, complex, and time-consuming to capture, securely store, and efficiently analyze their log data.

Regulatory Compliance in Banking: 5 Steps to Take Now

The first quarter of 2023 was quite a rollercoaster ride for the banking industry, marked by not one but two of the largest bank failures in U.S. history. As a result, regional banks took a hit as well, losing nearly $200 billion in deposits in just one week, according to the Federal Reserve. Because regional and smaller banks in the U.S. make up over a third of total bank lending, any pullback in credit provisioning could undermine financial stability and growth. The bottom line?