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What comes to mind when you think of an outdated website? Your answer will depend on how far back you’ve seen the internet, but it could range anywhere from glossy interfaces to the default blue, Times New Roman links. But even a few years of age could put your website behind the competition, even if it doesn’t look like MySpace or the first version of IMDB. Its audience and goals could outgrow its design, especially if you don’t make small changes often.

DreamFactory's custom SQL endpoints let you create APIs that are tailored to your exact needs, making your data more flexible and powerful. In this article, we will show you how to set up these endpoints, provide practical examples, and explain how to connect endpoints to your external systems.

New BigQuery continuous queries execute continuously processing SQL statements as events arrive, for insights that are always up to date.

API testing is the process of verifying that APIs are working and performing as expected. Developers and QA engineers test APIs by sending requests to various API endpoints and validating the responses against expected outcomes. The goal is to determine if the APIs meet the set standards for functionality, performance, scalability, and security. This process includes testing the “happy path” scenarios and negative cases to ensure proper security checks are in place.

Multiplayer brings every piece of the system design puzzle into a single platform. By integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket repositories, we enable users to access, view, and (in the future) modify source code within the context of their platform's design.

We released two big updates to our Sketches feature: a much improved UI and a dedicated link in the navigation bar. You can now visually convey your ideas, designs, and plans effortlessly.

QA automation is undergoing a period of anticipation, with generative AI and advanced technologies poised to transform testing processes. With a promise of heightened efficiency and broader test coverage in digital solutions, QA automation services have become necessary for organizations across industries. Therefore, CTOs and other executives are now discussing strategies to build in-house QA automation teams.

This guest blog was written by Matt Turner from Moesif. Moesif provides insights and tooling for API product owners to activate, understand, and monetize customers.

Automation has unleashed unprecedented productivity and profits for organizations. By automating formerly manual tasks, businesses see efficiency gains, reduced human error, cost savings, and improved innovation. Automation frees employees for creative work and work that requires human intervention. To facilitate this, many organizations have stitched together a wide range of automation tools. This includes robotic process automation (RPA), generative AI, predictive AI, and business process management.

The Crowdstrike outage impacted everything from getting groceries delivered to airplanes. What did we all learn? Understand and learn how to prevent software outages in the future.