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I'm excited to announce the Ably Control API GitHub Action! With this Action you can create Ably apps and API keys straight from your GitHub workflow, ensuring a reliable and repeatable process of creating your cloud infrastructure.

Most web applications use a data store of some kind, often a relational database. When a web app becomes successful, it can become all too easy to start "hoarding" data in the database. But hoarding data leads to the unbounded growth of database tables (both row count and stored data size). While this works fine to a certain point, it is very useful to prevent some data bloat — or, if you cannot prevent it, to plan for your infrastructure ahead of time to adequately manage growth.

Here’s your soup to nuts guide to competitive benchmarking – what it is, its benefits, and how you can excel at it for growing your business like a pro.

Salesforce is an excellent CRM tool with many features to help you manage your business' workflows. Heroku is a cloud platform that enables developers to build, run and operate great apps. Whether you’re running a small business or managing 1,000 employees, either of these tools can be beneficial for your organization. Here are some ways to get started with Salesforce and Heroku.

In today’s world, tech and software possibilities are exponentially expanding. Whether it is the innovation of cloud-based storage or a solution to a very old problem, there is always something new coming out. While the innovation allows businesses to become more streamlined and optimized than ever before, integrating this new software into your business may be a challenging task.

Sometimes the lifestyles of the rich and famous aren’t as glamorous as they seem at first glance. We all know that professional athletes can make incredible amounts of money. But by the age of 35, most pro athletes are already at the end of their prime earning years. Historically, a lot of them haven’t managed their money well — and they may even go bankrupt in retirement.

Automated testing early in the pipeline for both web and mobile applications has become the standard for most development teams. Catching issues when they are faster, easier, and cheaper to fix provides tremendous value to a business both financially and through the improved quality of end-user experience.

Python was created by Guido van Rossum in the early 90's and is an interpreted, high-level programming language that is used by coders of all types. It is a widely-used programming language because of its readability and the fact that it is easy to learn for novice programmers. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, functional, and imperative/procedural styles.

The moment you type something on a keyboard, read a file from a disk or download a file over the internet, a stream of information (bits) flows through different devices and applications. If you learn to work with these streams of bits, you'll be able to build performant and valuable applications. For example, think of when you watch a video on YouTube. You don't have to wait until the full video downloads.