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Every organization contends with numerous moving parts that drive business forward. But they can be inefficient and convoluted – in fact, Forrester research shows that 71% of organizations use 10 or more applications for a single business process. To make matters worse, only 16% of companies have complete visibility over their own processes. This is where process mining can help. How can you gain more clarity so you can improve efficiency within your organization?

In day-to-day life, everything is driven by events. If the phone rings, you pick it up. If the timer on the oven pings, you switch it off. These are all examples of event-driven reactions, where the action is based on the conditions surrounding it. How does this relate to business IT systems? To begin to understand this, it helps to think of your company as a collection of events. Some of these events occur over and over, such as customer purchases or CRM data entry.

When it comes to building an API, Rails is an extremely popular programming language choice to build powerful RESTful APIs. In this tutorial, we will build a simple REST API using Rails. The Rails REST API endpoint will allow users to retrieve a credit score rating. Of course, we won’t be linking up to any backend systems to pull a credit score but will instead use a random number generator to generate the score and return it to the user.

With increased applications developed by different engineering teams on Kafka comes increased need for data governance. JSON is often used when streaming projects bootstrap but this quickly becomes a problem as your applications iterate, changing the data structures with add new fields, removing old and even changing data formats. It makes your applications brittle, chaos ensues as downstream consumers fall over due to miss data and SREs curse you.

Test management is an important aspect of software testing. Tools for test management are used to organize testing activities, report the progress of QA activities and maintain information on how testing is done. Test management tools in software testing help teams create and manage their test cases by providing the right features and functionalities. There are both proprietary and open-source test management tools available. Each tool has its pros and cons.

The Katalon Platform is continuously evolving to provide the best user experience and to help quality engineers streamline their processes. This release introduces significant enhancements to its Atlassian Jira integration and defect reporting, making it easier for QA managers, quality engineers, and developers to collaborate effectively.

What is the HiPPO? Learn how organizations can overcome this phenomenon through data-driven decisions.

At Kong, we’re always looking to expand the experience of running our products in the AWS cloud. As we steadily move into 2023, we want to continue this streak because we see firsthand the tremendous growth and success it provides our customers. Today, we’re excited to announce that the Kong API management platforms, Kong Enterprise and Kong Konnect, are validated integrations with Amazon VPC Lattice.

Learn about the importance of implementing security testing, including the benefits it provides, and best practices for ensuring its effectiveness.

In today's data-driven world, businesses are constantly generating vast amounts of data, which can provide valuable insights into their operations and customers. However, before data can be analyzed and used for decision-making, it often needs to be cleaned, transformed, and organized in a way that makes it usable. This is where ETL comes in.