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It’s the eternal struggle for any business to add more value while keeping costs down. Luckily, modern business technology makes this a little easier with the employment of the right API. An API ecosystem revolves around software that specializes in linking together incongruent apps, products, and services. The API is more than middleware – it’s grown into an innovative business concept that can transform your business and digital strategy.

Amid the rapid pace of change felt by organizations this year, it’s no surprise that digital transformation projects have been high on the agenda for CIOs across the globe. To achieve both their organizational and transformation goals and become digitally agile as a result, CIOs are often tasked with creating the conditions needed to enable an intelligent and flexible digital core.

Building on the announcements made at this year’s Summit, Snowflake has released a number of new enhancements, especially in the areas of data programmability, global governance, and data sharing. Read on to learn more. For additional details and to see some of these new capabilities in action, be sure to check out the on-demand sessions from Summit.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is an Agile software development process encouraging collaboration between developers, QA and non-technical participants in a software project. Cucumber is an example of a JavaScript (JS) methodology that enables BDD. It helps to lay a test automation foundation by embracing coding standards and design patterns that will be used in the automation development process.

Everyone wants to manage their data, and if it’s a feature store, even better! But for optimal data management, we must first discuss lightweight zero upfront setup costs and maximizing utility with ClearML-data. ClearML-data mimics the light weightiness of git for data (who doesn’t know git?) and gives it a spin. It is an open-source dataset management tool which is extremely efficient and conveys how we view DataOps and its distinction from git-like solutions, including.

Having trouble developing KPIs that are aligned with your business goals and strategic priorities? We asked 40+ professionals to share their best practices.

This article is a hands-on guide to run Appium UI tests for Android apps. I will explain the integration between Appium and Bitrise and give you useful tips to make the most out of both tools.

During the execution of a PHP application, it is possible for it to generate a wide range of warnings and errors. For developers seeking to troubleshoot a misbehaving application, being able to observe these errors is critical. Developers, on the other hand, frequently encounter difficulties when attempting to display errors from their PHP applications. Instead, their applications simply stop working.

For the newest instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve welcomed Mark Kerzner, software developer and thought leader in cybersecurity training who is also the VP at training solutions company, Elephant Scale. His company has taught tens of thousands of students at dozens of leading companies. Elephant Scale started by publishing a book called ‘Hadoop Illuminated‘.

The Java Persistence API (JPA) is used in most Java applications to interact with a relational database. One of its most popular implementations is the Hibernate ORM, because it uses object-relational mapping to abstract database interactions and makes implementing simple CRUD operations very simple. But this abstraction also has its downsides. Hibernate uses a lot of internal optimizations and hides all database interactions behind its API.