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Financial institutions around the world are embracing APIs to drive digital transformation, enable seamless communication across systems, and provide clients with secure, real-time access to banking services. Every time a customer taps a mobile banking app or interacts with an online financial platform, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) make these interactions possible. In today's API-first financial landscape, these interfaces are no longer a luxury—they are a strategic necessity.

In an era when artificial intelligence is transforming every industry, your Oracle data has never been more valuable or more vulnerable. Data trust is no longer optional. It’s foundational.

At SmartBear, we celebrate innovators in software testing who make a real impact on their teams. The Automation All-Star Award celebrates the pioneers using SmartBear Zephyr’s no-code automation to achieve transformative results. We’re thrilled to share the stories of this year’s winner, RAC Motoring Services, and our fantastic finalists: Capgemini, Infor PSSC, Pepper Money, and the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE).

We are thrilled to share that Testlio has been awarded the ISO/IEC 27001 certification for our information security management system.

CORS errors can be a frustrating roadblock during API testing - but they’re fixable. These errors happen when your web app tries to access resources from another domain without proper permissions. Here’s how to tackle them step by step.

In less than three years, gen AI has become a staple technology in the business world. In November of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, with explosive growth of over 1 million users in just five days, galvanizing the widespread use of gen AI. Over the course of 2023 enterprises entered the experimentation stage and kicked off POCs with API services and open models including Llama 2, Mistral, NVIDIA and others.

Doing things manually on GitLab is okay, but it can get repetitive and time-consuming. That’s where the GitLab Python API comes to the rescue! With it, you can automate tasks like creating projects, branches, or merge requests using just a few lines of Python code. It’s incredibly handy for DevOps, scripting, or personal projects! In this blog, we’ll dive into setting up and using the GitLab Python API step by step.

This benchmark report provides a side-by-side comparison of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI’s o1 models in AI-driven software testing. Across both unit test generation (UTG) and API test generation (ATG), Gemini 2.5 Pro demonstrated clear superiority in key areas. In summary, Gemini 2.5 Pro outperformed OpenAI o1 by: OpenAI’s o1 model had strengths in smaller-scale applications, but overall it generated shallower tests and struggled to match Gemini on complex projects.

If you need a tool that can extract, transform, and load data, then Hadoop isn’t the right option for you. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t consider making Hadoop a part of your ETL process, though. Adding Apache Hadoop to your process could help increase speeds and ensure that you get accurate results.

This article originally appeared on SD Times on May 30, 2025. We’re sharing it here for our audience who may have missed it. The headlines are seductive: AI will replace developers. Coding is dead. Ship 10x faster with half the team. It’s the kind of hype that grabs attention and fuels confusion.