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What Is the Strangler Fig Pattern?

In this clip from a recent webinar, “From Legacy to Long-Term Stability: Practical Strategies for Web App Framework Migrations,” Zend Senior Solutions Engineer Yeshua Hall explores the strangler fig pattern, one of the most widely recommended strategies for web application and PHP framework migrations. This clip covers how the strangler fig pattern works, why it reduces migration risk, and how you can test, deploy, and validate changes throughout your migration.

Extracting and Harvesting Metadata for Cloudera Data Lineage

This is a comprehensive walkthrough of the metadata extraction process for Cloudera Data Lineage. Learn how to utilize the harvesting agent to set up a new metadata source, such as Informatica Oracle, and perform a local extraction. The video demonstrates how the agent securely reads metadata from databases, ETL tools, and reporting systems, staging it as local XML files to ensure data does not leave the network without explicit action.

How to Upgrade or Retrofit Web Applications with a Data-First Migration

In this clip from a recent webinar, “From Legacy to Long-Term Stability: Practical Strategies for Web App Framework Migrations,” Zend Senior Solutions Engineer Yeshua Hall discusses a data-first approach to the strangler fig pattern, where business logic and database interactions are extracted before rebuilding the user experience. This strategy simplifies data migration, accelerates modernization efforts, and provides a flexible foundation for future development.

Popular PHP Frameworks Compared: Pros, Cons, and Tradeoffs

Choosing the right PHP framework means balancing developer experience, performance, stability, and long-term maintenance. In this clip from a recent webinar, “From Legacy to Long-Term Stability: Practical Strategies for Web App Framework Migrations,” Zend Senior Solutions Engineer Yeshua Hall breaks down the strengths and trade-offs of today's most popular backend frameworks, including Laravel, Symfony, Laminas, and Mezzio.

Bitrise Remote Development Environments demo

In this short demo, our Senior Solutions Engineer Naveen Nazimudeen introduces Bitrise Remote Developer Environments (RDEs) and shows how they speed up mobile development. If you'd like to learn more, get in touch with us! Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences. Over 400,000 developers use Bitrise’s products: Bitrise CI, Build Cache, Release Management, and Insights.

Why Salesforce ETL Tools Keep Breaking (And What Actually Fixes It)

Salesforce integration always starts simple. You pull a few objects, set up incremental syncs, push the data into your warehouse. Then Salesforce changes. Objects shift, fields get added, data types evolve, APIs update, and rate limits get hit and your simple connector turns into a full-time maintenance job.

How to design & test APIs with OpenAPI & Swagger | What's changed in 3.1 & 3.2

Outdated API docs and last-minute bugs cost teams time and trust. Learn how the OpenAPI Specification help you document, govern, and test your APIs from design to deployment – all inside SmartBear Swagger. SmartBear's Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate, and Chris Armstrong, Manager of Developer Relations, explain why API documentation drifts out of sync and walk through what's changed between OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. After covering a brief history of Swagger and the OpenAPI specification, they demo the full API workflow across Swagger.