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If your business is using APIs and other technologies, chances are you don’t know how they can help your bottom line. But, don’t be surprised if your business uses these services to improve efficiency, streamline processes and reduce costs when it comes time to integrate them into your existing business model. Here are a few examples of how businesses can use APIs to streamline processes.

Data is the fuel for today’s modern economy – it drives everything from large-scale manufacturing, financial services, energy and transportation to healthcare, media and entertainment and everything in between. This new philosophy of data-centricity has evolved the way organizations think about their IT environments, infrastructure, applications, solutions and even cloud providers.

Continuous testing is the practice of testing software as frequently as possible (e.g., multiple times per day) and as early as possible in the development lifecycle. With more frequent updates and faster bug fixes, your product can be more responsive to market changes and the needs of customers.

As more companies are undergoing digital transformation (resulting in a huge explosion of APIs and microservices), it’s of paramount importance to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best experience for both users and developers. Kong Gateway is a lightweight API gateway that is built to be open and versatile. Regardless of the technology stack involved, Kong supports these monitoring or logging requirements through its extensive ecosystem of plugins.

Industries all over the world are hopping on the digital transformation bandwagon to keep up with the ever-advancing technologies. The e-commerce industry continues to progress through this transformation as more and more people buy and sell over the internet. While other industries took a hit during the 2019 pandemic, e-commerce businesses boomed as people were stuck indoors with just their electronic devices.

Being able to group a set of users or companies based on their behaviors or traits can be extremely useful. In Moesif, we have a feature called Saved Cohorts which allows you to do exactly this. Saved Cohorts can help businesses power marketing campaigns and other sales initiatives, help engineers and customer success teams manage ongoing issues, and a host of other use cases.

In this post, I compare two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably, to determine which provides the best development experience. The context will be a multi-user pixelart drawing application that I've built with both services. This is not a step-by-step instruction on how to build the entire application. I'll highlight some key features and differences. The GitHub repository for the app has further details and includes CodeTours to guide you through the solution.

For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leads from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO at Zynq, David Cottrell. David has worked on building various enterprise products at Google and Microsoft. At Zynq, he helps Fortune 50 companies transition to hybrid work and effective office space management.

Learn how the Fivetran REST API allows you to programmatically manage users, groups and connectors to scale data workflows and improve your overall security posture.

Cross Browser Testing is a sort of testing that determines whether an application works as anticipated across several browsers and degrades seamlessly. It is the process of ensuring that your application is compatible with many browsers. We've all seen that some websites don't display properly in certain browsers, leading us to believe that the website is malfunctioning. However, when you open it in a different browser, the page loads perfectly.