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From accurately tracking the opening and closing of financial markets to preserving the history of posts and research papers by properly saving the times they were created, edited, and deleted, software engineers must understand how to handle dates and times in their applications. The concept of dates and times is especially important in programming. All programming languages enable developers to manage dates and times in their applications.

Data democratization can feel like just another business buzzword. But beyond the buzz, it represents an important concept: when your employees lack access to the data they need for decision-making, decisions will stall and your business will suffer. Getting value from your data—and delivering that across your organization—is a persistent challenge. Getting value from your data—and delivering that across your organization—is a persistent challenge.

Appian 23.4 is here! As usual, this release is full of new and enhanced capabilities that speed up development and make your work easier. Read on for the highlights, and watch the 23.4 Product Announcement webinar or read the release notes for more on what’s new in this release.

Data is the cornerstone of your business. Appian 23.4 builds on this foundation with our AI, data fabric, and process automation capabilities—making it even easier to get value from your enterprise data. With the new self-service analytics capability, your business users can now securely access your data fabric to browse data catalogs, build reports, and chat with Appian AI Copilot to ask questions about their data.

Working as a software tester, are you sometimes tired of the repetitive and time-consuming nature of the whole process? If yes, a data-driven framework is exactly what you need. A data-driven framework in Selenium is an approach to automated testing that separates test scripts from test data, enabling testers to run the same test script with different data inputs.

Two names that have been making waves with their distinct approaches to building web apps are Next.js and Vite.js. Next.js is a React framework specialized in server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and hybrid applications. It provides features like file-based routing, image optimization, and is particularly suited for projects where SEO and fast initial load times are priorities.

We use them to manage users’ log-in sessions, impose time-outs, display dates when content was posted and show the most recent publications to users. This is crucial to a variety of apps, from digital diaries to diet and exercise planners, and onto travel-booking resources. As our user bases become more geographically diverse, so time management gets even more important.

Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.5 is packed with security features to support the use cases demanded by our enterprise customers through major improvements in Secrets Management integrations and our Open-ID Connect (OIDC) plugin. Additionally, we’ve added key security updates for a few of our AWS integrations.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway 3.5 for Open Source (OSS). This release enables Javascript developers to extend the Gateway via the WebAssembly layer which is currently in Beta, delivers some enormous observability enhancements, and unlocks top-end performance. Keep reading for the latest on Kong Gateway 3.5 for OSS!

Have you heard this quote from Edwards Deming? – “In God we trust, all others bring data.” In today’s competitive landscape, if you’re not measuring your performance and closely analyzing each relevant data point, you’re not going to see much success with your strategies. This is the golden rule no matter what type of business you run – whether you’re a small, local jewelry store or Coca-Cola. And KPIs (key performance indicators) help us do just that.