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Excel is widely used in different businesses and is a crucial element in the analysis and distribution of data. When generating reports, merging data from multiple sources or creating a document for a particular purpose, a low-code platform can provide consistent outcomes with less effort than the traditional coding approach. With Linx, for instance, you can craft an Excel file from any data source, e-mail it to a designated user, and then archive it for future reference.

Making sure that notifications, reports, and other messages are promptly delivered to the right people is a frequent – and important – job for IT teams. Even if there are 100s of emails that must be dispatched with slight differences in the content or added reports, it is sensible to automate the procedure of creating and sending out these emails. Linx can simplify this process, speed up the creation process, and make it easier to host this kind of solution.

Lytics leverages Google BigQuery to offer data infrastructure as a service, and Google Cloud AI/ML stack to identify and create unique audience segments.

Viktor Gamov also contributed to this post. In recent decades it’s become common for communication between backend services to employ HTTP APIs with JSON payloads. Many HTTP APIs adhere (or at least aspire) to REST Principles, though many fall into a category we’ll call "REST-like".

Since our last Kong Konnect monthly update, we’ve been hard at work to deliver some more powerful features in Kong Konnect, including consumer groups, dynamic client registration using Curity and Auth0, plugin ordering, and streamlined Docker runtime instance creation. Read on to learn what’s new in Kong Konnect.

Views in Rails don't do much besides showcasing what we want. Sure, they might render slightly different results depending on who's watching (an admin or a logged-in user has a different experience than a guest user, for example), but they don't do much processing on what they're given. Or at least they shouldn't. Often though, Rails projects wind up with a lot of logic in their views. In this post, we'll explore how to use Rails helpers to keep our views clean and readable.

The Node ecosystem comes with a wide variety of tools that have continued to evolve over the years. These tools are delivered via NPM packages and run in the command line, making them accessible to any developer (you do not need a fancy IDE to get the job done). In this take, we will explore 5 Node tools to learn this year: TypeScript, ES modules, ESLint, the ESLint SpellCheck plugin, and Mocha. These all run via the command line and can help boost your productivity when working on Node projects.

In PHP, try-catch-finally blocks are used to handle exceptions, which are runtime errors that occur during the execution of a script. Using try-catch-finally blocks can help write more robust and reliable code by allowing developers to handle exceptions in a controlled manner.

ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in Ruby is an error that occurs when an application is unable to find a record in the database that corresponds to the provided parameters. ActiveRecord is a Ruby gem that is used to interact with databases in a Rails application. It provides an object-relational mapping (ORM) layer that allows us to work with database records as if they were Ruby objects.