Picture this: a customer reaches out with a seemingly simple request—convert a date field to a different format in their API responses. The catch? They only have read-only access to their database, which means no schema updates, no new columns, just pure data transformation. This intriguing challenge led us down the rabbit hole to rediscover one of DreamFactory's most powerful yet underutilized features: enhancing API calls with SQL functions.

In the first part of this series, we created a Django online shop with htmx. In this second part, we'll handle orders using Stripe.

Traffic alone won’t make you sales. You need to understand and direct that traffic down your marketing funnel. But to do that, you need to first know what your traffic comprises of. You need to know who’s coming to you, where they are coming from, what they are doing, and when they are leaving you. A marketing analytics tool helps with just that.

In today’s digital environment, many organizations find themselves grappling with the challenges posed by modern technology. If your organization is finding it challenging to stay ahead in this digital age, you are not alone. Cigniti’s white paper on “Business Transformation through Application Modernization” serves as a crucial resource, offering a comprehensive roadmap for CIOs to navigate these challenges successfully.

Although GoMock is one of the most popular ways to create mocks in Golang, it’s important to understand the broader landscape of mocking methods in the language to fully leverage its potential value in testing. Mocking is a powerful technique that allows developers to isolate their code, improve test reliability, and ultimately enhance overall code quality.

The difference between stateful and stateless applications is essential when developing APIs. However, if you’re not a developer who’s working with stateful and stateless systems, you might not fully understand these concepts. More importantly, you may not know why stateless REST APIs are so essential to building scalable web applications? Here are the key takeaways to know about stateful vs. stateless apps.

System administrators, DBAs, and application developers all know about the need for data integration. That’s when you have to pull data from one database, application, or web service to another. Fortunately, this task is a lot less challenging than it used to be because APIs (application programming interfaces) are so popular today. APIs provide a standard way to share the data and services of one system with another, even if the two systems are otherwise incompatible.