Push notifications play an important role in user engagement and retention in your mobile app, keeping users up to date and creating a sense of urgency that leads to purchases. And in Android, we get the added benefit of Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) notification service, which acts as a middleman between the app server and the user’s Android device. It helps the delivery of push notifications, even if the app is not active or the user is using a different app on their device.

We previously discussed what can possibly go wrong without data privacy in your business. To tackle this from the other side, here is a quick summary of the importance of data privacy if you are running a digital product, and the reasons why Countly is a first choice for privacy-compliant product analytics tools.

We are excited to announce the launch of Tricentis qTest Copilot, a generative AI assistant that helps save significant time in the creation of manual test cases. qTest Copilot is seamlessly embedded into the Tricentis qTest user interface as an expansion of our unified test management platform.

Understanding how your APIs handle and process data drives better decision-making. Different kinds of data flow through APIs and the services that consume them. But the actual information lives inside the HTTP request and response bodies. If you can effectively leverage that data with the contextual API metrics like status codes and routes, you can better understand how your customers consume your services.

Kafka is a highly popular realtime data streaming platform, renowned for handling massive volumes of data with minimal latency. Typical use cases include handling user activity tracking, log aggregation and IoT telemetry. Kafka’s architecture, based on distributed partitions, allows it to scale horizontally across multiple brokers. But although Kafka excels at high data throughput, scaling it to manage thousands of client connections can be costly and complex.

Choreo is a powerful internal developer platform (IDP) as a service built for enterprises, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for CI/CD, API management, DevOps, observability, and business insights. It provides an all-in-one solution for building, deploying, governing, and monitoring enterprise applications—eliminating the need for developers to build complex CI/CD workflows or set up custom platforms.

Every so often, a careful profiling analysis of your application detects the bottleneck in third-party code and there is little remedy for you to override or change that code. In this blog post I want to present a solution to fixing performance problems in third-party libraries by using the composer patches plugin. I use the the Symfony ErrorHandler as an example.