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Have you ever wondered how a successful app comes to life? The short answer – a brilliant idea combined with the successful orchestration of full-cycle software development to implement it.

These days, a lot of companies are moving towards cloud native applications and declarative configurations. This is also true for the traditional API gateways (e.g., MuleSoft, Axway, etc). Customers are looking for new technologies which fit better in their cloud environments and also are faster and cheaper. The main challenge here is how to migrate the existing APIs to the new platform.

We're kind of crazy about providing the fastest way to deploy applications globally. As you might already know, we're building a serverless platform exactly for this purpose. We recently wrote about how the Koyeb Serverless Engine runs microVMs to host your Services but we skipped a big subject: Global Networking. Global Networking is a big way of saying "How are my requests processed?". A short answer is: requests go through our edge network before reaching your services hosted on our core locations.

In the financial services industry, it is common for employees to spend significant time on manual, repetitive tasks that need to be completed with high speed and accuracy. Complex processes like customer onboarding, mortgage lending, and customer service are filled with routine tasks like data entry, invoice processing, response tracking, and reminders. Automation frees employees from rote tasks that are better suited to simple bots, resulting in both financial and opportunity cost savings.

Salesforce is the most popular CRM (customer relationship management) platform in the world. As last count, the Salesforce CRM enjoyed a 20 percent market share, with more than 150,000 companies among its customers. One of Salesforce’s best features is its ability to run business intelligence (BI) and analytics workloads to identify hidden trends and insights and make smarter decisions for your sales, marketing, and customer support teams.

Microservices are a popular and modern organizational software engineering practice. The guiding principle of any microservices implementation is to develop an application by dividing its business components into smaller services that can be deployed and operated independently of each other. The separation of concerns between services is defined as “service boundaries.”

Airflow has been adopted by many Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) customers in the public cloud as the next generation orchestration service to setup and operationalize complex data pipelines. Today, customers have deployed 100s of Airflow DAGs in production performing various data transformation and preparation tasks, with differing levels of complexity.

Shifting customer behavior in the wake of the pandemic has forced many financial organizations to accelerate their digital transformation plans. According to a recent survey of financial C-suite executives, these organizations are increasing their technological investments to address the changing landscape. The cloud — a necessary component of any digital transformation — is a focal point of these investments.