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“By year’s end, 75% of development shops will use low-code platforms” Forrester recently released its Predictions 2021: Software Development, providing insight into the application development and delivery landscape in 2021. While the report includes a number of predictions, two predictions are particularly relevant to Appian: Forrester predicts that: The Appian Low-Code Automation Platform helps organizations build elegant solutions for complex business problems.

There are a few standard structured data formats and discussions galore on which of them is more advantageous. Within Xplenty, users are able to process JSON and XML data formats with ease, and this article shares an example showing the functions that facilitate processing XML on Xplenty.

It's important to understand the uses and abuses of streaming infrastructure. Apache Kafka is a message broker that has rapidly grown in popularity in the last few years. Message brokers have been around for a long time; they're a type of datastore specialized for "buffering" messages between producer and consumer systems. Kafka has become popular because it's open-source and capable of scaling to very large numbers of messages.