With the globe becoming more and more digitally linked, mobile applications are becoming an essential part of our everyday life. We use smartphone applications for a wide range of purposes, from healthcare and education to banking and shopping. It's important to understand, though, that not everyone uses these applications in the same manner.

Businesses face an ever-growing challenge: how to protect and manage their most valuable asset – their data. As organizations scale and digital transformation accelerates, the volume generated daily is staggering. IDC predicts that the global datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025, requiring a substantial increase in storage capacity across the industry.

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven business landscape, having a comprehensive view of your operations is essential for success. Dashboards provide a centralized, real-time visual representation of key metrics, tasks, and performance indicators, enabling teams to stay organized and make informed decisions. ClickUp’s customizable dashboards elevate this by allowing users to build and personalize their own layouts tailored to specific needs.

Privacy is no longer a growing requirement for doing business — it's the new status quo. The stakes for not protecting it have only intensified. Consumers have been demanding greater control and privacy over their data for years, and now vast numbers are taking action to protect it, turning off tracking, using cookieless environments and relying on ad blockers at rapidly increasing rates.

What if a single software glitch could cost your company millions? In today’s digital world, that’s not just a possibility – it’s reality. As businesses double down on digital-first strategies, software powers everything from critical infrastructure to day-to-day consumer experiences. Even minor bugs can cause massive disruptions, halt business operations, and compromise customer trust. The margin for error has never been smaller.

Heuristics is the key to turn you into the Turkish Olympic guy. It is something that comes with experience. At a certain point, experts all develop that “sense” in their field of work. Repeated exposure to hundreds of problems helps them recognize patterns that beginners don’t easily see. Heuristics is not always foolproof, but it's good for immediate problem-solving.

Before we dive in, we want to remind our readers that the Konnect engineering team actively uses Kong products like Kong Gateway, Kong Mesh, and Insomnia. In this post, we'll showcase the power of Kong Gateway and two plugins — the JQ and Request Transformer Advanced Plugins — to govern and configure APIs, and explain how it played, and continues to play, a crucial role in the release of a new v2 Konnect API specification. The key takeaway here is: don’t do more work than is necessary.

Data pipeline automation plays a central role in integrating and delivering data across systems. The architecture is excellent at handling repetitive, structured tasks, such as extracting, transforming, and loading data in a steady, predictable environment, because the pipelines are built around fixed rules and predefined processes. So, they will continue to work if you maintain the status quo, i.e., as long as your data follows a consistent structure.