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Safaricom: Harnessing the power of APIs to transform lives in Africa

Safaricom holds the distinction of being the largest telecommunications services provider in Kenya, but we’re aiming for an even loftier goal: empowering Kenyans with tools for economic growth. From venture capital investments in local startups to our commitment to United Nations (UN) sustainability goals, we prioritize the mission of transforming lives in our country.

Apply Shift-Left Testing Approach to Continuous Testing

As the demand to release quality software products in the short amount of time continues to accelerate, Agile and DevOps teams have to adopt new approaches to avoid falling behind. Continuous testing and shift-left testing are two breakthrough solutions in this modern era of software delivery. In this blog, we will walk you through these two notions, their benefits, and how to implement them into your software development life cycle (SDLC).

Making Sense of the Tableau and Looker Acquisitions

We all know that data is important and that becoming a data-driven enterprise is critical to future enterprise success. But recent events threw into sharp relief just how critical data is to business. Google announced its intention to buy Looker for $2.6 billion dollars. Several days later, Salesforce announced that it would be purchasing Tableau for $15 billion dollars. What can we make of these acquisitions?

Leroy Merlin: Transforming the Russian home improvement market with APIs

Leroy Merlin is expanding our network of retail stores rapidly in Russia, and as part of this expansion we are undertaking a digital transformation. Not only has this process tested our technological capabilities, but it also presents us with the challenge of transforming our mindset. To offer expanded services to our customers, we rely on a rich set of APIs and microservices created and managed in Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform.

Kong 1.2 Released! Major Performance Improvements and Newly Open Sourced Plugins

Today, we’re excited to unveil the latest release of our flagship open source offering – Kong 1.2! In this release, we’ve made key latency and throughput performance improvements and open sourced some previously enterprise-only plugins to enhance your overall Kong experience.

How Yellowfin created an innovation culture

I often get asked why Yellowfin is always the first to market with new products - it’s because of our innovation culture. Our innovation is something that we’ve even been recognized for by BARC and Gartner. Here are three things that we do to create a culture of innovation that enables us to live and breathe new ideas.

Unraveling the Complex Streaming Data Pipelines of Cybersecurity

Earlier this year, Unravel released the results of a survey that looked at how organizations are using modern data apps and general trends in big data. There were many interesting findings, but I was most struck by what the survey revealed about security. First, respondents indicated that they get the most value from big data when leveraging it for use in security applications. Fraud detection was listed as the single most effective use case for big data, while cybersecurity intelligence was third.