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How to Best Monitor Kong Performance and API Usage with the Moesif API Analytics Plugin

Kong is a highly recommended API Gateway for any team looking for a reliable and scalable way to provide APIs. Compared to more traditional players like Apigee and Mulesoft, Kong follows an open-core model and is highly modular. To best optimize your API performance and understand what changes are needed to recoup your investment, it’s recommend to set up API monitoring and analytics.

A Tour of 7 Popular Ruby Frameworks in 2020

Ruby may be over 25 years old, but it remains popular in the software community for its focus on programmer happiness. Building software with Ruby often involves leveraging one or more popular frameworks for the purpose of increasing productivity by relying on existing solutions to common problems. Ruby frameworks generally fall into two categories: web-facing frameworks and background job frameworks.

North Dakota's COVID-19 Contact Tracking App Uses Bugfender, What About Privacy?

Today, May 21st, we received an interesting email from a journalist writing for Fast Company. Apparently, a privacy-focused company audited the app Care19, North Dakota’s COVID-19 contact tracking app, and they found that an anonymous tracking ID generated by the app was sent via API to Bugfender along with other identifiers. While the journalist contacted the app developers, he also gave us the opportunity to comment.

How to Improve User Experience

Our attention is increasingly focused on the online world, and with the widespread adoption of mobile devices, and rising data speeds, accessing a website has never been easier. There is also more choice than ever before for online users, with social media apps competing with traditional websites for our attention. In this crowded and competitive marketplace, how can you make your website stand out from the crowd?

Why Historical Insurance Data Models Don't Work in our Current Environment

Classic data modeling and history-based actuarial models do not comprehensively work anymore. In order to get useful insights that can be implemented to support customers and the business, insurers must rapidly incorporate new data sources in their analysis. Current events that are different than anything we have seen in recent history force us to get used to a new world that cannot totally be evaluated and analyzed based on historical experience and knowledge.

Station: A powerful smart browser for all your web applications

The internet has become an integral part of our lives. Be it work or daily chores, we can’t imagine getting through the day without it. As our reliance on internet increases day by day, a majority of applications we’re switching to have web-based interfaces. The growing popularity of smartphones and portable devices has fueled this tech revolution. Most applications that have web-based interfaces are hosted on the cloud these days.

How to Write a Good Bug Report? Some Tips

Bug reporting is an important and major aspect of software testing. Some teams discuss minor bugs with developers directly, while most companies make it a point to report the bugs irrespective of its severity. This way, we do not “bug” the developers too much and, the tester who finds it next will not spend duplicate efforts reporting the same bug again. If a bug is not documented, the developer fails to understand the bug or worse, reject it.

How to Market to Developers with Paid Marketing

At Moesif, we primarily market to developers and other technical audiences like product managers and developer relations teams looking to make their own developer platform successful. Getting developers to adopt your API or tool is hard and requires heavy investment in experimentation and measurement in order to achieve the results you’re looking for. At the same time, much of the online advice you hear for B2C or B2B marketing simply won’t work when marketing to developers.

Embracing Big Data And Multi-Function Analytics To Better Manage Complexity

Guest post by Mark Ferman, Sr. Oil & Gas Analytics Advisor Oil and Gas companies operate within one of the most demanding business environments on the planet with an array of complex challenges that regularly test their ability to innovate, plan, and execute strategic objectives.