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.

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.

Over the past year, we’ve been dedicated to making Databox faster and more powerful for you and your team. We’ve introduced new features, visualizations, and integrations to help you leverage your data to make better decisions. In case you missed any of these updates, we’ve put together a roundup of the top highlights from 2024.

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.

One of the benefits of Ruby's developer-friendly syntax is that it's straightforward to quickly build scripts to automate tasks. Web scraping with Ruby is fun, useful, and straightforward. In this article, we'll explore using HTTParty to pull a web page and check it for a given string. To be specific, we'll build a cron job in Ruby to check if a product is in stock on a website!

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.