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API-First: Shifting Your Focus from UI to Product Value

If you’re interested in #apifirst but struggle to understand the organisational or operational drivers that might indicate a positive return on investment for adopting such approaches, then check out this session from Frank Kilcommins and Nauman Ali. They cover the topics above and showcase how visual tools, like the new Form Editor within #Swaggerhub can help break down the barriers to participation in API delivery.

Enhancing AI Customer Experience: A Practical Guide

Organizations are harnessing the power of AI to revolutionize products and services across industries. But AI-powered solutions have been getting more sophisticated. We need to redesign and amend our approach to understanding how customers experience these solutions. Unlike traditional products, AI solutions are dynamic, continuously learning and adapting. Traditional metrics may fall short of capturing the nuances of how users interact with AI.

Setting Up a Free/Paid Plan With Moesif and Stripe: A Guide to Frictionless Onboarding of Customers to Your Platform

This guide walks you through setting up a Free/Paid plan for your customers using a supported payment platform integrated with Moesif, focusing on tracking usage and managing upgrades to paid tiers. While the steps in this guide are specifically for Stripe, they can be adapted for other supported payment platforms.

S1.E19: Web testing with Playwright | QA Therapy Podcast

Feeling uncertain about which framework to adopt for web testing? You're not alone. Tools like Playwrigt, are emerging as excellent options. We're thrilled to have Debbie O'Brien as our guest. Debbie serves as a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, where she passionately advocates for better testing with Playwright. // R E S O U R C E S.

EP11: Cell-Based Architecture

In this special edition, hosts Sanjiva and Asanka are joined by WSO2 co-founder Paul Fremantle for an in-person recording in the studio. Sanjiva leads the discussion, while Paul and Asanka, co-authors of the cell-based architecture, share their insights and experiences. Together, they explore the core principles of cell-based architecture, its practical applications, and how it reshapes modern software architecture.

Why Your Organization Needs to Embrace APIs

Like most organizations today, you’re probably looking to optimize your business model through increased technology adoption. The more successful digital transformation projects look at changing business trends and seek to incorporate those trends within their own specific environment. Similarly, as API technology grows, promising new functionalities and integrations, enterprises should aim to embrace the utility of APIs within their wider technology strategy.

Q&A with Bitrise's CSO on Gartner's Magic Quadrant: What's next for DevOps?

The DevOps landscape continues to evolve rapidly. As more organizations embrace DevOps to stay competitive, the landscape is shifting to include more diverse players and specialized offerings. But what's next for the space? Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms report highlights the latest developments and standout players in the space, including Bitrise's growing impact on mobile DevOps.

Using GitLab With Helix QAC

The cloud-based GitLab CI/CD platform allows development teams to streamline their Continuous integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines and accelerate their Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Adding strict, compliance-based static analysis — as provided by Helix QAC — as new stages to existing GitLab CI/CD pipelines will enhance the SDLC still further, and move your DevOps workflows from Continuous Integration to Continuous Compliance.

The Real Cost of Ignoring Red Alerts in Software Quality

57% of consumers are willing to switch to a competitor after three or four negative interactions. And that's being generous—sometimes it only takes one or two. Companies can’t afford to ignore red alerts anymore. Take Amazon's checkout flow, for example. It always works because they prioritize testing it rigorously to ensure their core business can generate revenue, even if other features are less polished.

Shift left to write data once, read as tables or streams

Shift Left is a rethink of how we circulate, share and manage data in our organizations using DataStreams, Change Data Capture, FlinkSQL and Tableflow. It addresses the challenges with multi-hop and medallion architectures using batch pipelines by shifting the data preparation, cleaning and schemas to the point where data is created and as a result, you can build fresh trustworthy datasets as streams for operational use cases or Apache Iceberg tables for analytical use cases.