When you’re a popular name in the payment gateway market, like Stripe, you need to maintain a reputation for intelligent payment processing as well as strict payment security. Customers expect proactive fraud prevention and compliance management features to be inherently included in your offerings. Failing to do so will harm your brand, and you might not even get two more strikes to reaffirm your presence.

This is one of a series of posts that explain Ably’s four pillars of dependability. The four pillars project at Ably is about making concrete, objectively verifiable, statements about the technical characteristics of the service. We aim to ensure that our claims about service performance are expressed clearly in terms of explicit metrics, and we explain in technical terms how those performance levels are met.

Raw data from IoT devices, like GPS trackers or electronic logging devices (ELDs), often lacks meaning on its own. However, if combined with information from other business systems, such as inventory management or customer relationship management (CRM), this data can now provide a richer, more complete picture for more effective decision-making. For example, combining GPS data with inventory levels can optimize logistics and delivery routes.

In the first part of this series, we set up a basic Rack app, learned how to process a request and send a response. In this post, we'll take over connections from Rack and hold persistent connections to enable pathways such as WebSockets. First, though, let's look at how an HTTP connection actually works.

If you are looking to add intelligent test automation to your testing processes: AI agents are the answer. Unlike traditional testing tools, which depend on static programming scripts or fragile locators, AI agents learn and evolve with the software they test. That is why they are highly effective in dynamic environments. As a result, AI agents have an important role in maintaining software quality in Agile and DevOps workflows.

Node.js is a powerful runtime environment that allows you to handle asynchronous I/O operations efficiently using its event-driven architecture. Asynchronous operations in Node.js rely heavily on the event loop, and understanding how certain functions like process.nextTick() and setImmediate() interact with the event loop is essential for building fast, responsive applications.

Recently we discussed how to boost testing efficiency with free test plan templates, QA professionals are better equipped to follow best practices and industry standards when there is standardization and consistency, which lowers the risk of supervision and guarantees that all required components are tested In the fast-paced world of software development, maintaining the quality and stability of applications is a top priority.