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How Digital Transformation is Changing the Insurance Industry

You have heard the terms digital transformation and cloud computing many times in the past decade, but now it has come to the insurance sector. Digital technologies have had a major effect on just about every industry from retail and manufacturing to healthcare and hospitality. The insurance industry is often slower to jump on any new trends. Insurance providers are set in tradition and don’t usually see much need to change.

Working with REST APIs - Flutter

Data, data, and data. Everything we see in today’s world is just data. So how can we get data into our app? How can we integrate APIs into our app? Let’s find out! There are a lot of ways we show data in our app, such as: The most common method is to show data from a database or public APIs. Even loading data from a database involves using APIs, though these can be private. So, let’s see how you can integrate APIs, fetch data from a public API, and use it in your Flutter app!

API Gateway Cache With Kong's Proxy Cache Plugin

In applications built on a system of microservices, developers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary use of resources, such as database queries, network hops or service requests. API gateway cache (or response caching) is an excellent place to start. For many microservices, identical requests sent within a window of time will yield identical responses. For example, consider a request to an Orders API for the list of orders submitted yesterday.

Kuma 1.5.0 and Kong Mesh 1.6.0 Released

We are happy to announce the first release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma in 2022, which is packed with features and improvements, including substantial performance improvements when running at scale. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh.

Why Boomi May Not Be Right For You

Boomi is a software platform that helps you build and run data integration, deployment, and configuration automation applications. Boomi offers enterprise-class features for the demands of large organizations. However, Boomi may not be the right fit for every company. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the reasons why Boomi may not be suitable for you.

Golang Testing Frameworks for Every Type of Test

While Go provides a testing package and a go test command, the former only offers basic testing capabilities. The package also has some drawbacks, such as missing assertions and increasing repetition with large-scale tests. As a result, several Go testing frameworks have been created to augment it. Go testing frameworks consist of tools and resources for creating and designing tests. Some of these frameworks incorporate the testing package and go test command, while others take a different approach.

Rebranding DevOps as Cloud Engineering

In this episode of Kongcast, Matt Stratton, a staff developer advocate at Pulumi, explains the history of configuration automation, the world of cloud engineering and how it compares to DevOps. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes. Viktor: So before we jump to this one, tell us a bit about yourself. Matt: I spent about two decades working in traditional technology operations. I was a sysadmin.