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CLI Installer

While new cloud native architectures are incredibly feature-rich, they can come with a high barrier to entry. Many getting started tutorials are pages long and can take forever to complete. But these always start with the first step of performing an installation. In the spirit of making the installation of Speedscale as simple as possible, we have designed a new interactive installer as part of the speedctl command line interface.

Reprogramming the bank: Shifting gears on digital disruption, WSO2 | Finextra

In this 2 part series, Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at WSO2 speaks about self-disruption across the industry, what is meant by this and how this approach is helping FIs address business challenges. We learn how the internal disruption that comes with new technology strategies can benefit the customer, the type of strategies that could formalise this natural disruption to create a process of structured self-disruption, and how this fits in with the regulatory landscape.

The Stripe Developer Experience and Docs Teardown

In this article, we are going to explore why the Stripe developer experience is so passionately supported by thousands of developers globally. One of Stripe’s missions is to increase the GDP of the internet, and over the last decade, they’ve successfully executed 250 million API requests per day and over 91 billion requests per year through their APIs.

The People Behind the Process: Software's Greatest Asset

Our new podcast, "The People Behind Your Favorite Apps," shines the spotlight on the developers, testers, and others who work tirelessly to bring amazing technologies to market. How they come up with solutions to big challenges, collaborate at scale, and deal with high-pressure deadlines and increased expectations from the business and customers alike.

API Design Is Communication: How to Build APIs People Will Love

In the digital world, application programming interfaces (APIs) are how we interact with our applications. API design is critical to creating a good user experience, and it must translate the capabilities of your applications into an interface that is both easy to use and understand. Therefore, API design is communication-focused, and this should be considered throughout the entire API development process.

Embedded iPaaS: Implementation types, features, pros and cons

The significance of embedded iPaaS has significantly risen in the past months. This can be easily seen by reviewing the search volume for the keyword “embedded iPaaS” – if in October 2019, for example, there were only a handful of queries for this term, by the first quarter of 2022, the search volume has increased by 1500%. Yes, you’re reading it right, this is not a typo – by one thousand five hundred percent.

Shifting Up: Achieving Progressive Delivery with both shift-left and shift-right approaches

There's a transformation happening in software development: Progressive Delivery. It lets you rapidly release updated apps while still maintaining quality and control. Better still, it can have a big impact on the job satisfaction and day-to-day experience of developers. At SmartBear, we're in a unique position with this change happening in the market. We have a range of tools that improve the quality of software development, aiding management, design, testing, and observability.

SOAP vs. REST: What's the Difference?

Numerous technologies underpin the web services we use daily. Web APIs are an essential component of the internet world. A web browser or a web server can use an API. When writing web code, developers must select the Web API that best fits the needs of their project. Web APIs come in a variety of forms. They enable two applications to communicate with one another using a set of rules.