Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

June 2024

Enhance User Scalability and Response Time | Cigniti's Cloud Performance Testing Services

A prominent utility provider faced challenges with client-facing applications, requiring assessing system capabilities under significant loads. Accommodating 50,000 concurrent users within an infrastructure reliant on SQL and IIS, the need for a robust yet cost-effective load-generation setup became paramount.

Human-Centric Exploratory Testing

Unlike traditional testing methodologies - that rely heavily on pre-scripted tests and automated tools - Human-Centric Exploratory Testing (HCET) is a dynamic and flexible approach that leverages creativity and critical thinking, allowing interaction with the software in ways that automation simply cannot replicate. Below, we explore Human-Centric Exploratory Testing, its benefits, challenges, how to mitigate them, and the best practices for successfully implementing it.

Risk Mitigation through Generative AI: Safeguarding Revenue against Fraud and Cybersecurity Threats

In today’s digital age, businesses face an ever-increasing array of risks, particularly fraud and cybersecurity threats. McKinsey states, “Cyberattacks will cause $10.5 trillion a year in damage by 2025.” That’s a 300% increase from 2015 levels. These risks can significantly impact a company’s bottom line, reputation, and customer trust.

Using Swift as a Backend Technology

Swift is a powerful open source programming language created by Apple in 2014 for the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, known for its modern syntax, safety features and fast performance. Designed as a successor to Objective C, Swift has become a hugely popular choice for frontend and mobile app development, and it’s also shaping up to be an excellent choice for server-side development.

The Rise of Digital Printing Companies: Transforming the Printing Industry

Digital printing companies are revolutionizing the printing industry by offering high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective printing solutions. This article explores the concept of digital printing, the benefits of working with digital printing company, the technology involved, and the diverse applications across various sectors.

OpenTelemetry in N|Solid

N|Solid Runtime, the OSS runtime that powers N|Solid Pro, is an innovative, lightweight runtime for Node.js applications. It offers real-time insights into performance, memory usage, and CPU consumption, giving developers unparalleled visibility into their code without requiring any modifications. In today’s software landscape, understanding your application's production behavior is crucial. With cloud-native architectures, microservices, and distributed systems, pinpointing issues is challenging.

Deploy a Python FastAPI Application to Render

In the world of Python frameworks, FastAPI is the new kid on the block and a great choice for building APIs. Equally, Render is a good option for developers who want to quickly test their applications in a production environment for free. In this post, we'll run through how to deploy a FastAPI app to Render. First, though, let's explore why FastAPI and Render are often chosen by developers.

Amber Electric Relies On The AI Data Cloud To Give Australians Greater Control Of Their Energy Usage

Amber Electric is on a mission to help shift Australia to 100% renewable energy. They are powered by a desire to show people that a win for the planet is a win for them too. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud has proven to be a hit at Amber Electric thanks to its easy-to-use interface, cost effectiveness, and scalability, helping the company streamline its customer invoicing and, as a result, customer experience.

Building AI With Ollama and Django

If you’re not building with AI, are you even building these days? Sometimes, it seems not. AI has become such an integral part of workflows throughout many tools that a clear understanding of integrating it into your product and framework is critical. Django is such a framework that powers thousands of products across the web: Instagram, Pinterest, and Mozilla are all services built on Django.

Mastering Access Control Allow Origin: Your Guide to Secure Cross-Domain Requests

Understanding and configuring the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is critical for developers managing cross-domain requests. In this blog, we will look at setting the right headers to enforce security while allowing data exchange between different domains, including handling cross-domain requests as specified by the CORS specification. Prepare to equip yourself with the tools to implement cross-origin resource sharing effectively.