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Automation and Orchestration Technologies Are Converging: Here's 4 Reasons Why

Automation has unleashed unprecedented productivity and profits for organizations. By automating formerly manual tasks, businesses see efficiency gains, reduced human error, cost savings, and improved innovation. Automation frees employees for creative work and work that requires human intervention. To facilitate this, many organizations have stitched together a wide range of automation tools. This includes robotic process automation (RPA), generative AI, predictive AI, and business process management.

Setting Up A RESTful API With Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is an excellent choice for building a REST API, stemming from its design principles and robust feature set. It encourages a resource-oriented architecture, including built-in routing, migrations, and task tools. Rails also includes Active Record, an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) layer, which simplifies database interactions.

Four Strategies for Faster Releases: How to Streamline Your Testing Workflows

The high-stakes world of software development is a race to deliver quality features, faster. When the testing phase of the development lifecycle is slowed by inefficient and error-prone processes, it’s impossible for teams to meet their deadlines. How can they keep up? By taking a smarter approach to test management that prioritizes efficiency without sacrificing quality. By implementing these four test management strategies, teams can work smarter and shorten their release cycles.

EP10: Is Full Lifecycle API Management Dead? A Deep Dive into Internal Developer Platforms

In this episode, hosts Sanjiva and Asanka are excited to have Christian Posta, a Service Mesh expert and Global Field CTO at Solo.io, join them. Together, they will explore the question: Is full lifecycle API management dead? They will discuss Christian’s article and the evolving landscape of API management. The conversation will also cover the Platformless manifesto and the important role of Internal Developer Platforms in modern software development. Lastly, Christian will share his thoughts on service mesh.

The 7 Steps To Building an API Ecosystem

API adoption is at an all-time high. According to research by Coleman Parkes Research, 88 percent of enterprises use them. With API ecosystems, businesses can share their existing assets and capabilities with external parties. They can extend the value of these Application Programming Interfaces both internally and externally to share knowledge, tools and resources. Building an API ecosystem allow organizations to remain agile while delivering products faster than ever before.

What Are API Keys and How Are They Used? | Dreamfactory

Application programming interface keys are an essential part of using APIs. But what are API keys, exactly? API keys are authentication tokens in the form of unique strings of characters that allow you to access the data or web services an API offers. They act as a form of user authorization, proving that you are authorized to make requests to the API. In this article, we will discuss how API keys work and how you can use them to access the data offered by APIs.

Embracing Automation in Government Acquisition: Advice for Modernization

Agencies typically have older procurement systems or too many systems. In either case, they are data entry intensive and error-prone, negatively impacting the procurement process and outcomes. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy’s Procurement Acquisition Lead Time memo from 2021 specifically calls for government modernization by “leveraging technology to modernize operations and help the workforce move from low- to high-value activities.”

So You Think You Can SaaS? Next-Gen SaaS Creation with Moesif and AWS

Join us as we take a deep dive into AWS SBT (SaaS Builder Toolkit) with our friends from AWS! Are you building or planning to build a scalable and revenue-generating SaaS? In this webinar, we will explore how you can use AWS SBT and Moesif to create such platforms. We will look at some example projects and provide practical tips on how to get started with both tools.