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Appian Connected Onboarding and Connected Servicing

Onboarding institutional clients is complex, risky and unacceptably slow. It often takes many months to onboard an institution as a client and the stakes are high — the longer it takes, the greater the risk of delay or loss of revenue. And after onboarding a client, it is important to stay agile to ensure their service requests are met quickly and accurately.

How to Use Ruby BEGIN and END Blocks

There are two types of Ruby Begin and End blocks. A simple Google search of “Ruby begin end blocks” will lead you to either of these two kinds of articles – the ones in all caps (BEGIN and END) and the ones usually separated by a slash (begin/end). Both of these are different things but confused with the same name. In this post, we will dive into both. Here’s an outline of what we’ll be covering so you can easily navigate or skip ahead in the guide –

Heisenbug 101: Guide to Resolving Heisenbugs

Welcome fellow developer, I can see you’ve traveled a long road, why don’t you stay a while and listen? I’ve got some fantastic stories to share; Lessons to imbue your debugging skills with power and wisdom, adding at least 1000 XP to take you to the next level and make your future travels much safer. Hmm, now, where should we start? Have you already faced the terrifying Heisenbugs? They are truly fantastic.

Lumberyard to Open3D - Amazon Game Engine 101

The rise of game engines has sparked new innovations across industries. Amazon Lumberyard — the Amazon game engine — has recently transitioned to open source. Open 3D Engine (O3DE) may be new on the scene. But as companies continue to move to the cloud, many are looking at this new Amazon game engine to transform their pipeline.

What is FMEA? Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Overview

Through FMEAs, product development teams are able to determine potential failures within a project and improve them to mitigate risk. The most efficient way to conduct a failure mode and effects analysis is through an automated tool. This blog will provide an overview of FMEAs and highlight the many benefits they can have on your product.

A mysterious developer's take on backward compatibility

“As a gamer, I wish for it. But as a developer, I wouldn’t want to be working on backward compatibility. It’s soul-crushing maintenance work, man!” – A developer on our team who shall remain unnamed! Let’s call her Dev-I for now. Last week, I was talking to internal Appian developers on backward compatibility (BC) when one of them shared this quote.

Grafana vs Kibana: The Updated Guide For 2022

If you have any experience with comparing open source data visualisation tools then it is very likely you will have encountered both Kibana and Grafana during your research and discovery phase. As two of the most popular solutions for logs and metrics analysis, it can be difficult to distinguish between the two and make the choice to use either Grafana or Kibana depending on the analysis task at hand.

Key Reasons Why Microservices are the Future of Application Development

For the past few years, microservices have been the talk of the town, with numerous success stories across big business and start-ups alike. However, with the rise of containerization in the enterprise, we are starting to hear about this term again as the new Holy Grail, the next step in the evolution of our applications. In this article we’ll look at some of the main driving forces behind why many developers now see microservices as the the future of application development.