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Demystifying the Differences Between APIs and Web Services

APIs and web services are two overlapping entities in the tech world. While the two share some similarities, they are often used interchangeably. However, they aren’t really the same thing. So it’s okay if you’re a little confused about these two tech terms. Set your worries aside because we are here to demystify the concepts of web services and APIs for you today. This article will outline APIs, web services, and their key differences and similarities.

Integrate Facebook Login to an Application Using Asgardeo

As a result of the rapid growth in the number of applications and systems in the world, it has become arduous to create multiple user accounts and remember the credentials for each application. Addressing this concern, social login has become a widely adopted login option. Social login is a simple process where a user can select a social network as their identity provider.

Ready, Set, Product Led Growth

The meteoric rise of Product-Led Growth, or PLG, has transformed business within the world of technology. One sector in particular has found incredibly fertile ground, that being, API-driven companies. This is in part because API-driven companies offer an easy-to-adopt platform that is highly customizable. Top product led growth companies Twilio and Stripe are often listed as the luminaries in the API space, because of their disruptive approach and their wildly high valuations.

Appian Aha Moments: Michelle Gardner - On How Low-Code is Not Just a Buzzword

As a director of content marketing at Appian, Michelle spends most of her time writing about low-code technology, market trends, and best practices. Her favorite part of the job is getting to interview brilliant people both inside and outside of Appian. Previously, she has worked in marketing for enterprise technology companies including OpenText and Logi Analytics.

All of your developer questions answered on Dark Mode

You’ll have heard of Dark Mode, a much-loved and ubiquitous type of theming for websites and applications that switches the page you’re looking at from a traditional white-background-dark-text theme to a darker background with lighter text. As it stands though, the availability of a dark mode theme is the responsibility of the developer.

Design Your Ideal Business Process-And Your Dream Vacation Itinerary

In the first of this three-part blog series, Discover, Design and Automate Your Way to Business Agility, Speed, and. . . the Caribbean?, we introduced similarities between vacation planning and moving your business through digital transformation. In part 1, we explored the discovery phase: finding out how process mining helps identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your business processes so you can optimize and automate with agility and speed.

A HAR file: Pro Tips for Developers

A HAR file is a breakdown of timings that help you better understand how your site gets built. The standard includes timings for DNS, objects, and connections, among others. These values are stored as JSON documents in a file called a.har. In practice, reading.har files can be complicated, but there are ways to make sense of the data for your particular web page or domain.