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When your application suddenly fails at 3 AM, logs will be your best friend the next morning. But until this happens, we often treat logs as an afterthought. Sometimes there is a discussion on log levels or wording of the message, but we rarely go beyond that. After all, what's so interesting in pushing out a bunch of letters, perhaps with some additional metadata, which we will not use 95% of the time? The Elixir Logger module has us covered well. It's a solid foundation for our basic logging needs.

In modern applications, real-time interactions have become the norm. Users demand immediate communication in apps like chat platforms, collaborative tools, live streaming services, and games. WebSocket APIs provide an effective means of creating interactive real-time apps by allowing persistent, bidirectional communication between the client and the server. We’re thrilled to announce support for exposing and managing WebSocket APIs with OAuth 2.0 security and other capabilities with Bijira.

Epic (EpicCare) is the clinical backbone for most major healthcare organizations. Yet, for developers, analysts, and innovators, accessing and using Epic data remains one of the most complex challenges in health IT.

Code stability and reliability can be a concern when building front-end applications. As web applications become more complex, web developers require a test framework that is simple yet incredibly powerful. This is where Jest testing comes in handy. Jest is a testing type designed and maintained by Facebook, which is already the ideal tool for most front-end programmers needing precise, fast, and robust test coverage.

As 2026 planning kicks into high gear, your CFO may be putting every technology investment under the microscope, but the focus and pressure to deliver on AI Innovation has never been higher. For IT Leaders, the challenge is clear and straightforward. How do you strike a balance continuing to move your AI initiatives forward and maintaining a balanced budget in 2026?

If you’ve built REST or GraphQL endpoints from Microsoft SQL Server, the next hurdle is publishing clear, accurate, and secure documentation. This list spotlights the best tools to document SQL Server–backed APIs in 2025. It reflects DreamFactory’s perspective on the market and how teams actually ship docs at scale. We prioritize products that either generate OpenAPI from SQL Server automatically or excel at turning existing specifications into collaborative, developer-friendly portals.