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Delivering high-performing global APIs with Apigee X and Cloud CDN

Organizations are increasingly investing in digital businesses ecosystem strategies to foster innovation and operate efficiently. These ecosystems connect various stakeholders--such as partners, developers, and customers--via application programming interfaces, or APIs. APIs allow various software systems to interface, and are thus the primary mechanism of value exchange within these ecosystems.

Balancing act: the current limits of AWS network load balancers

At Ably we provide a service that handles high volumes of client connections – multiple millions of concurrent WebSocket and HTTP streaming connections. Said connections are terminated by a set of frontend compute instances; distributing the connections among available instances is the role of one or more load balancers.

NEW Lenses: PostgreSQL & metadata to navigate your Kafka galaxy

When you’re one of many developers commanding streaming applications running in Apache Kafka, you want enough data observability to fly your own data product to the moon. But you also want to boldly go where no developer has gone before to discover new applications. At the same time, you don’t want to be exposed to sensitive data that summons you to your compliance team, crashing you back down to earth.

Accelerating software projects using the feature design process

Every agile software engineering team wants to do these three things: The reality is that as we focus on improving one thing, sometimes it is at the expense of another. If we focus on accelerating feature development, feature quality could suffer. If we focus on improving feature quality, development could slow, potentially delaying the release. But what if we could have it all?

How to build modern data applications

With the steep rise of data, smart businesses have started capitalizing on this new oil to build a new type of products and services: data applications. Admittedly, the engineering and business development of data apps overlaps with their cousins - the trusty desktop app and the well-known web app, … But there is a core difference that sets data applications apart: they are first and foremost about the data they use to deliver value.

How to build products that shine

Have you ever looked at clouds with a friend and seen patterns, shapes, and animals that they just can’t make out? The images appear so obviously to you but no matter how hard you try to show them, your friend sees an entirely different shape, or perhaps nothing at all. Building product features can be a similar exercise in frustration. As designers and builders, sometimes we see our own “cloud shapes” in the product.