While humans are ever-adapting, the recent pandemic has forced a complete revamp of how we work and play. As in-person meetings and conventions remain sparse, networking in other ways has become a new normal. Mobile app developers are applying key lessons and trends of online networking and socializing to capitalize on increasing global demand for virtual connectivity.

Key differences between Hive and SQL: Big data requires powerful tools. Successful organizations query, manage and analyze thousands of data sets from hundreds of data sources. This is where tools like Hive and SQL come in. Although very different, both query and program big data. But which tool is right for your organization? In this review, we compare Hive vs. SQL on features, prices, support, user scores, and more.

A quick search on “the top API integration platforms for 2021” brings up so many contenders that it’s difficult to understand your options. In fact, the top API integration platforms are so distinct in features that it’s surprising they all fall under the same “API integration” category. In this guide, you’ll find API integration platforms that serve as: So, which solution is right for your use-case?

In recent years, Digital Transformation has become a strategic priority for organizations. Significant investment has been made across many companies to create strategic and organizational capabilities that enable them to compete in the contemporary digital arena. However, it is not trivial; organizations face numerous challenges in their digital transformation journey. There is no panacea, and the combination of tool and process choices can make or break an operation.

This is the first installment in a short series of blog posts about security in Apache Kafka. In this article we will explain how to configure clients to authenticate with clusters using different authentication mechanisms.

Sauce Labs provides a number of features that help secure your testing experience and ensure that your data and applications are safe while using our cloud platform. One of the most popular features is Sauce Connect Proxy—a built-in HTTP proxy server that opens a secure "tunnel" connection for testing between a Sauce Labs virtual machine or real device and a website or mobile app hosted on your local computer ("localhost") or behind a corporate firewall.

Economists have predicted that a leisurely 15-hour workweek awaits us in the future, with robots taking over the menial tasks so that we’ll be free to explore the more cognitively stimulating aspects of our jobs. Sounds like science fiction, right?

Frameworks are crucial for any automated testing process in a software organization. They not only reduce the testing efforts and maintenance costs but also increase the return on investment (ROI) of an organization who is looking to optimize their agile processes. A well-designed test automation framework makes it easier to continue running and improving the system consistently.

AppSignal was built because we were tired of slow and clumsy monitoring setups. Instead, we built monitoring that’s easy yet powerful - an intuitive interface enables you to figure out what’s happening in no time. Today, our team made finding slow events effortless. We’ve fully overhauled our slow events feature, helping developers to quickly find and fix slow queries and API requests.

When choosing between these two popular web API (application programming interface) formats it can be surprisingly difficult to know which one you should select for your infrastructure. Although both Rest (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol) share attributes in common with how they handle HTTP protocols, there are a number of key differences as discussed in this article.