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From cost estimates and project ROI to schedule variance and task completion rates, project managers share the top KPIs they are monitoring.

As more and more companies move to a multi-cloud strategy and increase usage of a cloud native infrastructure, API providers are under a lot of pressure to deliver APIs at scale in multi-cloud environments. At the same time, APIs should follow each company’s security requirements and best practices, no matter the cloud platform. These reasons explain why many providers have such complex API authorization requirements.

In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma. Now a sandbox project of the CNCF, Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy. As we celebrate Kuma’s achievements, I want to thank the Kuma community for your support and contributions!

We’re always delighted to announce a new Verified Step: this time, we’re checking in with the Mussel Verified Step. Find out how can it help you with testing Push Notifications and Universal Links.

It was always a struggle to center items in the vertical axis, whether we were trying to position an icon or image beside the text, build one of those popular "hero" banners, or a modal overlay. Vertical centering components in CSS is not the easiest task, despite the fact that it is conceptually straightforward. This was especially true before modern CSS elements like flex and grid were supported by browsers.

So, you’re interested in reaping the rewards of API and automation, but you don’t know where to start? Have you heard people using the term “API” and wondered what it is? Maybe you have a vague idea, but you still have no clue what to do with one? You’ve come to the right place! We pulled together this terminology to help you gain a basic understanding of web services and web API, which will also help you grasp the major concepts of API Testing.

Sometime in 2019, Netflix cracked a conundrum that stumped them for years. The company had so much data about its content and subscribers, it had to sync multiple heterogeneous data stores like MySQL and Elasticsearch continuously, which brought seriously stressful challenges like dual writes and distributed transactions. So Netflix created its own CDC tool that processes captured log events in sequence and takes dumps for specific tables and primary keys of tables. Problem sorted. Case closed.

Imagine this: less than half an organization’s structured data is used in decision-making. Think of the missed opportunities for customer acquisition and revenue by not taking advantage of that information. According to an IBM study, 87 percent of CEOs regard data as a strategic asset. So why then are companies not harnessing the power of this information?

The CDP Operational Database (COD) builds on the foundation of existing operational database capabilities that were available with Apache HBase and/or Apache Phoenix in legacy CDH and HDP deployments.

When I started out in my career, it was very much all about the numbers, and thinking, not feeling, when it came to communicating important results found in business data.