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Hello there! My name is Maciej Mensfeld, and some of you might recognize me from my involvement in RubyGems Security, OSS commitments, or perhaps from Karafka: a multi-threaded, efficient Kafka processing framework tailored for Ruby and Rails. While I generally pen my thoughts on my personal blog, today's post is unique. This article results from a collaborative effort with the brilliant people over at AppSignal. To set the record straight, I don't work for AppSignal.

There will always be a place for spreadsheets in your business. But viewing your company’s performance data on charts can help you analyze your data faster, compare historic performance, and uncover insights you might’ve missed otherwise. The right visualization also helps your team understand performance better and can illustrate the progress they’re making toward a shared goal. The key is choosing the right visualization for each metric or KPI you want to track.

If you’re not using low-code, you’re already behind the curve. These platforms empower organizations to adapt quickly to the unforeseen crises and dynamic market conditions we’re all too familiar with. In this article, we'll delve into eight essential low-code features you need to have to keep up. Download the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAP) for an unbiased evaluation of LCAP vendors.

Monitoring and API logging is no longer a nice-to-have – for many API providers, it has become a key part of ensuring growth and success in the ever-evolving API landscape. There are as many API monitoring tool providers as there are approaches to this topic, but we’ve gathered together a list of the top 11 in the market today.

The art of turning a product or service into profit is not always a straightforward path. ‘Monetization models’ serve as a crucial strategy for businesses to generate revenue. As simple as it sounds, choosing the right monetization model can be a game changer, a “make-or-break” piece that impacts the sustainability and growth of a business.

When monetizing APIs, a popular approach is volume-based pricing. Of all the monetization models you can apply to your APIs, volume-based pricing is one of the easiest to implement. This blog will cover the basics of applying volume-based pricing to your APIs so your customers can be billed accordingly. Let’s start by looking at the finer details of volume-based pricing regarding monetized APIs.

Learn the difference between HTTP and gRPC API mocking protocols, plus steps and considerations for implementing a gRPC mock server using Speedscale.

Migrating to and from Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a common but tricky endeavor. Many moving parts and technical and security aspects need to be considered. AWS provides several of its own tools to simplify the migration process, but there are also several third-party products that can support the AWS migration process. This guide will walk you through some of the best options on the market, their pros and cons, and what features may be useful for your particular migration project.

If you’ve been writing code for any reasonable amount of time, then it’s virtually impossible that you haven’t handled logging in any way, since it’s one of the most essential parts of modern, “real life” app development. If you’re a.NET developer, then you’ve probably used some of the many famous logging frameworks available for use on this platform. Today’s post will cover one of these frameworks: log4net.