How many emails do you receive and send each day to your coworkers on average? And how long does it typically take for you to update your team on the progress or objectives of your tasks? You should think about changing your collaboration tools if your productivity bothers you. There are many software solutions for team collaboration and communication. With so many alternatives available in the market, it might get difficult to choose the best one for yourself and your team.

If your business is using APIs and other technologies, chances are you don’t know how they can help your bottom line. But, don’t be surprised if your business uses these services to improve efficiency, streamline processes and reduce costs when it comes time to integrate them into your existing business model. Here are a few examples of how businesses can use APIs to streamline processes.

Data is the fuel for today’s modern economy – it drives everything from large-scale manufacturing, financial services, energy and transportation to healthcare, media and entertainment and everything in between. This new philosophy of data-centricity has evolved the way organizations think about their IT environments, infrastructure, applications, solutions and even cloud providers.

Continuous testing is the practice of testing software as frequently as possible (e.g., multiple times per day) and as early as possible in the development lifecycle. With more frequent updates and faster bug fixes, your product can be more responsive to market changes and the needs of customers.

As more companies are undergoing digital transformation (resulting in a huge explosion of APIs and microservices), it’s of paramount importance to get all the necessary data points and feedback to provide the best experience for both users and developers. Kong Gateway is a lightweight API gateway that is built to be open and versatile. Regardless of the technology stack involved, Kong supports these monitoring or logging requirements through its extensive ecosystem of plugins.

Industries all over the world are hopping on the digital transformation bandwagon to keep up with the ever-advancing technologies. The e-commerce industry continues to progress through this transformation as more and more people buy and sell over the internet. While other industries took a hit during the 2019 pandemic, e-commerce businesses boomed as people were stuck indoors with just their electronic devices.

Being able to group a set of users or companies based on their behaviors or traits can be extremely useful. In Moesif, we have a feature called Saved Cohorts which allows you to do exactly this. Saved Cohorts can help businesses power marketing campaigns and other sales initiatives, help engineers and customer success teams manage ongoing issues, and a host of other use cases.

When the 2020 documentary, ‘The Social Dilemma,’ directed by Jeff Orlowski, dropped on Netflix, it sounded the alarm bell that was already ringing loudly. It highlighted the familiar quote among millions of viewers globally by driving the point of how Big Tech has been misusing our data without our consent. The documentary came in a backdrop of tumultuous times – with the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter questioned by the US Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce Committees.

In this post, I compare two cloud pubsub services: Azure Web PubSub and Ably, to determine which provides the best development experience. The context will be a multi-user pixelart drawing application that I've built with both services. This is not a step-by-step instruction on how to build the entire application. I'll highlight some key features and differences. The GitHub repository for the app has further details and includes CodeTours to guide you through the solution.

For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leads from around the world, we’ve welcomed experienced CTO at Zynq, David Cottrell. David has worked on building various enterprise products at Google and Microsoft. At Zynq, he helps Fortune 50 companies transition to hybrid work and effective office space management.