We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner, APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new products/services and business models. The popularity of APIs has grown significantly in the last decade or so, but the history of APIs stretches back much further.

In our last blog post, we traced the evolution of APIs in the cloud age. The cloud age introduced the idea of an “API economy” — or the business practice of organizations exposing their digital services or information through the controlled use of APIs. While the API economy looks attractive today, we believe it will become even stronger in the future.

As uncertainty and volatility become the order of the day, buyer behavior and preferences continue to evolve. The continuing global supply chain crisis has resulted in lost sales and market disruptions that have in some cases widely thrown off forecasts.

Laravel by creating a project from scratch. After following this tutorial, you should be able to apply test-driven development in any future Laravel projects. Additionally, the concepts you will learn in this tutorial should also be applicable to other programming languages.

FIDO is a term that’s commonly heard of in the passwordless-authentication space. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how passwordless-authentication mechanisms first emerged, and also learn how FIDO authentication works.

In June 2022, Cloudera announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open-table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation, which helps users avoid vendor lock-in and implement an open lakehouse. The general availability covers Iceberg running within some of the key data services in CDP, including Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW), Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE), and Cloudera Machine Learning (CML).

Launching a digital project may get really overwhelming. You have to think about a dozen little tasks, from basic ones (like a simple website) to longer-term ones (like SEO and marketing). To make your life easier, here are seven tools to help you launch a successful digital project, be it a tool, an e-book or a new online business.

Whether you’re creating reports for your clients or simply looking to improve your internal reporting process, manual reporting can be complicated and time-consuming. Copy and pasting the data you need from different tools into your own presentation takes time and leaves room for errors. Automating this process will not only save hours of work, it can improve the quality and cadence of your reports.

Digital transformation is not only a technology strategy, it’s a plan to use technology to enable new business models, new products and services, and new strategies – and to drive business growth. However, to seize the potential, software engineering leaders need to think beyond technology and data and move their organizations forward into the digital age. For software engineering leaders, digital technology initiatives are of the utmost importance.