In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed Kamil Walkowiak CTO and VP of R&D at cux.io, an app for UX Automation, behaviour and user experience analysis, currently operating in 102 countries. Kamil is the author of the UX Automation concept and teaches companies how to create more "observable" websites.

Stop what you’re doing and make your passwords more secure! How, you ask? Read on to find out. It’s become very anecdotal when we speak about passwords for our online accounts and why these might matter. We all take this very lightly and assume that no one can guess or work out what our passwords are and thus we think no one will be able to access our most sensitive information be it online bank accounts, Amazon accounts, or your emails. We are wrong.

Data warehouses fixed one aspect of the data silo problem but introduced another. They function as a large, single source of truth for your organization, but getting insights from this data in a typical Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data pipeline requires the use of Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms. By the time your data team creates these reports and sends them to other business units, it’s too late for daily decision-making.

For the past few years, microservices have been the talk of the town, with numerous success stories across big business and start-ups alike. However, with the rise of containerization in the enterprise, we are starting to hear about this term again as the new Holy Grail, the next step in the evolution of our applications. In this article we’ll look at some of the main driving forces behind why many developers now see microservices as the the future of application development.

In any business, in any industry that relies on purchases of their products or services, one of the most important rules is to retain its loyal customers. The Pareto Principle (80% of the results comes from 20% of the input) proves how important customer retention really is. Research shows that often, 80% of the sales come from around 20% of customers. Apply this method to your sales, and you’ll see!

The issue of memory bloat in Ruby applications is a topic of frequent discussion. In this post, we will look at how Ruby memory management can go wrong, and what you can do to prevent your Ruby application from blowing up. First, we need to understand what bloat means in the context of an application’s memory. Let’s dive in!

We have already wrote previously about how you can automate your testing routines without using the graphical interface but by using Loadero API instead. In this blog post we will show how you can integrate performance and load tests into your CI/CD workflows with the help of Github Actions. Github Actions allow you to automate and execute your development workflows directly from your repository which makes the integration very simple.

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By combining metrics from multiple data sources, you can create more informative, more insightful reporting dashboards.

It can be a real headache to test contact forms or other outgoing emails from your website or application locally. To permit mail, you ought to configure your nearby web server and waste plenty of time expecting the mail to reach for your inbox, if it does at all. Furthermore, if you test with your personal email account as the sender, you risk damaging your email address. So, what should you do? You can use tools like MailHog and others, which are great for sending transactional emails.