APIs have become a crucial part of modern software architecture, allowing different applications and services to communicate with each other. As organizations adopt microservices and distribute their systems, they require a cohesive API platform to manage these complex environments.

30% of Critical Infrastructure Organizations Will Experience a Security Breach by 2025 – Gartner Gartner’s insight underscores the critical need for organizations to reassess their cybersecurity approaches and learn from past disasters, such as the Colonial Pipeline security incident. This highlights the importance of increased vigilance and readiness within the energy industry, spurred by earlier wake-up calls.

NodeJS is a JavaScript runtime environment for running JavaScript applications outside the browser environment. It’s asynchronous and event-driven, meaning it doesn't block the event loop - making NodeJS highly suitable for the development of server-side web applications. With around 50,000 open source packages available through npm (Node Package Manager), NodeJS facilitates the seamless backend extension. The GitHub repository has 99k stars and 27.5k forks demonstrating an active community.

Is cost optimization at the top of your agenda? If so, it’s likely business process automation (BPA) has caught your attention. BPA combines a number of technologies to help organizations orchestrate, automate, and optimize their business processes. BPA delivers cost optimization by upping your efficiency and refocusing your talent on higher value work, but it also fosters the agility your organization needs to succeed in a rapidly changing world.

REST API standards are essential to modern programming development, and can be a great aid in increasing the efficacy and user-friendliness of your digital services. To adopt them effectively, you need to understand the significance of these standards, their foundational principles, and learn how to select the optimal standard tailored to your project’s specific requirements.

Stitch and Integrate.io are both cloud-based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT platforms designed to integrate data between the most popular databases, data warehouses, SaaS services, and applications. Both Stitch and Integrate.io offer point-and-click interfaces, no-code/low-code ETL tools, and a wide variety of native connectors. Furthermore, they both maintain strong reputations for quality and dependability in the ETL space.

Because of the asynchronous nature of Node.js, it's crucial you set timeouts to ensure the responsiveness of your application. Node.js timeouts help prevent indefinite waiting and let your backend handle situations where tasks take longer than expected. Thanks to timeouts, you can control the maximum duration allowed for incoming and outgoing requests. In this article, we'll look at the different types of timeouts and how to set them in vanilla Node.js and Express.

If your cron job fails in a forest, and nobody is around, does it make a sound? Honeybadger's check-in monitoring for PHP/Laravel gives you peace of mind, knowing that if any job fails, whether it's your billing cron job, your nightly backup, or even that third-party service's new integration, it won't happen silently. Instead, we'll notify you instantly via the tools you already use (Slack, PagerDuty, etc.).

At this year’s Current, we introduced the public preview of our serverless Apache Flink® service, making it easier than ever to take advantage of stream processing without the complexities of infrastructure management. This first iteration of the service offers the Flink SQL API, which adheres to the ANSI standard and enables any user familiar with SQL to use Flink.