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Building an Agile PMO: Key Features, Organizational Structures, and Overcoming Challenges

Traditional forms of enterprise project management are constantly evolving as the field matures and expands. Although these ways of thinking have been successful in the past, changes to the ways we work, lightning-fast globalization, and the increased use of Agile across industries require a new way of working. As a result, structuring an Agile Project Management Office (PMO) is the next logical step. But what is an Agile PMO? Agile PMO is a modern take on Project Management techniques.

How to use Java Stack Traces to debug your code like a Pro

Codes are the core of any application program. These codes can make or break a program. If you are a developer you might have come across certain fault lines while executing a program. Yes, I meant the errors and exceptions. In Java, errors and exceptions are both types of throwable objects that can be thrown by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or by Java code.

Benefits of Event-Driven Architecture in Business Systems

In day-to-day life, everything is driven by events. If the phone rings, you pick it up. If the timer on the oven pings, you switch it off. These are all examples of event-driven reactions, where the action is based on the conditions surrounding it. How does this relate to business IT systems? To begin to understand this, it helps to think of your company as a collection of events. Some of these events occur over and over, such as customer purchases or CRM data entry.

Announcing Smart Snapshots

If you were to wake me up at 3 am and ask me how Rookout differs from logs (or other pillars of Observability, for that matter), my answer would have focused on the agile nature of live debugging. I would have explained that Non-Breaking Breakpoints empower you to decide in real-time what data you need. Traditionally, you would use whatever logs (or metrics and spans) happen to be in the code and work backward from there.

Struggling with Inefficient Processes? Process Mining Can Help

Every organization contends with numerous moving parts that drive business forward. But they can be inefficient and convoluted – in fact, Forrester research shows that 71% of organizations use 10 or more applications for a single business process. To make matters worse, only 16% of companies have complete visibility over their own processes. This is where process mining can help. How can you gain more clarity so you can improve efficiency within your organization?

Frontend vs. backend: How to plan your performance testing strategy

There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.

Building a RESTful API with Rails

When it comes to building an API, Rails is an extremely popular programming language choice to build powerful RESTful APIs. In this tutorial, we will build a simple REST API using Rails. The Rails REST API endpoint will allow users to retrieve a credit score rating. Of course, we won’t be linking up to any backend systems to pull a credit score but will instead use a random number generator to generate the score and return it to the user.

Selecting the right data pipeline tools

Data integration is the process of combining data from different sources and formats to create a unified and consistent view of the data. This involves merging data from multiple databases, applications, and other sources into a single repository, and transforming and formatting data so that it can be easily accessed and analyzed. Data assets need quality controls to ensure they are valid and reliable as many teams within an organization leverages the same data for different purposes.

Beginner's Guide to Elasticsearch API: Indexing and Searching Data

Elasticsearch is a JSON-based database leaning heavily towards the unstructured types within the databases available out there. ( Postgres and MySQL are purely structured, while NoSQL is entirely unstructured). It interacts through restful APIs and provides a central unit system combining several datasets arising out of logs, metrics, and application trace data. A quick comparison with relational database management systems (RDBMS) will tell us their similarities.

Understanding Enums in PHP 8.1

In PHP, an enum is a new data type that was introduced in version 8.1. An enum, short for "enumeration," is a set of named constants that represent distinct values that a variable of that enum type can take. Enums are especially useful when you have a set of values that are related and need to be grouped together under a single type. To define an enum in PHP, you use the enum keyword, followed by the name of the enum, and then a list of constant names, each separated by a comma.