Seeking to enhance your API operations? Delve into the world of API management, where securing, optimizing, and maximizing the potential of your API inventory becomes clear. Uncover the significance of API gateways, grasp the nuances of lifecycle management, and learn strategies to maintain uptime and performance. Ideal for those looking to tighten security, increase efficiency, or generate revenue through API management, these insights are designed to be practical and straightforward.

The decision between in-house software development and the one by a vendor is an important consideration for businesses. Each approach has its own set of benefits, and understanding these can help in making a well-informed choice that aligns with your business objectives. In this article, we’ll cover important areas like cost, speed to market, quality, and security. This will give you a clear understanding of each option, helping you make the best choice for your business.

In the rapidly evolving world of API management, the conversation around "the great unbundling of API management" has recently gained traction. This movement, highlighted by industry experts and analysts, including a recent Forbes article, reflects a shift towards a more componentized approach in API tooling offerings. Such an approach caters to the enterprise's specific needs, moving away from the traditional "does-it-all" solutions.

Put simply, data literacy is the ability to translate data into insights, a capability that every technology buyer is seeking this year. The importance of data has been well established and technology leaders understand the value sitting dormant in their ever-growing databases. When researching the right application for their teams, features that boost data literacy will be front of mind for your buyers.

Integration as a Service (IaaS) has emerged in recent years to become a pivotal force in 2024. This cloud-based solution is redefining how businesses operate in the digital landscape. It represents a significant leap in the integration of software applications, platforms, and services by streamlining processes that were once seen as cumbersome and time-consuming.

Modals are widely used on the web, but they are rarely built with accessibility in mind. When a modal is displayed, the background is dimmed visually but it's still visible to screen readers and keyboard-only users. In this post, the first of a two-part series, we'll look at presenting accessible modals in Rails using two different approaches powered by Hotwire's Turbo and Stimulus libraries. But first, let's see what we need to do to make modals accessible.

Change data capture (CDC) has long been one of the most popular, reliable, and quickest ways to connect your database tables into data streams. It is a powerful pattern and one of the most common and easiest ways to bootstrap data into Apache Kafka®. But it comes with a relatively significant drawback—it exposes your database’s internal data model to the downstream world.

We previously announced Snowflake’s Unistore workload, which continues Snowflake’s legacy of breaking down data silos by uniting transactional and analytical data in a consistent and governed platform. Today, we are pleased to announce that Hybrid Tables — the core feature powering Unistore — is in public preview in select AWS regions. Hybrid Tables is a new table type that enables transactional use cases within Snowflake with fast, high-concurrency point operations.