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How to Manage Your API Policies with OPA (Open Policy Agent)

APIs are essential to modern applications, but managing access and security policies can be complex. Traditional access control mechanisms can fall short when flexible, scalable, and fine-grained control over who can access specific resources is needed. This is where OPA (Open Policy Agent) steps in. OPA provides a unified framework for consistently defining and enforcing policies across microservices, APIs, Kubernetes clusters, and beyond. Consistent policy management is essential for enterprises.

Govern an Open Lakehouse with Snowflake Open Catalog, a Managed Service for Apache Polaris

To enhance security and ease operational burden, many organizations with data lakes or lakehouses want flexibility to securely integrate their tools of choice on a single copy of data. An open standard for storage format and catalog API has helped, but there’s still a need for open standards for the catalog, including a consistent way to apply security access controls to data.

Why Do You Need to Test Your MVP?

More often in today’s society of growing ‘entrepreneurs’, almost all are developing Minimum Viable Products MVPs that breathe life into their concepts. A shocking but true statistic reveals that 90% of startups fail. One big reason for this is the poor execution of a key tool in the startup world: the minimum viable product (MVP). One of the reasons for this failure is the lack of tests conducted appropriately.
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Simplifying AWS Testing: A Guide to AWS SDK Mock

Testing AWS services is an essential step in creating robust cloud applications. However, directly interacting with AWS during testing can be complicated, time-consuming, and expensive. The AWS SDK Mock is a JavaScript library designed to simplify this process by allowing developers to mock AWS SDK methods, making it easier to simulate AWS service interactions in a controlled environment. Primarily used with AWS SDK v2, AWS SDK Mock integrates with Sinon.js to mock AWS services like S3, SNS, and DynamoDB.

Ways to Use Mock Services in Software Development

Mocking APIs is a popular practice in software development. An increasing number of developers are reaping the benefits and no longer using their valuable time to spin up duplicate resources. Many mock services do not require account creation, making them easy to use and privacy-friendly. In the rest of this article, we explain what mock APIs are, when you should think about using them, and what solutions are available within the open-source and proprietary markets.