Cybersecurity is at a critical turning point, especially in the wake of the global lockdown that caused companies worldwide to conduct more online business than ever before. No organization is immune to data breaches, as hackers are using more sophisticated techniques — such as artificial intelligence — to perform these cyberattacks.

‘Microservices’ and ‘Microservice-based architecture’ are concepts that are experiencing a rapid increase in popularity throughout the developer community and it’s ability to deliver simplicity in an increasingly complex web of applications, systems and databases is evident. But despite the popularity of microservice-based architecture, you may wonder what makes it so special. What are microservices and why should you join the trend?

Securing and monitoring APIs is difficult work. According to Gartner, “application leaders independently must design and execute an effective API security strategy to protect their APIs.” But many IT departments struggle with knowing how APIs are behaving.

The term “digital strategy” has become something of a buzzword, but when it comes to defining your company’s approach to APIs and its digital economy, it’s paramount that you create a truly strategic plan that has the support of your organization’s executive. Without a validated, well-articulated, and executive-backed plan, your organization will find it almost impossible to consistently and successfully hit its targets.

Recently, I worked with a large fortune 500 customer on their migration from Apache Storm to Apache NiFi. If you’re asking yourself, “Isn’t Storm for complex event processing and NiFi for simple event processing?”, you’re correct. A few customers chose a complex event engine like Apache Storm for their simple event processing, even when Apache NiFi is the more practical choice, cutting drastically down on SDLC (software development lifecycle) time.

Earlier this year at Snowflake Summit 2021 , we announced Snowpark Accelerated , a new program for partners who integrate with Snowpark. It provides them with access to technical experts and additional exposure to Snowflake customers. It’s been incredibly exciting to watch what our partners have been building with the help of our new developer experience, which brings deeply integrated, DataFrame-style programming to the languages developers like to use.

The story of the last year+ is one of disruption and change across every aspect of our lives. As we all navigated a ‘new norm,’ businesses naturally had to pivot as well, with some sectors finding new opportunities while others scrambled to reimagine their entire go-to-market strategies.

The most flexible native mobile-app testing solution.” It’s a bold claim that we are making about the BitBar Real Device Cloud. One of the essential features of being the most flexible is being framework-agnostic. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at this term and see how QA teams and managers can benefit from such a platform. BitBar Cloud recently extended Flutter support to include Flutter 2.2 released by Google on May 18th, 2021.

What can we say: Research is non-linear, there are tests, and adjustments, and more tests, and more adjustments, and then we add more data, and test some more, and… you know the story.

The Shift Left testing approach is not a new term. Across the globe, more and more organizations are shifting left for various reasons. It’s also regarded as a culture as it allows businesses to instil collaborative work efforts and launch products into the market faster. This testing approach expedites testing and helps detect bugs in the early stages of development. For teams with a heavy focus on faster time to market and continuous integrations — Shift Left is the way forward.