APIs are everywhere you look. As the building blocks of most digital transformation strategies, they’ve helped to lay the groundwork for integrating apps and services and can be key in modernizing legacy systems prevalent throughout most organizations. But APIs are more than just middleware. By leveraging them effectively as software components, you can open your business to new functionalities, opportunities, and revenue streams.

Between smartphones, social media, and a growing work from home lifestyle, people are constantly connected to the internet. The new customer experience strategy is to create an immersive digital experience. Reaching new customers and nurturing existing ones by immersing them in your content is the goal, but it takes serious planning and implementation. Not only do you need to know where to reach your customers first, but you need to anticipate and follow their moves.

Speed matters in financial markets. Whether the goal is to maximize alpha or minimize exposure, financial technologists invest heavily in having the most up-to-date insights on the state of the market and where it is going. Event-driven and streaming architectures enable complex processing on market events as they happen, making them a natural fit for financial market applications.

We’re happy to announce that we added R to our selection of transformation and workspace backends in our freemium accounts. Access a wide variety of statistical methods offered by R and model data straight from Keboola. No more context switching and working in a few different tools. Start modeling data and running transformations in R. Create a free account and take Keboola for a spin. R transformations complement Python and SQL where computations or other operations are too difficult.

When data is the bloodline of business operations, data breaches, corruptions, inaccessibility due to server downtimes, and accidental deletions can stop business continuity and even drive your business out of business. In this article, we take a look at database replication techniques. That is, how to use data replication to keep data in your database management systems (DBMS) such as PostgreSQL or MySQL accessible and safe.

Last year, due to the pandemic, businesses across all industries were forced to adapt and find new ways to operate remotely, exerting unprecedented pressure on web and mobile apps to stay reliable and perform flawlessly. The need for highest quality apps put software testing into the spotlight. Any business with mission-critical applications or technology systems requires testing.

We, engineers, love automation! We love it so much that we devise new ways all the time to incorporate automation in each and every field of software development. Today, automation is like the fuel that keeps the project going and helps us finish within deadlines and allotted budget. But automation is most needed to manage the responsibility of something that is 14.9 billion in number and has become the part and parcel of our lives; the mobile phone. Mobile applications are taking the world by storm.

In this blog post, Bitrise’s CTO and co-founder Viktor Benei and VP of Engineering Gergely Hodicska share their insights about how we approach metrics, performance, and success in our engineering teams.

In our previous posts on Oracle application security, we covered Oracle Native Network encryption and discussed how to enable SSL/TLS encrypted networking for your client and server. In this article, we are going to discuss how we can use SSL/TLS pre-shared keys for authentication.

Business leaders are increasingly turning to IT organizations to help drive digital transformation through automation and innovation across lines of business. These leaders are selecting, implementing, and maintaining technology investments that support their businesses, while keeping IT costs down. Unfortunately, escalating technical debt and a lack of skilled talent are preventing IT from being as impactful as it could be.