Feature flags are a powerful tool in software development, allowing developers to control the behavior of an application at runtime without deploying new code. They enable teams to test new features, perform A/B testing, and roll out changes gradually. In Ruby on Rails, feature flags can be managed using diverse tools, the most popular being the Flipper gem.

AI has profoundly impacted the life sciences industry for the past couple of decades. In the 2000s, researchers were able to use AI to analyze the human genome, identifying genetic markers and variations that could predict an individual’s susceptibility to certain diseases. This opened the door to personalized medicine and more effective therapies for genetic disorders.

Welcome to the latest entry in Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! This series of blogs aims to provide your team with another hands-on example of adding data visualization to your Yellowfin dashboards, using our array of chart and graph types. In the previous blog, we created a Combination Chart by aggregating on the basis of Year and Month.

Service virtualization, which gained prominence in 2012, has significantly transformed the way software testing and development are approached. Originally designed to address limited access to dependent systems during development, service virtualization has evolved into a critical technology for enabling efficient and continuous testing. This blog explores its origins, key advancements over the past decade, ongoing challenges, and how API simulation is shaping the future of testing.

All but the simplest applications borrow code. You could write everything yourself from just core language features but who has time for that? Instead you take on dependencies, pieces of code written by others that usually give us 80% or more of what we need with 20% of the effort. Sometimes these dependencies are made to interact with a specific technology like a database, or perhaps it’s just a library providing some feature that would be onerous to write yourself.

Welcome to the September edition of “What’s New in Loadero”! Along with various fixes we also have an announcement to make about something that is external to the app’s functionality - our blog!

A relatively new term in the world of data management, data mesh refers to the process of creating a single, unified view of all enterprise data. This process can happen in several ways, giving business users easy access to the data they require for decision-making. Several principles guide data mesh design and implementation. This article will discuss the principles of data mesh and how they can help your business get the most out of its data.

Finance professionals often stick to proven methods, understanding that disrupting established systems can jeopardize time-sensitive financial processes. However, with the blinding pace of technological change, it becomes nearly impossible to keep up even with the advantages of advanced ERP systems like SAP ECC and S/4 HANA. For organizations entrenched in legacy SAP systems, stalled financial transformation can be a major roadblock to success.

Tideways is joining the Open Source Pledge because we want to make a public commitment on our various open source contributions. Not only do we rely on open source software in our product Tideways, we are also building our business on top of the open source language PHP and its continued success. The mission of the recently started Open Source Pledge initiative is to establish a new social norm in the tech industry of companies paying Open Source maintainers.