Have you ever found yourself struggling to identify relevant selectors while writing automation test steps? Have you considered an alternative approach to crafting readable test scenarios without relying on tools like Cucumber, ensuring accessibility to both technical and non-technical stakeholders? If you’ve pondered these questions, this blog post is tailor-made for you.

Most agencies struggle with the same challenge: proving the value of their work to their clients and showcasing performance in an understandable way while ensuring internal processes are streamlined and optimized. You usually have no time to build complex reports across multiple platforms for every client. The data you need is scattered across different sources, and most of your processes require manual data collection and calculations.

Our recently released predictions report includes a number of important considerations about the likely trajectory of cybercrime in the coming years, and the strategies and tactics that will evolve in response. Every year, the story is “Attackers are getting more sophisticated, and defenders have to keep up.” As we enter a new era of advanced AI technology, we identify some surprising wrinkles to that perennial trend.

If your application needs persistent data, you are going to need a database. Easier said than done because managing a database can be a challenge. Not only do you need to set up, maintain, scale, and patch databases, but also you need to create strong backup policies, ensure sharding and replications. Long story short, managing a database is time-consuming and requires a dedicated and skilled team, which is why people opt for managed databases, sometimes referred to as DBaaS or Database as a Service.

In this post, we'll explain what server-side rendering (SSR) is and how it's different from the usual way websites work. We will run you through how to use SSR with Next.js, React, and TypeScript step-by-step. By the end, you'll know how SSR can make websites faster and better.

So far in this series, we have been exploring the capabilities of SQLite for classic HTTP request/response type usage. In this post, we will push the boundary further by also using SQLite as a Pub/Sub adapter for ActionCable, i.e., WebSockets. This is no small feat: WebSocket adapters need to handle thousands of concurrent connections performantly.

Following the popularity of ChatGPT, AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbots have become a trend in various fields. The application of these chatbots for organizations to provide immediate and accurate solutions is limitless. One such field is healthcare, where these health bots would play a vital role in helping patients by providing real-time virtual assistance whenever and wherever needed.

Prioritizing Investments, Crowdsourcing Innovation, and Automation Product leaders tasked with staffing QA teams face the daunting challenge of delivering high-quality end-user experiences with static or even shrinking budgets. Today’s uncertain economy has CEOs telling CFOs to tighten budgets, forcing product leaders to cut operating expenses, downsize, and freeze hiring.

Discussions about AI could be heard throughout the 7th annual Appian Government event, held November 29, 2023 at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia. At breakfast, a customer sitting next to me mentioned how he’s looking forward to hearing how AI can help mine his historical data. “And securely,” another added. In a lunchtime conversation, yet another customer told me about the productive meeting they had with Appian on incorporating AI into their processes.

Watching Kong grow from a tiny place over the years has been a once-in-a-lifetime shared journey with our Kongers and investors. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Kong has recently reached another instrumental milestone: surpassing $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).