The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how businesses in all industries and geographical areas conduct their business for years. A recent McKinsey Global Survey of executives revealed that organizations had sped up the digitalization of their internal processes and supply-chain interactions by three to four years. Additionally, their portfolios’ proportion of digital or digitally enabled items has increased startlingly by seven years.

It’s only been a few months since we introduced Appian Portals and already the excitement is palpable. Businesses across a variety of mainstream industries are building portals with Appian in a matter of days in order to engage with new and potential customers, manage vendors, accept complaints, provide quotes, and so much more.

OpenTelemetry is a free and open-source software initiative with the objective of supplying software developers with the means to create distributed systems. OpenTelemetry was developed by engineers at Google, and developers have the ability to utilize it to create a standard foundation for the construction of distributed systems. The goal is to enable developers to write code once and then deploy it in any location of their choosing.

Since 2016, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey has named the Rust language, also known as Rustlang, the "most loved programming language". It is one of the most highly regarded modern programming languages in the world. The syntax is quite similar to C++, but it has extra features like memory safety that can make your life much simpler and more secure.