The financial services industry is in the midst of a significant transformation. As customers demand more seamless, agile, and innovative services, banks and financial institutions must evolve to meet these new expectations. But digital transformation is not just about implementing the latest technology—it’s a comprehensive, multi-dimensional shift that impacts everything from operations to customer experience.

Understanding and monitoring the performance and health of applications and systems is critical. This is where observability comes into play. Observability is about gaining a comprehensive understanding of a system's internal state by analyzing the data it generates within the context of real-time events and actions across the infrastructure.

Rails partials have been around for years, but they can be clunky since they're just ERB snippets without a backing object structure. Recently, libraries like ViewComponent and Phlex have tried to improve the view layer by adding more semantic structure to the templates. These are great libraries and I personally reach for ViewComponent on almost every project I work on. That said, I still feel the humble Rails partial still works great for many use cases.

We're excited to announce the release of Kong Gateway 3.8, a significant update that marks a major milestone in the evolution of our API management platform. This release is packed with enhancements designed to boost performance, fortify security, and provide greater flexibility and ease of use for our customers.

Here's a table comparing the two approaches for you to consider.

Choosing a QA automation partner is not just a question of technicality but it’s strategy. So CTOs and VPs must meet general criteria like compatibility of the partner’s service with current development pipelines, scalability of the partner’s automation solutions, and the partner’s experience in managing complex test cases. Furthermore, knowing their view toward the integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline can significantly boost.

Software testability measures how simple it is to test both the system as a whole and each individual component. In modern discussions about testing, the focus often shifts solely to the tests themselves, overlooking the socio-technical environment in which the application or project operates. Ensuring your application is testable means making it straightforward and reliable to test, so that when issues arise, we can be confident they are real issues and not artifacts of poor testability.

When it comes to making HTTP requests in Node.js, developers are spoiled for choice: from the built-in and browser-familiar Fetch API to third-party libraries like Axios, Got, Superagent, Ky, and others. Navigating this diverse landscape can be a little daunting. This comprehensive guide aims to simplify your decision-making process by comparing the features and nuances of popular options, so you can select the ideal solution for your next project.

Local preview environments are transforming how developers test and validate code changes before merging them into the main codebase. Acting as temporary cloud environments, they provide a production-like setting where new features and bug fixes can be tested in isolation, catching issues early and streamlining the development code review process. These environments are crucial for enhancing development velocity, especially in CI/CD workflows used by DevOps engineers and QA teams.