Here at Appian, we have experienced tremendous growth in the past few years by helping our customers solve their most important business problems faster. We do this by providing a low-code platform that brings together humans, systems, and most recently, robots in support of any mission.

This year’s Sibos conference examined the theme of “recharging global finance.” Key focus areas included digital acceleration, transformative technology, managing risk, and diversity and sustainability. Financial services organizations of all sizes face the challenge of increasing volume, complexity, and velocity of change within their business.

RealWorld is a popular open-source project known as the mother of all demo apps. It is an exact clone of Medium.com (called Conduit) and can be built using any front-end and back-end. This article will share the journey to replicating the RealWorld REST API (Conduit) from scratch using Linx, a low-code developer tool. All stacks that integrate with Conduit will integrate with the newly created API. Technologies and tools used to develop RealWorld API: Notes

REST and (the newer) GraphQL APIs are the core technologies behind the vast most of today’s integrations. These APIs allow external developers to tap into the functionality of the major platforms and build in their custom functionality to suit their needs. The fundamental difference is that REST is an architectural design framework based on HTTP, while GraphQL is a query syntax that is not transport-dependent.

So, you’ve done your research on low-code platforms and learned about the speed, agility, and security they bring to application development. This sounds like a good direction for your organization, which means it’s time to learn more about the various low-code vendors and what they have to offer. But where to start?

It’s that time again, when everyone is making their predictions for what the hot new trends will be in the coming year. What colors will we be wearing and painting our living room walls? How will we be working? What will we be doing when we’re not at work or at home?

The best stories don’t always appeal to logic, but they often connect with us on an emotional level. Ditto for the story of Sumanta Basu’s remarkable evolution from a passionate cacti gardener to a trusted advisor to C-level executives as Practice Head of Intelligent Process Automation at Wipro Limited, a global information technology, consulting and business process services company with more than 220,000 employees. “I love gardening,” says Sumanta.