I think many of you would agree that the world is in a somewhat precarious situation at the moment. A long period of polarization preceded the current conflict in Ukraine that personally touches many of us. Maybe this is a good time to reflect on initiatives that bring people together and how data-driven insights and connection help us. Integrating (applications, platforms, data) is what we do at elastic.io, but maybe it’s better to think of it as connecting?

Following on from our post on Cucumber and Gherkin Language Best Practices we have compiled a list of 15 expert suggestions to bear in mind when working with Cucumber. Following on from our previous post on 'Cucumber Best Practices,' we have compiled a list of 15 export suggestions to bear in mind when working with Gerkin language and Cucumber.

One of the most common use cases our customers are using Kong for is rate limiting. There are a few common reasons for doing this: For all those and more, we’re able to easily add this functionality with Kong’s rate limit advanced plugin. The plugin can be applied at different levels such as service, route, specific consumer, or even in a global scope.

Bi-directional data movement and low latency are key to effectively integrating data between on-prem and cloud for real-time analysis.

Nate Lee here, and I’m one of the founders of Speedscale. The founding team’s worked at several observability and testing companies like New Relic, Observe Inc, and iTKO over the last decade. Speedscale traffic replay was borne out of a frustration from reacting to problems (even if they were minor) that could have been prevented with better testing.

There’s a common misconception that product-led growth means a business doesn’t focus on sales. That’s not the case. It’s just that product-led growth layers in sales later in the customer journey. This can be a hugely effective approach, particularly when it’s combined with deep data insights to drive that growth. For API-first companies, this product-led approach is a cornerstone of success.

Open banking initiatives have taken flight in many economies across the globe. Predicated on the open access of banking data for the overall benefit of customer choice, open banking comes with many challenges — security not the least of them. Giving customers the ability to easily switch providers of financial products goes a long way towards providing a more open and inclusive landscape of products for customers to choose from, and delivering better customer experiences.