In software development, an API-first approach has emerged as a powerful methodology for building robust and interoperable systems. An API, or Application Programming Interface, acts as a set of rules and protocols that enables different software applications to communicate with each other. It defines how different software components should interact and exchange data.

Entry criteria in software testing refer to the prerequisites that must be met before testing activities can commence in a software development project. Entry criteria typically vary depending on the specific testing phase or level. The specific entry criteria may vary from one project to another, depending on factors like the software development methodology (e.g., Agile, Waterfall), project size and the organizational processes.

Want to use production traffic with k6? In this k6 tutorial, learn how Speedscale can capture, sanitize, and export production traffic into k6 load tests.

Ensuring accessibility to all types of media is incredibly important, both for enabling as many people as possible to enjoy the media, as well as supporting as many ways as possible for interacting with it. Closed Captioning helps massively with ensuring video content is more accessible by providing a transcription of its audio.

When it comes to procurement in state and local government, agencies’ main complaint is that they can’t buy the goods and services they need fast enough. That’s even at agencies using a digital eProcurement system. While an electronic procurement system should in theory streamline the acquisition of goods and services, many eProcurement systems still abound with stumbling blocks. So what’s slowing down the procurement process, and how can we speed it up?

One year ago, Heroku sunsetted its free tier. Today, we want to reaffirm our commitment to maintaining our free tier, dive into why offering a free tier for compute is complicated (we are looking at you crypto miners), take the time to explain how we intend to sustain it, and explain why we are so committed to providing a free tier. Long story short: we aim to keep a free tier thanks to how we control our costs.

Every business that analyzes their operational (or transactional) data needs to build a custom data pipeline involving several batch or streaming jobs to extract transactional data from relational databases, transform it, and load it into the data warehouse. In this post, we show how you can leverage Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and ThoughtSpot for GenAI driven near real-time operational analytics.

Data is not just a buzzword; it’s a strategic asset. From sales figures to customer engagement metrics, data plays an important role in helping your business grow. But here’s the catch: without the right visualization, uncovering actionable insights can be a challenge. For example, let’s say you want to know which marketing channels are driving the highest amount of website traffic and conversions.

Monitoring your usage data helps assess test efficiency and effectiveness so you can make data-driven decisions on your strategic approach to testing, and focus on business critical testing opportunities.

Countly has many powerful features, and one of them is Hooks. You can set up custom triggers and actions, and we want to expand it even further. But for now, let’s check some simple but powerful use cases you can implement. Notifying you in Slack about new crashes happening in your app. ‍