Companies that stand still in today’s ever-evolving, fast-paced business landscape are at significant risk of losing competitive advantage. Increasingly, high-quality software is playing a vital role in ensuring that organizations are able to innovate, pivot, and adapt to suit the growing demands of their customer base. However, application testing challenges have significantly hindered the pace at which software can be delivered for too long.

The headless data architecture is an organic emergence of the separation of data storage, management, optimization, and access from the services that write, process, and query it. With this architecture, you can manage your data from a single logical location, including permissions, schema evolution, and table optimizations. And, to top it off, it makes regulatory compliance a lot simpler, because your data resides in one place, instead of being copied around to every processing engine that needs it.

GoReplay and Speedscale are two popular tools commonly used for load testing. Both share traffic shadowing as a core feature. This article compares both tools against the following criteria: For more Kubernetes load testing comparisons, check out our other posts.

Lambda functions in Python are a powerful way to create small, anonymous functions on the fly. These functions are typically used for short, simple operations where the overhead of a full function definition would be unnecessary. While traditional functions are defined using the def keyword, Lambda functions are defined using the lambda keyword and are directly integrated into lines of code. In particular, they are often used as arguments for built-in functions.

As a follow-up to our recent Kong Insomnia v10 release that shipped with an unlimited and free Collection Runner and one week after announcing our official SCIM support for automated user provisioning, we're now excited to announce Insomnia v10.1. This release ships with the general availability of the CLI to use the Collection Runner with CI/CD automation, a new in-app invite wizard that simplifies working with collaborators, and many other improvements.

In today’s fast-paced world, operational efficiency is paramount for businesses striving to stay competitive. The ability to manage time and resources effectively directly impacts overall performance. Our recent tech paper on – ‘Maximizing Efficiency by Real-Time Detection of Beacon Check-In Delays’, highlights how real-time detection technologies can revolutionize industries by identifying and mitigating inefficiencies caused by delays in beacon check-ins.

In the last few years, there has been a lot of movement around new and exciting PHP testing tools. While this is great news, stepping back a little and understanding the underlying concepts before jumping in is vital to writing great PHP tests. When we talk about testing tools and methodologies, we're referring to automated testing tools. Writing code that tests your PHP apps is a great way to build confidence that your application will behave as you expect.