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.

The main fundamental question of every business today: Are you on the right side of AI? Many businesses and investors are facing the big question: will they get AI-fied and die slowly or will they be propelled by AI and grow faster? Kong API tools and the Konnect API platform will bring our customers on to the right side of AI. Every platform shift from mainframes onward has created demand for more APIs.

Imagine you are developing a streaming application that consumes data from a topic that has a defined schema. You are finally ready to test the application and realize you need a way to produce a sample schematized message. What do you do?

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.

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.