Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

According to Gartner, 87% of organizations are classified as having low business intelligence and analytics maturity, meaning they struggle to extract value from their data. This alarming statistic highlights a common struggle—turning raw data into actionable insights. Product teams often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information they collect. Extracting meaningful patterns, deciphering user behavior, and predicting market trends from this sea of customer data can seem daunting.

When you build an app, you'll often find that certain tasks do not require user interaction and are better performed in the background. Elixir provides excellent primitives, such as Task.async, to offload these tasks from the main user pipeline. Additionally, libraries like Oban offer more control over background tasks when needed. There's also FLAME, which the core Phoenix team is developing to offer a scalable solution for offloading intensive tasks to remote machines.

System administrators, DBAs, and application developers all know about the need for data integration. That’s when you have to pull data from one database, application, or web service to another. Fortunately, this task is a lot less challenging than it used to be because APIs (application programming interfaces) are so popular today. APIs provide a standard way to share the data and services of one system with another, even if the two systems are otherwise incompatible.

Learn about some of the top mobile testing tools and frameworks available, including how you can leverage them to improve your app quality and deliver exceptional customer experiences.

The excitement built as we kicked off Day 2 of the Global Fintech Fest 2024! The day was packed with insightful sessions led by some of the brightest minds in the fintech world, including top CEOs and founders. The energy was palpable, with everyone eager to dive into discussions that would shape the future of digital finance.

Kotlin was built to replace Java. Or at least, supersede it for a wide range of Android development tasks. Released by JetBrains in 2016, it is designed to address some of Java’s drawbacks and provide a smoother, faster alternative for devs everywhere. So really the question in the title is redundant, right? Kotlin is just better, surely? Well, actually it’s much more nuanced than that.

In our latest update to the WSO2 support portal, we’ve introduced two important new features: Service Requests and Change Requests. These are designed specifically for Managed Deployment based accounts and replace the previous Hosting tasks and Hosting query type cases, offering a more streamlined and efficient way to manage your support needs.