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S1.E10: Unshifted performance testing | QA Therapy Podcast

With the increasing prevalence of visual elements in websites and mobile apps, ensuring their integrity is crucial to retaining user engagement and preventing churn. To address these challenges, we welcome Andrew Knight, aka Automation Panda, our QA Therapist, to provide expert guidance on visual testing. Andy serves as a developer advocate at Applitools and is renowned as the director of Test Automation University.

SaaS in 60 - Qlik Talend Data Integration Navigation Improvements

This week, we’re excited to introduce changes that enhance your experience with Qlik Cloud’s Talend Data Integration. Key updates include new Activity Centers and improvements to the data integration homepage. Access Activity Centers via the new waffle menu in the upper left for easier navigation providing a consistent anchor throughout the platform. And coming Soon, a new landing page will combine the Getting Started and Home pages into a single starting point, with key actions highlighted at the top.

A Comparative Analysis of Leading Email API Providers

The email marketing industry is now more powerful than ever. A recent study showed that for every $1 spent on email marketing, marketers make $42—a 4,200% ROI! But for developers, creating a winning email strategy goes beyond catchy subject lines and creative design. It’s about deploying effective Email APIs to automate workflows, personalize outreach, and ultimately, drive exceptional results.

Building a CLI with Laravel Prompts

As Laravel web developers, we often need to build Artisan commands for our applications. But interacting with the console can sometimes feel a little cumbersome. Laravel Prompts is a package that aims to improve this experience by providing a simple approach to user-friendly forms in the console. In this article, we'll take a look at Laravel Prompts and some of its features that you can use. We'll then build a simple GitHub CLI client using Prompts to demonstrate how to use it in your applications.

Enhancing Resilience: Introducing Fallback Configurations in Kong Ingress Controller 3.2

As Kong Ingress Controller is used widely in the field, ensuring its reliable and resilient error handling is crucial to us. Kong Ingress Controller 3.2 introduces a Fallback Configuration feature, designed to make sure a single mistake made in your manifests doesn't halt the whole configuration update pipeline. In this User Call, we'll cover: The Need for the Feature: Understand the critical scenarios that highlighted the necessity for improved error-handling mechanisms.

The 10 Best REST API Tools in 2024

REST APIs, or Representational State Transfer APIs, provide a standardized approach for applications to communicate and exchange data efficiently. However, building and managing these APIs can be time-consuming and involve repetitive tasks. This is where REST API tools help. These are software solutions designed to simplify and streamline the entire process for developers, making it more efficient to build, test, and manage REST APIs.

Improve Customer Experience and API Security with WSO2 Identity Server 7.0

In today’s digital world, APIs have become key to connect apps and services, both internally and externally. However, when integrating with external entities like partners and service providers, API security is a major concern for businesses. And from a user’s perspective, traditional authentication approaches in mobile apps or digital channels often deliver a less-than-ideal digital experience.

Think twice before you hire a QA engineer

When you’re ready to automate your manual tests, you might naturally think you need to hire someone with a technical skill set who specializes in automating end-to-end tests. That is, you might think you need to hire a QA engineer. It’s not an unreasonable assumption. But for many startups, it’s the wrong thing to do. QA engineers are quite expensive (in more ways than one), bottleneck release processes with their complex tooling, and can present other types of business risks.

Providing a Secure In-App Login Experience with Authentication API

Application developers want to provide the most secure and seamless login experience for their users, but even when following OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) best practices, user experience issues can still be a problem. In this article, we will walk through how developers can provide a secure and seamless login experience to users by providing the login functionality natively within the app itself.