Visual appearance is the first thing users notice when visiting a website or mobile app – before reading content or interacting with any elements. In fact, TopTal found that 94% of first impressions are design-related and judgements on a website’s credibility are 75% based on its overall aesthetics. So, even the slightest discrepancy could cost you sign-ups or conversions.
Has the purchasing process changed in your org over the last couple of years? Are additional roles, potentially all the way up to members of the c-suite, now a part of the evaluation and/or approval stages of that process? For many, the answer is yes.
As developer pressure mounts and calls for better software quality get louder, end-to-end visibility has become crucial. It’s time to provide visibility to software development teams everywhere. – SmartBear CEO Frank Roe There’s one inarguable result of the rapid acceleration of business demands, consumer expectations, and an endless, growing list of innovative technologies in the software industry – immense pressure felt by development teams across the globe.
Amazon API Gateway is a service offered by AWS that enables users to create, publish, and maintain secure APIs on any scale. It supports both RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs. However, It's crucial to secure these APIs before allowing applications to access them. The use of OAuth2 tokens and JWTs is the standard method of securing APIs.
“Software is eating the world” and “APIs are eating software” have become familiar proclamations across the modern-day software industry. Given the resounding hype, interest, and substantial monetary investments happening in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a likely follow-on statement is, “AI is eating APIs, software, and everything else!”
Continuous load testing is a powerful way of preparing for surges in traffic, without needing real users. Imagine you're a software engineer working on a website that's seen a recent surge in traffic. Despite initial testing indicating that the website should be capable of handling the increased load, the website crashes during peak hours. Load Testing is the process of simulating real-world usage of a website or application. The continuous version is when you integrate it into your development process as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
