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Why a Unified View of API Usage is Critical for Managing Multiple API Gateways

Feb 28, 2025 By Dylan Frankcom In Moesif

APIs have become the backbone of our digital world, with surveys showing that over 70% of developers plan to increase API usage year-over-year. They power everything from mobile apps and SaaS integrations to IoT devices and partner platforms, enabling businesses to deliver seamless services and experiences to customers. As organizations grow, however, so does the complexity of their API ecosystem.

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Throwing Exceptions in C++

Feb 28, 2025 By Rollbar In Rollbar

Imagine spending months developing a C++ application, only to have users report that it crashes whenever they enter unexpected input or when network connections fail. This common scenario happens when programs lack proper error handling. The good news is that C++ provides a built-in mechanism called exceptions that helps your code anticipate and respond to problems rather than simply crashing.

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Get the speed you need with our new Linux portfolio

Feb 27, 2025 By Balázs Ilsinszki In Bitrise

Mobile app developers are obsessed with speed for one simple reason - their customers are too! We expect a lot from the apps we use. They've got to load super fast, always stay up to date, and offer a steady stream of valuable features. For developers, this means relentless pressure to reduce build times and drive efficiency to stay competitive.

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Agentic AI Needs an API Backbone: Cultivating Discipline & Governance for Scalable Success

Feb 27, 2025 By Kong In Kong

For organizations seeking to leverage agentic AI, the journey begins with a steadfast commitment to discipline and governance. This talk underscores that the true foundation of success in agentic AI adoption is a culture that values structured API capabilities and a rigorous approach to digital integration. By fostering disciplined practices and robust governance frameworks, businesses can establish the resilient API foundations necessary for automating complex processes and scaling AI-driven initiatives.

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DORA Metrics for DevOps: Connecting Software Team Results to Business Goals

Feb 27, 2025 By Corey Brune In Perforce

Measuring DevOps success? You need to use DORA metrics from the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework. These metrics help software teams get better over time. Think of DORA metrics like the stats used in Formula One racing. In Formula One, teams collect and analyze thousands of metrics before and during each race to optimize car setups, detect potential failures early, and refine strategies for peak performance.

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Federated API Management: Balancing Speed and Control

Feb 26, 2025 By Ash Osborne In Kong

As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API deployment approaches are often to blame for why API initiatives fail to deliver the promised benefits as complexity and scale increase.

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Strategy Pattern: Definition, Examples, and Best Practices

Feb 26, 2025 By Stackify Team In Stackify

Strategy is one of the most well-known design patterns, and luckily, it’s also one of the easiest to understand and use. That doesn’t mean the strategy pattern isn’t valuable. Quite the contrary: this pattern is incredibly powerful in enabling you to write code that is low coupled, easy to read and maintain, adheres to the SOLID principles and the dependency injection pattern. To help you understand the strategy pattern, this post covers the following.

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An Introduction to Flask-SQLAlchemy in Python

Feb 26, 2025 By Federico Trotta In AppSignal

Efficient management of database interactions is one of the most important tasks when building Python web applications. SQLAlchemy — a comprehensive SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library — is widely used in the Python ecosystem for this purpose. However, integrating SQLAlchemy with Flask can be a complex process. So developers created Flask-SQLAlchemy to provide a seamless way to use SQLAlchemy in Flask applications, making database management a straightforward process.

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Advanced Queries in ActiveRecord for Ruby on Rails

Feb 26, 2025 By Daniel Lempesis In AppSignal

ActiveRecord: Rails' de facto ORM. We use it every day, and it makes life a lot easier; we type less, read less, have complexity hidden from us, and don't have to specify all kinds of boilerplate we'd otherwise have to.

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Real-time API observability: Using Moesif and Heroku Together

Feb 26, 2025 By Abu Sakib In Moesif

Heroku provides a robust platform to deploy and scale your applications. However, inherent complexities within your app’s performance and user interaction remain obscured. Your app may be encountering errors and performance bottlenecks. Moreover, a lack of API analytics and API observability impedes your ability to truly grow your product. With Moesif, you can easily gain that visibility into your APIs on Heroku. It integrates with your Heroku app as an add-on in two simple steps.

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